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Case Of Mistaken Identity Endangers St. Louis Jazz Landmark

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
April 16, 2014

When Mother Nature dealt a deathblow to the long-neglected Castle Ballroom in Midtown St. Louis, in the form of high winds that collapsed the building’s sidewalls, Pat Brannon, proprietor of South City’s famed Casa Loma Ballroom, never dreamed the aftershocks would impact his business. But confusion surrounding the two ballrooms that both begin with the letter “C” has proven to be disastrous for the Casa Loma. “We’re still in business. We’re still here. We’re not going anywhere. The Casa Loma ...

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Eddie Condon: New York, 1964

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
April 16, 2014

Before the Swing Era, when jazz was shaped by jny Kansas City's big-band dance beats, Chicago's frantic small-group sound was hot. Among the Chicago greats was guitarist Eddie Condon, king of the rhythm-keepers. In 1964, ABC in New York broadcast a Carnegie Hall tribute to Condon featuring the cream of the Chicago gang. Part 1... Part 2... Part 3... Part 4... Part 5... Part 6... Part 7... Part 8... Part 9... ...

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Big Data Changed How We Measure Success

Source: HypeBot
April 9, 2014

By Emmanuel Legrand of Legrand Network. This story was originally published in French by IRMActu. Who's No.1? How do you assess and define success? Who are the most popular artists and recordings at any given time? Ever since there has been a music industry, these questions have obsessed record company executives and artists alike. And to answer these questions, systems were put in place to measure success and identify which artists and songs were the most popular. In the early ...

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Bandpage Raises $9.25 Million in New Funding

Source: HypeBot
April 1, 2014

BandPage, a free online marketing and monetization platform for musicians, has raised $9.25 in Series C funding. The round was led by previous investors GGV Capital and Mohr Davidow Ventures and brings BandPage’s total capital raised to over $28 million. BandPage launched in 2010, becoming a hugely successful Facebook app. Surviving several major shifts in Facebook's rules for apps, BandPage has continued to develop as a musician services platform, with 500,000 artist users. “We are in the musician business,” said J ...

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UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, World Jazz Legend, Herbie Hancock Supports Master-Jam Fest

Source: Maxim Micheliov
March 27, 2014

The author and Producer General of Master-Jam Fest, Mikhail Freidlin received the letter of gratitude and support from Herbie Hancock, jazz legend of the 20th century, one of the most influential jazz musicians of modernity, 14 Grammy Awards winner, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for Intercultural Dialogue and UNESCO International Jazz Day founder. Dear Mr. Freidlin, “On behalf of UNESCO and the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, we extend our heartfelt thanks to you and all the Master-Jam Fest ...

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Musician Seeks $5.2 Billion in Damages from Apple, Amazon and CD Baby

Source: HypeBot
March 26, 2014

By Tim Cushing, republished from techdirt. The laws surrounding IP can certainly be absurd, and the ever-extending copyright term has turned the phrase “for a limited time" into a joke in search of a punchline. But there's nothing so absurd as those who take these laws into their own hands, find a lawyer willing to represent foolsand pursue supposed infringement in court. Roland Chambers from South Carolina has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Apple, Amazon and CD Baby over 12 original pieces of copyrighted ...

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Jimi Hendrix Stamp Dedicated at SXSW Hendrix Celebration Concert

Source: HypeBot
March 19, 2014

The US Postal Service introduced a Jimi Hendrix Forever stamp at SXSW last week which will be followed later this year by a Janis Joplin stamp. They're both part of the USPS's Music Icons series which launched last year. At SXSW the new stamp was dedicated at the Jimi Hendrix Celebration concert featuring such guitarists as Robby Krieger of The Doors and Slash, shown playing together at right (click for full image). The Jimi Hendrix Forever stamp, available for a ...

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Breaking Bad Music Supervisor: Inside the Wonderful [and Corporate] World of Sync

Source: HypeBot
March 18, 2014

Thomas Golubic, the music supervisor behind Breaking Bad, Six Feet Under, The Killing and The Walking Dead has an insider view of the world of music sync, and its not always pretty. “These are big corporations,” Golubis, interviewed by Music Week at AIM’s recent Sync Conference, says of music budgets. “Some of the companies you deal with are a bit more respectful of the role music has, some are less so. It was a bummer to us all the way through that ...

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