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The Netherlands as central focus at jazzahead! ...and a message: 'Jazz needs diversity'

The Netherlands as central focus at jazzahead! ...and a message: 'Jazz needs diversity'

Source: Michael Ricci

jazzahead! 2024—with partner country the Netherlands—will be three busy and full-on days and nights from April 11-13. Key themes of the showcase programme at the forthcoming jazzahead!2024 are: a superb array of acts from the Netherlands, this year’s partner country; a very strong presence of women among the 40 acts, particularly in the role of bandleaders; a wide range of music from all areas of jazz; a clear societal message. The jazzahead! 2024 trade fair and festival, produced by MESSE ...

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Recording

Sosala 30 Years Ago: No-wave Improv With Powerful Messages

Sosala 30 Years Ago: No-wave Improv With Powerful Messages

Source: Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi aka SoSaLa

SoSaLa has released a retrospective recording which looks back to 1993; when music was made at a special time and with special musicians. For fans who are interested in SoSaLa’s interesting and accomplished music career, this retrospective album is a must. The music on this album comes from the No Wave and post-No Wave scenes in New York, and out of the free jazz scene. There is a very distinct connection here between harmolodics and bands such as Live Skull, ...

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Recording

Groove Holmes: Soul Message

Groove Holmes: Soul Message

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

The early 1960s was a hot time for the Hammond organ, especially on the Prestige label. The surge in organ players at clubs in the late 1950s had to do with three trends. First, in 1959, Hammond came out with its A-100 series that was slimmer and more preferred as a road instrument than the B-style cabinet. Second, as a dominant instrument in a jazz or soul group, the Hammond had all-in-one efficiency; all you needed was a drummer, guitarist ...

Video / DVD

Perfect Album: Newport Message

Perfect Album: Newport Message

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

Over three days in May 1958, Maynard Ferguson's band was in New York to record an album for Roulette. The result was A Message From Newport, one of the most powerful big band albums ever recorded. That July, the Ferguson band performed at Freebody Park in Newport, R.I., at the Newport Jazz Festival. The band played a brief set for the CBS radio network early in the evening and then returned to open the second part of the concert. The ...

Recording

A jazz project with important messages

A jazz project with important messages

Source: Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes

Miami-based trumpeter and educator John Daversa's newest recording project is important on many levels that stretch far beyond jazz—or music. American Dreamers: Voices of Hope, Music of Freedom (BFM Jazz) was recorded by the John Daversa Big Band supplemented by 53 so—called “Dreamers"—undocumented young people who were brought to the U.S. as children and have grown up with American culture and values. Daversa and his production team worked with nonprofit immigrant organizations to find Dreamers who could share their stories ...

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Music Industry

Don’t Let Tax Day Leave You Singing The Blues: A Message For Songwriters, Musicians

Don’t Let Tax Day Leave You Singing The Blues: A Message For Songwriters, Musicians

Source: HypeBot

While tax season is dreaded by many, it can be a particularly trying time for those making a living in the music business. In fact some artists simply don't bother paying taxes at all, which can lead to devastating consequences. Here we look at how to prepare for tax day and avoid the wrath of the IRS. Guest post by Benom Plumb from the Royalty Exchange blog Tax Day this year is April 17. The days leading up to this date can be ...

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Career

Pandora's Free AMP Marketing Platform Adds Features As Artist Audio Messages Pass 1 Billion Impressions

Pandora's Free AMP Marketing Platform Adds Features As Artist Audio Messages Pass 1 Billion Impressions

Source: HypeBot

Pandora has added key new features to its free AMP (Artist Marketing Platform). Direct to fan audio messages from 11,000 artists using the platform have now generated more than a billion listener impressions.  Pandora founder Tim Westergren has stepped down, but so far, his legacy of empowering artists remains, thanks in no small part to Shamal Ranasinghe and his team at the music streamer. Today, they added key features and improved audio message targeting to Pandora's free Artist Marketing Platform ...

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Technology

Google To Let Musicians, Others Post Messages Directly Into Their Search Results

Google To Let Musicians, Others Post Messages Directly Into Their Search Results

Source: HypeBot

Imagine searching Google for “Kanye West" and finding a message purposely posted there by the mercurial musician? Google has begun taking applications for a program it had tested during the U.S. elections that enables this kind of direct in-search posts. Google is taking applications to verify museums, sports teams, sports leagues and movies in the US and Brazil, so that they can make announcements, post images, videos, animated GIFs, and inline links within Google search results. In Brazil, Google is also ...

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Performance / Tour

Eli Yamin And The Astro-Intergenerational Arkestra At Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola January 17, 2017 - "Message From Saturn"

Eli Yamin And The Astro-Intergenerational Arkestra At Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola January 17, 2017 - "Message From Saturn"

Source: Scott Thompson Public Relations

Eli Yamin and the Astro-Intergenerational Arkestra Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola January 17, 2017- 2 Sets One Night Only! Message From Saturn A Space Odyssey “I just got a message from Saturn. We are not playing enough blues!"—Sun Ra Eli Yamin and the Astro-Intergenerational Arkestra recently returned from their triumphant performances in Russia that amazed audiences with standing ovations, now brings his inspiring Sun Ra blues to Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola for one night only on Tuesday, ...

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Performance / Tour

Russia Welcomes Sun Ra - November 19 With The Jazz Drama Program Presentation Of "Message From Saturn"

Russia Welcomes Sun Ra - November 19 With The Jazz Drama Program Presentation Of "Message From Saturn"

Source: Scott Thompson Public Relations

Sun Ra Heads To Russia! Euro-Asian Premiere November 19, 2016 “Saxophonist Knoel Scott told me Sun Ra came into rehearsal and said, 'I just got a message from Saturn. We are not playing enough blues!' I thought about this for ten years, then joined up with Clifford Carlson to write this story." —Eli Yamin Eli Yamin and friends bring the Blues to Russia for the Euro-Asian premiere of Message From Saturn in Yekaterinburg on November 19! ...

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