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Hi All,

There's been a great discussion on a thread started by Steve Shapiro on the future of the music business (see check this out). I've been enjoying that quite a bit, but I'm worried that it's a bit too esoteric for most of the people here. So I'd like to start another thread about concrete steps working musicians can take in the new environment to optimize their chances of making a decent living.

Today I was running an errand at lunch that took me off of my normal beaten path and past Alan Dawson's old neighborhood in Lexington, MA. That started some reminiscing that I thought would be good to share.

Hi all,

I was checking our newbies, and saw this guy from Perugia: Fabrizio Fratepietro. I thought: wow, Perugia, one of the European capitals of jazz!

He had the good idea to put his myspace link. I went there and listened to the first sample...

Wow! I thought we were right in the discussion "Competition Part 2": that's quite modern hip music, groovy, with vibes, trumpet, etc… and that cool vibraphone comping and even solo. And there are lyrics sang as a rap (huh?) and the guy sings in a perfect French (huh?!). And guess what is the subject of this first tune: clones! Haha! :o)

My own version of " my one and only love ".

The arrangement of the chords are inspired of "Chord Study Based one My One And Only Love" by Tony. (thanks a lot for the lessons online!)
I would like to improvise and playing the chords on the same time, but I find it's very difficult for the moment.
Ideally, I would like to play this tune in duet vibes-bass or in trio vibes-bass-drums, (so without guit!) if I can play the chords all the time...

I have to play this tune with a band, in December, for the end of the session at the University. I have to play 4 others tunes
Oléo

I posted some stories about not so great students, recently. So of course I've been remembering things about my teaching and playing career. One aspect of my teaching and performing career was in prison. I was in prison(s) for about 8 years with my vibraphone!

This is great. David is a deep cat. I love his playing!

Hmmm...

About a week ago, I thought oh man, what's tj up to. He seemed a little over the top and a little too gun ho.

You know as the cat who runs the site, you have to be really careful about things, what you say and what you do. Something as many of you know, I'm not good at. There's been a couple times when I've wanted to hit the block button on a user, or pull something down. I bet some of you have wanted to ban me!! Ha Ha, but you can't! :-)

If you're trying to make a living in music, you absolutely must read this book. Written by Berklee technology maven David Kusek and cyber-licensing expert Gerd Leanhard, this is a comprehensive examination of the state of the music industry and a highly optimistic (from the artists' point of view) projection of its future (far less optimistic from the record companies' point of view).

Hey Guys,

Tony inspired me with his crazy version of Alone Together, so I decided to take this tune as the next tune to study this week.

Remember, I'm trying to keep things going here and I hope you guys join in and record the tune. The deadline is next friday, so let's all post someting, ok?

I'm working on a play-along for you guys to record with and I hope to have it ready monday evening. In the meantime, check out the tune(hopefully by ear and not by realbook) and check out Tony's post(see check this out).