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More "Best Jazz of 2008" Lists

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
January 8, 2009

A few more additions to the list of “Best Jazz of 2008" lists: 2008: A Year of Jazz Tumult, Controversy and Achievements, by Ken Franckling for AllAboutJazz.com Nate Chinen, New York Times - Standouts in Rap, Jazz and Country (multi-genre list) Troy Collins (AllAboutJazz.com) - Best Jazz of 2008 Hartford Courant's Richard Kamins - Best of 2008, parts one, two, three and four. Jazz.com's Best Visitor Comments of 2008, compiled by Alan Kurtz Jazz Journalists ...

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Our Friend Dizzy

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
January 8, 2009

As readers of Rifftides know by now, The Wall Street Journal provides more than financial news and market reports. The newspaper has a Leisure And Arts section with extensive, varied, informed cultural coverage. It includes writing about music by several contributors. I am happy to be one on occasion. In today's WSJ, Nat Hentoff brings together his friendship with Dizzy Gillespie and the need to care for sick or injured musicians with little or no health insurance....dying of pancreatic ...

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Led Zeppelin Looking to Tour and Record Without Plant

Source: JamBase
January 8, 2009

Led Zeppelin Looking To Record Album and Tour Without Robert Plant

Led Zeppelin Reports have surfaced that Led Zeppelin is looking to tour and record a new album without original pipes man Robert Plant. According to a report on NME, Jimmy Page's manager Peter Mensch confirmed that the band would move forward if they could find the appropriate singer.

“Jimmy Page has been playing guitar professionally since he was 16-years-old. Jimmy Page likes being a musician. That's what he does! ...

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Meet the People Who Can Save Rock & Roll

Source: All About Jazz
January 8, 2009

How to Save Rock & Roll Nine insiders who are reshaping the music biz for 2009 and beyond

Ali and Hadi Partovi Founders of iLike.com

The Big Idea: Founded iLike, the top music application on Facebook, creating an interconnected universe of 30 million fans.

Why It Matters: iLike elegantly connects the world of social networking and music fandom and encourages those 140 million Facebook-ers to sample new acts and make playlists and ...

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Gretsch's 125th Anniversary Limited Edition Progressive Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
January 8, 2009

125th Anniversary Celebration In 1883 Friedrich Gretsch established the Gretsch musical instrument business in a small shop in Brooklyn and a heritage was born.

Over the past 125 years, Gretsch Drums has blossomed to develop a musical legacy featuring industry innovations, a hall of fame endorsement roster and - of course - 'That Great Gretsch Sound'.

Progressive Jazz Trap Set Gretschs Progressive Jazz kit is modeled after the classic Gretsch Birdland kit from the ...

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Songs from the Heart of a Marketing Plan

Source: Michael Ricci
January 7, 2009

IN Creator, the rawest track on Santogolds debut and self-titled album, the singer Santi White boasts, Me Im a creator/Thrill is to make it up/The rules I break got me a place up on the radar. Its a bohemian manifesto in a sound bite, brash and endearing, or at least it was for me until it showed up in a beer commercial. And a hair-gel commercial too. It turns out that the insurgent, quirky rule breaker is just another shill. ...

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RAC to be folded into Recording Academy

Source: All About Jazz
January 7, 2009

The Recording Artists' Coalition, founded eight years ago by Don Henley and Sheryl Crow, will be folded into the Recording Academy and become an integral part of the org's Grammy on the Hill initiative. The union of the two groups is to be announced today by Academy president-CEO Neil Portnow and RAC board member Irving Azoff. It is timed to coincide with the start of the new session of Congress and the Obama administration. RAC board member Simon Renshaw and ...

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Cleveland's Ante up Audio Recording Studio Welcomes Classic Steinway Piano

Source: All About Jazz
January 7, 2009

With decades of rich musical history, a classic piano is re-born thanks to a recent purchase made by Cleveland-based recording studio: Ante Up Audio (Cleveland, Ohio, Jan 7,2009)--Ante Up Audio, Cleveland's world-class recording facility, recently welcomed a beautifully maintained 1951 Grand Steinway piano into its musical family. This classic Steinway Model B, which was originally owned by the Cleveland Orchestra, is now housed in Ante Up Audio's SSL Suite.

Steinway pianos are widely revered as the finest in the world ...

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