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Jen M Releases “why Don’t You Do Right?” (featuring Bobby Floyd), A Haunting Re-imagining Of A Jazz Classic
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Cyber PR
With her debut release as jen M, vocalist, songwriter and multidisciplinary artist Jennifer Milligan offers a striking re-interpretation of the jazz and blues standard "Why Don't You Do Right?" Featuring Grammy-nominated pianist Bobby Floyd alongside vocalist Lauren Tucker, G-Louis on gitjo, and The Governor on percussion, the recording transforms a familiar classic into an atmospheric meditation on struggle and human connection. Rather than revisiting the song's traditional themes of wealth and material aspiration, jen M approached the piece from a ...
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Over $3.5 Billion and Counting: Songwriters, Are You Collecting Your Streaming Royalties?
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Elizabeth Mayo
For jazz songwriters, compositions often take on a life of their own—recorded by different artists, performed in new contexts, and discovered by listeners across generations. Today, that discovery increasingly happens on streaming platforms. But an important question remains: are the songwriters behind those works collecting the royalties they’re owed? The Mechanical Licensing Collective (The MLC) was created to help ensure they are. A Centralized System for the Streaming Era Established by the Music Modernization Act of 2018, The MLC is ...
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Psychedelic Cowboy Gary Van Miert Returns With 4th LP Of cosmic Gems On 'Music Sounds Better When You're Stoned'
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1888 Media
Gary Van Miert, the New Jersey-based “Psychedelic Cowboy," is at it again as he continues to snatch melodies from the cosmos for his project The Sensational Country Blues Wonders! This time out, he expertly validates the age-old adage that “Music Sounds Better When You're Stoned" with a crafty set of modern day classics hitting the ether June 19. “The songs on his latest album are about time, weed, the universe, and mortality," explains Van Miert. Channeling Hank Williams on a ...
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Nishla Smith Explores Tales Of Yearning And Separation On New Album - It’s Getting Late, You’d Better Go Home
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Angie Lemon PR
“When you move away from home, you awaken to the vastness and wildness of the world – its beauty and danger and its magic… I know now that I might never really understand home – after all, I come from a long line of travelling, migrating people who have given themselves new names, and conjured up colourful, improbable lives out of the aether.” Nishla Smith Storytelling lies at the very heart of Nishla Smith’s music making, and since the release ...
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All About Jazz & Jazz Near You Improvements: 2025
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All About Jazz
A look at what your contributions made possible in 2025 Since 2018, reader and community contributions have helped fund ongoing development and infrastructure work across All About Jazz and Jazz Near You. These efforts focus on improving editorial tools, supporting musicians and venues, optimizing performance, and making both platforms easier and more rewarding to use. Below is a snapshot of what your support helped us accomplish in 2025. Throughout the year, we introduced major improvements for musicians, staff, and readers, ...
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New Book: "You've Got Michael—Living Through HIStory" by Dan Beck
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N. Hepburn-Beaty
In 1991, Dan Beck became Michael Jackson’s main marketing contact at Epic Records. For five rollercoaster years, he was immersed in a world of unequalled stardom, dealing with the outsized ambition, whims and idiosyncrasies of the world’s most famous entertainer. It was a pivotal point in Jackson’s career. His last album had failed to repeat the record-shattering success of Thriller. Rumors about his personal life and his eccentricities had made him the subject of gossip and accusations. Tabloids had begun ...
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Perfection: Keely Smith - The Song Is You (1958)
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Few pop singers in the 1950s could swing like Keely Smith. Anita O'Day was certainly one of them, but Smith was the finer vocalist and surely knew more songs and required fewer takes in the studio. In some respects, Smith was the female Frank Sinatra, able to move ahead of the beat, behind it and go a different way on song lines and pull them off. So many of her albums are excellent with a different feeling on each one. ...
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Perfection: Hal McKusick: You're Everywhere (1958)
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
By now, vocalists and musicians are surely tired of hearing me urge them to find great little-known songs to record and perform instead of tired old songbook standards. You don't stand out by following the crowd. A perfect example of a great little-known song is You're Everywhere, by Robert Nemiroff and Burt D'Lugoff, who were often credited as Robert Barron and Burt Long, their pseudonyms. (Burt was the brother of Art D'Lugoff, who owned New York's Village Gate and Top ...
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Jimmie Vaughan’s 'Do You Get The Blues?' Gets A 25th Anniversary Reissue On July 25th
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The Last Music Company
Jimmie Vaughan ’s Grammy winning album, Do You Get The Blues? is slated for a reissue by The Last Music Company July 25th in the run-up to the 25th Anniversary of its initial release. A first-issue Vinyl was previously released in 2021, on the occasion of Jimmie’s 70th birthday. Now, in 2025, the album, updated with his own liner notes, will be available in CD and digital formats. At the time of its original release, Do You Get The Blues? ...
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On April 25, Explore The Life And Times Of A Singular Jazz Icon With 'Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got', Winner Of The 1986 Oscar For Best Documentary, Now Restored In 4k
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Michael Krause
Outspoken, manipulative, independent thinking and oftentimes controversial, Artie Shaw (1910-2004) was one of the most popular stars of the Swing Era, who famously broke the color barrier by hiring the legendary Billie Holiday, Hot Lips Page and Roy Eldridge for his bands. His complex love-hate relationship with his own celebrity caused him to walk away from performing almost as many times as he walked away from his marriages. Winner of the 1986 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, Artie Shaw: ...
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