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Notes from the Net: More on Metheny's Orchestrion; Zorn in Cleveland: Plus News, Reviews, Interviews, and More

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
April 7, 2010

Here's the latest compilation of assorted news briefs and links related to jazz, improvisation, and creative music in St. Louis, including news of musicians originally from the Gateway City, recent visitors, and coming attractions, plus assorted other items of interest:* It's been kind of a slow news week, but we can fulfill our Miles Davis news requirement for this installment with a link to a Nate Chinen essay for At Length magazine about about the night the trumpeter ...

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Leibovitz Accused Anew of Not Paying Her Bills

Source: All About Jazz
April 6, 2010

Photographer Annie Leibovitz is facing new accusations of balking at bills, less than a month after she struck a deal intended to resolve financial problems that had risked her rights to some of pop culture's most famous images. Investment firm Brunswick Capital Partners LP said in a lawsuit filed Friday that Leibovitz owes more than $800,000 in fees for its help arranging her recent financing agreement with another firm, Colony Capital LLC. Leibovitz representatives had no immediate comment Monday. New ...

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April Showers Us with Jazz Appreciation

Source: Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
April 5, 2010

Just as we emerge from the winter doldrums, there's a lot of jazz appreciation going on throughout April. In 2001, The Smithsonian launched Jazz Appreciation Month, which has grown to include celebrations in all 50 states and 40 countries that the music as a living treasure. It is designed to spotlight the music and, one would hope, extend the depth of that appreciation to casual listeners, and introduce it to fresh ears that have been tuned elsewhere. It is a ...

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Rimo Belli Drum Pioneer Snares a Big Chunk of the Market

Source: Michael Ricci
April 4, 2010

Remo Belli's company, Remo Inc., has been making Mylar drumheads for five decades. The innovation is credited with helping spur the rock 'n' roll craze by making drums more readily available. The gig: Chief executive and founder of Valencia-based Remo Inc., a pioneer in drumhead technology and a leading manufacturer of drumheads for more than 50 years. Background: Remo Belli, 82, started drumming at age 12, while growing up in the South Bend-Mishawaka, Ind., area near ...

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Jill Sobule and John Doe Sell Recording Studio Tickets to Help Fund Project

Source: HypeBot
April 4, 2010

Jill Sobule was an early proponent of music 2.0. She was among the first to fan fund an album and has always used social media well. To help fund a new recording project, she's selling a limited number of tickets for fans to spend time in the studio as she and John Doe make a new album.

“Keeping with the idea of creating innovative ways to fund recording sessions of new music while involving fans in the creative process, ...

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Hang in There. Music 2.0 is Just Getting Started...

Source: HypeBot
April 2, 2010

A Wine Guy Teaches Personal Branding Using 80's Hip Hop Stars

This video from web 2.0 maven Gary Vaynerchuk of Wine Library TV is a mini-lecture on both the time required to create a personal (or artist's) brand and the signs that we are all only at the very beginning of a huge upward opportunity curve. It's aimed mostly at tech start ups and bloggers. But, in part because of his use of mid-80's hip hop stars as examples, as ...

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Music Group EMI in Dire Straits

Source: All About Jazz
April 2, 2010

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

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
April 1, 2010

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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