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Music Group EMI in Dire Straits
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All About Jazz
Struggling music group EMI faces being taken over by its bankers after failing to clinch a deal to sell the North American distribution rights for its artists to Universal Music Group or Sony Music.
EMI, which has the Beatles, Coldplay, Lily Allen and Pink Floyd on its books, had hoped to raise around 200 million pounds ($304 million) by offering its rivals a five- year licensing contract. A source close to both sets of talks, who requested anonymity because the ...
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Jazz This Week: Joey Defrancesco, Peter Martin and Jeremy Davenport, J.D. Parran, Craig Hultgren, and More
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Warmer weather is in the forecast for St. Louis, but before you make plans to spend the whole weekend outdoors, you also may want to check out what's coming coming up in jazz and creative music over the next few days.Tonight, organist Joey DeFrancesco begins a four-night engagement at Jazz at the Bistro. There's always been an enthusiastic audience for bluesy, organ-driven jazz in St. Louis, and in the past DeFrancesco has proven to be a good draw ...
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Las Vegas Still Dazzling Exhibition Revists 1968 Study Era of Design
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Michael Ricci
The photographs on display in “Las Vegas Studio: Images From the Archives of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown" have been rescued, in essence, from the cutting-room floor. It just happens to be one of the richest, most revelatory cutting- room floors in architectural history.
The exhibition, at the Museum of Contemporary Art's branch at the Pacific Design Center through June 20, features images drawn from the trip that architects Venturi and Scott Brown took with a dozen or so ...
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Ex-Rat Pack Famous Nevada Casino Closes
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All About Jazz
Before the Las Vegas Strip ruled the gambling world, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. helped make the Cal Neva Lodge one of Nevada's coolest casinos in the early 1960s. On Wednesday, roulette wheels will stop spinning and blackjack games will cease at Sinatra's old resort that straddles the Nevada-California border on Lake Tahoe's north shore at Crystal Bay. While the resort's current owner hopes to reopen the casino under a new outside contractor by year's end, some ...
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A Shift Has Taken Place
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Indaba Music Artist in Residence with Greg Osby
I'm noticing that a lot more younger people are attending our shows all of a sudden. A couple of weeks ago week I did the Vanguard in trio format with Paul Motian and Jason Moran. Each night the place was populated by an under 30-ish crowd by at least 50%. Not only was it refreshing to perform for a room of eager and attentive new patrons but it also served as a representative beacon of hope that the music is ...
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Prince Charges Fans for Closed Fan Club
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HypeBot
From Our Artist/Fan Relationship Dept.
To Prince, His Purple Majesty, His Royal Badness, The Dick Formerly Known As Prince: Today, a year after opening your LotusFlow3r club, you charged fans who had requested to cancel their annual memberships another $77. How do I know? Because I am one of them. Prince, you've gotta cut this shit out. I'm a big fan, I drove 15 hours to see you last year. I ...Continue Reading
New Profits from Lyrics?
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HypeBot
Sony/ATV Partners With Zazzle's ArtsProject For Lyric Inspired Merchandise Initiative
Can music publishers find new profits from old song lyrics? On demand merchandise provider Zazzle is partnering with Sony/ATV Music Publishing to find out. Zazzle via its ARTSPROJEKT brand will power a “Lyrical Inspirations Fan Merch" initiative which allows artists and fans to create and customize original works inspired by song titles and lyrics.
With the new deal Sony/ATV joins ...
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French Jazz Pianist, Sbastien Paindestre Joins ARC
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Artists Recording Collective + the ARC Record Label
Artists Recording Collective (ARC) is pleased to announce that French jazz pianist, Sbastien Paindestre has become a member of their artists roster. He will be releasing a new CD this summer titled, “Live @ Le Duc des Lombards (ARC-2178). Paindestre is a respected pianist, composer, teacher and concert promoter in Malakoff (La Fabrica'son, France, near Paris).He started piano lessons at 15 years-old and graduated to formal classical study in just two short years. Within the next four years of training, ...
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