{"id":247,"date":"2009-09-07T22:47:18","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T02:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/2009\/09\/jazzlives_12-day_count_of_twee\/"},"modified":"2011-04-28T16:33:40","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T20:33:40","slug":"jazzlives_12-day_count_of_twee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2009\/09\/jazzlives_12-day_count_of_twee.html","title":{"rendered":"#jazzlives weekend update: 12-day count of tweeting fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buzz about <b>who<\/b> played live jazz <b>where<\/b> marked with the hashtage <b>#jazzlives <\/b>flew throughout cyberspace this weekend&nbsp; &#8212; catch it all <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#search?q=%23jazzlives\"><b>here<\/b><\/a>. The impromptu campaign produced anecdotal evidence that a young and vigorous audience for America&#8217;s modern <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Geneva;\"><\/span><!--EndFragment--><br \/>\nvernacular creative music does <i>indeed<\/i> exist, spreading enthusiastic word via the social network Twitter of sets at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jazzinchicago.org\/presents\/jazz-festival\/31st-annual-chicago-jazz-festival-presented-carefusion\">Chicago<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Tanglewood-Jazz-Festival\/107133215239\">Tanglewood<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelcityjazzfestival.com\/\">Los Angeles<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/jazzinsidemagazine.com\/publications\/news\/2009\/15th-annual-west-coast-jazz-party-sept.-3-6-2009\">x2<\/a>), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.detroitjazzfest.com\/news.html\">Detroit<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.riverfrontjazzfest.com\/\">Stevens Point (Wisconsin)<\/a> jazz festivals and gigs in New York, Tokyo, etc,. far and wide.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<meta name=\"Title\" content=\"\"><br \/>\n<meta name=\"Keywords\" content=\"\"><br \/>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; 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font-family: Geneva;\">The<br \/>\nnumber of tweets labeled with the #jazzlives hashtag since Thursday, Sept. 3 is<br \/>\n812, which hasn&#8217;t touched the number that who attended Woodstock 40 years ago but isn&#8217;t bad as far as getting folks to independently raise their hands (or rather, use their thumbs) to shout &#8216;Yes, I love live jazz&#8217; in 140 characters or less. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Geneva;\">It&#8217;s actually pretty encouraging, representing a hard-core eager<br \/>\nto identify themselves with the idea, and a sign that it might grow legs.<\/p>\n<p> <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"><font style=\"font-size: 0.512em;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Geneva;\">Variations<br \/>\non the #jazzlives idea also developed &#8212; the Detroit International Jazz Festival<br \/>\nstarted <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/detroitjazzfest\">its own campaign<\/a>, raising<br \/>\nabout 20 tweets. Some people linked to photos in their tweets, and I suspect video cam clips will turn up depicting the range of people turning out to hear the music. Some people urged the campaign to migrate to Facebook or other ways of expanding it. Technical difficulties preclude using FB in easy conjunction with Twitter, but all possibilities ought to be explored and implemented &#8212; it&#8217;s a free idea, folks so feel free to take it and run with it.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"><font style=\"font-size: 0.512em;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Geneva;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"><font style=\"font-size: 0.512em;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Geneva;\"> It&#8217;s true that a lot of the tweets were posted by only a handful of Twitterers (Twitters? Tweeters? Twits?). A few &#8212; especially early on, were from publicists and radio show hosts who didn&#8217;t abide by the rules: No advance promo, no cds, only live and live-on-radio mentions, please. 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Muhal making history! #jazzlives<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"><font style=\"font-size: 0.512em;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Geneva;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"><font style=\"font-size: 0.512em;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Geneva;\">Post fest hang is at the Hungry Brain somewhere on the north side of Chicago.<br \/>\nLucky 7s play to a packed house. Few over 35. <\/span><\/font><font style=\"font-size: 0.512em;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Geneva;\">#jazzlives <br \/><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"><font style=\"font-size: 0.512em;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Geneva;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"><font style=\"font-size: 0.512em;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Geneva;\">Billy Childs Chamber Ensemble is tearing it up at ACJF [Angel City Jazz Festival] <br \/><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font style=\"font-size: 0.512em;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Geneva;\"><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"><font style=\"font-size: 0.512em;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Geneva;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"><font style=\"font-size: 0.512em;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Geneva;\"> Jon Faddis, Wallace Roney and Sean Jones now playing at Tanglewood &#8211; Faddis just introduced himself as Chuck Mangione. #jazzlives&nbsp;<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"><font style=\"font-size: 0.512em;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Geneva;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"><font