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One of the weird ways that a lot of the UK jazz players have been corrupted in their thinking by the pop world is the infrequency of their recorded output. As I said in my last post, cost has a fair bit to do with that. But the reason that cost has become a factor [...]

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Musical Equipment Used
- Modulus Graphite Basses (6 string fretted and fretless and 4 string fretted), A Rick Turner 5 String Renaissance ‘Amplicoustic’ fretless bass, Mark Audio powered speakers,  Accugroove bass cabinets, the Looperlative LP1 for looping, Lexicon MPX-G2 for processing, an E-Bow+, Bass Centre Elites strings, East-UK preamps, Evidence Audio cables. And I carry my [...]

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So much is being written about the egalitarian nature of online distribution, it would be easy to believe that all our worries as wannabe professional musicians are now over. We all know that we can get a myspace page and a facebook music page, a reverbnation widget and a last.fm page, just like the big [...]

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You may remember back in December, Lobelia and I put out a limited edition CDR release of our live in Nebraska EP - 5 tracks taken from our forthcoming live album (release date TBC!)
Well, it’s now avaliable for download from the online store here - for &3.50
It’s over half an hour long, and the track [...]

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…left of centre? well, yes, but also at these places (just as a recap, in case you missed some of them!)
Facebook
Reverb Nation
iLike
Last.fm
iSound (I’d pretty much forgotten that this one existed!)
MySpace
YouTube
and then just for buying stuff there’s
Cdbaby (there are a host of other MP3 stores linked from here).
iTunes
Emusic
Amazon.
….and also on Rhapsody, Napster and god-knows-where else!
Which of [...]

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One of the favourite points of discussion amongst touring musicians is the whole twisted world of planes and instruments. From baggage limits to carry-on details, plane-side checking of bags, to buying extra seats for cellos, there are a million different takes on it, thanks to airline policy being so utterly baffling most of the time.
For [...]

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