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News: Opinion

Are You Building a Band or a Business?

June 28, 2011

This guest post comes from Jason Spitz, a marketing & ecommerce expert with a serious music obsession. Follow him on Twitter at @jasonspitz. If you want to make music, start a band. If you want to make money, start a business. It's that simple. Bands and businesses are two different entities with different objectives. If your ...

News: Trends

3 Trends Driving Innovation: How to Keep Up with the Ever Changing Fan

June 28, 2011

Speaking on how technology and consumer demand has challenged marketers to keep up, Nielsen's Steve Hasker shared conclusions that ring true for developing the artist—fan relationship. “Consumer behavior is the driver of innovation," said Hasker offering three trends driving innovation: Social Media—"In seven short years, every aspect of consumer behavior has changed as a result of ...

News: Interview

Leading Questions: Jim Wilke

June 29, 2011

The best advice I've ever received is “you're not talking to an audience of thousands, you're talking to thousands of audiences of one or two." When I was 14 I was playing alto sax in concert band and listening to Western Swing on the radio during the day and jazz late at night. Broadcasting jazz has ...

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News: Recording

One Track Mind: Frank Sinatra and Count Basie, "The Best is yet to Come" (1964)

June 28, 2011

The crashing brilliance of “The Best Is Yet To Come," courtesy of Frank Sinatra and the Count Basie band, came to mind on this, the fifth anniversary of Something Else! Reviews. The site has evolved through a couple of iterations into the daily digest you see today and, in many ways, it feels like we're just ...

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News: Recording

Stefon Harris, David Sanchez and Christian Scott - Ninety Miles (Concord Picante, 2011)

June 29, 2011

Ninety Miles (the distance between the tip of Florida and the island of Cuba) is a collaborative album featuring David Sanchez on saxophones, Stefon Harris on vibraphone and marimba and Christian Scott on trumpet. Joining them are a range of Cuban musicians that make this quite a special and successful project. Jazz and the music of ...

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News: Recording

Jason Yeager's "Ruminations": Piano Trio Plus Much

June 28, 2011

Pianist Jason Yeager has been working with his trio of Tal Gamlieli (bass) and Michael Gleichman (drums) for more than three years now. Their Ruminations (Inner Circle 020) shows the sort of subtle interplay a piano trio ideally develops when they grow together as a unit. Yeager plays a thoughtfully subtle, harmonically advanced sort of piano ...

News: Festival

13th Twin Cities Jazz Festival Stays True to the Music

June 29, 2011

Was it just two years ago (2009) that Steve Heckler, producer of the Twin Cities Jazz Festival, sadly announced that the 2009 festival would be canceled due to lack of sponsors? After 11 years in full or in part as a Minneapolis cultural event, the city faltered in its support of the festival, and major sponsors ...

News: Video / DVD

Check out Video from Zubatto Syndicate

June 28, 2011

From Andrew Boscardin's blog about the June 11 CD release party for the debut self-titled album by ZUBATTO SYNDICATE: “Thanks to everyone who made it out to the Zubatto Syndicate release party on June 11. It was an extremely fun show and it was great to see old friends and make a bunch of new ones ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Monterey Jazz Festival and Monterey Bay Aquarium Present "Evenings by the Bay" Summer Concert Series

June 29, 2011

Monterey Jazz Festival and Monterey Bay Aquarium Present “Evenings by the Bay" Summer Concert Series Weekly Performances Feature Live Jazz by Professional Musicians and Students in the Festival's Jazz Education Programs, Saturday and Sunday Evenings, July 2—September 4, 2011 Monterey, CA; The Monterey Jazz Festival is proud to announce the fourth year of the “Evenings by ...

News: Interview

Who Shot Miles?

June 29, 2011

From 1965-1985 one of the New York metro area's hotspots for live jazz was the Blue Coronet in Brooklyn—the Bedford-Stuyvesant community to be exact. Sometimes I wonder if perhaps Brooklyn should be labeled the Second City instead of Chicago, given the backseat that storied borough so often takes to its little sister Manhattan (Brooklyn being by ...