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Jazz This Week: Caribbean Jazz Project, Fareed Haque, Diverse and More
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Along with the official start of spring, this weekend brings several events of interest to fans of jazz and creative music in St. Louis.The weekend's best-known headliners are Dave Samuels and the Caribbean Jazz Project, who will open a four-night run this evening at Jazz at the Bistro. You can see some video of the CJP in action here, and listen to a podcast interview with Samuels hereOn Thursday evening, drummer Ben Thigpen leads his group ...
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'Bones' Howe & Tom Waits the Odd Couple?
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All About Jazz
When label boss David Geffen teamed respected engineer 'Bones' Howe with an unknown and very strange songwriter called Tom Waits, he set in motion one of the great artist-producer partnerships.
PHOTO: Bones Howe, Crystal Gayle and Tom Waits during the recording of 1982's “One From The Heart" soundtrack.
There might not have been an odder long-term pairing in the music business than 'Bones' Howe and Tom Waits. The engineer and producer was responsible for a string of the artist's classic ...
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Jazz FM Launches New Supper Club - The Bloomsbury Set
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Michael Ricci
The Bloomsbury Set is a terrific initiative - bringing top class jazz artists exposure, outside traditional venues and re-inventing the tradition of wonderful entertainment in London's hotels Created by Jazz FM and Radisson Edwardian Hotels, The Bloomsbury Set is to be re-born as a series of intimate evenings of fine dining and world-class jazz in the glamorous surroundings of the exclusive Radisson Edwardian Bloomsbury Street Hotel. The inaugural Bloomsbury Set evening, will take place on March 27 and features one ...
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Amid the Turmoil, EMI Launches a New Label
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HypeBot
EMI may be just days away from defaulting on its loan obligations to CitiGroup, but that didn't stop the music group from launching a new record label yesterday. Building on its success in the country genre (Capital Nashville was named label of the year at the recent Country Radio Seminar and 2009's #1 country imprint by Billboard), EMI Records Nashville will debut as a sister label with its own staffing.
The first artist on the new imprint is singer/songwriter Troy ...
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Interview: Zach Zalon on Hello Music's Opportunity Engine for D.I.Y. Musicians
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HypeBot
Hello Music recently grabbed headlines when it received$4 millionfrom KVG Partners. But what's unique about Hello is its business model. Created as an “opportunity engine" for d.i.y musicians, Hello takes no upfront fees.
A team of professionals at Hello connects artists with service providers like Topspin and Tunecore, new media like Slacker and opportunities like Pump Audio. Hello profits only if the artist makes money.In this exclusive interview,managing partner Zack Zalon explains why he and partner Brendon Cassidy created Hello ...
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40 Watts of Freedom: An Athens Legend
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JamBase
By: Jeff Tobias
Yes, it's true. History compresses (if not crushes) every passing moment by virtue of its eternal extrapolation. But that doesn't mean those moments didn't exist... or that they weren't special or that they can't continue to be. A few blocks away from the bucolic field where the Music Tapes marched the Athens Popfest '07 audience (kazoos in hand) across the street from the lawn of the massive frat house where legendary krautrock band Faust set off firecrackers ...
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Digital Growth Offsets CD Decline First Time in UK
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HypeBot
Growth in digital music sales in 2009 offset the continuing decline in CD sales for the first time according to UK collection society PRS For Music.
Digital revenues grew 73% (12.8m) to 30.4m in 2009 as platforms such as Spotify, MySpace Music, Amazon and iTunes expanded. That compared to an 8.7m drop in physical revenues through the year. Total revenues grew 2.6%.
“Last year was the first in which the growth in revenues from the legal digital market ...
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OTMG to Work with Stax Records on New Compilation
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On Target Media Group
On Target Media is pleased to announce that we will be handling the digital marketing for the upcoming Stax 50th Anniversary compilation record, Stax Number Ones. The new record is a compilation of 15 chart-topping hits by Stax' best-known artists and is scheduled for release March 30th via Stax/Concord Records.
Included are #1 hits by Booker T. & the MGs, Sam & Dave, Eddie Floyd, Otis Redding, Johnnie Taylor, Rufus Thomas, Isaac Hayes, The Staple Singers, The Dramatics and more. ...
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