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Jazz Performer And Vocal Artist Virginia Schenck Releases Official Video From Powerful New Album 'Battle Cry'
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GEM Public Relations
International vocal artist and jazz performer Virginia Schenck, who goes by the stage name VA, created her critically-acclaimed album Battle Cry (2020)—which released on January 3 and is available on all digital platforms as well as on CD—to use the power of music to generate change. Each week since release, the album has been climbing the JazzWeek charts. To celebrate Battle Cry’s success, Schenck has released the official video from her original track off the album “Hear My Battle Cry.” ...
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TuneCore Encourages Members To Opt-In To $25M Spotify NMPA Settement, Artist Advocates Cry Foul
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HypeBot
Spotify and the NMPA are contacting artists and publishers encouraging them to sign on to the $25 million settlement they negotiated over unreported and unpaid royalties for unlicensed streams. This week, TuneCore reached out to the artists using their music publishing platform encouraging them to opt-in. TuneCore sent an email this week to the tens of thousands of independent songwriters that use its Publishing Administration services, encouraging them to opt-in to a $25 million settlement with Spotify over the use of unlicensed ...
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Julie London: A Good Cry
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Julie London sang Cry Me A River several times on TV over the years after she made the song her own in 1956. Written by Arthur Hamilton in 1953 for Ella Fitzgerald to sing in the film Pete Kelly's Blues (1955), the song was dropped in 1954 during production. Cry Me a River was then offered to singer Peggy King, but Mitch Miller, Columbia's head of A&R at the time, didn't like the word “plebeian" in the lyric and nixed ...
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Edward Bland: 'Cry of Jazz'
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Edward Bland died of cancer at his home in Smithfield, Va. on March 14 at 86. Bland was a musician, composer and arranger, according to the New York Times's obit, but he also made one film—Cry of Jazz. When the 34-minute film about jazz from the black perspective was released in 1959, it triggered debate among leading intellectuals. In 1998, Bland said in an interview: “It was considered the work of madmen when it was originally released. Black racists. At ...
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Kay Starr: 'I Cry by Night'
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Like many gifted singers of her generation, Kay Starr wound up a hard-boiled pop vocalist. When the LP era took hold in the early 1950s and the 12-inch LP appeared mid-decade with the ability to support a color photo on the jacket cover, many female singers with jazz and big-band chops chomped down on the commercial bit and hauled in wagon-loads of popular music recordings. The list is too long to cite in full here, but we certainly can includes ...
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Albert Ayler - Love Cry/the Last Album (Impulse!, 2011)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
Impulse! Is celebrating their 50th anniversary with several re-issues including a collection of “2-fers," two albums on one compact disc (or mp3 download.) This is one of the most interesting of the bunch, because it contains two relative rarities by the free-jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler. I'll risk the wrath of the cognoscenti by stating up front that I think Love Cry was one of Ayler's finest LP's. Released in 1967 with Ayler on tenor and alto saxophones, Donald Ayler on ...
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Legendary Seminal Film THE CRY OF JAZZ Screening Sunday November 21st at Anthology
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Anthology Publicity
Showing tonight through Sunday, twice daily at 7:15 and 9pm in New York City at: ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES 32 SECOND AVENUE NEW YORK, NY 10003 (212) 505-5181 From our ongoing ANTHOLOGY PRESERVATIONS film series Ed Bland's THE CRY OF JAZZ Newly-preserved print of landmark jazz essay-film! Part essay, part manifesto Music is provided by the singular Sun Ra and his Arkestra One of the most radical ...
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