Music Industry News

David Jassy gets 15 to Life for Beating and Driving over Hollywood Jazz Pianist

Source: Michael Ricci
March 5, 2010

The sentencing of John Osnes' killer Thursday was as muted as the victim's death was shocking.

There were no angry words for the man who kicked the Hollywood jazz pianist to death in a brutal act of road rage and no emotion beyond a few choked words and a hand smearing away a tear. “I don't feel compelled to say things that make you suffer more," Osnes' sister Mary Beth Anderson wrote in a letter read in court. “I expect ...

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Euclid Records to Open Store in New Orleans

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
March 4, 2010

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Marc Hoffman Selects Blueplate PR for Public Relations Support

Source: blueplate pr
March 4, 2010

March 4, 2010 (RALEIGH, NC) -- Marc Hoffman, an acclaimed composer, pianist, vocalist, recording artist, music educator and book author has selected Blueplate PR in Raleigh as his public relations agency of record. Hoffman established himself as a composer of concert, film, theatre, pop, and gospel music early in his career. In the early 1990s he began pursuing his passion for jazz. As a pianist and vocalist, he performs his own repertoire of original jazz as well as his own ...

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Music Coalition Pitches Royalties Support Performance Rights Act on Capitol Hill

Source: All About Jazz
March 4, 2010

The music industry and broadcasters amped up their rhetoric in the contentious battle over a proposed performance royalty, pitching lawmakers on Capitol Hill on Tuesday as well as anyone else willing to listen.

At a press conference, the MusicFirst Coalition, which includes artists and record labels, announced the launch of its 2010 campaign for passage of the Performance Rights Act, which would require that broadcast radio stations pay royalties to performers when their music is played over the air. The ...

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Swedish Rapper Gets 15-to-Life for LA Killing

Source: All About Jazz
March 4, 2010

A Swedish hip-hop artist who ran down and killed a man at a Hollywood crosswalk has been sentenced to 15 years to life in prison.

David Moses Jassy, who also uses the name Dave Monopoly, was sentenced Thursday for second-degree murder and other crimes.

Prosecutors say the 35-year-old rapper killed John Osnes in November 2008 after the pedestrian activist banged on the hood of his rented SUV when it stopped in a crosswalk. Authorities say the rapper punched the 55-year-old ...

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Universal Revenues Slide 6.2%, Digital up 8.4%

Source: HypeBot
March 3, 2010

Universal Music Group's (UMG) revenues were 4,363 million in 2009 a 6.2% decrease compared to 2008. Digital sales grew 8.4% tempered by softening demand for mobile products in the United States and Japan. Music publishing revenues increased 1.7% and UMG newly acquired merchandising division grew 24.6%

The year end report touted UMG's support of “Spotify's premium service accessible on the iPhone and MusicStation's launch on the Android platform". but failed to mention Spotify's free ad supported online service or when ...

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RightsFlow Partners with the Royalty Network

Source: HypeBot
March 3, 2010

The Royalty Network, an independent music publisher and administrator and RightsFlow, a provider of bulk mechanical licensing and royalty services, announced a new partnership granting RightsFlow a blanket license for The Royalty Network's entire catalog.

This blanket access will allow RightsFlow to more accurately identify, account, and remit royalties on behalf of their over 9,500 label, distributor, music service and artist clients. The agreement marks a growing trend of independent music publishers engaging in new procedures to reduce administrative workload ...

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Los Andes Big Band Survives Chile Earthquake

Source: Lubricity
March 3, 2010

I just heard back from a close friend in Chile and thought this would be a good place to pass along word of the Chilean jazz community in the wake of the mega-earthquake that hit the country over the weekend.  Santiago Cerda Contreras (pictured) is a jazz composer, arranger and director of Los Andes Big Band, Chiles preeminent jazz ensemble.

I just caught up with Santiago via gchat apparently power has just been restored to his village of Penaflor in ...

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