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GENERAL MUSIC INDUSTRY: Don Was Upped at Blue Note Records
Don Was has been promoted to president at EMI Music's Blue Note Records. The Grammy-winning producer joined the venerable jazz and pop label as chief creative officer in August .
Elevation lifts Was into the ranks of top producers holding label reins; he joins an elite group that includes Verve Music Group chairman David Foster and Columbia Records co-president Rick Rubin...
PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Terell Stafford Quintet Pays Tribute to Lee Morgan in the Kimmel Centera€(TM)S Jazz up Close Series, Feb. 25
Terell Stafford Quintet continues the Kimmel Center's 2011/12 Jazz Up Close Series, which honors Philadelphia jazz legends, with a tribute to Philly born hard-bop trumpeter, Lee Morgan, on February 25, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. in Perelman Theater. The quintet will perform a bebop-infused program of select works from the legendary composer, arranger and musician's catalogue of music, as well as works from Terell Stafford's latest 2011 release, This Side of Strayhorn. Trumpeter Terell Stafford will be joined on stage by Bruce Barth (piano), Dana Hall (drums), Tim Warfield (tenor saxophone), and Peter Washington (bass)...
GENERAL MUSIC INDUSTRY: How Advertising Killed the Radio Star
How Pop Music and TV Ads Became Inseparable. Pop singers and TV advertising seem to be a perfect match for each other.
Chances are you've heard indie singer-songwriter Ingrid Michaelson. But not on the radio. Or in a music video. And probably not from buying her album, or even downloading her songs from iTunes...
GENERAL MUSIC INDUSTRY: Black Sabbath Drummer Says He Objects to a€~unsignable Contracta€(TM)
The long-awaited reunion of Black Sabbath, the seminal British heavy-metal band, has suffered another personnel problem as its drummer, Bill Ward, said that he was feeling "ostracized" from the group and would not agree to what he called "the unsignable contract."
Black Sabbath, the band behind such prototypical head-banging anthems as "Iron Man" and "Paranoid," announced in November that its four founding members—the lead singer Ozzy Osbourne, the guitarist Tony Iommi, the bassist Geezer Butler and Mr. Ward—would reunite for the first time since 1997 for a new album and concert tour. A few weeks later Mr. Iommi said that he would be treated for lymphoma, and that the band would travel to Britain to finish their new record, which they had been working on in Los Angeles with the producer Rick Rubin...
BOOK/MAGAZINE: Variety to Launch Russian Edition
Variety is launching a monthly Russian edition in conjunction with Planeta Inform, tapping into the need for industry info in one of the world's fastest-growing markets. The first edition will bow in March.
Variety Russia will publish in Russian and in English during international industry events, and it will be distributed to 25,000 entertainment and media executives in film, TV and advertising across Russia and the CIS...
CONTEST/GIVEAWAY: Enter the "Tito Carrillo - Opening Statement" CD Giveaway at All About Jazz!
All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Origin "Tito Carrillo—Opening Statement" giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on March 4th.
Click here to enter the contest
(Following Tito Carrillo at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.)...
PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Karen Rodriguez' Latin Jazz in Media, PA on February 15th
Appearing at Jazz in Media! at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 145 W. Rose Tree Road in Media, PA, on February 15th will be singer m: Karen Rodriguez and her Latin Jazz Ensemble.
One Show: 7:30-9 p.m. $10/$5 students. No advance sales. For info: call 610-745-3011. Free refreshments and free on-site parking...
PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Denise King at Society Hill Playhouse on February 16th
Appearing at Jazz at the Playhouse will be singer m: Denise King and her band featuring pianist m: Aaron Graves, bassist m: Lee Smith and drummer m: Khary Shaheed at the Society Hill Playhouse, 507 S. 8th Street in Philadelphia on February 16th. One Show: 7:30-9 p.m. Admission: $10/$5 for students. No advance sales. For info: 215-517-8337 or 856-858-8914. Parking is right across the street, and public transportation is very convenient as well...
EVENT: Denise King at Society Hill Playhouse on February 16th
Appearing at Jazz at the Playhouse will be singer m: Denise King and her band featuring pianist Aaron Graves, bassist m: Lee Smith and drummer {{m: Khary Shaheed at the Society Hill Playhouse, 507 S. 8th Street in Philadelphia on February 16th. One Show: 7:30-9 p.m. Admission: $10/$5 for students. No advance sales. For info: 215-517-8337 or 856-858-8914. Parking is right across the street, and public transportation is very convenient as well...
PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Jammina€(TM) at the Gem Concert Series Showcases Vibraphonist Roy Ayers with Spoken Word and Jazz Poetry Innovators
The second installment in the American Jazz Museum's noted 2011/2012 "Jammin' at the Gem" concert series season headlines another musical master of world renown, the vibraphonist/composer, m: Roy Ayers. Mr. Ayers will be joined by two pioneers of jazz poetry and spoken word, m: Jessica Care Moore and Louis Reyes Rivera...
INTERVIEW/PROFILE: Jazz Musician of the Day: Lil Hardin Armstrong
All About Jazz is celebrating Lil Hardin Armstrong's birthday today!
