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Album Review

The Word: Soul Food

Read "Soul Food" reviewed by Doug Collette


Right from the cover graphic depicting an audio speaker as a source of spiritual sustenance, The Word's Soul Food continues one of the most unusual but profoundly successful and satisfying collaborations in contemporary roots music. Bluesrockers the North Mississippi Allstars so deeply bonded with keyboardist John Medeski and pedal steel wunderkind Robert Randolph on their initial eponymous collaboration (Ropeadope, 2001), a followup was probably inevitable, but this album is far from merely de rigeur. Quite the contrary, as ...

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The Word: The Word

Read "The Word" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Does the listener want something a little bit different? Well, Brother, here it is.

Sacred Steel is a brand of gospel music played on a pedal steel guitar. It is a little known musical tradition that had its beginnings in the 1930s in the Church of God, an African-American Pentecostal denomination, found in Jamaica and the United States. One of the current master craftsmen of this style is 25-year-old Robert Randolph, who has been playing in the Maplewood, New Jersey ...

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Crowdfunding Campaign

For Notespeak, Peace Is The Word

For Notespeak, Peace Is The Word

Source: Lisa Marie Simmons

Lisa Simmons and Marco Cremaschini have announced that they are raising funds on IndieGoGo for NoteSpeak, a unique collaboration that intertwines poetical and musical forms to raise awareness of real-life triumphs and struggles around the world. NoteSpeak will explore creative paths formerly established by such artists as The Last Poets, Gil Scott-Heron, and Brian Jackson, but venture down contemporary avenues to address current topics of which many remain unaware. Based in Garda Lake, Italy, Simmons and Cremaschini are primary forces ...

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Music Industry

The Doobie Brothers Sue Cover Band Claiming They Own The Word "Doobie"

The Doobie Brothers Sue Cover Band Claiming They Own The Word "Doobie"

Source: HypeBot

The Doobie Brothers do not cite the etymology of the term “doobie" in their trademark lawsuit against the Doobie Decimal System rock band, though the slang term predated the band by a few years. Doobie Brothers Corp. and Doobro Entertainment on Friday sued Roger McNamee and Jason Crosby, who perform under the name Doobie Decimal System, a classic-rock cover band. McNamee, also with Moonalice, and Crosby, a guitarist and fiddle player who has played with Eric Clapton, Carlos Santana, Dave ...

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Interview

Jazz "Messengers" Spread The Word At 2014 Jazz In The Valley

Jazz "Messengers" Spread The Word At 2014 Jazz In The Valley

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations

By Charley Rosen On a glorious summer day in August, the fifth and final set of the 14th Annual Jazz in the Valley Festival was thrilling, nostalgic, even historic; transporting the seven musicians and hundreds of enraptured witnesses into Jazz Heaven. Six of the jazzmen had been members of various editions of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messenger, and they were all world-class artists. Calling themselves “The Message, ” the lineup had Javon Jackson playing tenor sax, Gary Bartz on either soprano ...

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Website

Help spread the word about Jazz Near You

Help spread the word about Jazz Near You

Source: All About Jazz

Your friends at All About Jazz are spreading the word about Jazz Near You and we'd really appreciate your help in introducing JNY to your social and professional networks, especially if you are actively involved with your local jazz community (presenters, venue owners, musicians, educators, etc.) We've included four standard notes for your Facebook friends, Twitter followers, jazz mailing list, and an email reply to a gig announcement. For Facebook and Twitter users For musician use: Post your gigs for ...

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Website

Jazz Near You: Psst... Spread the Word!

Jazz Near You: Psst... Spread the Word!

Source: All About Jazz

Though we do our best to reach our readers with news about our latest developments, we need everyone's help to spread the word about Jazz Near You. If you like what you see, please pass the word along using any of the following methods:

Link to us; Mention it on your Facebook page; Mention it in a Tweet. Hashtag #jazznearyou; Mention it in your email newsletter; Mention it on a bulletin board; Mention it in a Yahoo or Facebook group; ...

Technology

Online Street Teams: How to Motivate Fans to Spread the Word for You

Online Street Teams: How to Motivate Fans to Spread the Word for You

Source: HypeBot

Guest post by Moses Soyoola (@moseyshow), co-founder of Jamplify (@jampaigns), a promotional platform that turns fans into active promoters of artists' content. Whatever happened to street teams? It used to be that artists would have armies of kids in any given city beating the pavement to promote the artist and the artist's shows. These promoters would be rewarded with all kinds of perks and gifts like backstage passes, box sets, or VIP access. These artists realized that fan word-of-mouth is ...

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Performance / Tour

Mom's the Word for Promising Jazz Bassist

Mom's the Word for Promising Jazz Bassist

Source: Michael Ricci

With 19 concerts over seven days (Feb. 20-25, Feb. 27), Winterruption, the annual winter music festival at Granville Island's Performance Works, has music for just about any jazz taste. You can hear straight-ahead music (Altered Laws), hard bebop (Ugetsu), European improv (Eric Vloeimans Fugimundi Trio), Parisian cafe sounds (Mimosa), a string quartet (Quatuor Bozzini) and experimental (Rene Lussier). You can also hear bands and musicians who, if all the stars line up correctly, are on the cusp of greatness. One ...

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Award / Grant

The Man Who Created the Word "Grammy" and Other Idle Gossip

The Man Who Created the Word "Grammy" and Other Idle Gossip

Source: All About Jazz

According to the Grammy Awards website, the music industry's highest honor got its name from a nationwide “name the award" contest back in 1959.

Not so according to Grammy-, Emmy- and Clio-winning writer-comedian Stan Freberg, who recently toured the Grammy Museum and emerged incensed. He says the honor's origins (and his role in them) have been erased like a bad overdub.

Here's Stan's correction and recollection:

In 1958, I was on the founding Board of Governors of the Recording Academy. ...

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Music Industry

Please vote for "A New Jazz Star" and pass the word. Thanks.

Please vote for "A New Jazz Star" and pass the word. Thanks.

Source: All About Jazz

Please tell fans and friends of jazz to vote in the “Search For A New Jazz Star" at http://www.euroclubdejazz.com/talentsearch/files/rd1finalists.htm one set of votes per email addressee. Visitors to the microsite have been voting since we posted the live samples and we anticipate a high number of visitors to the competition especially with the holiday season this month. Please visit the main www.EuroClubdeJazz.com website for updates and current front runners as the month progresses. The sound samples have been added to ...

Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Soul Food

Vanguard Records
2015

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The Word

Unknown label
2001

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