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5 Social Media Trends Artists Need to Understand

August 28, 2010

This guest post is by Jonathan Ostrow (@miccontrol); he is the co-founder of MicControl, a music blogging network based on a social networking platform. For musicians, proper marketing and networking using social media can be tough. The possibilities are seemingly endless and as such, musicians are likely to spread themselves too thin. But not all forms ...

David McCandless: Why Information is Beautiful

August 29, 2010

Choose-Your-Adventure: Interactive Music Videos

August 28, 2010

I just left my half-naked girlfriend standing in the bedroom and took the train with my buddy instead. After some shenan  old lady. Being the kind boy that I am, I decided that I should save her from the ruthless mob and once I got finished, instead of letting the lady congratulate me for my efforts, ...

Video: A2iM's Rich Bengloff on the Myth of DIY Artists and Next Big Sound on the Analysis Paralysis

August 28, 2010

In this next set of footage from the Bandwidth Conference, Danny Dee talked with Rich Bengloff, the President of A2iM. He gives an overview of the gathering, talks about why labels still matter, and sheds light into the myth of DIY artists. Then Next Big Sound CEO Alex White weighed in on paralysis of analysis . In this ...

Michael Jackson's Afrobeat Birthday, at the Tractor in Ballard

August 29, 2010

The Seattle Times ran a piece in advance of a show Sunday led by Portland pianist Ben Darwish performing the music of Michael Jackson which also features Seattle trumpeter Chad McCullough. We are reprinting the excerpt below but do take exception to the line, “from PDX's mostly nonexistent jazz scene." From The Seattle Times: Happy birthday ...

Abbey Lincoln's Style Influences New Set of Recordings

August 28, 2010

In jazz, as in any music, a voice can sometimes stop you in your tracks. Abbey Lincoln, who died this month at 80, possessed that kind of voice: taut and insistent, ablaze with authority. It was a gift, and by no means her only one. Ms. Lincoln was also an arresting physical presence, on screen as ...

'Louis,' a Film by Dan Pritzker with Live Music

August 29, 2010

At the end of the summer movie season, the fledgling director Dan Pritzker believes he's got a film that will satisfy an audience unmoved by superhero sequels and 3-D extravaganzas: a black-and-white silent movie (with hints of color) based loosely on the childhood of Louis Armstrong. And for the price of your ticket, you also get ...

David Liebman and Fusion Both Honored by Jazz Prize

August 29, 2010

WHEN the National Endowment for the Arts gives the 2011 N.E.A. Jazz Masters Award to the saxophonist David Liebman in January, it will represent more to him than a personal achievement. It will also mark the establishment's de facto validation of the fusion aesthetic, he said, because few, if any, of the 118 other award recipients ...

Five Guys Hoping to Not Screw up Movie About the Life of Miles Davis Pose for a Nice Photo Together

August 29, 2010

That other Miles Davis website has posted something of interest. It's nothing to stop-the-presses, but it's something. They've posted a group photo of Erin Davis, Steve Baigelman (screenwriter for Miles Davis Biopic), Don Cheadle, Darryl Porter, Vince Wilburn Jr. and the very expensive Genius of Miles Davis Limited-Edition Trumpet Case Box Set, which is not even ...

Chicago Live Jazz Music (August 27-September 3, 2010) Schedule

August 29, 2010

Here is what's happening with the live music Chicago Jazz Scene for the dates August 27th thru September 3rd, 2010 (image: JAZZzology editor Rick Watters with band leader Alan Gresik who appears every Thursday 9PM-1AM at The Green Mill in Chicago with The Alan Gresik Swing Shift Orchestra)... Andy's Jazz Club 11 East Hubbard St. Chicago, ...