Links

Links to specific blog posts or online articles that I found interesting or inspirational or helpful or just made me think – may or may not be music related.

• http://sivers.org/15-years
• “Artists, as a species, are amazing people. And America, as a general rule, does not fully get this. Show me a good artist and I will show you a highly educated, highly creative, highly passionate, highly driven human being. If they’re a performing artist, I will show you someone who breathes teamwork. I will show you someone who eats healthy critiques for breakfast and grows an inch that day because of it. I will show you a communicator, and a thinker.” Read the rest: http://chrisashworth.org/blog/2010/06/24/my-competitive-advantage-i-hire-artists/
• Jazz Big Band Ingredients – Article from JazzEd
• Bandleading 101 from Airmen of Note director Joe Jackson
• NEA News – Jazz Musician Survey – from 2003, but still interesting.
• Music must be a necessity, not a luxury