Music Industry News

SAG Leaders Agree to AFTRA Talks

Source: All About Jazz
March 13, 2010

Leaders of the Screen Actors Guild have agreed to resume their negotiating partnership with the American Federation of Television & Radio Artists for upcoming bargaining with companies on the feature-primetime contract.

SAG's national board gave approval Saturday morning with 78% in favor during a videoconference meeting. The move came two weeks after AFTRA's national board approved joint negotiations Saturday -- and nearly two years after AFTRA had split from SAG and negotiated its own primetime deal SAG had no immediate ...

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Take Your Royalty Checks SoundExchange Begs

Source: Michael Ricci
March 13, 2010

Grammy-winning R&B singer Sam Moore and his manager and wife, Joyce, say a lot of legacy artists haven t heard of SoundExchange. “They think the money isn't real," Joyce Moore says.

When John Boydston got an e-mail from SoundExchange saying he had several thousand dollars in unclaimed royalties, he did what most sensible people would do. He ignored it. To the rock musician from Atlanta, “money for nothing" meant a song by Dire Straits, not a stranger contacting him out ...

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Club Blujazz-a New Jazz Club for Chicago Opens Friday March 12, 2010

Source: JAZZzology by Richard Watters
March 12, 2010

In the following article from Metromix music & movies producer/writer Matt Pais of Tribune.com comes the review/overview of Chicago's newest jazz club, entitled, “What is Club Blujazz? 10 things to know about Bucktown's new music spot" (as published by Matt Pais Metromix March 5, 2010) This club hopes to turn a younger crowd on to jazz while offering a true listening venue for avid, serious jazz and blues fans. The Grand Opening weekend will feature the Mike Melvoin Trio...

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Correspondence: Broadbent and Monk

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
March 12, 2010

Following the Ornette Coleman birthday posting three items down, Alan Broadbent sent the following:

Monk's quartet came to NZ on his “64 world tour and I and my friend Frank Gibson had good seats at Auckland's beloved Town Hall to see him. After the concert I was elected to drive Larry Gales in my '53 Ford Prefect to the Musician's Union where we held a little ...

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Pink Floyd Wins EMI Court Fight

Source: All About Jazz
March 11, 2010

The financiers at indebted EMI Group are facing yet another blow as a High Court judge in London ponders the level of fine the label should pay after breaking the terms of its contract with veteran act Pink Floyd.

Floyd was Thursday awarded an interim payment of $60,000 (40,000) after successfully suing the record label for allowing its music to be sold on a track by track basis over the Internet, contrary to an agreement signed in 1999. That deal, ...

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Cape Cod Honors Singer Patti Page with Her Own Street

Source: MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
March 11, 2010

Jazz and popular singer Patti Page, whose rendition of the song, Old Cape Cod, was a hit in 1957, now has a street officially named after her on Cape Cod.The Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce and the Town of Barnstable unveiled the Patti Page Way sign at Shoot Flying Hill in Centerville, Cape Cod on February 26, which was also officially declared Patti Page Day on the Cape.Ms. Page attended the ceremony and was ...

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Baaba Maal U.S. Tour

Source: JamBase
March 11, 2010

BAABA MAAL ANNOUNCES FIRST U.S. TOUR IN FOUR YEARS PERFORMANCE AT THIS YEAR'S BONNAROO FESTIVAL CONFIRMED Acclaimed New Album Television Out Now!

Baaba Maal Legendary Senegalese singer and star of the world stage Baaba Maal will head out on a coast to coast U.S. tour this spring, marking his first stateside dates in four years. The master musician will also make his debut on the Bonnaroo stage this June, bringing his signature blend of electronic dance ...

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Jumptown Earns Endorsement Nods from Portland Music Community

Source: DL Media
March 11, 2010

JumpTown Earns Endorsement Nods From Portland Music Community Portland Jazz Festival, Oregon Music Hall of Fame support vision for new districtThe Oregon Music Hall of Fame and the Portland Jazz Festival, guardians of the city's vast musical heritage, have formalized endorsements for JumpTown, the project team announced today.The JumpTown vision for a revitalized entertainment district would rekindle the eastside neighborhood's reputation as the city's premier gathering place of music, culture and community. The venue would advance ...

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