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Steve Aoki's Manager on Getting Famous Online: Stop Promoting and Start Entertaining
The folks at JustGo Music managed to slow down Steve Aoki's manager Matt Colon long enough to discuss how Aoki got so famous online. Aoki has capitalized greatly on his over-the-top personality and his web presence reflects that personality. Yet Colon says the biggest secret has been making the shift “from promotion to entertainment" and pursuing ...
Major League Baseball Gets into the Music Festival Business
MLB Advanced Media, Major League Baseball's digital media division, has acquired worldwide distribution rights for a major music festival. The Global Citizen Festival, set for Manhattan's Central Park on September 28th, features a lineup that includes Stevie Wonder, John Mayer, Alicia Keys, and The Kings of Leon. MLB Advanced Media plans to stream the concert, which ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, August 30-September 5
Sometimes holiday weekends mean a dearth of live music opportunities. Sometimes just the opposite. This is one of those opposite weekends, as the Twin Cities jazz venues will be alive with cool sounds and (gratefully) cool air! And get some rest, too, because there's a lot going on in the coming week for jazz fans! Big ...
Lester Young: Boston 1950
In 1950, if you headed away from Boston's Symphony Hall on Massachusetts Ave. toward the South End, you'd encounter an archipelago of jazz clubs. Establishments included the Savoy Ballroom, the Chicken Lane, the Wig-Wam and many others that welcomed black and white audiences eager for music and a bite to eat. One of the best known ...
Whole Foods Adds Vinyl but It's Not a Bubble Yet!
For folks concerned about a vinyl bubble, Whole Foods' addition of vinyl to a select group of stores is surely confirmation that the end times are nigh. Yet any serious bubble watcher knows this is likely just the beginning of a broader appreciation and monetization of vinyl that will go beyond vinyl sales alone. In Whole ...
Critcally Acclaimed Jazz Vibraphonist Gary Burton Launches the Annenberg Center's 13/14 Jazz Series
Critically acclaimed jazz vibraphonist Gary Burton launches the Annenberg Center’s 13/14 jazz series (Philadelphia, PA: Seven-time Grammy Award-winning jazz vibraphonist Gary Burton commences the 13/14 jazz series at the Annenberg Center with a joyful birthday celebration. Hailed as an innovative musical giant that “makes jazz one of the gifts from God” (Jazz Weekly), Gary Burton is ...
Gary Burton on Music (Pt. 2)
Gary Burton started out in 1960 with Hank Garland, combining jazz vibes with country guitar. Then he was in the thick of the bossa nova movement with Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto in 1964. In 1967 he released Duster, one of the first jazz-rock fusion albums and continued those explorations with Country Roads & Other Places ...
Future of Music Coalition Announces 2013 Summit: Washington, DC, October 28-29
Future of Music Coalition is holding its annual gathering, the Future of Music Summit 2013, in Washington, DC in late October. Described as the “only conference that makes the connection between musicians and fans, policymakers and academics, legal experts and technologists, media professionals and entrepreneurs," Summit 2013 brings together a diverse group of speakers and attendees. ...
Gary Burton on Music (pt. 1)
Gary Burton was born into a musical family and was exposed early to the marimba, which he took to quickly. His father soon bought him a full set of vibes but had to build a platform on which the young Gary could stand to reach the metal keys. At age 12, Gary came across an album ...
Weekend Extra: Bing and Trane
I don’t know whether “Love Thy Neighbor” is the most unlikely song John Coltrane ever recorded, but his 1958 version is one of the most delightful. Mack Gordon and Harry Revel wrote it for the 1934 movie We’re Not Dressing, a classic of the shipwreck survivor genre. Bing Crosby sang it beautifully in a contrived sequence ...
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