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Active vs. Passive Fans: Why Radio and TV Still Rank Tops for Music Discovery [best of Hypebot]
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HypeBot
The data presented in a recent NPD Group/NARM study found terrestrial radio and syndicated television among the main influential sources of music discovery (60% and 49% respectively). With all the new avenues for music discovery out there, why are the majority of people still choosing to shape their musical tastes through premeditated and controlled media sources? By assessing the data, it leads one to believe that the majority of music consumers are not taking full advantage of this new media age we live in. ...
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Musings on Latin Jazz: Thoughts on Afro-Peruvian Jazz
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The Latin Jazz Corner by Chip Boaz
One of the most engaging trends in Latin Jazz over the past decade has been the growth in visibility and prominence of Afro-Peruvian Jazz. While musicians have flirted with the style for several years, the use of Afro-Peruvian rhythms in a jazz setting has become a noticeable part of the scene in the new millennium. In an insightful guest post, film producer Eve A. Ma discusses Afro-Peruvian Jazz and some of the musicians that have made an impact upon the ...
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Grammy-winning Composer Terence Blanchard Completes Score For LucasFilm's Red Tails, Set For Release January 20th By Twentieth Century Fox
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Michael Ricci
Film is Golden-Globe nominated Composer's 52nd film score and stars Cuba Gooding Jr., Terrence Howard, Ne-Yo and more Los Angeles, CA: World-renowned film composer and musician Terence Blanchard has completed the score for the soundtrack for Lucasfilm's RED TAILS. A high-flying action epic inspired by the heroic exploits of the first all African-American aerial combat unit, The Lucasfilm Ltd. production of RED TAILS will launch on January 20, 2012, released by Twentieth Century Fox. Produced by Rick McCallum and Charles ...
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Movies: Jean Bach - A Great Day in Harlem (1994)
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Something Else!
New York City circa 1958, for the jazz aficionado, was the place to be. Possibly no other artifact can confirm this statement with more clarity than photographer Art Kane's landmark portrait A Great Day in Harlem. NYC clubs boasted nightly performances by a collection of the greatest players in jazz history and that, combined with plans for Esquire magazine's 1959 annual jazz issue gave birth to a picture that remains to this day one of the most reproduced images in ...
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And Now, Mike Tyson Sings 'The Girl from Ipanema' on Brazilian TV...
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Digital Music News
Charles Mingus Grandson Reclaims His Legacy Through Film
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Valeria Rios
“Mingus on Mingus" launches crowd funding campaign A documentary about a grandson's journey through the lore and legends of jazz history to find the grandfather he never knew, Charles Mingus. This feature length documentary directed by Kevin Ellington Mingus, the grandson of Charles, will include interviews with legendary musicians, friends and family shaping a collective perspective. The documentary will be filmed in locations ranging from India to New York to the Mingus Mill located in the Great Smoky Mountains National ...
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George Tillman Jr Set To Direct Miles Davis Film
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Chris M. Slawecki
George Tillman, Jr. has been signed to develop and direct the upcoming feature film, Miles Davis, announced producer Nick Davis Raynes (Grandson of former 20th Century-Fox & Beverly Hills Hotel—among others—owner Marvin Davis). Producers Nick Davis Raynes and Ged Dickinson have partnered with Gregory Davis, Miles' eldest son to bring the true story of Miles Davis' life to the screen and preserve his legacy. The script is loosely based on Gregory Davis' book Dark Magus: The Jekyll and Hyde Life ...
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Neal Hefti: The Movie Years
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Even among the giants of the orchestra business, Neal Hefti was special. Over just three decades, the composer-arrangerturned out masterful bop, swing and film charts with a distinctly jaunty and jovial feel. In the 1940s, his Repetition (1947) for Norman Granz and his bop charts for Harry James' band in 1949 are perfect examples. In the 1950s, his Verve and Roulette arrangements for Count Basie re-imagined the famed swing band—dropping a new, sportier, finger-snapping engine into the orchestra's instrumental chasis. ...
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