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Jazzed Media And Lorraine Feather Are Pleased To Announce The Following 2013 Grammy Nomination For Tales Of The Unusual (Lorraine Feather)
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Michael Bloom Media Relations
Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s): “Out There” – Shelly Berg, Arranger Tales of the Unusual is an album released in February of 2012, composed of thirteen original compositions with lyrics by Lorraine Feather and music by Shelly Berg, Russell Ferrante (of the Grammy-winning group Yellowjackets), Eddie Arkin, Enrico Pireranunzi, Nino Rota, Edvard Grieg and Tony Morales. The theme of the album is unusual people and strange events, some of them inspired by film (“The Usual Suspects”), books (“The Hole in ...
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Concord Music Being Shopped to Private-Equity Firms, Not Strategic Suitors
Source:
Michael Ricci
Reports that the Concord Music Group is up for sale are true, knowledgeable sources say. But there is one key factor that appears to have been overlooked thus far: management is controlling the company's sale process so far. Consequently, Concord is being shopped to private-equity firms and not to strategic suitors, according to some strategic sources who have confirmed they haven't been contacted to partake in the auction. According to sources, the Concord management team believes there is a lot ...
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Russian Guitarist Is Hooked On DPA Instrument Mic
Source:
All About Jazz
When Russian guitarist Roman Miroshnichenko was booked to play a Jubilee concert with legendary guitarist Larry Coryell at the Moscow International House of Music, he knew he would need a first class microphone to truly capture the sound of this prestigious event. DPA Microphone’s Russian distributor I.S.P.A arranged for Roman to test a DPA d:vote 4099G Instrument Microphone for Guitar, which proved to be exactly what he was looking for. “I heard that Paco De Lucia's sound engineer rated DPA ...
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Yamaha Entertainment Group Founder Chris Gero Discusses New Record Label
Source:
HypeBot
Yamaha recently launched a new record label under the auspices of the Yamaha Entertainment Group of America. The news itself was worth noting as an example of the current range of experimentation with music business models and approaches including corporations creating in-house labels. I took the opportunity to speak with Founder Chris Gero to find out more about the story behind the news. When I initially wrote about Yamaha's new in-house label I skipped over most of the history I ...
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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Jazz, December 7-13
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
I imagine radios, I-pods and live performers are pulling up “Take Five," “Blue Rondo a la Turk" and more to honor Dave Brubeck, who passed away this morning. Perhaps we will be hearing samplings of Brubeck and experiments with odd time signatures throughout the coming week. I know I will think of Dave no matter what live music I catch over the coming weeks. And there's plenty of music to catch here in the Twin Cities. Highlights This Week Friday, ...
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More on Two New Jazz Venues
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Following up on last week's post about the new Central West End jazz venue Troy's Jazz Gallery, we can tell you now that more information was added over the weekend to the club's website. Among the additions were an “About" page, a map that suggests patrons will have access to a gated parking lot across the street from the club, and a beverage menu with a long list of cocktails and coffee drinks named after jazz musicians. The venue will ...
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The Evolution of Headphones [Infographic]
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HypeBot
The beautiful thing about music is that it can be either a social or an intimately personal experience, depending on how you choose to enjoy it. Music brings people together and can easily transcend any language barrier, but it can also bring us closer to ourselves and provide us with a soundtrack to our daily lives. One of the most powerful ways to facilitate an intimate listening experience is through the use of personal headphones - a technology that has come ...
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Dear Kyle, Music Discovery is Neither a Lie nor a Path to Failure
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HypeBot
By Paul Lamere, the Director of Developer Platform at The Echo Nest. He blogs at Music Machinery. This week, the usually excellent Hypebot published a post by Kyle Bylin called Music Discovery: The Path to Digital Failure. In this post, Kyle takes issue with a recent Billboard article about how music discovery is one of the key areas in the new music business. Kyle pulls no punches. He says “Music Discovery is a lie that is never going to come ...
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