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Artists Recording Collective Music Network News Update.
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Two for the Show Media
The official Artists Recording Collective Music Network is now producing the online digital magazine
Jazz Artistry Now, a new publication that was established to bring more focus toward this seriously engaging now music and many of the exciting now artists who are creating it everyday. Jazz Artistry Now presents feature articles, interviews, reviews, music and videos - more to follow...
Pianist SUMI TONOOKA continues work on her upcoming solo piano CD release - more to follow...
Tenor Saxophonist ERICA LINDSAY ...
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Ticketmaster-Live Nation Merger Cleared
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All About Jazz
England's Competition Commission again cleared the Ticketmaster-Live Nation merger on Friday, formally sealing the creation of Live Nation Entertainment. The overseas regulatory body had originally approved the splicing in December, but agreed to reconsider and make a new decision following a challenge to the Competition Appeal Tribunal by German ticketing firm CTS Eventim. The CC again concluded that the merger would not result in a substantial lessening of competition in the ticketing arena or any other U.K. music market. The ...
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Westside Joint Gives Unsigned Bands a Boost Breathes Life into Music
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All About Jazz
Just west of L.A.'s Miracle Mile, the restaurant/nightclub Life on Wilshire hosts a weekly Monday night showcase of mostly unsigned acts that's been slowly gathering steam over the past year and a half.
Westsiders with a taste for live music who dread penetrating the rock-club bottleneck of the Strip, the alt-pop lounges of Silver Lake and Echo Park, or downtown's urban hipster zone might view this almost forlorn stretch of Wilshire Boulevard as an oasis of easy access and plentiful ...
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San Francisco Jazz Group Plans Its Own Building Dedicated to the Genre
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Michael Ricci
SFJazz, the San Francisco arts organization, will announce plans on Friday to build its own facility dedicated to jazz: a 35,000-square-foot building in that city's Hayes Valley neighborhood, with two adaptable theater spaces inside.
“The concept of an institution for jazz is a very new thing obviously, Jazz at Lincoln Center made that concept work," said Randall Kline, the groups director. “Its the idea that jazz has earned a right to permanence. And because our view of jazz is wide-angled, ...
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Nielson Offers More Proof of MySpace Decline, as Facebook and Twitter Soar
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HypeBot
ASCAP 2009 Revenues Jump $176m To $995m
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HypeBot
ASCAP reported that in 2009 collections rose to $995 million for its 380,000 members paying out more than $863 million. That's up from $819 million in 2008 and $741 in 2007. Foreign revenue grew to nearly $302 million. “Music is performed more often, in more places, in more ways by more businesses than ever before. That expanded music use, combined with dramatic ASCAP Membership growth, market share increases and effective strategic management have led to stunning revenue and distribution growth ...
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WMG Offers Mixed Financial Report, Digital Sales Up
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HypeBot
In a report to investors this morning, Warner Music Group showed a loss for the quarter ending March 31st of $25 million or 17 cents a share. That's down significantly from the $68 million or 45 cents a share loss in the same quarter last year. Overall revenue fell 1.3% to $662 million with rising digital sales contributing to WMG's improving numbers. Other highlights:
Digital sales reached $199 million or 30% of total revenue. That's an up 8% ...Continue Reading
Jazz Goes Silent at Ortlieb's Jazzhaus
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Michael Ricci
It had been one of Philadelphia's cozy hideaways, the former lunchroom of a bygone brewery at Third near Poplar, where the jazz was cool and the food was hot for more than two decades. Ortlieb's Jazzhaus, the club with a tiny stage where the Philadelphia jazz elite played, closed Sunday night after 23 years. “It was very nice," said Bob Perkins, host of the BP with the GM, jazz show on WRTI 90.1-FM.. “Good food and a great jazz club." ...
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