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Enter the Concord Music Group Mega Giveaway at AAJ!

Source: Michael Ricci
December 7, 2010

“All About Jazz's 15 year commitment to jazz online is unparalleled. It's a remarkable achievement." —Zak Weil, The Concord Music Group

The Concord Music Group is raising the awareness of the AAJ fund drive effort by giving away a whole bunch of prizes!

You can enter all seven contests by clicking the “Enter" link associated with a particular giveaway. And just like our weekly contests, following a musician at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.

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Berklee Creates A Comprehensive Resource Detailing Salary Ranges for Careers Across the Music Industry

Source: Michael Ricci
December 6, 2010

Boston, MA. Berklee's Career Development Center has created a comprehensive resource for the music industry titled Salary Ranges for U.S. Music Positions in Performance, Writing, Business, Audio Technology, Education, and Music Therapy. The study covers a broad range of specific careers, including orchestral, Broadway, and studio musician; choir director; jingle, TV, and film score composer; arranger; conductor; instrument maker; A&R; manager; music attorney; video game audio engineer; live sound and sound recording; audiologist; and music teacher. Click HERE to view ...

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Cinematic Document of Germany's Most Successful Progressive Rock Band ELOY To Be Released

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
December 6, 2010

Germany—In celebration of their 40 year band history, a new cinematic document of Germany's most successful progressive rock band ELOY take the friends of their music on a journey through four decades of the band's fascinating history. In the 90-minute documentary Mighty Echoes (DVD 1) former and current ELOY musicians (Frank Bornemann, Klaus-Peter Matziol, Jürgen Rosenthal, Hannes Folberth, Michael Gerlach, Fritz Randow, Hannes Arkona) talk about their time and work with ELOY. Likewise engineers, product managers and other important companions ...

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To Honor CAM Jazz 10th Anniversary 90 Albums Including Special 84-Track Compilation Available on the iTunes Store Today

Source: Claudia Artzer
December 6, 2010

(December 6, 2010) CAM Jazz of Rome, Italy, just announced the availability of 90 CAM Jazz albums in a special room, comprising all of the jazz albums in the label's acclaimed catalog in honor of the label's 10 year Anniversary on the iTunes Store today . To mark the special event, CAM Jazz created an 84-track compilation called 10 Years of CAM Jazz, which features Francesco Cafiso, Scott Colley, Giovanni Guidi, Richard Galliano, Oregon, Mauro Ottolini, Enrico Pieranunzi, Enrico Rava, ...

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Bill King's eJazzNews.com Top Ten Jazz Recordings 2010

Source: Bill King
December 6, 2010

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Playland at the Beach: Dave Brubeck's Early Octet and Trio

Source: David Brent Johnson
December 6, 2010

Chances are you've heard Dave Brubeck before, even if you're not a jazz fan. His 1959 album Time Out has sold over a million copies and “Take Five," written by longtime Brubeck collaborator and saxophonist Paul Desmond, became a hit single and cultural musical staple. Brubeck made the cover of Time Magazine in 1954, did global tours for the U.S. State Department during the Cold War, and has enjoyed a long run as an icon of mainstream jazz. But at ...

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All About Jazz Launches Fund Drive

Source: Michael Ricci
December 6, 2010

All About Jazz kicks off its 2010 fund drive to finance ongoing expansion efforts to support jazz.

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“Our goal has always been to support the music, the musicians, and grow the audience," says Michael Ricci, All About Jazz's founder. “We're also leveraging AAJ's technology and reach to support the Jazz Forward Coalition." Proposed projects include three free mobile apps, a more expansive and robust events calendar, a jazz calendar aggregation and syndication system, a jazz-story-of-the-week podcast, ...

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Review of Mechanical Uprising by Tokafi

Source: Marco Oppedisano
December 6, 2010

"Proving their humanity: Five electroacoustic composers deserving your attention." Marco Oppedisano: Wilfully unaccommodating & hauntingly inten-reber-base While the guitar is just a tool among many on Music for Film and Electro-Theatre, it is at the very heart of the oeuvre of Marco Oppedisano. Hailing from Brooklyn, New York, he has made the search for the intersections between heavy Rock, atmospheric soundscapes and an intricate, intellectually challenging take on contemporary composition his goal. While it has become somewhat fashionable of lately ...

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