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Album Review

MAP: Six Improvisations for Guitar, Bass and Drums

Read "Six Improvisations for Guitar, Bass and Drums" reviewed by Michael A. Parker


This a fresh and valuable document of the current underground avant-garde improvisation scene in New York, offered in minimal, attractive packaging and self-released on a small scale by Tatsuya Nakatani, the most well-known and widely-published musician of the trio. The only time I've heard Mary Halvorson previously was in a performance of MP3, drummer Mike Pride's melodic, energized compositional unit rounded out by Trevor Dunn. There she caught my attention with spiky, angular, single-note runs on her clean-toned electric hollow-body ...

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Book / Magazine

All About Jazz Senior Contributor Karl Ackermann Publishes 'A Map of Jazz: Crossroads of Music and Human Rights'

All About Jazz Senior Contributor Karl Ackermann Publishes 'A Map of Jazz: Crossroads of Music and Human Rights'

Source: All About Jazz

A Map of Jazz is a history of jazz in parallel with world events. Jazz matured in the era of prohibition with organized crime as its patron. It was homogenized as swing music and found its true Black voice with Bebop and the Civil Rights movement. In spite of systemic racism in the United States, fascism in Europe, and anti-Western sentiment in Asia, the music survived throughout the world. Musicians embraced its history but continued to rethink and redefine their ...

Video / DVD

Norman Mapp: Nothin' But Soul

Norman Mapp: Nothin' But Soul

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

Norman Mapp was one of the finest male jazz vocalists of the 1960s, topped only by Johnny Hartman. Leading jazz players in the late 1950s and '60s were hip to Mapp, but virtually everyone else drew a blank. Odds are you aren't familiar with him either or the one album he recorded—Jazz Ain't Nothin' But Soul. Recorded in March 1961 for Epic, the album featured Clark Terry (tp), Seldon Powell (ts and fl), Tommy Flanagan (p), George Duvivier or Peck ...

Career

7 Steps To Mapping Out Your Music Release Campaign

7 Steps To Mapping Out Your Music Release Campaign

Source: HypeBot

While it's important to focus on crafting the perfect batch of songs for your next release, it's also essential to develop a plan for how exactly you intend to unleash your music on the public, otherwise you'll find yourself in possession of a collection of songs that are all dressed up with nowhere to go. Here we look at how to develop a solid release campaign. Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 You’re in the studio hard at ...

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Music Industry

Next Big Sound Adds Pandora Streams To Audience Map: Know Where Your Fans Are

Next Big Sound Adds Pandora Streams To Audience Map: Know Where Your Fans Are

Source: HypeBot

Pandora owned analytics platform Next Big Sound has improved its Audience Map with adding an important metric- where an artist's Pandora streams are coming from. Launched last last November, the chart had previously only highlighted the areas where an artist received Pandora Artist Station Adds over the last 28 days. Station Adds for the last 28 days show growth in an artist's more dedicated fans. Here’s the map of the Artist Station Adds of Yung Booke, an up-and-coming rapper from ...

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Music Industry

Can Old School Label Talent Transition To Digital? [Jon Maples]

Can Old School Label Talent Transition To Digital? [Jon Maples]

Source: HypeBot

An increasing number of old school label executives are jumping ship as they move to new digital platforms.  But the question is being raised as to how smooth the transition will be and to whether established artists and their relationships with these execs will survive the move. By digital music industry veteran and consultant Jon Maples Old-school record executives seem to be joining new-school digital music companies in increased intensity.  In the past few years WMG’s Stephen Bryan (Soundcloud), Interscope’s Jimmy Iovine (Apple), UMG’s Amanda Marks (Apple), super-manager Troy Carter (Spotify) ...

Trends

Consumerless Recovery: Music Revenues Up But More Pain May Be Coming [John Maples]

Consumerless Recovery: Music Revenues Up But More Pain May Be Coming [John Maples]

Source: HypeBot

While the latest news from the music industry certainly seems positive, with eight percent growth in revenues courtesy of streaming, for those who look more closely there may also be some concerning indicators hidden within those numbers. Guest Post by Jon Maples News this week, for once, was positive for the music business. The RIAA released its report for the first half of this year and there was an eight percent growth in revenues over the same time 2015, thanks ...

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Website

Map of Today's Jazz Events Added to Jazz Near You home page

Map of Today's Jazz Events Added to Jazz Near You home page

Source: All About Jazz

Jazz Near You now represents today's events on a map with pin drops highlighting their locations. “Though there's still plenty of development work ahead, we're starting to move beyond foundational programming for the website, which is freeing us up to experiment with new features like mapping your way to jazz events," enthuses Michael Ricci, Jazz Near You's founder. Users can click on a pin drop to get title and venue information, and then click the pop up window for event ...

Career

Musicians: Put Yourself on the Map, the Google Street View Map

Musicians: Put Yourself on the Map, the Google Street View Map

Source: HypeBot

Though many of us are balking at Google's ongoing drive to connect products, such as the widely attacked, integration of Google+ comments on YouTube, sometimes those connections open up great new possibilities. In this case, Google's connecting their Photo Sphere tech for 360 degree photo creations and Google Maps' Street View to allow you to create tours with some interesting marketing possibilities. I haven't worked with photo spheres or placed photos on Google Maps but I have checked out Street ...

Technology

Musomap: Google Maps Meets Twitter for Musicians

Musomap: Google Maps Meets Twitter for Musicians

Source: HypeBot

The ways that musicians seek out and find their creative collaborators have come a long way in the digital space. There now exist a number of sites that go well beyond Craigslist and focus specifically on connecting musicians, and each has its own unique value offering. One such site that made its way onto our radar is MusoMap, a cool and interactive Google Map that puts the focus on getting in touch with musicians far and wide and starting a conversation. ...

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Technology

Social Media Success for Musicians - A 2012 Roadmap

Social Media Success for Musicians - A 2012 Roadmap

Source: HypeBot

There have been many stories and guest posts on Hypebot recently about how to use social media to market to fans. This seems only fitting, since 2012 will see an increased scrutiny on social media marketing strategies, metrics and results. The last few years have been focused on making sense of how artists can best acquire more Twitter followers and Facebook likes. This year will be about figuring out both what to do with them, as well as, making sense ...

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