Music Industry News

Jazz Musicians Throw Concert to Pay for Their Health Coverage

Source: Michael Ricci
April 13, 2010

Get Breaking News Alerts * Share * Comments 188 Thirteen years ago, 68-year-old jazz guitarist Calvin Keys underwent a life-saving quadruple bypass surgery. Keys, a notable Bay Area musician who recorded and toured with Ray Charles in the '70s, says he would not have been able to afford that surgery if he hadn't been covered under his wife's health insurance. “I don't know what would have happened if I wasn't married," said Keys, who never had health coverage until he ...

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Dr. Yes Will Hear You Now

Source: Michael Ricci
April 13, 2010

Tall, white-whiskered and dressed in a tailored suit, Bruce Lundvall is sitting at his desk in the Manhattan headquarters of EMI Music. Framed platinum discs and photographs on the wall mark the pop, rock and jazz triumphs of a half-century: discovering best-selling artists like Norah Jones and Richard Marx; supporting the careers of Bruce Springsteen and Willie Nelson; reissuing recordings by John Coltrane and Thelonious Monk. Mr. Lundvall's story has many chapters. Most recently, he was chief executive of the ...

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The Barriers of Music Consumption: Past and Present

Source: HypeBot
April 12, 2010

Kyle Bylin, Associate Editor -- Edited by: Refe Tuma of Creative Destruction

There was a time when songs were songs. When there were the albums that you owned and those that you did not. When there was a distinct difference between the music that you liked and the artists that you didn't care for at all.

There was a time when the music you that collected was actually a physical thing; it represented your identity and served as ...

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Vatican Makes Peace with the Beatles

Source: All About Jazz
April 12, 2010

The Vatican has finally made peace with the Beatles, saying their drug use, “dissolute" lives and even the claim that the band was bigger than Jesus are all in the past -- while their music lives on. Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano paid tribute to the Fab Four in its weekend editions, with two articles and a front-page cartoon reproducing the crosswalk immortalized on the cover of the band's album “Abbey Road." The tribute marked the 40th anniversary of the band's ...

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Should the Beatles Have Worked It Out?

Source: All About Jazz
April 11, 2010

Looking back after 40 years, that seems like a ridiculously short lifespan for a band as important as the Beatles, who were, from left, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr and George Harrison.

Seven years and seven months. That's how long the world officially knew the Beatles as a recording act, spanning from the date they released their first single in England to the day their breakup was announced on April 10, 1970. Looking back after 40 years, that seems ...

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Happy Jazz Day -- 7 Ways to Celebrate; Tampa Bay Area Shows to See

Source: Between the Grooves with Philip Booth
April 9, 2010

Today is Jazz Day, as established last year in a proclamation made by the U.S. Conference of Mayors.

That organization proclaimed, in part, that “jazz has spoken eloquently of freedom for people in the United States and abroad, and has become an international language that bridges differences and brings people of all races, ages, and backgrounds together.

I couldn't have said it better myself.

Hizzoners and Herhonners from all over the U.S.  encourage mayors everywhere to plan jazz related activities ...

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Independent Record Shops Competing in Digital Age

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
April 10, 2010

When Matt Vaughan heard that a Saturday in April had been set aside two years ago to honor indie-music stores, the owner of Seattle's Easy Street Records thought it was “a waving of the white flag." Still, he went along and opened his doors with modest expectations. “To my surprise, it turned out to be the busiest day of the year," said Vaughan, who has a store in West Seattle and another on Queen Anne. “I wasn't even staffed for ...

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U.S. Consumes Music Differently on Smartphones Than in UK and Canada

Source: HypeBot
April 10, 2010

A new Vision Critical study of music on smparthones in the US, UK and Canada, found major differences. While those in Canada and the UK are using apps on their smartphone or iPod Touch to listen to broadcast radio, U.S. users are more likely to listen to web-only radio and music streaming services.

Pandora was the clear leader among adults in the US who have listened to online-only radio in the past year: