Remembrance Day/ Veterans Day Tribute Video

Here is a timely video homage I created honouring our troops, past and present on this Remembrance Day/ Veteran's Day weekend. 

The video tells the age old story of longing, loss, and uncertainty that wartime brings.

Come Back Home  (Song for the Soldiers) 4:35 

 
Song written and performed by Gabriel Mark Hasselbach and Jeff Lorber, with vocals by Melody Diachun.
Directed and edited by Gabriel Mark Hasselbach
Published by Wind Tunnel Music SOCAN and Songs of Lorb ASCAP
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Upcoming Los Angeles Awards Show

I had the pleasure to tour extensively this last year in support of my third Billboard charting track 'Lock It Up' (which stayed on Billboard 15 weeks and most radio charts for nine months), and have played from California to Detroit, with lots of stops in between. I have developed a really rocking show, and I always try to keep the audiences pumped. For more info: Gabrieljazz.com

So now I've been invited to perform at the big four day Lemonade Weekend festival and awards show in LA in the spring... a really cool event! 

Click the pic for lineup, details, and tickets!

A most auspicious Acceptance and Performance at the 2011 Canadian Smooth Jazz Awards

Here is a highlight reel of my recent Arizona concert with guest vocalist, American Idol Finalist Crystal Stark

and the most recent Billboard charting single 'Lock It Up'

and a timely Remembrance Day/ Veterans Day video of my song Come Back Home (from the cd Cool Down)


and what the fans and promoters say




Gabriel - live video from Tohono Chul

Real sweet gig!

I had the chance to perform in an intimate and unusual setting at the Tohono Chul Nature Reserve Outdoor Theater in Tucson, Arizona. Featured on my show is American Idol finalist Crystal Stark, and the crack backup band led by drummer extraordinaire Pete Swan. On board are the finest players around: Mike Levy on bass, Matt Mitchell on guitar, Richard Katz on keys, and Aaron Szabo on percussion, and Sam Eagon on sound and video. Crystal sang her heart out, and I played trumpet, flute and flugelhorn, putting this team through a repertoire culled from Crystal's upcoming cd, and my past dozen releases, which can be found at GabrielJazz.com

Thanks to Sandy Riser and Peter at:

Highlights reel from the show











Cool Gig This Friday Oct 25 in Arizona

I have a  really cool gig this weekend on Friday. Check out the ticket info.

The band is awesome with Crystal Stark guesting on some vocals including my track 'When You Look For Love' (from my CD Gabriel's Horns), and we have Pete Swan on drums, Mike Levy on bass, Richard Katz on keys, and Matt Mitchell on guitar.

We are playing tunes from my albums Kissed By The Sun, Told Ya So, Live On Maui, Gabriel's Horns, From Hawaii With Love, and Cool Down.

For more info check out: www.gabrieljazz.com

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2013

A Smooth Night of Jazz: Gabriel Mark Hasselbach and Friends, including Crystal Stark 

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CLICK HERE for tickets for Friday, October 25 at 7:00 PM, Tohono Chul Park


TICKETS ON SALE UNTIL NOON ON FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25 - AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR NIGHT OF SHOW STARTING AT 6:00 PM

$20 for members, $25 for standard tickets purchased before noon on 10/25 and $30 at the door, $20 for military w/id, $15 for students w/id 

Doors open at 6PM and food and beverage (including wine and beer) will be available for purchase. Normal entrees are between $8 and $15 er entree.  

Chairs are provided and seating is on a first come, first served basis. Please do not arrive before 6 PM as you will not be able to gain entry before that time.  

For those who need a handicap entrance, please use the service entrance that is beyond the first main entrance to the park. Drive to the very end where you will see trash dumpsters and a gate that you can enter to reduce the distance to the concert area. This is a drop off point and has limited parking. 

 Directions to the Park: 

Tohono Chul Park is located in Northwest Tucson near the corner of Ina and Oracle Roads. The main entrance is on Paseo Del Norte, the first stoplight on Ina, west of Oracle. The park is less than 5 miles east of I-10, using the Ina Road Exit (248)



Making a million in music!!

Heard that old saw? 

"How do you make a million bucks in music? .... Start with two million...."

Here is a an article by a well known radio promoter, which I have reprinted here and think is a good piece of info..... Enjoy (or despair if that works for ya!)

Radio Airplay 101 - 

Radio Compared To YouTube and Facebook, part 3: Imagine If The Counter Went Away:


New for 2013: The hypnotic effect of YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, and any other similar site where you upload your music, is one thing: The Counter. Without the counter, these sites would have no more use to you than your phone number listing in the phone book. Why does the counter matter so much?

Psychologically, it has to do with the "media effect", which is explained in mass media studies (especially Marshall McLuhan's book called "Understanding Media"). But you don't have to understand psychology to understand how the "counter" is misleading you and other artists. Imagine for a second, that all counters were removed forever. No more counters, ever again. Never again will you be able to tell how many people "heard" your song. Wow.

What then would you focus on? How would you judge your success? What would you brag about? How would your goals change? How would you compare one song against another? How many fans would you think you had? This was what life was like before the "counter". Back then, you actually had to make things happen, instead of looking at a counter that said things were happening. And the way you made things happen was mostly by phone, in-person, and maybe fax. Today, email has replaced fax, but two things have stood the test of time: Phone and in-person contacts.

We talk to a lot of artists who want promotion, and everyone of them have music on a site somewhere that has a "counter". When they are asked what the AVERAGE number of "views" or "plays" or "listens" they have received (for their best song), the answer is about 200. That's right, 200. And this is cumulative, from day one when they posted it, and is from around the world. That's about one "view" or "play" or "listen" per country. And they've typically had that song up for over 2 years. (Of course, we are talking here about real numbers; not the fake numbers that you can buy).

On the other hand, the HIGHEST number that artists typically tell us they've received is 20,000 "views" or "plays" or "listens" for their best song. Again this is from day one (cumulative), and from around the world, and also for about 2 years. This is about 100 listens per country, over a 2 year period. That's less than one listen a week, per country.

Obviously, both of the above are miserable failures, since the GOAL OF THE ARTIST was to get LOTS of listens. This, unfortunately, is exactly the problem. The goal should NOT be to get lots of "views" or "plays" or "listens" at all. The goal instead should be to get MONEY; this is so different from "getting listens" that you may even have a hard time understanding the difference.

The first way to explain this is to look at media facts that pertain to music. Typically, about 0.01 to 0.1 percent (.0001 to .001) of a radio listening audience will buy the music each week. This means that if the total radio exposure of a song is 50 million "listens" per week, then that song will sell 5,000 to 50,000 units each week. In ten weeks, you'd have 50,000 to 500,000 sales. This is why gold records of the past decades took many weeks to make gold; each week they would sell a percentage of the number of radio listens they got from radio.

These of course are major-market high-rotation spins, which generates huge numbers of "listens" weekly (Lady GaGa typically gets 50,000,000 listens per week, per song, per format, from radio, just in the USA). However, medium and smaller market stations, along with major stations that are not spinning as much, generate far fewer "listens" and thus sell far fewer units per week, even though the number of stations may be the same. What makes the difference between selling 5,000 and 50,000 units per week, even though the number of weekly listens remains at 50,000,000? Marketing. But that's another story. For an indie, assume you'll be at the lower level. See www.TopListens.com for snapshot of a week in 2012, and compare it to the sales number of iTunes or Soundscan. You'll see that ALL of the top sellers are getting high "listens" from commercial radio regular rotation. All of them. And keep in mind that digital sales now (2013) are about half of all sales ("physical" CD sales being the other half).

Now comes the "counter". The typical artist has never had any numerical feedback before the counter. No sales tracking, no airplay tracking, no ticket sales tracking, nothing. So the counter looks to be pretty exciting, because for the first time the artist is getting "feedback" on his or her music. So far so good. But the problem arises when the artist makes it their GOAL of maximizing the "views" or "plays" or "listens" on this counter. And the reason this is a problem is because the typical artist reading this article does not have the resources to get enough "views" or "plays" or "listens" to make any sales or anything else occur.

Looking at the example above, it takes 50,000,000 "listens" per week, for one song, in the U.S. only, for a lesser-marketed indie song to sell 5,000 units per week. That's because in lower-rotation markets or stations, the typical listener will only hear it about 10 total times. So sales are about 0.01 percent (.0001) of the total listens. Using this .01 percent number, the typical artist needs:

50,000,000 "listens" to get 5,000 sales
5,000,000 "listens" to get 500 sales
500,000 "listens" to get 50 sales
50,000 "listens" to get 5 sales
5,000 "listens" to get 0.5 sales (!)

Compare this to what I said about how many YouTube views the typical artist tells us they have, and you see the problem. The typical artist with 200 views or plays does not have enough for even one sale. And the artists who tell us they have a mega 20,000 views or plays will only be getting 2 sales. THIS IS THE REASON that you don't want to focus any energy on increasing your number on the views-counter or the plays-counter. It won't sell anything, and it will just make you think that your music is not good enough. And of course I did not even mention that most counters are faked now anyway: You can get 1,000,000 fake youtube views with likes and comments for under $180. Nobody hears your music, but hey, you've now got a big counter.

