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ALLABOUTJAZZ.COM: Jazz Musician of the Day: Dave Weckl
All About Jazz is celebrating Dave Weckl's birthday today!
JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Dave WecklFor more than 20 years, Dave Weckl has developed and maintained a reputation among fans, peers, and the international music community as one of the great living drummers. For this, he has received numerous accolades and honors... more...
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GENERAL: Songs from the Heart of a Marketing Plan
IN Creator, the rawest track on Santogolds debut and self-titled album, the singer Santi White boasts, Me Im a creator/Thrill is to make it up/The rules I break got me a place up on the radar. Its a bohemian manifesto in a sound bite, brash and endearing, or at least it was for me until it showed up in a beer commercial. And a hair-gel commercial too...
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WEB/TECH: Stonehenge: One Totally Awesome Rave Location
Stone circles acoustics are ideal for listening to repetitive trance rhythms
Stonehenge was built as a dance arena for prehistoric "samba-style" raves, according to a study of the acoustics of the 5,000-year-old stone circle.
Using cutting-edge technology, Rupert Till, an expert in acoustics and music technology at Huddersfield University in northern England, discovered that Stonehenge's megaliths reflect sound perfectly, making the stone circle an ideal setting for listening to repetitive trance rhythms...
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GENERAL: Rac to be Folded into Recording Academy
The Recording Artists' Coalition, founded eight years ago by Don Henley and Sheryl Crow, will be folded into the Recording Academy and become an integral part of the org's Grammy on the Hill initiative. The union of the two groups is to be announced today by Academy president-CEO Neil Portnow and RAC board member Irving Azoff. It is timed to coincide with the start of the new session of Congress and the Obama administration...
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BOOK/MAGAZINE: Movie Speak
Learning Movie-Speak
If youre on a movie set and someone tells you, Give me two Ts or a cowboy with the Jack Lord and make sure the BG is visible as you pan and maybe well make that a one-er so just banana left, what do you do?
Well one option is to pick up a copy of a new book called Movie Speak by Tony Bill, which provides a helpful guide to movie slanguage. No, not Variety slanguage the real on-the-set stuff. Having produced a number of memorable films (The Sting, Hearts of the West) and directed a few (My Bodyguard, Untamed Heart) Bill decided it would be helpful to publish an insiders lexicon...
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RADIO/PODCAST: Beatles Music Pulled from Norwegian Podcasts
Norwegian national broadcaster NRK has pulled a series of 212 podcasts each featuring a different song by the Beatles, citing a breach of its rights agreement. The podcasts would have essentially constituted giving away the entire Beatles catalog for free.
Although the band's music has not been licensed for the Internet, NRK announced on Jan. 6 that its 2007 radio series "Our Daily Beatles" would be made available as a free podcast. Each installment features the story behind a Beatles track; a version without music ran as a podcast in 2007...
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OBITUARY: The Stooges' Ron Asheton Remembered
Pioneering guitarist shaped the sound of punk to come
Ron Asheton, the guitarist in the proto-punk band the Stooges, whose raw, animalistic playing laid the groundwork for the entire punk rock movement, was found dead in his Ann Arbor, Michigan home last night. He was 60. An autopsy is scheduled, but police don't suspect foul play or drug use. Alongside Iggy Pop, David Alexander and his brother Scott, Ron co-wrote such classics "I Wanna Be Your Dog," "No Fun" and "1969...
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BOOK/MAGAZINE: Judging an Elusive Artist by His Distinctive Covers
LONDON After years of scraping by on a pittance from designing record covers for indie labels, Barney Bubbles had turned 40 and needed to make some money. He did the rounds of the big London record companies, only to be told by several executives that they had met with younger designers who were passing off his work as their own...
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BOOK/MAGAZINE: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age
When Labels Fought the Digital, and the Digital Won You cant roll a joint on an iPod, the singer-songwriter Shelby Lynne told The New York Times Magazine early last year. And, O.K., I suppose thats among the iPods drawbacks. But its hard to think of an electronic device released in recent decades thats brought more pleasure to more people...
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OBITUARY: Betty Freeman Photographer Patron of New Music Dies
Betty Freeman, one of the most influential individual patrons of contemporary composers over the last 40 years, and long the keeper of a famously gracious musical salon in Los Angeles, died on Saturday at her home in Beverly Hills. She was 87.
The philanthropist Betty Freeman in 1997 at her home in Beverly Hills with the Hockney painting of her in the background. The cause was pancreatic cancer, said her daughter Shelley Butler...
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GENERAL: Cleveland's Ante up Audio Recording Studio Welcomes Classic Steinway Piano
With decades of rich musical history, a classic piano is re-born thanks to a recent purchase made by Cleveland-based recording studio: Ante Up Audio
(Cleveland, Ohio, Jan 7,2009)--Ante Up Audio, Cleveland's world-class recording facility, recently welcomed a beautifully maintained 1951 Grand Steinway piano into its musical family. This classic Steinway Model B, which was originally owned by the Cleveland Orchestra, is now housed in Ante Up Audio's SSL Suite...
