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EMI Says Abbey Road Studios NOT for Sale
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Michael Ricci
After nearly a week of public outcry over reports that Abbey Road Studios in London was up for sale, its owner, the financially troubled British record label EMI, has finally spoken. In a statement issued Sunday, EMI denied that the studio was being put on the market but confirmed that it was seeking financial help to save it. In the statement, which raises nearly as many questions as it answers, EMI said it had received an offer for Abbey Road ...
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Crate Digging: The Jazz Record Store as Endangered Species
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The Independent Ear by Willard Jenkins
The demise of four-wall record stores has been painful to many of certain generations, myself included. Leafing through the stacks or crate digging as its popularly referred to these days is the way many of us educated ourselves about various forms of music. There are indeed survivors of this demise, stalwart record dealers who I suspect will continue to serve those of us still fond of the tactile sensation of holding a physical recording and searching for verbal clues that ...
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Other Places: Studios and Sound
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
In their list of priorities, most serious listeners put music's content before the quality of its sound. In one of our listening sessions at my house, I apologized to Paul Desmond for the scratchy surface of the old vinyl LP I was playing for him. “I don't care if it's recorded on cellophane strips," he said, “as long as I can hear what everybody's doing." Nonetheless, Desmond's own playback equipment was state of the art. He preferred first-class audio.
The ...
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Mr. Mellencamp Goes to Washington?
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All About Jazz
Singer's not likely to run for Senate seat, but Dems love his appeal
In the wake of Evan Bayh's decision not to seek another term as a senator from Indiana, you could call it a sign of Democrats' dire need that some activists have launched a movement to draft singer John Mellencamp as a replacement candidate. But you could just as easily call it a sign of just how much Mellencamp would be a wild card that conservative commentators immediately ...
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Gordon Lightfoot Lives!
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Michael Ricci
If you could read Gordon Lightfoot's mind right now, what a tale his thoughts would tell.
On Thursday, the Canadian news media (not to mention the general population of the Twitterverse) was abuzz with apparent news that Mr. Lightfoot, 71, the smooth-voiced singer-songwriter of “Sundown" and “Carefree Highway," had died while on tour. But like the man sang in “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," the legend lives on: Reuters reported that Mr. Lightfoot called into Toronto's CP24 news station ...
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Reminders of the Future of Jazz
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
For those naysayers and/or moldy figs who say, perhaps tongue-in-cheek, that jazz is dead, don't buy it. The music isn't even on life support, given the attention and interest it receives from music educators and their serious students at college, high school and lower levels. Jazz at Lincoln Center's Essentially Ellington" competition each May draws perhaps the most fanfare. But it certainly holds no monopoly. Consider last weekend's Charles Mingus High School Competition at ...
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Decade of Meteoric Sales of Mostly Mediocre Music
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HypeBot
The recorded music industry may feel like its in a death spiral, but that didn't stop The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) from releasing a celebratory tally of the decade's highest Gold and Platinum award achievemecelnts.
TOP ARTIST TALLIES Each level of multi-Platinum counts as its own unit and contributes to the tally. Only music released, as well as certifications granted, during 2000 - 2009 are included. Most total certifications (includes cumulative album, digital song, master ringtone, ...Continue Reading
Notes from the Net: Win the Miles Davis 70-CD Box Set; Orchestrion Unleashed; Plus News, Reviews, Interviews, and More
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Here's the latest compilation of assorted news briefs and links related to jazz, improvisation, and creative music in St. Louis, including news of musicians originally from the Gateway City, recent visitors, and coming attractions, plus assorted other items of interest:* We always like to start this feature with any news of St. Louis' most famous jazz musician, Miles Davis (pictured), and we've got several related items this week, starting with one from the blog Hot House offering the ...
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