What Nina taught Kellylee Evans

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We tend to think of tribute albums as being the work of fans, of musicians whose own identities wouldn’t have been fully formed without the influence of a classic artist. But while that’s true to some degree of Kellylee Evans’s new album, Nina, the young jazz singer’s relationship to the music and legend of Nina Simone is complicated, to say the least.

“I really didn’t like Nina Simone when I was growing up,” she says, over the phone from her home in Ottawa. “My mom listened to her all the time, but I wanted to listen to Michael Jackson and Blondie and stuff like that. I didn’t want to hear any of the stuff my mom had. But I was the one who put on the records, so she’d ask me to go down and put on Nina records.

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Blues Bytes: Bob Corritore Review

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Harmonica Blues (Delta Groove Music) marks Bob Corritore’s 40th anniversary as a harmonica player. Corritore’s life was changed when, as a 12 year old, he heard Muddy Waters on the radio. Within a year, he was playing harmonica and stocking up on blues records. He got his start backing John Henry Davis on Maxwell Street, and hung out with harp players like Big Walter Horton, Carey Bell, Little Mack Simmons, Louis Myers, and Junior Wells, learning from each and every one of them. In the late ’70s/early ’80s, he produced recordings for artists like Little Willie Anderson and Big Leon Brooks before heading south to Phoenix.

In Phoenix, Corritore made his mark as a performer (with Big Pete Peterson, Chico Chism, Janiva Magness, Chief Schabuttie Gilliame, among others), a radio show host (“These Lowdown Blues” on KJZZ since 1984), and a club owner (the Rhythm Room, since 1991). Over time, Corritore and his band would back many great blues artists on shows and recording sessions. He’s released many of these performances on some outstanding collections since 1999 for various labels. Harmonica Blues captures 15 fantastic performances recorded over the past couple of decades, teaming Corritore with an all-star cast of blues legends.

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Erika Jayne in Orlando Style

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Pretty Mess:

She's equal parts Hollywood glamour and S&M chic.

What does the intersection between fashion and music look like? It looks like stylista, pop princess, dance diva and No. 1 Billboard chart-topper Erika Jayne.

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BLOGCRITICS Music Review: Life in Between - Handful of Luvin

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Have you ever heard about the blind men and the elephant? Six blind men are near an elephant when a wise man asked them to describe what it looked like by what they felt. One felt a leg and described the elephant as a pillar. One felt the tail and described the elephant like a rope. On and on. Each described the elephant based on their own personal experience - and all of them were right.

What do six blind people have to do with Handful of Luvin's album Life in Between? Sometimes I feel that describing music is the same way... And this album is tough to describe. Each track has a slightly different "feel" that feeds into the eclectic mix of this rock quartet. But if you take each track on its own, you only hear part of the truth.

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COSMO Presents Miles High Productions Chip Schutzman: Digital Marketing Strategies for Musicians

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The Coalition of Songwriter & Music Organizations (COSMO), www.cosmocoalition.org, will host a special afternoon workshop with social media’s intuitive trailblazer, Chip Schutzman, Pres., Miles High Productions, www.mileshighproductions.com, Sat. Oct. 16, 2010, from 1pm – 4pm at the Guitar Merchant, 7503 N. Topanga Canyon Blvd, Canoga Park, CA, 91303. Chip will be presenting “Digital Marketing Strategies for Musicians”, an intensive, hands-on, workshop for serious-minded artists interested in planning a successful internet profit center and learning more about social media.

and made payable to info@cosmocoalition.org. (Registration the day of the workshop is $20 at the door.) If you wish to pre-register by mail with a personal check or money order made out to COSMO, or to request press interview access, vip industry passes or all other inquiries, please contact Toni Koch, COSMO HQ 818-831-1704 or email info@cosmocoalition.org.

Chip Schutzman is President and founder of Miles High Productions, an online music marketing and promotion company founded in 2002. Chip is responsible for all business development and operations and is responsible for communications with over 25,000 web sites and media outlets internationally.

Chip formed MHP in July of 2003 after observing a gradual lack of efforts made to effectively promote artists online. Sometimes limited resources to market artists in a traditional sense and the results are minimal based on today’s trends in downsizing of companies and lack of resources. MHP’s list of services to music labels, artist management and artists and to other companies are a compliment or supplement to co-existing traditional marketing plan strategies.

In the last few years, Miles High Productions has worked with over 150 artists and dozens of established record labels including EMI America, Capitol Records, Blue Note Records, Universal Music Group, Warner Brothers Entertainment, Bayside Distribution, Fontana and several other high profiled record labels and distribution companies.

Miles High Productions is recognized and known in the recording industry community for developing emerging artists and represent artists online from popular music formats such as jazz, electronica, dance, rock, blues, country, singer-songwriter, pop and other music genres.

Prior to starting Miles High Productions, Chip was the Director of Music Programming for House of Blues Entertainment and is credited with the initial content development for HOB Digital (hob.com). As the evolution of the internet took place, Chip was instrumental in turning hob.com into the leading live music provider on the web by developing, positioning and maintaining key relationships with artists, managers and record labels to secure digital rights for webcasts, interviews, and marketing of special projects. He is also accredited with the development of 20 internet radio stations within the HOB Radio Network, and was responsible for maintaining content distribution deals with AOL, MTV Interactive, DMX Music and MSN Music.

In 1998, Chip implemented music downloads of exclusive live music and initiated the 99 cent purchase model several years prior to the formation of the iTunes Music Store. Chip has consulted and completed online marketing campaigns for several platinum selling artists including Barbra Streisand, Jewel, Gary Allan, Peter Frampton, The Bee Gees, Coldplay, Olivia Newton-John, Ozzy Osbourne and Heart and worked on a multiple CD compilation in honor of the 50th Grammy Awards in 2008. Chip currently resides in Los Angeles and is also a guest lecture speaker at several universities across the USA including Boston University, Berklee College of Music, Temple University, UCLA and NYU.

The Guitar Merchant, www.guitarmerchant.com, supports our COSMO events and asks those attending to be respectful of neighbors when parking cars. You can visit the Guitar Merchant 7 days a week with a friendly staff, wonderful teachers and quality live entertainment often.

“HOW DO I REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT?

To pre-register online, please go to www.paypal.com and email your $15 per person fee to info@cosmocoalition.org. Day of the workshop the fee will be $20 cash, check or credit card. If you wish to pre-register by sending us a check or money order in lieu of Paypal please call Toni at 818-831-1704 for COSMO’s HQ mailing address or to discuss special registrations for individuals, large groups or music students.

Junior's Cave: Music Now Artist/Band Spotlight Weekly Series

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Junior’s Cave music Page, Music Now, is pleased to present one of our featured bands/artists for the week. Meet Handful of Luvin', one of the coolest sounding bands we have had the pleasure to listen to so far in our publication career. With a perfectly blended style of several genres, Handful of Luvin' is going to become an all time favorite with music fans and our readers of this magazine. Make sure to check them out on their official website (listed at the end of this interview) and buy their new CD; it’s worth it. Here the official interview for your reading pleasure.

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Heart's Red Velvet Car reviewed by Blogcritics

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Nothing beats live music. Hands down, the live experience trumps any audio or video recording I've ever seen of an artist performing. That said, the next best thing is a concert recording, preferably video so you can see the actual performance instead of simply listening to it.

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