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Jazzfuel
1w ago
If, like most jazz musicians, ‘gigging and touring more’ is near the top of your wishlist, this article looks at one specific angle of improving your pitching success, through a summer-time analogy… When it comes to gig pitching, are you selling umbrellas in the summer? In Barcelona (as with many other holiday destinations) the tourist ...
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Jazzfuel
1M ago
In this short guide, we’re going to look at how offering a simple free resource – aka a “lead magnet” – has the ability to turbo-charge your success in finding enthusiastic music students to teach… Whether you’re a passionate music teacher looking to fill up the gaps in your schedule, or a performing musician wanting ...
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Jazzfuel
1M ago
Alongside all the great music, Miles Davis also gave us a fair few quotes, including this one – which is surprisingly useful when it comes to booking gigs… “First you imitate, then you innovate“ It seems obvious, but why start your gig booking by trying to pitch to EVERY SINGLE CLUB & FESTIVAL out there, ...
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Jazzfuel
1M ago
Assuming you’re reaching out to a promoter who you are not yet connected to, the goal with a pitching email is to help them understand the music and the project as quickly as possible. In fact, too much information is likely to have the opposite effect, and get skimmed or deleted. With that in mind, ...
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Jazzfuel
2M ago
One of the longest-running and famous European jazz festivals, Jazz Jantar in the Polish city of Gdansk is kicking off this week with a line up that includes Nils Petter Molvær, Nu Jazz and David Murray. To mark the occasion, we caught up with festival programmer Jarek Kowal. Stay tuned to hear more about the ...
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Jazzfuel
3M ago
As I’ve already mentioned when I wrote about things I wish I’d known before about booking gigs, one of the big realisations is that “no reply” from a promoter does not mean “not interested” or “we hate you”… But whilst that’s maybe nice to know, it’s still not helping start conversations which lead to cold, ...
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Jazzfuel
3M ago
Perhaps one of the most underrated alto saxophonists in jazz history, Frank Morgan was best known not for a specific album or project, but for the years spent in the notorious San Quentin prison, where he formed part of the warden’s jazz ensemble. The last two decades of his life, clean of heroin and out ...
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Jazzfuel
3M ago
It’s often fascinating to discover how the greatest jazz musicians of all time grew from young, budding students to idols of the style. As if there was ever any doubt, the role their upbringing played can be seen in the sheer number of family connections sprinkled throughout the upper echelons of jazz history. Whether nature ...
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Jazzfuel
3M ago
From 14 year-old budding jazz musician to 30-something father-of-two, one thing has remained consistent: jazz posters on my bedroom wall. These days they tend to be surrounded by a nice frame rather than tape, but the idea is the same: iconic artwork from the world of jazz is (in my opinion) a stylish addition to ...
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Jazzfuel
4M ago
There aren’t many opportunities to compare a 1930s jazz musician with Madonna, David Bowie or Kanye West but, decades before social media and the modern era of ‘celebrity’, jazz musicians were at the forefront of pop culture – as the story of Lester Young and his pork pie hat attests. It seems like a cliché ...
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