style=\"font-size: 0.512em;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Geneva;\">Pretty sure I&#8217;m now a huge Dee Alexander fan #jazzlives<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Geneva;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"><font style=\"font-size: 0.512em;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Geneva;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"><font style=\"font-size: 0.512em;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Geneva;\">yeah that was pretty cool. I had not seen that before #jazzlives <br \/><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"><font style=\"font-size: 0.512em;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Geneva;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"><font style=\"font-size: 0.512em;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Geneva;\">At Chicago&#8217;s Jazz Fest with #S_B, which is pretty much the best way to usher in my 24th year of life. #jazzlives<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font style=\"font-size: 0.512em;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Geneva;\"><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"><font style=\"font-size: 0.512em;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Geneva;\">#jazzlives in Chicago!!! @ the 31st Annual Chicago Jazz Festival in Grant Park!<br \/>\nThere IS a new wave of young Jazz followers!!!<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"><font style=\"font-size: 0.512em;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Geneva;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"><font style=\"font-size: 0.512em;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Geneva;\">Having<br \/>\na blast. .&nbsp; . . . .At jazz<br \/>\nfest baby! . . . Great<br \/>\nevent, and FREE! . . . Even<br \/>\nbeing alone, it doesn&#8217;t get better than this. . . . wOOt!!<br \/>\nFrom Chicago jazz fest!!<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Geneva;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"><font style=\"font-size: 0.512em;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Geneva;\">. . . Perfect<br \/>\nLabor Day relating at the Riverfront Jazz Festival in Stevens Point, WI. . . What a<br \/>\njoyous weekend it&#8217;s been exploring jazz with my neighbors. . . McCoy<br \/>\nTyner, Junko Onishi, Quasimode among others at the Tokyo Jazz Fest . . . Thorny<br \/>\nBrocky brough some exciting sounds to San Francisco&#8217;s Red Poppy Art House<br \/>\ntonight . . Jose<br \/>\nJames jams, sings, scats, swoops, slams @Detroit Jazz Fest . . . heard<br \/>\nthe Jeff Lofton Trio at Annie&#8217;s, the Ephraim Owens &amp; Friends at Elephant<br \/>\nRoom + Andre Heyward &amp; Russell Gunn #jazzlives in Austin. . . <br \/><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"><font style=\"font-size: 0.512em;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Geneva;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"><font style=\"font-size: 0.512em;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Geneva;\">Patty<br \/>\nand the Buttons at Cafe Maude &#8212; brilliant young button accordionist plays<br \/>\nold\/timey jazz, with Sousaphone #jazzlives<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"><font style=\"font-size: 0.512em;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Geneva;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"><font style=\"font-size: 0.512em;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Geneva;\">Letting<br \/>\nfantastic jazz soak the soul with amazing music . . .<br \/>\nthis is magic . . .<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"><font style=\"font-size: 0.512em;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Geneva;\">Amina<br \/>\nFigarova rocking (jazzing?) that piano. . . It&#8217;s going to be hard to leave mid-set. . .&nbsp; <br \/><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"><font style=\"font-size: 0.512em;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Geneva;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"><font style=\"font-size: 0.512em;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Geneva;\">William<br \/>\nParker, who is alive, at Chicago Jazz Fest going into the songs of Curtis<br \/>\nMayfield (who is not . . but still). #jazzlives<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"><font style=\"font-size: 0.512em;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Geneva;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"><font style=\"font-size: 0.512em;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Geneva;\">Just<br \/>\nsaw Evgeny Lebedev&#8217;s World Trio at Tanglewood &#8212; Encore was a smart version of<br \/>\nMessage In A Bottle #jazzlives<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"><font style=\"font-size: 0.512em;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Geneva;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"><font style=\"font-size: 0.512em;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Geneva;\">Terri [sic] Gibbs<br \/>\nwas cutting it up at the West Coast Jazz Party last night . . .<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Geneva; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"><font style=\"font-size: 0.512em;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Geneva; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"><font style=\"font-size: 0.512em;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Geneva; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);\">Fred Anderson is weaving long melodies and flourishes through<br \/>\nJosh Abrams and Hamid Drake&#8217;s persistently flowing groove . . . austere lyricism . . .