The Guardian thinks you can run a Business by learning from Jazz.

Miles Ahead of Sales Targets

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"Duke Ellington, Miles Davis and Art Blakey are widely recognised as three of the greatest jazz band leaders of the 20th century"

I agree wholeheartedly.

"In brief But did you ever consider they might be role models for entrepreneurs?"

... what?

The article is a pretty long read, however the gist of it is that non-music professors (in this case, Deniz Ucbasaran, Professor of Entrepreneurship at Warwick Business School) who read a few articles in Wikipedia can come up with an award winning theory about how entrepreneurs can learn from listening to and reading about the great jazz leaders.

It's a nice attempt to be creative, but ultimately I can't imagine this being taken very seriously.

What if you had someone like Ornette Coleman or John Coltrane or Albert Ayler on board?

What if I let you hear this:



What Miles can be in the studio or stage cannot be transformed into a board of directors.

Peace.

Can Industrial Bleakness Create Art?

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Something is Brewing...

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Awesome Website: See Who's Still Alive on Album Covers

LIVE! (I See Dead Peoples) has come up with a brilliant idea; basically... get an album cover of a famous record and edit out which band member is dead!!!

Here's an easy example from them:

If you guessed who is not on the cover... then you know your stuff! (FYI: George Harrison and John Lennon).

See more on their site; not all are this easy!

Standards: "Dust my Broom" - Elmore James

If you love the blues, you probably heard this very early on in your search.

It's actually a Robert Johnson tune, but Elmore Jame's haunting electric slide guitar takes it to another level than it's delta acoustic predecessor.

Take a listen, write a letter and telephone every town you know!

Should you Quit your Band?

If you are not sure, then check out this chart:

Got 15 Minutes to Spare? Hear the solo of "Impressions" - John Coltrane

Master of improv and exploration, 'Trane's solo on "Impressions" from 1963, which shares the same chord progression (Dm7, Ebm7) as Miles Davis' "So What" ('Trane also performed in it), is a perfect example of modal jazz. No more restrictions to harmonic or melodic cycles!

Hope you got the time for this 15 minute NON-STOP solo!

Teaser Announcement - New Music Project

I promised some big things in 2012; be on the lookout for the reveal soon.

Standards: "Straight, No Chaser" - Thelonious Monk

When your name is Thelonious Monk, you're already a badass mofo. Add some great piano skills and there you have one of the best jazz players of all time.

His classic "Straight, No Chaser" is one of the most covered jazz standards; for good reason... this track was released in 1951 (at the beginning of what later became hard-bop).

Here's the original track; and a Miles Davis cover from 1958 (featuring John Coltrane and Cannonball Adderley on tenor and alto sax respectively):

Who says the Blues Can't be Funny?

Of course we all think of the blues as someone fixin' to die and all that... however why not see it from a funny angle?!

This is a medley called "I got a New Car / Framed" by Troyce Key and JJ Malone. It's two songs in one basically... one about a crappy car and other about being framed for murder, including the famous line:

"the judge came down, poured whiskey on my head, turned his head at the jury and said, convict this man, he's drunk."