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Jazz Standard Starts Donating Ticket Proceeds To Jazz Foundation Of America
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AMT Public Relations
JAZZ STANDARD Starts Donating Ticket Proceeds to Jazz Foundation of America New York, NY: JAZZ STANDARD, one of the world’s premier jazz clubs, today announced its charitable giving plan to contribute proceeds from online ticket sales beginning October 1st to the Jazz Foundation of America (JFA). The selected non- profit organization benefits from the club’s ticket sales’ donations, direct donations by audience members, and heightened visibility for their organization. Seth Abramson, Artistic Director of JAZZ STANDARD, said the club is ...
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Seeking Support for Your Local Music Scene? Consider Urban Redevelopment
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HypeBot
In Omaha, Nebraska, support for the local music scene has blossomed into a redevelopment project led by Slowdown, the name of a venue as well as a larger mixed-use facility that also houses a variety of music-related businesses. According to researcher Michael Seman, Slowdown was supported by the city as part of their redevelopment plans for a “blighted" downtown area. While music scenes tend to be studied for other reasons related to urban life, his study of the Omaha example ...
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Miles Davis Memorial Project Launches Indiegogo Campaign
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Hoping to accelerate the pace of raising money to put a statue of legendary trumpeter Miles Davis in downtown Alton, the Miles Davis Memorial Project has turned to online crowd-funding via an IndieGoGo campaign. Funding levels for potential supporters range from $1 up to $5,000, with rewards including various sorts of imprinted swag (buttons, T-shirts, can coozies); commemorative bricks and blocks to be placed around the site of the statue; and some higher-end packages, such as one including an original ...
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Indies Unite! 700 Labels Launch Campaign for Fair Digital Music Deals
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HypeBot
An ongoing battle with YouTube over alleged heavy handed negotiating tactics and unfair terms for their unlaunched subscription music service, has united the global independent music community on the broader issue of fairness in all digital deals. In a not so veiled jab at YouTube and other digital services, global indie trade group WIN has released an open letter signed by more than 700 independent labels that calls for fair digital music deals. “The big print giveth and the small ...
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Jazz Town: Kansas City jazz community looks for ways to improve the scene
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Michael Ricci
They come into jazz with impressive skills and big dreams. But what happens to young musicians when reality catches up to them? There are so many good young players and singers who want to perform jazz, with more coming in all the time. And the veteran performers still need their hard-earned pieces of the pie. As a result, there’s not enough room on the scene—in Kansas City or elsewhere—for all of them to get paid doing it. (That’s just talking ...
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Kansas City’s jazz community works to hook the next generation
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Michael Ricci
A steady thump of bass quiets the wiggling toddlers and preschoolers gathered in the atrium of the American Jazz Museum. Two-year-old Isaac Newcomer, who’s here from Overland Park with his mom, settles his little legs, too. From up front, close to the upright bass and drums, jazz singer and storyteller Lisa Henry scans the crowd. “Raise your hand if it’s your first time,” she says. “Well, here’s what we do... We move and we groove and we scat and we ...
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Future of Music Coalition Says Digital Music Respect Act Does Not Go Far Enough
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HypeBot
The full text of the FoMC statement: Proposed legislation is a step in the right direction, but doesn't go far enough. Today, Representatives George Holding (R-NC) and John Conyers (D-MI), will introduce the RESPECT Act, a bill meant to create a limited performance right for the use of sound recordings by satellite and Internet radio companies. Under current law, there is no federal copyright for recordings made before February 15, 1972. Where rights exist at all, these recordings are subject to ...
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Pathways To Jazz Awarding Recording Grants To Jazz Musicians in Colorado
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Michael Ricci
Boulder, CO: Newly formed Pathways To Jazz is awarding grants to jazz musicians to support costs associated with producing recorded works. Pathways to Jazz knows the value that recorded work plays in furthering artistry and wants to support artists who are unable to make provisions for themselves to take this essential step. The program’s objectives are to document and provide wider exposure for jazz music and the music of contemporary American jazz composers and to develop audiences for jazz music ...
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