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Take Five Q&A: The Ultimate Promotional Page
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All About Jazz
The Take Five Q&A feature is a $40 service where All About Jazz publishes, archives, and features your self-directed interview. A Take Five article page is a powerful promotional tool, receives optimal search engine placement, drives traffic to a musician's website and social pages, helps promote a new album release, is posted on the All About Jazz Facebook page and the All About Jazz Twitter page, and becomes associated with a musician's professional page. We encourage you to answer as ...
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Take Five: Studio Vibes, Jazzin Mandolin, 2 Drums, 7 Psalms, and Desert Island Picks
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
The Star Tribune has a good idea — every Sunday you can read about recent arts happenings from two perspectives, dubbed Pick Six. Two writers — usually a Strib staffer and an invited guest—each select three highpoints in their arts week. Once in a while, a jazz event makes the cut. Not often enough. So I decided if the Strib can “Pick Six," surely I can “Take Five" of my favorite jazz-related events of the past week. So here's my ...
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"Take Five" a la Pakistan
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
When Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond took time out for tips from Indian musicians during their 1958 State Department tour, the exchange worked both ways. The Brubeck Quartet's tour was an important component of the cultural diplomacy the United States practiced during the Cold War. Among other inspirations Brubeck picked up on the international road more than half a century ago was the 9/8 Turkish rhythm that became the basis for his “Blue Rondo a la Turk." Desmond had long ...
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"Take Five" Gala Honors Dave Brubeck
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Chris M. Slawecki
WHAT: “Take Five" honors jazz icon Dave Brubeck in an evening that includes a champagne reception,a concert and a “moveable feast" of offerings from noted Greenwich restaurants. Mr. Brubeck will receive the prestigious Silver Baton award from the Russian National Orchestra (RNO) for his lifetime contributions to cultural diplomacy. The evening benefits the RNO Instrument Fund and Jazz'd 4 Life, an organization that builds opportunities for young people around the world.
WHERE: Hosted by the Mitchell Family at Richards of ...
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Correspondence: On "Take Five" (Illustrated)
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Rifftides reader John Fielding writes from Australia:
I am currently reading and enjoying your book about Paul Desmond. I am a lifelong DB and PD follower after seeing them play in Brisbane, Australia, in 1960.Congratulations on a great contribution to jazz history and the stories and colors of the era of the 50's.
Amazing that 'Take Five' has been so widely recorded. I thought you might be interested to know that I recently heard 'Take Five' on a stay ...
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Take Five: Geoff Lapp
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Jazzblog.ca by Peter Hum
If you were to spend just a bit of time poking around geofflapp.com, you might think that the Montreal pianist was one of these 20-something musicians who is new to the scene but has plenty of Web mojo. His site links to his Facebook and Twitter accounts and indeed, via song.ly, he tried this year to promote Canadian jazz by directing people to hosted MP3s by Canadian jazz musicians. At his site, Lapp a listening room with tracks from his ...
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