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GENERAL: Turtle Island Quartet Has Blended Jazz and Strings for Nearly Quarter of a Century
David Balakrishnan took a leap. Some might call it brave, others dumb luck.
Either way, now he looks brilliant.
For nearly a quarter century, Balakrishnan has taken two beloved forms of music — string quartets and jazz— and mashed them into something that is both reverential and ground breaking...
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GENERAL: A Heavenly Collaboration: Dizzy Gillespie and Dr. Jazz
In 1993, my friend Dizzy Gillespie invited me to join him on one of the jazz cruises where musicians perform and hang out with jazz-struck passengers. I had interviewed him before, but this would be in a more extensive and varied setting. Suddenly Dizzy canceled the trip, entering New Jersey's Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, where he had previously been a patient. There, dying of pancreatic cancer, Dizzy, who had health insurance, said to Francis Forte, his oncologist, and himself a jazz guitarist: "I can't give you any money, but I can let you use my name. Promise you'll help musicians less fortunate than I am." That was the Dizzy I knew, regarded by his sidemen as a teacher and mentor...
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PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Buddy Rich Tribute in London
September 2007 marked the ninetieth anniversary of the birth of one of the true giants of jazz: drummer and bandleader Buddy Rich.
To celebrate, award-winning British drummer Pete Cater played a special one-off concert at Cadogan Hall, London. Such was the success of this event that Pete and his big band will be doing a limited number of special appearances commemorating the master drummer. The concerts will feature virtually all the best-remembered and most frequently requested items from Richs repertoire, and is a rare opportunity to hear the music played live, exactly as it was intended to sound...
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PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Switzerland Meets New York, Feat. Beat Kaestli, Serena Jost and Grand Pianoramax
WHAT: Switzerland Meets New York at The Canal Room
WHEN: Wednesday, January 14th Doors open at 7:30 pm
WHO: 8pm - Beat Kaestli 9pm - Serena Jost 10pm - Grand Pianoramax with Mike Ladd and Celena Glenn
WHERE: The Canal Room 285 West Broadway, NYC
COST: $10 cover (To support the bands please mention their names at the door. Otherwise, the venue will keep your cover... Thank you!)...
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WEB/TECH: When Labels Fought the Digital, and the Digital Won
“You can’t roll a joint on an iPod,” the singer-songwriter Shelby Lynne told The New York Times Magazine early last year. And, O.K., I suppose that’s among the iPod’s drawbacks. But it’s hard to think of an electronic device released in recent decades that’s brought more pleasure to more people...
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FESTIVAL/CRUISE: Loyal Label Nights January 16th and 17th at I-Beam
WHAT: Loyal Label Nights
WHEN: January 16th and 17th 2009
WHERE: I-beam 168 7th Street Brooklyn, NY 11215
COST: Friday January 16th 8pm ($10)
WHO: JEFF DAVIS - SOLO Jeff Davis - drums and percussion. “Drummer Jeff Davis has a steady profile in left-of-center New York jazz circles...” - Nate Chinen, The New York Times “Jeff Davis plays his kit with alert responsiveness, less a traditional rhythm section accompanist, than a creative soloist and spry agitator...” -Troy Collins, All About Jazz...
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ALLABOUTJAZZ.COM: Jazz Musician of the Day: George Kahn
All About Jazz is celebrating George Kahn's birthday today!
JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY George KahnWhen a young musician\'s sources of inspiration are jazz greats like Dave Brubeck, Ramsey Lewis, Joe Sample, Vince Guaraldi and Wynton Kelly, youa€(TM)d figure that his own music would turn out to be pretty special..... more...
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EVENT: January 8th Last Minute Show - Frank London Band / Ljova and the Kontraband Double Bill
WHO: FRANK LONDON BAND LJOVA AND THE KONTRABAND double bill
WHEN: Wednesday, January 8 at 8pm
WHERE: MEHANATA (a.k.a. The Bulgarian Bar) 113 Ludlow Street, bet. Delancey and Rivington New York City Subway: F/J/M/Z to Delancey, V to 2nd Avenue
COST: $10 at the door.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS: A founder of The Klezmatics, FRANK LONDON -- is a Grammy award winning composer and trumpeter. He is featured on over 250 recordings with John Zorn, LL Cool J, Mel Torme, They Might Be Giants, Jane Siberry, and Itzhak Perlman. and from Carnegie Hall to Sex and the City...
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BOOK/MAGAZINE: Tribal Leadership Interview Part 2: Building a Tribe

 Part 2 of Kyle Bylin's interview with John King. the author of Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization. (read part 1 here) Tomorrow author John King lays out his own thoughts on the various stages of fans and the bands themselves.
Bylin: Throughout the music industry when we look for true examples of tribes, we often come up with examples like The Grateful Dead and The Kiss Army. Bruce Springsteen, The Boss, is a leader and his followers (also known as The Church of Bruce), operate as a true tribe. 
 
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