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	<description>Some thoughts about jazz by Russ Reinberg</description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two New Jazz Albums Available:
PLEASE BUY THEM
(A Rather Vitriolic Tirade)


EVERYDAY I CHECK the statistics of this website to see what visitors do when they come here. The vast majority simply listens to our free podcasts. A few bother to visit the New Releases page. And a few of you read my ramblings.
What do you suppose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flavored Cardboard</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 09:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
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LAST WEEK I saw a want ad for jazz by a motion picture company. The last sentence caught my attention: &#8220;NO INSTRUMENTALS &#8212; please!&#8221; That&#8217;s analagous to saying, &#8220;WANTED: Doctor of internal medicine. No physicians &#8212; please!&#8221;
When did jazz transition from instrumental to vocals only? While vocals always have been part of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Glamorous Life Of A Jazz Musician</title>
		<link>http://www.westlakerecords.com/blog/2010/03/19/the-glamorous-live-of-a-jazz-musician/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:07:15 +0000</pubDate>
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THE PHONE RINGS on Monday afternoon. The bandleader I often work with, Jonathan Stout, is in trouble. His small group has a weekend job in Houston and the tenor sax player has just canceled. Will I do him a big favor and take the gig? I need to fly out on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Change Is Unnecessary</title>
		<link>http://www.westlakerecords.com/blog/2009/12/28/when-change-is-unnecessary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
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A FRIEND GAVE me a lot of albums documenting small jazz bands from 1940 to the late &#8217;50s. Even though all were Dixieland groups, as the recordings moved forward in time I could hear the style regress from its original intent. And it made me wonder why.
When jazz was new, musicians [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Venues</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 05:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
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THE JAZZ SCENE? What jazz scene? You mean that small group of musicians who play for each other and their friends and almost nobody else?
If you live in a very big city and really search, you might find as many as a couple of dozen places where somebody performs some kind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Copping Out</title>
		<link>http://www.westlakerecords.com/blog/2009/11/16/copping-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:29:41 +0000</pubDate>
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MUSICAL SHOWS HAVE exploited pretty girls for centuries but does that kind of exploitation belong in jazz?
Recently an otherwise top-notch ensemble of middle age men appeared with a cute young woman in the front line. She could play but, in contrast to the others, fell far short. Of course she was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jazz, Esperanto, And The King&#8217;s New Clothes</title>
		<link>http://www.westlakerecords.com/blog/2009/09/01/jazz-esperanto-and-the-kings-new-clothes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
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ESPERANTO, FOR THOSE unfamiliar with it, is an artificial language dating from the 1880s. Its developers hoped it would bridge language barriers between intellectuals and statesmen around the world. It is a tongue without a country and today its speakers consist primarily of members of Mensa and others who would separate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Way To Keep Jazz Alive: Professional Courtesy</title>
		<link>http://www.westlakerecords.com/blog/2009/08/11/professional-courtesy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
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WE JAZZ MUSICIANS are at war, battling for a share of radio, TV, movie, and Internet exposure to keep our music alive. And the only chance we have to accomplish that is to work together, to help one another.
The term &#8220;professional jazz musician&#8221; is no longer relevant. Almost nobody today can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dick Cary</title>
		<link>http://www.westlakerecords.com/blog/2009/07/25/dick-cary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 20:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
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FEW PEOPLE REMEMBER his name or know who he was. Dick Cary was an excellent jazz pianist, composer, and horn player. He was a very intelligent, educated, erudite gentleman. He also was my friend and mentor. He was born on July 10, 1916 in Hartford, Connecticut, studied classical music, and disappointed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Musician Or Computer?</title>
		<link>http://www.westlakerecords.com/blog/2009/07/14/musician-or-computer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
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I TRIED SOMETHING bizarre this month out of sheer frustration and it worked pretty well. I have been unable to get my &#8220;A&#8221; team into the studio for four months; someone always is working. So, instead, I used a computer program to create rhythm section tracks.
I recorded myself with it and [...]]]></description>
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