Home » Jazz News
Music Industry News
Timely announcements covering new album releases, tours, concert series, special events, job postings, crowdfunding campaigns and more. You can find more news by searching our website, viewing our news stream, seeing what's trending or reading our blog posts. Subscribe to our news RSS feed and/or embed AAJ news content on your website or blog. Learn about our news service here. Submit news here.
"Now in Stores" - 5/16/2010 to 5/22/2010
Source:
Groove Notes
We recommend five jazz albums that were released over the past week and here are this weeks five, released between May 16th and May 22nd, 2010. 1. Swingin with Sinatra by Beegie Adair (Green Hill, 5/18/2010) A Tribute to the music of Frank Sinatra. 2. Precipice by Denny Zeitlin (Sunny Side Records, 5/18/2010) Denny Zeitlin on this album:While I love playing with other musicians, there is something wonderfully limitless and challenging about being onstage or in the studio by myself. ...
Continue Reading
Indie Trade Group A2IM Names New Board
Source:
HypeBot
A2IM, the American Association of Independent Music, has announced the results of their 2010 Board of Directors elections. Joining the board are: Eric Brown (VP Business Affairs, Sub Pop) Dave Hansen (General Manager, Epitaph) Tom Silverman (CEO/Founder, Tommy Boy)
Silverman returns to the A2IM board after time off due to A2IM term limits, while Eric Brown and Dave Hansen are beginning their first term. The board also includes Concord Music Group President Glen Barros; Beggars
Group ...
Continue Reading
Open Letter to Miles Davis from Charles Mingus
Source:
Miles Davis Online
An Open Letter To Miles Davis By Charles Mingus November 30, 1955 Down Beat Magazine
Four editions of Down Beat come to my minds eye-Birds Blindfold Test, mine, Miles and Miles recent comeback story-as I sit down and attempt to honestly write my thoughts in an open letter to Miles Davis. (I discarded numerous mental letters before this writing, but one final letter formed last night as I looked through some pictures of Bird ...
Continue Reading
Musicians Play the Immigration Tune
Source:
Visa Views
You probably already know that for an artist visa the immigration service requires that if you haven't received a Nobel Prize, Academy Award, Emmy, Grammy or Directors Guild Award (which I presume most of you readers have not, kudos if you have!), then you will need 3 of the following legally regulated proofs of excellence as a musician:1. National or international recognition;2. Articles written about in major trade publications or major media by applicant;3. Participation as ...
Continue Reading
The Paradox of Music: Is More, Really Less?
Source:
HypeBot
Kyle Bylin, Associate Editor-- (@kbylin)
I. New Choices
Often times, in discussions about how our culture has become abundant with music and the potential that it has to cause choice overload in the minds of fans, it does not take long for someone to recall the amazing lecture that psychologist Barry Schwartz gave at TED back in 2005, where he explores the central thesis to his book The Paradox of Choice. Let us use his talk as ...
Continue Reading
Google Launches Multi-Front Assault to Grab Its Share of Music Marketplace
Source:
HypeBot
iTunes Gets A Worthy Competitor
A series on announcements this week at Google's I/O developer conference could signal another seismic shift in how music is discovered, purchased and enjoyed.
Google's most direct foray into music comes via the announcement that it had purchased Simplify Media two months ago, and will incorporating its technology in a new version of Android that enables users to stream music directly from their home PCs. That's a very different approach than MP3Tunes, Spotify or Apple's ...
Continue Reading
