Music Industry News

This Month's Legacy Need 2 Know Artist Billie Holiday

Source: Sony Music Entertainment/Legacy
January 10, 2012

Billie Holiday, nicknamed “Lady Day," was an American jazz singer and songwriter who transformed jazz and pop singing in the 20th Century. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo. Critic John Bush wrote that Holiday “changed the art of American pop vocals forever."

Billie Holiday American jazz singer and songwriter

Holiday's voice was instantly recognizable from her distinctive delivery. Years of excessive drug use eventually altered the texture ...

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Canon USA Inc, Unveils First-of-its-kind Crowd-Sourced Music Video for Herbie Hancock

Source: Muse Media
January 9, 2012

Canon USA Inc, Unveils First-of-its-kind Crowd-Sourced Music Video for Herbie Hancock's Classic Song “Chameleon." The Print-Inspired Music Video was Created using Canon's PIXMA PRO-1 Professional Inkjet Printer , a Product Unveiled at Canon's “Legends in Imaging" Event in October 2011 LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y.—Canon U.S.A. Inc., a leader in digital imaging, collaborated with Herbie Hancock, a legendary recording artist, bandleader and icon of modern music, to launch a first-of-its-kind music video generated from 1,800 crowd-sourced images for Hancock's hit song “Chameleon." ...

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Menyou: Partner with Fans to Sell Your Music

Source: HypeBot
January 7, 2012

Menyou, one of midemlab's 30 finalists, offers an embeddable online store for your music that your fans can also use to sell and get a cut. Artists are provided with an ecommerce option, fans can spread the word via sales from their own sites and social media outlets and Menyou makes sure everyone gets paid.  A percentage of proceeds for specified charities is also an easy option. Menyou Artist Sales Process In some respects Menyou is simply a music ecommerce ...

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American Jazz Museum's Blue Room Named Among Down Beat's Top International Jazz Venues

Source: Artists Recording Collective + the ARC Record Label
January 6, 2012

The American Jazz Museum's Blue Room jazz club is the first among two Kansas City venues to be named to Down Beat Magazine's “212 Great Jazz Rooms—An International Listing of the Best Places to See and Hear Live Jazz." The Blue Room was also distinguished by a gold highlighted listing. “We are pleased, humbled and grateful at receiving this type of unsolicited recognition because it validates our constant quest to present high quality music that perpetuates the art form and ...

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Webster Records to Close January 31

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
January 6, 2012

According to a story by Deb Peterson published Wednesday on STLtoday.com, Webster Records will close permanently on January 31. The story says the store has been in operation for 58 years, which would make it St. Louis' longest-running independent music retailer and one of the more long lived businesses in the Old Webster business district of Webster Groves. It's been a haven for local jazz fans throughout the years, stocking recordings from smaller labels that were hard to find elsewhere, ...

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Josef Skvorecky and Jazz

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
January 5, 2012

he influential Czech novelist Josef Skvorecky, an admirer and champion of jazz musicians and the freedom they represent, has died in Toronto. He was 87. Skvorecky and his wife moved to Canada after the reforms of the Prague Spring were trampled by the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. His novels portrayed the perverse absurdity of totalitarian regimes, the Nazis in The Bass Saxophone, Stalinist Soviets in The Engineer of Human Souls. In Toronto, Skvorecky established a firm that published ...

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Jazz Around Town: New Year's "Resolutions" and Live Jazz in Rochester

Source: Jazz@Rochester
January 5, 2012

Thursday, January 5, 2011 Jazz & Wine Happy Hour with The Swooners @ Woodcliff Hotel & Spa, 5:00 pm Anthony Gianavola @ Lemoncello, 6:00 pm The John Palocy Trio @ Bistro 135, 6:00 pm Joe Santora Trio with Emily Kirchoff @ Michael's Valley Grill, 7:00 pm Nate Rawls Group @ Little Theatre Cafe, 7:30 pm

Friday, January 6, 2011 Johnny Matt Band with Jon Seiger @ Wegmans-Eastway, 5:30 pm Bobby DiBaudo Trio @ Bistro 135, 6:30 pm Joe Santora Trio ...

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Jazz Around Town: Don't Let the Door Hit Your Backside on the Way Out, 2011 ... Come On in 2012!

Source: Jazz@Rochester
December 29, 2011

Thursday, December 29, 2011 Jazz & Wine Happy Hour with The Swooners @ Woodcliff Hotel & Spa, 5:00 pm Anthony Gianavola @ Lemoncello, 6:00 pm Julie Ketchum Duo @ Bistro 135, 6:00 pm Joe Santora Trio with Emily Kirchoff @ Michael's Valley Grill, 7:00 pm Mike Kaupa Duo Project @ Little Theatre Cafe, 7:30 pm Fred Costello & Roger Eckers Duo @ Portobello Restaurant, 8:30 pm

Friday, December 30, 2011 Johnny Matt Band with Jon Seiger @ Wegmans-Eastway, 5:30 pm ...

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