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Jazz This Week: Tiempo Libre, Eric Person, Musica Slesa, and More
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Once again, there's a varied selection of jazz and creative music on tap this weekend in St. Louis, and time is short, so let's go to the highlights:Tonight, there's a memorial for Blake Travis at the Sheldon Concert Hall, the first of two events this week honoring the late percussionist, singer and storyteller.Though Travis didn't usually work in the jazz idiom per se, he played with all sorts of St. Louis musicians over the course of ...
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The Jazz Bakery Keeps Cooking
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Michael Ricci
The Jazz Bakery is a nonprofit organization. To followers of the scene, that statement is a redundancy, of course. In Los Angeles, saying a jazz club doesn't make money is like saying a restaurant doesn't serve scrap iron. In 18 years as president and artistic director of the Jazz Bakery, Ruth Price has always known that fresh music doesn't translate into hefty profits. Lately, though, Price has found it harder to offer quality at a discount. Last May, the Jazz ...
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Steve Belkin Joins Innervision Records as General Manager
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GoMedia PR
Music industry veteran Steve Belkin has been named as General Manager of the Aliso Viejo, California-based label Innervision Records and Entertainment, as announced by label VP of A&R and Promotion, Adam Leibovitz.
Belkin brings some three decades of experience in all areas of the music business to the GM post, including work in marketing, sales and distribution and artist management. A musician and songwriter in his own right, Belkin will continue to operate Open All Nite Entertainment, his management, marketing ...
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Philly Music-Makers Mull Museum at Torched Offices
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All About Jazz
Longtime R&B record producers Leon Huff and Kenneth Gamble are considering whether to rebuild their fire-damaged offices into a music museum, the duo said Tuesday just hours after the man accused of setting the blaze was ordered to stand trial. Testimony and surveillance video shown at a preliminary hearing convinced a judge that Christopher Cimini should be tried on charges including arson and burglary in the Feb. 21 fire that destroyed Philadelphia International Records. The music label, which produced dozens ...
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NARM White Paper Explores Digital Music's Technical Challenges
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HypeBot
NARM and its Digital Think Tank have just released “Digital Supply Chain & Operations" which explores operational issues facing the music industry as it transitions to digital. The report takes on the uber-technical issues the surround the accurate and efficient delivery of music and related metadata. If you've ever tried to clean up you mp3 collection much less move an album from one digital distributor to another on iTunes, you begin to understand it's importance.
“Accurate and efficient ...
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EMI Tries to Pawn Catalog to Stop Citi Takeover
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HypeBot
EMI is in serious talks with other labels to manage its most valuable asset - a deep catalog including The Beatles, Pink Foyd, Blondie and more - in exchange for the $600 million USD that it needs to stop a takeover by lender Citi.
The deal would reportedly run for five years, though sources say that interested parties want more time to recoup. Universal reportedly go the first call from EMI, but Sony and Warner Music are now in the ...
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Court: Widow Owns 'King of the Road' Copyright
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All About Jazz
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The widow of country music legend Roger Miller has won a protracted legal battle over the rights to some of his biggest hits, including “King of the Road."
A federal judge ruled last week that Mary Miller and Roger Miller Music, Inc. own the copyrights to the songs the artist published in 1964. Those songs also include: “Dang Me," “Chug-A-Lug and “You can't Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd." U.S. District Judge William J. Haynes also in ...
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