What To Do With That Music Degree – Guest Post by Alex Rodriguez

September 20, 2009

My month of guest blog posts continues today with some very practical advice from Alex W. Rodriguez. Alex is a writer, trombonist and Masters Degree candidate in Jazz History and Research at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. His MA thesis will analyze modern representations of one of the first great jazz trombonists, Jack […]

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Business Plans for Musicians – Guest Post by Cory Huff

September 17, 2009

Today’s guest post comes to us from Cory Huff. Cory is an actor, entrepreneur and internet marketing coach currently living in Portland, OR. He believes the starving artist is a myth and is out to prove it with his website TheAbundantArtist.com where he teaches artists how to sell art online. I “met” Cory after we […]

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Jazz Now – 5 Gateway Albums

September 16, 2009

So I know I’m on my honeymoon in Paris and I said I was going to take a break from blogging and let my guest bloggers have this space until my return. And I know I should be checking out the impressionists at the Musee d’Orsay, or strolling around the Marais in search of the […]

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Why Musicians Tweet – Guest Post by Andrew Durkin

September 14, 2009

I don’t remember how I first came across Andrew Durkin’s blog, but I remember where it led me. I read his post “Winging It” concerning a review of the band Mostly Other People Do The Killing and the idea of spontaneity. The reviewer turned out to be Peter Hum of the Ottowa Citizen. I immediately […]

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How the Internet has Changed the Music Business – Guest Post by David J. Hahn

September 10, 2009

Today’s guest post comes to us from David J. Hahn. I’m thrilled to have David be part of my blog, as he was one of the first musician bloggers I met. Before I started One Working Musician.com I did lots of research, and one of the first blogs I came across was MusicianWages.com, which was […]

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The Art of the Sideman – Guest Post by Art Brown

September 7, 2009

Today’s guest post comes to us from saxophonist Art Brown. Art has been active on the jazz, funk, R&B and hip-hop scenes in Seattle for the last 5 years, and studied Jazz Performance at the University of Washington. He plays regularly in a number of amazing groups, including Hardcoretet, Vunt Foom, Theoretics and Soul Kata. […]

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September is Guest Blogger Month

September 1, 2009

September is Guest Blogger Month here at OneWorkingMusician.com. I’m getting married in less than a week and will be taking off for my honeymoon in Paris for the remainder of the month! While I’m gone I am thrilled to have some of my favorite bloggers and musical minds lending their insights on the life of […]

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Lester Young & Charlie Parker Must Read’s

August 30, 2009

Two significant jazz musician birthdays came and went recently – Lester “Prez” Young’s 100th birthday was on August 27th, and Charlie “Bird” Parker’s 89th was on August 29th. These two genius musical minds were honored by two of our current crop of musical heavies. Ethan Iverson of The Bad Plus spent the last six months […]

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#jazzlives Twitter Campaign

August 29, 2009

Jazz writer Howard Mandel has started a campaign on Twitter to help dispel the myth that jazz is dying. Prompted by Terry Teachout’s Wall Street Journal article “Can Jazz Be Saved” that I wrote about here, Mandel decided to mobilize the jazz twitterati to see just how many people are actually going to see live […]

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The CDs Have Arrived!! The New Jason Parker Quartet CD, “No More, No Less” Lives!

August 27, 2009

Yesterday was one of those days that was filled with anticipation. I received word from UPS that 7 boxes of my new CD were on the truck for delivery at 5am. It was hard not to sit on my stoop and wait for them to arrive all day, but I tried as best I could […]

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