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Stan Kenton Legacy Band Emanates From Kenton Alumni Band
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Ed Bride Associates
PRESCOTT, AZ — After a storied 23-year history of performances, tours, and educational clinics, The Stan Kenton Alumni Band will now be known as The Stan Kenton Legacy Orchestra. Acknowledging the passage of time, the new name better reflects the band’s desire to continue the musical and educational legacy that Stan Kenton worked so hard to present, while striving to reach younger audiences as well as older fans. When Kenton died in 1979, his will prohibited the establishment of a ...
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ArtistShare Founder And CEO Speaks At George Mason University Intellectual Property Conference
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Prawit Austin Siriwat
George Mason University's Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property (CPIP) Conference, Common Ground: How Intellectual Property United Creators and Innovators explored the relationship between creative and innovative industries. Camelio spoke on panel entitled Creative Upstarts and Start-Up Firms: Sources of New Innovation and Creative Works with, Ron Katznelson, President of Bi-Level Technologies, Prof. Sean O’Connor, University of Washington School of Law, Prof. Sean Pager, Michigan State University School of Law, and moderator Matthew Barblan, George Mason University School of ...
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Marion Evans + Steve Lawrence
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In January 1963, Go Away Little Girl by Steve Lawrence was the No. 1 song on Billboard's Hot 100 chart. The mid-tempo single, written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King, featured Lawrence backed by a lonesome-cowboy beat and an orchestra arranged by Marion Evans. Go Away Little Girl was produced by Al Kasha, a songwriter who worked at New York's Brill Building and was pals with Goffin and King. Kasha's next project for Lawrence at Columbia would leverage his earlier ...
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asQme and Steve Aoki Help Musicians Connect with Fans Across Language Barriers
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HypeBot
asQme is bridging the divide between Japanese fans and English-speaking artists in the first stage of what has the potential to be a very successful site. asQme takes an “Ask Me Anything" aka AMA approach across language barriers with Steve Aoki the first artist on tap. It will be a chance for fans to ask questions in Japanese and have the English language response translated into Japanese. Variations on that theme are planned suggesting possibilities that are much bigger. asQme ...
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Music Collaboration Platform Blend Launches Community Sourced Record Label
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HypeBot
Blend is a music collaboration platform that allows you to upload your music publicly or privately and to collaborate with and remix the music of others. They've been in private beta but are now open to the general public. In addition, they're launching a label for their user community which starts with digital distribution for releases from community- selected artists. Label manager Guy Licata shared with me some of the details of this unique opportunity. Talking Of A Master Plan ...
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Austin, TX Launches Unprecedented Study of It's $1.6 Billion Music Economy
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HypeBot
The Music & Entertainment Division of Austin's Economic Development Department has announced the launch of a major market research study of the city's music industry. The purpose of the project is to capture an in-depth look at Austin’s music industry workers and its economic issues and opportunities. The City has hired Titan Music Group to conduct the study and deliver a final report upon completion. This is the first time such a study has been undertaken in Austin. The study is ...
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Are Apple and Major Labels Planning a CD-Like 'Audio Upgrade' Campaign?
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HypeBot
Remember all of the money you spent - and the record labels made - when upgraded your record and tape collection to “superior sounding" CDs? Former label chief and Jimmy Iovine certainly does; and I'm hearing persistent talk that he's close to selling a similar audio upgrade campaign to Tim Cook and his new bosses at Apple. Iovine and his Beats colleagues have long been critics of the audio quality delivered by traditional mp3's. They set out to fix it with ...
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Three Things About Streaming Music the Industry Needs to Figure Out
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HypeBot
By Mark Mulligan from Music Industry Blog. I spent a couple of days last week in Barcelona for the annual Future Music Forum, which is developing into an important date on the music conference circuit. Later this week I will post some of the highlights of my opening address but first I am going to spend some time developing some of the white hot issues surrounding streaming that were raised at the conference. In a really strong field, two speakers ...
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