Now, if the goal is to really get "listens", then yes you can do it. This is how the majors get their high sales: they get high "listens" from regular rotation radio first, which are concentrated in particular cities. Even our unrated-market commercial regular rotation campaigns (the smallest) usually end up with near 10,000 total listens in 8 weeks, concentrated in particular towns. 50,000 listens, and 500,000 listens, are not that much more difficult, since all you need to do is get a few small-market stations on board with 300 listens for each spin, and get them spinning 20 spins a week each, and you are at a high number of listens after a few weeks. But even with these campaigns, you should be printing out every playlist into a stack, and showing them to the people you need to impress, instead of expecting a mass of sales to occur on their own.

So your goal should be to avoid the counter. You should be spending your time and energy REACHING PEOPLE that can help you sell your art. This requires phone calls, and personal visits, to people who can book you, play you, review you, recommend you, place you, and so on. "Views" or "plays" or "listens" will NOT serve this promotional purpose. Nor will emails; emails are just for SETTING UP phone calls or visits, or for following up on phone calls or visits. No high-level activity will ever come your way if all you do is email. And certainly, nothing will ever come your way if all you do is watch the counter.



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Making some chart action again

Just a quick update...
I am featured on the hot new CD from Bob Baldwin '20', and he is starting to hit big! A snippet of the track and image from the Oct 17 BDS chart (the portal to the Billboard charts). 


iTunes and all other outlets

Bob and I first collaborated at the Canadian Smooth Jazz Awards and are planning on some more recording for my next project, as well as tour dates in 2014, We will both be at the Lemonade Weekend 2.0 festival and awards in LA March 27-29...

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I also had the good fortune this year to be on Paul Hardcastle's first #1 charting single from his latest PHVII

Gabriel Mark Hasselbach  

As the Tea Party hostage negotiations rage on, we must reflect.....

Time once again to stand up and be counted, life is too short to watch someone else commit economic and political terrorism in the US. If you see the light, please share this!


The Institute of Policy Standards produced a detailed report entitled "Corporate Pirates of the Caribbean" which exposes the hidden Conservative agenda when it comes to their push for Territorial Tax Reform. Territorial Tax Reform is a trifecta of greed that aims to: 
1. Lower corporate tax rates which are already low (reducing flow of money into the US tax base; 
2. Make offshore tax havens standard for select corporations (reducing flow of money into the US tax base); 
3. Create austerity measures that will not promote jobs, health care, infrastructure, or the consumer confidence and flowing economy that comes with consumer confidence. 

Here is a good synopsis (with source links) of the smoke and mirrors game being played by the Power Right, taken from The Huffington Post

"A new study by three researchers at the University of Massachusetts found major arithmetic errors in the widely cited paper by Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff, "Growth in a Time of Debt," that purports to show high levels of government debt sharply slow growth. This study has been widely cited by political figures demanding deficit reduction, in spite of the fact that the unemployment rate remains high and interest rates are at extraordinarily low levels.
When the errors in the Reinhart and Rogoff study are corrected, the strong relationship between high debt levels and slower growth disappears. In other words, there is little obvious reason that we need fear higher debt levels. We can have the government make investments in infrastructure and education that will boost growth, create jobs, and increase future productivity...... A country such as the United States borrows in its own currency so it literally can never go bankrupt as long as it knows how to print dollar bills. And, unlike an individual, the government has the obligation to support the economy when private sector demand collapses as it did after the housing bubble burst....... For those who own lots of stock and are at the top of the income ladder, times are good. These people may see efforts to lower unemployment as posing a risk. With lower unemployment workers may be able to get a larger share of productivity growth. This may be good for most of the country and mean increased economic growth, but it would mean less for the one percent." 

 
Googling this subject might overload your browser, attesting to the implications this has, but here are a few succinct and notable sites to view:





This agenda is all a Right Wing concoction designed to further cushion the already overluxed 1%, and is pushed by that Good Ol' Boy GOP mentality, brandished proudly by Conservative stalwarts such as Alan SimpsonErskine Bowles, and a cadre of huge corporations such as GE, Honeywell, etc, etc...

Bad ju-ju!

I try to keep politics out of music, but what the hell?! 
US Conservatives, take a look at your 'leaders' and tell me they are not totally and undeniably insane! 

 

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