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Viva the Band at the Paradise Room, the Mecca for Jazz Entertainment on the Gold Coast QLD

Source: All About Jazz
December 4, 2008

The Gold Coast is Australia’s premier tourist destination with miles of white sandy surf beaches, lush green hinterland rainforests, world-class golfing greens and famous theme parks. With a diverse range of accommodation from exclusive 5-star hotels to sunny beachside apartments and backpacker hostels.

The Gold Coast has a Council that is pro active in the development of the arts locally, one of the Council’s objectives is to assist young and emerging musicians and music industry workers to develop their skills ...

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Music Industry in Five Years

Source: All About Jazz
December 3, 2008

What will the music industry look like in five years? In a new study by Forrester Research, U.S. Music Forecast 2008 to 2013, industry analysts attempt to cook up some numbers.

No huge surprises here: The U.S. music market is expected to shrink over the next five years from $10.2 billion to $9.8 billion. Digital music sales are expected to grow from 18 percent to 41 percent of the total (as physical product shrinks from 64 percent to ...

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Suspect in Hollywood Road Rage Death Devastated

Source: Michael Ricci
December 3, 2008

David Jassy, Swedish hip-hop artist accused of murdering a jazz pianist in an episode of road rage “is devastated by these events," his attorney said today.

The lawyer for David Jassy, 34, said the fact that the deceased, 55-year-old John Osnes, was “a fellow musician makes it all the sadder." Jassy appeared briefly in Superior Court this morning. His arraignment was postponed to Dec. 17 to allow his attorney, Donald Etra, more time to read up on the case.

Jassy ...

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Rvajazz 2008 Year in Review

Source: RVAjazz
December 3, 2008

Today marks RVAjazz's first birthday! It's been a great year full of amazing music, and it's been an honor to try and cover everything that's been going on in our city. The year in review is a collection of RVAjazz articles from the past year; some are favorites of mine, and some just mark important events that took place. Follow the links to the original posts. Thanks for reading, and as always, support live music.December 2007Fight the ...

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The Al Cohn Collection

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
December 3, 2008

The Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania in the northeast United States are home to musicians who like peace and quiet but must be near New York City and Philadelphia, where the work is. The Delaware Water Gap area of the Poconos has become famous in jazz circles for residents including Phil Woods, Bob Dorough, David Liebman, John Coates, Jr., Bill Goodwin, Steve Gilmore and Hal Galper, and for the Deer Head Inn, the region's jazz headquarters. It was at the Deer ...

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Live Nation to Sell Tickets at Remaining Blockbuster Locations

Source: All About Jazz
December 2, 2008

Live Nation and Blockbuster announced a three-year contract that will put the promoter's large-scale ticketing system exclusively in 500 or so brick-and-mortar Blockbuster locations.

As part of the deal, blocks of tickets to shows ticketed by Live Nation will be available only at Blockbuster locations for the first four hours that they're on sale. The plan will go into effect after Live Nation's Ticketmaster contract expires at the end of the year, as part of the rollout of its own ...

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Happy Birthday Jaco Pastorius!

Source: JamBase
December 2, 2008

INSTRUMENTAL HEAVYWEIGHT WOULD HAVE BEEN 57 TODAY

Once in a spell music finds new languages, fresh dialects drawn from the same Rosetta Stone that everyone thought well studied, known terrain. Jaco Pastorius was one of these rare individuals, opening up forever the possibilities of the electric bass guitar and eroding the calcification that occurs when any genre becomes set in its ways. A fearless innovator, he is perhaps the only jazz bassist known worldwide simply by his first name, ...

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Three Octets

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
December 2, 2008

As I pointed out here and here earlier this year in surveys of medium-sized bands,

Six to eleven pieces allow arrangers freedom that the conventions and sheer size of sixteen-piece bands tend to limit. Medium-sized groups have been important since the beginnings of jazz.

They continue to be important. Here are three recent, quite different, examples.

Felipe Salles, South American Suite (Curare Records). Salles performs on several reed instruments. He is exceptional in his tenor saxophone solos, but ...

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