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CD Baby: How to Legally Sell Downloads of Cover Songs

August 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

CD Baby: How to Legally Sell Downloads of Cover Songs
This is a link to the best description of how to legally record and sell covers I have ever heard.  I have been wanting to know how to do this for so long because it is obviously a important part of being a jazz musician.  I [...]

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New York. There’s No Place Like It.

July 21st, 2008 · 2 Comments

Jazz Exchange contributer Paul Brady writes about a recent experience in New York City, and deems it still the best place on earth to check out a show.
Jelly Roll Morton once referred to it as “that cruel city.” Kurt Vonnegut nick- named it “Skyscraper National Park.” It is crowded and expensive. Did [...]

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Northwestern School of Music to Hire New Director of Jazz Studies.

December 1st, 2007 · No Comments

This seems to have come out of left field. Victor Goines, the current head of Jazz at Juliard and member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra is going to be the new head of Jazz at Northwestern University. I remember talking to a member of the jazz faculty this summer and [...]

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