Music Industry News

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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Background for Bigfoot: Marc Hoffman Creates Music Bed for Unusual Website

Source: blueplate pr
March 11, 2010

CHARLOTTE, NC - North Carolina composer and musician Marc Hoffman has arranged and orchestrated the music bed for an unusual website devoted to Sasquatch - or Bigfoot - explorations and research. The music bed is for the home page of Bushloper.net, the website of Bigfoot researcher Michael Greene. Greene, who holds a Master's degree in Behavioral Psychology and is a court-qualified Questioned Documents Examiner, has spent the past 20 years on Bigfoot-oriented explorations from Bella Coola, British Columbia to the ...

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Annie Leibovitz Salvages Her Portfolio

Source: Michael Ricci
March 11, 2010

If you have any ideas for how famous pictures of famous people might be exploited to earn a bundle, give a holler to Santa Monica real estate investment giant Colony Capital LLC, which now has some $24-million worth of reasons to convert Annie Leibovitz's body of photographic work into cash.

The story behind this development, which, apart from the borrower's identity is more in the realm of high finance than arts news, has to do with a deeply indebted Leibovitz ...

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Sixth Annual Seattle-Kobe Female Jazz Vocalist Audition

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
March 10, 2010

The Pacific Jazz Institute at Dimitrious Jazz Alley presents for one night only the Sixth Annual Sister City Female Jazz Vocalist Audition. Doors open at 5:30pm, auditions start at 6:30pm and the evening will end around 9:30pm.

The 6th Annual Sister City Female Vocalist Jazz Audition at Jazz Alley is right around the corner so mark your calendars! The Seattle Kobe Sister City Association (SKSCA) is pleased to announce its sixth Seattle-Kobe Female Jazz Vocalist Audition. SKSCA will select one ...

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