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| MoonJune Records needs Your voting help: 84th Annual DownBeat Magazine Readers Poll (2019) Dear Friends In Music. The 84th Annual DownBeat Magazine Readers Poll (2019) is finally on. MoonJune Records, a truly independent one-man-run out-of-box record label, has landed on the 3rd place at the Poll in 2018, improving the 4th placement in 2017 and 7th placement in 2016. DownBeat has changed the rule this year and the only way to be able to vote is to subscribe to the prestigious jazz magazine's FREE NEWSLETTER (or to subscribe to their printed version). DownBeat will only count votes from those who are either subscribed to their printed an/or digital edition of their prestigious magazine, or if You subscribe to DownBeat's FREE NEWSLETTER. Direct link to subscribe: https://bit.ly/32BbAY2 According to the magazine: 1) You sign up for the magazine or FREE newsletter. 2) DownBeat sends You an email in 48hrs inviting them to vote in the poll with a link. 3) Then, You vote and only then, Your vote will count. First step to help MoonJune and its roster is to subscribe to DownBeat's FREE NEWSLETTER on their website: http://www.downbeat.com Direct link to subscribe: https://bit.ly/32BbAY2 Please help the independent label and talented, brave and courageous musicians on its roster to get deserved exposure, vote for underdogs. Direct link to subscribe: https://bit.ly/32BbAY2 You must subscribe first to DownBeat's FREE NEWSLETTER: https://bit.ly/32BbAY2 The way the polling is set up, there are many categories you must navigate through, prior to arriving at CATEGORY 31: RECORD LABEL. Please be patient and once there, please cast your vote for MoonJune Records! (We are now listed for several years — no longer a "write-in vote!") By voting for MoonJune, friends, you not only support a steadfastly independent record label, and associated albums and artists (released between June 1, 2018 and May 31, 2019, it should be noted); you support the label's entire roster. Please — I ask that you make the effort and show your love and support of a true underdog and a "Don-Quixotesque" independent music business, during this most difficult period in the music recording industry. Subscribe first to DownBeat's FREE NEWSLETTER: https://bit.ly/32BbAY2 Obviously, there are still a plethora of quality record labels still in operation, despite uncertainty and greatly reduced revenues. Your vote for MoonJune means a lot to the label, its industry status, label's brave, talented and courageous roster, and to me, personally. And please vote for the legendary ALLAN HOLDSWORTH, a very special friend with whom I was associated for 15 years. Please vote for Allan in the category HALL OF FAME, which is the very first category to vote for. And please vote in the category HISTORICAL ALBUM *Released June 1, 2018 - May 31, 2019) for Allan's seminal 'Live in Japan 1984', released on Manifesto Records. Subscribe first to DownBeat's FREE NEWSLETTER: https://bit.ly/32BbAY2 MoonJune Records & MoonJune Music (booking and management) wouldn't be the same without the legacy of the legendary SOFT MACHINE. Many of followers of the MoonJune world know my Soft Machine story which I have started back in 2000 as a dream with my old friend, the late great and legendary British saxophonist Elton Dean. And the dream came true. SOFT WORKS 2002-2004, which became SOFT MACHINE LEGACY (2004-2015) which became de facto SOFT MACHINE again in 2015, and it always was SOFT MACHINE and about SOFT MACHINE. Please vote for SOFT MACHINE and its current members JOHN ETHERIDGE, JOHN MARSHALL, ROY BABBINGTON and THEO TRAVIS. And with Your gesture You are also honoring 3 legends who are not among us anymore, who were part of this SOFT MACHINE adventure: ELTON DEAN (1945-2006), HUGH HOPPER (1945-2009) and ALLAN HOLDSWORTH (1946-2017).. VOTE FOR SOFT MACHINE CATEGORY: JAZZ GROUP VOTE FOR SOFT MACHINE "Hidden Details" CATEGORY: ALBUM OF THE YEAR And You can cast Your vote for all 4 members of the current SOFT MACHINE https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/downbeat_2019_readers_poll VOTE FOR JOHN ETHERIDGE CATEGORY: GUITAR VOTE FOR JOHN MARSHALL CATEGORY: DRUMS VOTE FOR ROY BABBINGTON CATEGORY: ELECTRIC BASS VOTE FOR THEO TRAVIS CATEGORY: FLUTE / TENOR SAX In addition to all of you, there were also many great MoonJune Records related artists who gave me the necessary strength, support and encouragement to keep going. So, the quest for absolute philosophical and musical freedoms continues! MoonJune continues, unabated: operating outside of boundaries, and beyond any implied rules, protocols and impediments dictated by the corporate world! (… whose insatiable lusts have ruined not only the music industry, but inflicted physical, spiritual and financial damage upon much of the world, as a whole … but don't get me started ...). And here are some other voting suggestions: DWIKI DHARMAWAN CATEGORY: PIANO, JAZZ ARTIST, COMPOSER VASIL HADZIMANOV CATEGORY: KEYBOARDS. COMPOSER, JAZZ ARTIST MARKUS REUTER CATEGORY: MISCELLANEOUS INSTRUMENT MARK WINGFIELD CATEGORIES: COMPOSER, GUITAR, JAZZ ARTIST STICK MEN CATEGORY: BEYOND ARTIST STEPHAN THELEN "Fractal Guitar" CATEGORY: BEYOND ALBUM DEWA BUDJANA CATEGORIES: ARRANGER. GUITAR, COMPOSER TONY LEVIN CATEGORY: ELECTRIC BASS, MISCELLANEOUS INSTRUMENT STEPHAN THELEN CATEGORY: BEYOND ARTIST, GUITAR, COMPOSER ASAF SIRKIS CATEGORY: DRUMS XAVI REIJA CATEGORY: DRUMS, COMPOSER, BEYOND ARTIST BOJAN IVKOVIC CATEGORY: PERCUSSION DUSAN JEVTOVIC CATEGORY: GUITAR YARON STAVI CATEGORY: BASS, BASS GUITAR SAAT SYAH CATEGORY: FLUTE GARY HUSBAND CATEGORY: KEYBOARDS, PIANO, DRUMS The following MoonJune albums released between June 1, 2018 and May 31, 2019, qualify for the 84th Annual DownBeat Magazine Readers Poll (2019): SOFT MACHINE "Hidden Details" MARK WINGFIELD "Tales From The Dreaming City" DWIKI DHARMAWAN "Rumah Batu" XAVI REIJA "The Sound Of The Earth" VASIL HADZIMANOV BAND "Lines In Sand" DEWA BUDJANA "Mahandini" STEPHAN THELEN "Fractal Guitar" and STICK MEN was constantly touring in the same period, but no qualifiable album was released between June 1, 2018 and May 31, 2019. Subscribe first to DownBeat's FREE NEWSLETTER: https://bit.ly/32BbAY2 Thank You for the support! Leonardo Pavkovic MOONJUNE RECORDS, NYC write your comments about the article :: © 2019 Jazz News :: home page |