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Announcing New Six Degrees Deluxe Digital Subscription Service
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Chris M. Slawecki
Six Degrees records is excited to announce that we are joining the family of excellent independent labels on Drip.fm's digital download subscription service. Drip.fm is a platform that connects labels with their fans through a monthly, subscription service. Now, for $10 a month, members who join our service will receive direct to their in box, all of our new releases, singles & EPs (with some territory restrictions), a hand picked selection of classic albums from our catalog and a variety ...
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Full Text of Universal Music Chairman Lucian Grainge Letter to Staff on EMI Purchase
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HypeBot
With the deal to purchase EMI complete, Universal Music Chairman Lucian Grainge wrote an email to his staff. In it he promised to invest in artists and “invigorate" the combined companies and the entire recorded music industry: Today is about music. It is about Universal Music's historic acquisition of EMI Recorded Music. First and foremost, this is a day to recognize the artists and musicians whose creativity and imagination are our reason for being here. They trust us to nurture ...
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Top Musicians Threaten Strike over EMI Sale to UMG
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HypeBot
With all the reporting and coverage of the completed $1.9 billion acquisition of EMI by Universal Music Group, one very important voice has been (unsurprisingly) left out of the conversation entirely: the artists themselves. Some of the world's greatest musicians are now considering withholding any new albums as an act of protest, unhappy they are being treated as “assets" in the forced sale of their label. Leading the revolt is English alternative rock band Blur against the sell-off of Parlophone ...
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Jazz in Pink Returns for 2012 Cwah Benefit on Sunday, October 21 at the Sheldon
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
The Los Angeles-based, all-female group Jazz in Pink once again will be the featured musical entertainment for Community Women Against Hardship's annual benefit gala, which is set for 5:00 p.m. Sunday, October 21 at the Sheldon Concert Hall. Jazz in Pink's core members include pianist Gail Jhonson, longtime music director for guitarist Norman Brown; violinist Karen Briggs (pictured), who played for 13 years with new age/easy listening composer Yanni; flutist Althea Rene; and harpist Mariea Antoinette. These four are joined ...
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Complete Works of Pepper Adams
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
If Gerry Mulligan's mannered, contrapuntal baritone saxophone style can be likened to a badminton player, then Pepper Adams' approach can be compared to a street brawler. Born in Michigan, Adams moved as a child with his family to upstate New York and then to Detroit, where at age 16 he took up the baritone sax. His relocation back to New York in the mid-1950s put him in play on the recording scene, particularly with hard bop players. Adams had the ...
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Updated Poll Results: The 5 Best Jazz/Rock Fusion Recordings of All Time
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Jazz (Jazzers Jazzing) by Carl L. Hager
Thanks to all of you who have been voting on this poll of The 5 best Jazz/Rock albums of all time. I have updated the totals and realigned them, so just go to the link for a look at the new numbers. Hundreds and hundreds of music fans from all over the world have been reading the results I published last week, and a new wave of votes have been coming in. If you haven't cast a vote for ...
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Charlie Harrington Named Invitational Judge For Drum Off Competition
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Charlie Harrington
Award-Winning Acclaimed Artist, Charlie Harrington, has accepted an invitation to judge Guitar Center's 2012 Drum Off Competition. Charlie, an active touring and session drummer, is in high demand not only as a performer but as an educator as well. He has shared the stage with jazz legends such as Woody Herman, Freddie Green, Kirk Whalum, Larry Coryell, Kurt Elling, John Scofield, Barbra Streisand, Dave Brubeck, Richie Cole, Tony Bennett, Ira Sullivan, Carly Simon, Ari Brown, Junko Onishi, and Eddie “Cleanhead" ...
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ITI Records Resurfaces After Many Years Dormant
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MICHAEL DION
After Thirty Years since its inception, ITI Records is returning to re-release its catalog as well as new titles in the future. Original owner, Mike Dion, who had been recalled to Active Duty in 1998 by the Navy, due to the wars in Bosnia and the Middle East has retired and has since returned to the Music Industry. Dion, in the past had stated that “ITI was one of the avenues for known and unknown jazz artists to get their ...
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