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Reflections on Trudy Pitts
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JazzStage.net
By Linda Dachtyl It is hard to know how to begin to talk about the recent passing of Trudy Pitts and the ways in which she touched my life in the brief time I got to know her over the last two years, so I will start at the beginning. I am always amazed at how our lives can be orchestrated through coincidence, synchronicity, or divine providence concerning the terms, but the result is the same regardless. In some casual ...
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360 Deal Wonders Paramore Called "A Manufactured Product of a Major Label" by Former Members
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HypeBot
Paramore represented the epitome of 360 deals. In an interview with Billboard, Lyor Cohen, the CEO of Recorded Music for WMG, confided that he thinks, “Paramore is going to be very special and demonstrate what we mean by alignment." Similarly, in a New York Times piece, writer Jeff Leeds wrote that executives and talent managers “cite Paramore as a promising example of a rising new model for developing talent, one in which artists share not just revenue from their album ...
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Best Place To See Jazz In Vegas
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Barbara
Jazz joints come and go in Vegas. There are casino rooms and clubs that offer jazz, but there's so much gaming going on, it's hard to enjoy live jazz as an art form. The sound of the slots and people excited by their winnings take away from the experience of enjoying the music. Even most smaller venues and bars have gaming, and musicians & jazz fans alike agree it's not the best jazz environment. Now comes The Freakin' Frog (Freakin' ...
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What's Ahead for 2011? Bob Baker: The Real World is Going to Meet Mobile and the Internet.
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HypeBot
As we end the year, Hypebot asked some our favorite thinkers, writers, and friends to answer two questions—one looking forward and the other back. Here Bob Baker, author of the “Guerrilla Music Marketing" book series and music marketing teacher at Berkleemusic.com, answers. Hypebot: What do you see as the most important business and consumer trends that will shape the music industry in 2011? Bob Baker: One technology trend that will affect music marketing is something I call “Real World meets ...
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The Doors Respond to Florida's Pardon of Jim Morrison
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JamBase
40 YEARS AFTER MEDIA AND COURT CIRCUS, THE DOORS SPEAK OUT In the wake of Florida's decision to issue a pardon to Jim Morrison of The Doors more than 40 years after his alleged obscene acts on a Miami stage, his bandmates Ray Manzarek, John Densmore and Robby Krieger issued this statement: “In 1969 the Doors played an infamous concert in Miami, Florida. Accounts vary as to what actually happened on stage that night. Whatever took place that night ended ...
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Berklee and the Pat Patrick Collection
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The Independent Ear by Willard Jenkins
One of the sweeter stories from 2010—on more than one front—was Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick's donation of his father's collection to Berklee College of Music. Saxophonist Pat Patrick, who passed on to ancestry in 1991, came of age musically in Chicago's rich jazz cauldron. He's one of several mighty saxophonists who matriculated through the legendary Captain Walter Dyett's DuSable High School Band; his classmates included Clifford Jordan, John Gilmore and John Jenkins, along with Julian Priester and Richard Davis. Patrick ...
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BMG Wants to Get Back in the Record Business by Buying EMI
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HypeBot
With Citigroup reportedly on the verge of taking over EMI, potential buyers have begun circling and one surprise potential buyer has emerged as a front runner. BMG, former owner RCA Records and then partner in Sony BMG, got out of the recorded music business by selling its stake to Sony. Since then, BMG has invested in several publishing catalogs and had been thought want to add EMI's deep publishing holdings. That was until BMG CEO Hartwig Masuch spoke to Music ...
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Looking Back on 2010? Brian Hazard: More People Bought and Stole My Music Than Ever Before
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HypeBot
As we end the year, Hypebot asked some our favorite thinkers, writers, and friends to answer two questions—one looking forward and the other back. Here Brian Hazard of Color Theory and Passive Promotion answers. Hypebot: What do you see as the most important business and consumer trends that will shape the music industry in 2011? Brian Hazard: The US launch of Spotify, and competing services from Apple and Google, will catalyze the inevitable shift from music ownership to rental. As ...
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