Lil Hardin helped introduce America to jazz music. She was a dedicated jazz pianist, who established a reputation as "Hot Miss Lil," one of the few female band ensemble members of the 1920a€(TM)s. She played on many of the first jazz recordings ever made and she wrote many of the early songs of the jazz era. Though she might be identified in the jazz world as the wife of Louis Armstrong, she was much more than that...Lil Hardin helped introduce America to jazz music. She was a dedicated jazz pianist, who established a reputation as "Hot Miss Lil," one of the few female band ensemble members of the 1920a€(TM)s. She played on many of the first jazz recordings ever made and she wrote many of the early songs of the jazz era. Though she might be identified in the jazz world as the wife of Louis Armstrong, she was much more than that... more...
GENERAL MUSIC INDUSTRY: The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Jazz, February 3-9
Having missed much of the last week of local music (in favor of a few days in New York), I am doubly looking forward to the coming week and yet another weekend filled with delightful dilemmas. Another new venue (The Lexington) previews its jazz schedule, one of our local bands-gone-international returns to the Artists Quarter; an internationally renowned cellist performs gratis at Macalester; and one of our free improvising ensembles reinvents itself, yet again, with a re-debut at Studio Z. That's just the weekend...
PERFORMANCE/TOUR: New York Diary 2012
It feels like time is compressed whenever I am in New York, maybe because I try to fit so much into a few days. And that just mirrors Manhattan—so much of the world squeezed onto that one relatively small island. i learned on my last visit to make that first night the long one; fatigue is cumulative at my age...
GENERAL MUSIC INDUSTRY: Angry Birds Ceo: If Piracy is Too High, It's Probably Your Own Damn Fault...
It's been official for a while now: the music industry of 2012 is exactly where other industries don't want to end up. Especially the part that includes lawsuits against fans, mispriced content, endless infighting, and disastrous profit-plunges.
"We could learn a lot from the music industry and the rather terrible ways they've tried to combat piracy...
GENERAL MUSIC INDUSTRY: At Last, the Miles Davis Stamp
U.S., France to honor Prince of Cool
Word is finally out now that the U.S. Postal Service, in some kind of conjunction with France (Don't ask me what. Do we ever know what France is up to? They are music lovers tho, and have proven over decades to be jazz lovers), is issuing a Miles Davis postage stamp this year...
PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Vincent Herring at the Royal Room - February 29
Seattle Jazz Scene presents:
NYC Saxophonist Vincent Herring with: m: Bill Anschell—piano m: chuck deardorf—bass m: matt jorgensen—drums
wednesday, february 29 the royal room 5000 rainier avenue south seattle
sets at 7:00 & 8:30pm
Seattle Jazz Scene continues their foray into producing jazz concerts by welcoming New York alto saxophonist Vincent Herring to Seattle on Wednesday, February 29, for two sets at The Royal Room in Columbia City...
TECHNOLOGY: Musicmetric: CO-Founder Talks Pro Edition, P2P Data Tour Planning App
Musicmetric is a web analytics platform that recently launched a Pro edition in Beta. It offers an impressive range of stats on everything from social media activity to mentions in articles on websites. One of the most noted features in recent media coverage is their tracking of file sharing activity. Access to such data also powered a midem Hack Day app called TourrentPlans that helps musicians plan tours based on the location of their filesharing fanbase...
GENERAL MUSIC INDUSTRY: Music Ownership: Emusic's Molly Neuman Looks at Consumer Motivations
For a large segment of music consumers, downloading music to own is something that's seen as music's past. But for an even larger share, owning and collecting is hugely important.
Compounding the issues at hand, streaming has taken on different meanings to today's consumers, including streaming your MP3 files to a device from the cloud, or streaming to your desktop via an internet radio station, a la Pandora or eMusic Radio. Streaming a term that's talked about in the industry today as the future of music, but what drives consumers to strong desire for ownership today...
GENERAL MUSIC INDUSTRY: McCartney Tribute: Tony Bennett, Foo, Neil Young and Crazy Horse
STAR-STUDDED TRIBUTE TO MUSICARES PERSON OF THE YEAR PAUL MCCARTNEY
An impressive star-studded cast will come together to honor 2012 MusiCares Person of the Year honoree Paul McCartney during a sold-out gala on Feb. 10 in Los Angeles, two days prior to the 54th Annual Grammy Awards.
Hosted by actor/comedian Eddie Izzard, artists set to perform are current GRAMMY nominees m: Tony Bennett, Coldplay, Foo Fighters, m: Neil Young and Crazy Horse (in their first live performance since 2004), m: Norah Jones, m: James Taylor and more. The evening will also feature a special performance by McCartney. Check the full lineup below...
PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Bruce Springsteen to Play Apollo Theater for Sirius XM
HISTORIC CONCERT AT THE WORLD FAMOUS APOLLO THEATER CELEBRATING 10 YEARS OF SATELLITE RADIO
Sirius XM Radio announced that m: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will perform at Harlem's world famous Apollo Theater for the first time at a special concert event, only for SiriusXM, to celebrate 10 years of satellite radio...
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