<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font style=\"font-size: 0.512em;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Geneva; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);\"><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"><font style=\"font-size: 0.512em;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Geneva; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"><font style=\"font-size: 0.512em;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Geneva; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);\">Tia Fuller is a super saxophonist &amp; deep composer. She was<br \/>\ngreat last nite w\/ Sean Jones @ Dirty Dog. #jazzlives <br \/><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"><font style=\"font-size: 0.512em;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Geneva; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);\">It&#8217;s Labor, but not exactly hard labor . . .<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"><font style=\"font-size: 0.512em;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Geneva; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"><font style=\"font-size: 0.512em;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Geneva; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);\">Esperanza Spalding leading a scat singalong as her closer at<br \/>\nChicago Jazz Fest reminds me to go <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23jazzlives\"><b style=\"\"><span style=\"color: rgb(60, 131, 176); text-decoration: none;\">#jazzlives<\/span><\/b><\/a><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"><font style=\"font-size: 0.512em;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Geneva; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);\">and so on.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"><font style=\"font-size: 0.512em;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Geneva; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"><font style=\"font-size: 0.512em;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Geneva; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);\">The count continues . . .&nbsp; as long as listeners care to post about who they like and where. Thought has been given to the notion that every year at Labor Day, when so many jazz fests occur, a self-executed census of jazz listeners take place, something like the annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birdsource.org\/gbbc\/\">Great Backyard Bird Count<\/a>. In Chicago, at least, incredulous reactions to the recently released National Endowment for the Arts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arts.gov\/news\/news09\/SPPA-highlights.html\">data<\/a> on jazz audience demographics led to the NEA conducting focus groups at the fest and the <a href=\"http:\/\/chicagojazzpartnership.org\/\">Chicago Jazz Partnership<\/a> (led by The Boeing Company) surveying the crowd about their &#8220;happy images&#8221; of the fest experience. What happens with information gleaned from those initiatives is not yet known, but it&#8217;s always good to have information. Whatever else comes from #jazzlives, I&#8217;ll let you know. <br \/><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.howardmandel.com\/\" target=\"blank\">howardmandel.com<\/a> <br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.feedburner.com\/fb\/a\/emailverifySubmit?feedId=1102712&amp;loc=en_US\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe by Email <\/a>  |<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/JazzBeyondJazz\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe by  RSS<\/a> |<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\" target=\"_blank\">Follow on Twitter <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/archives.html\" target=\"_blank\"> All JBJ posts <\/a> |<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/w.sharethis.com\/widget\/?tabs=web%2Cpost%2Cemail&amp;charset=utf-8&amp;style=default&amp;publisher=6ed88875-2235-4b29-aaa3-60183b0bcbcc\"><\/script> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buzz about who played live jazz where marked with the hashtage #jazzlives flew throughout cyberspace this weekend&nbsp; &#8212; catch it all here. The impromptu campaign produced anecdotal evidence that a young and vigorous audience for America&#8217;s modern vernacular creative music does indeed exist, spreading enthusiastic word via the social network Twitter of sets at Chicago, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[474,497,48,49,499,50,498,484],"class_list":{"0":"post-247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"tag-jazzlives","8":"tag-angel-city-jazz-festival","9":"tag-chicago-jazz-festival","10":"tag-detroit-international-jazz-festival","11":"tag-stevens-point-wisconsin","12":"tag-tanglewood-jazz-festival","13":"tag-tweet","14":"tag-twitter","15":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1i3CL-3Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":240,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2009\/08\/labor_day_jazz_twitter_propose.html","url_meta":{"origin":247,"position":0},"title":"You&#8217;ve heard live jazz ? 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A campaign begun to encourage \"anecdotal evidence\" that demonstrates a vibrant listenership for America's indigenous music\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;main&quot;","block_context":{"text":"main","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/category\/main"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":243,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2009\/08\/social_networking_does_its_jaz.html","url_meta":{"origin":247,"position":2},"title":"Social networking does its #jazzlives stuff","author":"Howard Mandel","date":"August 28, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Start a Twitter campaign, and see what happens! Do as many people hear live jazz in a week as attended Woodstock, say? Using the hashtag #jazzlives, a rough count is underway, supported by independent jazz activists, musicians, festivals, journalists but most of all the listeners themselves. 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