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Jazz in the House That Grunge Built - This Thursday!

Source: One Working Musician by Jason Parker
April 15, 2010

The Zubatto Syndicate, Owcharuk 5 and Water Babies, three bands from different corners of Seattles Jazz scene, will take the stage at Seattles famed Crocodile Cafe this Thursday.

The Croc, as we locals call it, opened just as the Grunge revolution was taking flight, and was home to early concerts by Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and every Seattle band since. Its also a favorite stop for touring acts like R.E.M., Yoko Ono, Beastie Boys and many more. What has been ...

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Did Amazon Music Just Lose Its Soul?

Source: HypeBot
April 13, 2010

(UPDATE 3)

Scott Ambrose Reilly (aka Bullethead) Says Farewell To Music

Scott Ambrose Reilly has left his post as Senior Manager of Music at Amazon to take a new position licensing  periodicals for the company's Kindle e-book reader. For the last  three and a half years Ambrose Reilly has been responsible for bring new labels into Amazon's MP3 stores worldwide and then cajoling them to remember that their is an alternative to the iTunes behemoth.

Ambrose Reilly”s shaved head earned ...

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Remembering Herb Ellis: A Few Thoughts on the Passing of This Jazz Guitarist Great by Andrew Vaughan

Source: CHC Network
April 9, 2010

Last week, it was reported on Gibson.com that jazz legend Herb Ellis, a much respected and loved member of the Gibson family, had passed away at the age of 88.

Ellis was one of the best of a generation of modern-day players inspired by Charlie Christian, probably the most influential electric guitar player in jazz history and considered by many critics to have been the founding father of electric jazz guitar. Herb Ellis played with the same wonderfully easy and ...

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Free Tour Marketing Handbook from Artist Farm

Source: HypeBot
March 26, 2010

Music marketer and manager Ben Coe of wonderfully named Artist Farm has released a free tour marketing handbook that really is a must read for any artist or music industry professional interested in marketing live performances. It's filled not just with great ideas but a time line for implementation.

“This is being released with no strings attached, not even asking for an email address.", says Coe. “The book is essentially a documentation of the tour marketing system that I ...

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Moral Panics and Music Journalism

Source: HypeBot
February 22, 2010

Kyle Bylin (@kbylin), Associate Editor

I am not a murderer. Therefore, to be accused of such an atrocity does elicit a certain degree of animosity within me. Yet, Nathan Harden has done just that.

In an essay that recently appeared on The Huffington Posttitled The Generation That Killed Rock 'n Roll, he outright blames my entire generation for the killing of rock 'n' roll. First, let us take into consideration exactly what Mr. Harden has done here, intentionally ...

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How I've Kept My Band Together for 3 Years

Source: One Working Musician by Jason Parker
February 10, 2010

Recently I had two experiences that made me think about how fortunate I am to have a band that has been playing together for three years now. The first was an interview I did with Jason Crane for The Jazz Session, an online show focusing on in-depth interviews with jazz musicians. The second was seeing Chris Botti and his band (which I wrote about here), most of whom have been playing together for the better part of six years.

During ...

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A Few More Thoughts on Jazz Tribute Shows

Source: One Working Musician by Jason Parker
February 3, 2010

As I mentioned in my last post, there's been some negative talk about jazz musicians playing tribute shows to other jazz musicians recently. Journalist Phil Freeman discussed the idea in this Twitter conversation, jazz blogger Peter Hum took a little shot in this post, and trombonist Vincent Gardner wrote the most extensive piece on the subject in an article for All About Jazz titled Lets Tribute Ourselves.

Also mentioned in the previous post was a tribute show that I was ...

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7 Christmas Gifts for Every Musician on Your List

Source: HypeBot
December 19, 2009

Give a musician a fish; you have fed him for today.

Musicians are hard not hard to buy presents for. Most need almost everything from a gift card to the supermarket to coins for the laundromat. But if you follow the “teach a man to fish" adage, help your musically inclined friends (or yourself) learn to make a living in music. Below are 5 books ...

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