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-Check out an interesting insider's albeit non-musician's view of jazz performance over at the Huffington Post- The Lessons I've Learned From Jazz
-I guess it was just a matter of time before someone said it out loud. Music is best sold when paired with something else. Here's a wordly but accurate look at the modern music industry at The Music Think Tank- How to Make Money Selling Recorded Music
-In the past, I've often cited the 1,000 True Fans formula for building a modern music career. It looks like you may just need one really wealthy fan. Berklee College of Music get $8 million gift from jazz fan.
For this week's video, I had trouble finding an exceptional musical performance. Instead, here's a video celebrating Twitter's 7th year in existence. Does it bother anyone else the way Facebook's Timeline format has been adopted as a video editing technique? Kind of creepy to an anti-social curmudgeon like me.
