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The Importance of Creating Momentum
I wrote this for my blog. It's about pursuing your dream in general. But, I thought I'd share it here because it applies to all of us. And who knows? This piece could keep someone who'll make history in music going for one more day. I added a bit to the end to share how it ...
Midem Charts a New Course, Without Midemnet
Producer Reed Midem is shifting gears at its signature music industry mega-convention Midem. Presumably in response to a shrinking pool of label, distribution and publishing attendees, the conference is spinning an “all-new midem" (new logo to left) that adds more “D.I.Y., technology and brands" to the mix. Gone is popular decade old sub-conference MidemNet, which had ...
How to Submit Your Music for Grammy Consideration
It's easy to dismiss the Grammy's as representing the old school music industry. But its also true that indie musicians have won many awards in recent years and that recognition has help to build awarness and sales. So if you choose to enter the Grammy sweepstakes, here's a How To Guide To Submitting Your Music For ...
Afro-Cuban Music Legend Larry Harlow Performing at Festival Betances in Boston on Saturday, July 16
Pianist Larry Harlow, a legendary star of Afro-Cuban music and one of the formulators of modern day salsa, is headlining this year's Festival Betances in Boston, taking place on July 15-17, 2011. The three-day celebration of Latino arts and culture, organized each year by Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción (IBA), takes place at Plaza Betances, 100 W. ...
ZZ Top - Live in Germany (2011)
When ZZ Top, tearing through “Waiting for the Bus," howls “have mercy!" in tandem, I'm right there with them. It's been easy to forget what this band sounded like before pasting a sheen of MTV-approved synthesizers over their nasty little amalgam of blues, rock and long-haired Texas-bred don't-give-a-damn. Not anymore: Recorded in 1980, when ZZ Top ...
Iro Haarla Quintet - Vespers (2011)
With nearly 1,800 posts under our belt, we at SER have covered a whole lot of different styles, players and instruments, but based on a cursory search, I haven't found a single piece where a harpist is the featured musician. We now have that covered: meet Iro Haarla. Actually, one of Finland's finest is a pianist ...
Freddie Hubbard - Pinnacle; Live and Unreleased from Keystone Korner (Resonance, 2011)
Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard was one of the leading lights of the hard-bop movement in the sixties, leading several albums of his own for Blue Note Records, while participating in sessions as wide ranging as Ornette Coleman's Free Jazz and John Coltrane's Ascension. Hubbard had become something of a journeyman by 1980 when this concert was recorded; ...
John Mayer: Twitter Killed My Ability to Write a Song...
There's a reason why some artists quit Twitter—or, never start an account at all. “I realized about a year ago that I couldn't have a complete thought anymore," John Mayer told a group of students at Berklee College of Music. “And I was a tweetaholic." Sounds funny at first, except when Mayer reflected onthe impact on ...
Rene Marie: No Shortage of "Imagination"
In one 70-minute set, she sang an original gnarly blues, a 19th century traditional hymn, a Spanish poem set to music, and two merged songs of “Imagination" from Tin Pan Alley and Motown. But think nothing of it, this was merely standard operating procedure for singer/songwriter/activitist Rene Marie. Of course such a performance might be well ...
Return to Forever - The Complete Columbia Albums Collection
After a prodigious session career in the 1960s, several solo albums that toyed with both the traditional and freer forms of jazz and a mercurial period of experimentation with Miles Davis between 1968 and 1972, pianist and composer Chick Corea crystalized the notion of his first “group" endeavor, to be known as Return to Forever. Corea ...
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Bill Bruford And Pete Roth: A One-Of-A-Kind Juxtaposition
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801 Live at 50: A Short-Term Experiment with a Long-Lasting...
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The Quiet Cruelty of the Music Business
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Arcanum at Victoria Nasjonal Jazzscene, Oslo
Phil Schaap's Jazz Room
Franc Williams: Live From The West End
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Enrico Rava: The Secret Corners of a Master
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