Music Industry News

Music Museum Expands with Archive, Library

Source: All About Jazz
March 1, 2010

CLEVELAND - There's always been room at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum for the exciting, most popular relics, like Michael Jackson's “Thriller" jacket and John Lennon's Sgt. Pepper uniform. But most of the not-so-flashy mementos were tucked away in storage. Visitors will get a chance to see those hidden artifacts beginning later this year, when the museum opens its library and archives in a recently completed high-tech building it shares with Cuyahoga Community College's creative arts ...

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Other Matters: Language, Ya Know?

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
February 28, 2010

The Rifftides Department Of Language Reform (DOLR) has been neglecting its duties. Its members claim that their failure to stop the misuse of “absolutely" and “no problem" (see this archives post) discouraged them. At a staff meeting on the subject, the DOLRers moaned that they despair of succeeding where Fowler, Strunk, White, Bernstein, Ciardi and other titans of proper English usage have failed. They pointed out that people still say, “ya know" every few seconds; still say and write, “they" ...

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The Mozart Effect: How Music Affects Children's Brains

Source: Michael Ricci
February 28, 2010

Playing along with the Mozart effect. If you want music to sharpen your senses, boost your ability to focus and perhaps even improve your memory, you need to be a participant, not just a listener.

Five months after we are conceived, music begins to capture our attention and wire our brains for a lifetime of aural experience. At the other end of life, musical memories can be imprinted on the brain so indelibly that they can be retrieved, perfectly intact, ...

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Sculptor Cork Marcheschi Creates Art Tatum Memorial

Source: Michael Ricci
February 27, 2010

After winning a competition, public sculptor Cork Marcheschi creates the Art Tatum Celebration Column in Toledo, Ohio, in honor of that city's jazz genius Art Tatum, a beautifully-illuminated 30 foot sculpture of a piano keyboard with a twist. The Art Tatum Celebration Column in Toledo, Ohio, the most expensive piece of public art ever installed in that city, was dedicated on September 11, 2009. The column was conceived, designed and built by Cork Marcheschi, a San Francisco public artist and ...

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Singer Anita Baker Avoids Jail in Royalty Dispute

Source: All About Jazz
February 27, 2010

Grammy-winning singer Anita Baker reaches deal in music royalty dispute, avoids jail

Anita Baker and her attorneys have worked out an agreement that will help determine how much the Grammy-winning singer's ex-husband is owed in music royalties as part of a divorce settlement. Baker was ordered to a Detroit court Friday after the 52-year-old R&B singer missed a deadline Wednesday to sign related documents and declined again to sign them Thursday. The judge threatened to jail Baker if she didn't ...

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67% Say Concert Tickets Are Too Expensive

Source: All About Jazz
February 27, 2010

As artists big and small begin to announce their spring and summer concert schedules, a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 67% of adults who attend at least one professional music concert a year say tickets in general are too expensive.

Just 14% disagree, and another 20% are not sure. Seventy-five percent (75%) of Americans who go to the movies at least once a month think that movie tickets are too expensive, too. But when adults nationwide are ...

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Former Teen Cheerleader Dinged $27,750 for Infringing 37 Songs

Source: All About Jazz
February 27, 2010

Harper must pay the RIAA $27,750 for file sharing that began when she was 14. A federal appeals court is ordering a university student to pay the Recording Industry Association of America $27,750 $750 a track for file sharing 37 songs when she was a high school cheerleader. The decision Thursday by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reverses a Texas federal judge who had ordered defendant Whitney Harper to pay $7,400 or $200 per song. The lower court ...

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Street on Cape Cod Renamed for Patti Page

Source: All About Jazz
February 26, 2010

Patti Page Way named on 'Old Cape Cod'

Thanks to the lyrics of her 1950s hit song, Patti Page knew about Cape Cods winding roads before she even visited the area. In a ceremony today, one of those roads was named after her. Naturally, I was honored, said Page, 82, by phone. I was really thrilled that they were going to do this for me here. Page recorded Old Cape Cod in 1957. Although she had not yet been to ...

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