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Tag Strategic Founder Ted Cohen on Branding Your Band and Investments

July 15, 2010

With the New Music Seminar just around the corner (and a couple discount registrations still available!), we're previewing it by doing interviews with some of the participants. Yesterday, we spoke with Ted Cohen, the founder of TAG Strategic, a digital branding strategy firm that serves tech and media companies. Prior to founding TAG, Cohen worked in ...

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News: Music Industry

RIAA Keeps Lawyers Well Paid

July 15, 2010

The RIAA has been investing in first-rate lawyers to fight copyright infringement. Unfortunately, they are not seeing much of a return on that investment. In 2008, the RIAA paid its lawyers over $16 million to pursue copyright infringement claims. Total recovery for these claims amounted to $390,000. Ouch. As if that wasn't bad enough, these numbers ...

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News: Obituary

Harvey Pekar, Jazz Critic

July 14, 2010

Harvey Pekar died this week at the age of 70. He will, inevitably, be more widely remembered for his seriously adult American Splendor comics and the movie they inspired than for his jazz criticism. As a writer about music he was—no surprise—eccentric and uneven but at his best wrote with precision and frankness about what he ...

News: Video / DVD

Brubeck and Company in Belgium, Part 4

July 14, 2010

More or less from the beginning of their association, Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond had an affinity for blues in minor keys. Three that achieved success to the point of indelible identification with them were “Balcony Rock," first recorded in Jazz Goes To College (1954), the same theme recycled as “Audrey" for Brubeck Time (1956), and ...

News: Recording

Listening Tip: Gene Lees

July 14, 2010

Bill Kirchner writes: Recently, I taped my next one-hour show for the “Jazz From The Archives" series. Presented by the Institute of Jazz Studies, the series runs every Sunday on WBGO-FM (88.3). Gene Lees (1928-2010) was one of jazz's foremost essayists and biographers. And he wrote liner notes for a number of classic jazz ...

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News: Music Industry

Notes from the Net: John Zorn's Montreal Controversy, Kevin Eubanks Unbound, Plus News, Reviews, Interviews and More

July 14, 2010

Here's the latest compilation of assorted news briefs and links related to jazz, improvisation, and creative music in St. Louis, including news of musicians originally from the Gateway City, recent visitors, and coming attractions, plus assorted other items of interest:* In the latest Miles Davis-related news, Michael Bourne reviewed the “We Want Miles" exhibit ...

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News: Book / Magazine

Tony Dipasquale Authors Book on Jazz Improv Techniques

July 14, 2010

Belleville keyboardist Tony DiPasquale, who leads the band Groove Merchants and plays with saxophonist David Fatek and others, has published The Jazz Lictionary, a new instruction book on jazz improvisation techniques.DiPasquale earned a bachelor's degree in music education from Millikin University and a master's in jazz piano performance from Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville. He has ...

News: Performance / Tour

Harlem in the Himalayas at the Rubin Museum in New York City

July 14, 2010

Harlem in the Himalayas at The Rubin Museum in New York CityAcoustic jazz concerts presented with The National Jazz Museum in Harlem All tickets $18 advance / $20 on the day of / $7 Student stand-by tickets available Fridays at 7:00 p.m. Box Office: 212.620.5000 ext. 344 Complete information for each concert ...

News: Performance / Tour

Industrial Jazz Group Returns to Southern California

July 14, 2010

The 15-piece Industrial Jazz Group (IJG), an adventurous big band featuring the music of composer Andrew Durkin, will be touring Southern California this August, with performances on August 19 at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, and on August 20 at Dizzy's in San Diego. Returning to the road ten months after an east coast tour--in ...

News: Interview

Interview: Paul Bacon (Part 1)

July 14, 2010

Even if the name Paul Bacon doesn't ring a bell, his covers for more than 200 jazz albums will. Paul helped set the mood and mystique for modern jazz back in the early 1950s at the dawn of the LP jacket. Back then, Paul was the illustrator and art director of many early Blue Note albums ...