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Backgrounder: Frankie Laine Jazz Spectacular
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In the mid-1940s, Frankie Laine was an up-and-coming club singer with a jazz feel. His first recordings were in Los Angeles in 1944 and '45, but by the summer of 1946 he signed with the newly formed Mercury Records, where Mitch Miller was head of A&R. So began a string of jazz-flavored pop hits that included That's My Desire, By the River Sainte Marie, Black and Blue and others. No one up until that point could bring the vocal drama ...
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Half Nelson: Cool Perfection
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
For those who don't quite get East Coast cool jazz or why it's special, I have two words for you: Half Nelson. The song, credited to Miles Davis, was first recorded for Savoy in 1947 by the Miles Davis All Stars, featuring Miles Davis (tp), Charlie Parker (ts), John Lewis (p), Nelson Boyd (b) and Max Roach (d). Originally a bebop tune, the song was later picked up by Lee Konitz and Warne Marsh, two exponents of the cool school. ...
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Despite Streaming’s Growth, Music Industry Remains Half The Size It Was In 1999
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HypeBot
While paid streaming subscriptions have, in many circles, been billed as the savior of the music industry, the reality is that the business is still operating at a severely reduced capacity since the devastation visited on it in the early days of digital. Guest post by James Shotwell of Haulix The streaming revolution is helping the music industry recover with each passing year, but there is still a long way to go. Music fans and industry professionals too young to ...
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David Pate & Rex Shepherd, One Half Of The Oddyssey Quartet, To Release New Album Seeing Sound
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
The first duet release from one half of the Oddyssey Quartet, with David Pate (Sam Rivers Rivbea Orchestra) and guitarist and composer Rex Shepherd (No End of Now). Seeing Sound features the two playing an improvised set, creating palpable musical textures using subtle harmonic and melodic ideas and developing them into intuitive conversations, “seeing” the sound of two like minds speaking with one another. “Playing duets with David Pate is like having a meaningful conversation with a good friend while ...
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Recorded Music Business Grew 8.1% In First Half Of 2016 Driven By Spotify, Apple Music
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HypeBot
After a decade of decline, the U.S. recorded music business is growing for the second year in a row, according to the RIAA. Driving the trend is the revenue source that the music business loves to hate- streaming, and in particular Spotify and Apple. Retail spending in U.S. recorded music business grew 8.1% to $3.4 billion in the first half of 2016, according to new stats from the RIAA. That marks the second consecutive year of growth, after more than a decade ...
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Nat King Cole and Frankie Laine
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
By the time Frank Sinatra arrived at Capitol Records in March 1953, Nat King Cole had been with the label since its start in 1942. During those years, in the mid-1940s, Cole set the standard for the relaxed, swinging jazz singer, starting with his appearance in the 1944 film Swing in the Saddle, singing By the River Sainte Mariewith his trio. By the late 1940s, Cole had begun to be featured on singles backed by a big band and with ...
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Half-Dozen Rosemary Clooneys
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Rosemary Clooney was a bandleader's singer. On record, she could swing, she had intonation and she sounded extraordinarily relaxed and comfortable with herself, which is partly why Bing Crosby loved her so much. The other part is she seemed fun to be around. But it was on television where the rest of the nation fell in love with her. Clooney was jolie laide, or unconventionally beautiful (leave it to the French to find a phrase for it). She was the ...
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Konitz and Marsh: Half Note
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
The Half Note in New York was a jazz club at 289 Hudson St. that operated from 1957 to 1972. Today, the building still stands and houses a deli (below), unless, of course, the insane New York real estate market has consumed this building, too. [Photo above of Warne Marsh] In June 1964, CBS's Look up and Live, narrated by Dr. William Hamilton, broadcast from the club, featuring the music of alto saxophonist Lee Konitz and tenor saxophonist Warne Marsh, ...
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Could Half of Music Royalties Pay for Music We Would Rather Skip over Than Listen To?
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HypeBot
By David Touve of Rockonomic In this post I am going to highlight what may be one of the great ironies of how we pay for music in the “music as a service” era: Upwards of half the money paid out in royalties by music services may be used to pay for music we would rather skip over than for that music we would rather listen to.* What we’ll discuss below is if nearly 15 songs are skipped during any hour (according to data released by Paul Lamere from ...
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Pete Douglas, Founder of Half Moon Bay’s Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society Dies at 85
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Michael Ricci
Legendary Impresario was Inspiration to Local and National Musicians, and Presenters Half Moon Bay, CA: Pete Douglas, founder of the world-renowned music and jazz club, the Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society in Half Moon Bay, Calif., died peacefully in Miramar Beach on July 12, 2014 at age 85. Pete Douglas was born in Waukegan, Illinois, in 1929. He and his family moved to the Los Angeles area in the 1940s after his father died, and his teenage years were spent ...
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