New single!...ES 336, Holo D, Dupont MD-50

Scoredog

My new single C'est La Vie is tied for the 2nd most added song in The US on the Billboard contemporary Jazz chart (BDS).

Because so many of you have been so helpful in helping me grow as a GJ guitarist you can write me personally for the single and i'll send it over. I am not offering this anywhere else because no where else really gets the gypsy jazz thing. That said this is a an RnB Funk song with GJ overtones.

You can listen to it here

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/31773631/C'est La Vie Full Length.mp3

you can buy it here if so inclined

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/cest-la-vie-radio-edit-feat./id1049142725

you can message me here for a free copy.

Buco

This is great! But...what's most added?

Scoredog

Thanks Buco!

Added means it is added to a radio station either local (say Las Vegas) or national (Sirius, Music Choice etc). So if a song has the most adds that means it has been added to the more radio stations across the United States than any other song that week. Getting the most adds does not guarantee the song with chart in the top 30, my last song "Bounce" was the most added song in the country at one time but only made it to #32 which is not high enough to be on the chart that comes out in Billboard, the most recognized chart. That said getting high up on the "most added" chart is a good start.

What has been a bit frustrating is before I started learning Gypsy Jazz I wrote a song called "A Day in Paris" which I used my first GJ guitar a Gitane 250M, emulated in my head what I thought GJ was (didn't have a clue) and it went to #5, essentially my first GJ hit, i have not come close to that success trying to do GJ since and my playing has improved greatly. Maybe ignorance is bliss.

Jazzaferri

Not usre what happened to my post from last night but I will add it again. Congrats

Bob Holo

Your technique has developed significantly in the last couple of years and the sound you’re getting is more indicative of a different time and place. Although people like art for different reasons, a great many people simply like to surround themselves with things that are familiar. Art should be more than that, but in popular culture, it often isn’t.

Have you ever thought of marketing your music in Europe? Many years ago I worked with a guy whose name escapes me. He always had nice toys and I wondered why - as we were young and neither of us had a corner office. One day over lunch it came up that his new single was charting well and had been picked up for a few commercials. ??? Um... What ??? That's the kind of thing that'll stop you mid-chew.

He said, “Yeah, I know – it’s not something I talk about a lot, but apparently I’m big in Germany.”

I'm sure the music biz is different now than in the pre-Internet days, but maybe try a few French stations? You may find an entirely new market.

Scoredog

Hi Bob, I think that's good advice. My radio guy deals with the U.S.,
I'll contact him and ask for his ideas on foreign.
I do receive foreign residuals for my jazz stuff but have no idea how that is happening so I am not aggressively collecting. I am signed to a record label but they don't handle this stuff, only sales (which are pretty paltry in this day and age). I do lots of commercial work with my composing career and Gypsy Jazz has worked well there, but not contemporary jazz.

Buco

Love the slap bass intro. Is it on Holo or Dupont?

Scoredog

The slap is on the Dupont, I think an oval works better for slap Gypsy...:)
All solo lines that are not electric are on the Holo D hole and there is equal amount Holo and Dupont playing rhythm.

Scoredog

Made Billboards Top 30...woohoo!
I believe the Idiomatiques are the first Gypsy Jazz Band to chart Billboard's contemporary jazz chart, of course this is a groove tune with Gypsy Jazz type soloing not real Gypsy Jazz.