Music Industry News

Pianist Danilo Perez Signs with Mack Avenue Records

Source: DL Media
September 12, 2009

Pianist Danilo Perez Signs with Mack Avenue RecordsReturns to Perform at the 2009 Detroit International Jazz FestivalMack Avenue Records is proud to announce the signing of Grammy winning pianist Danilo Perez. The signing was made official at the 2009 Detroit International Jazz Festival, where Perez returned to active performing with the Wayne Shorter Quartet after a three month layoff due to a torn achilles injury.An extraordinary Panamanian artist, composer and educator, Prez ...

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Gibson's New Zoot Suit Guitar: It's a "Zoot Suit Riot"

Source: Michael Ricci
September 12, 2009

Gibson Guitar, the world's premier musical instrument maker and leader in music technology, and Steve Perry of the veteran Ska band Cherry Poppin' Daddies are making a Zoot Suit music riot. Universally recognized for the hit single “Zoot Suit Riot," Steve Perry of the Cherry Poppin' Daddies is now jiving away on his own Gibson SG Zoot Suit guitar. As one of the newest releases from world renown Gibson USA, the SG Zoot Suit guitar has made quite a colorful ...

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Jazz Doesn't Need to be Saved -- It's Doing Fine

Source: All About Jazz @ Spinner
September 11, 2009

Cultural critic Terry Teachout recently wrote an article in the Wall Street Journal titled 'Can Jazz Be Saved?' It caused a stir among jazz musicians, critics, cognoscenti and fans. There's even Twitter campaign to prove Teachout wrong (use #jazzlives if you want to Tweet live). The thrust of the early part of the piece quotes jazz audience statistics collected by the National Endowment of the Arts and the U.S. Census Bureau about the median age of the jazz audience getting ...

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International Songwriting Competition Deadline Approaching Soon

Source: All About Jazz
September 11, 2009

Music Celebs To Judge 2009 International Songwriting Competition (ISC) Enter Your Songs Now! September 10, 2009 - McCoy Tyner, John Scofield, Mitchell Cohn (VP of A&R, Verve Music Group), Seymour Stein (Chairman/CEO, Sire Records); Amanda Ghost (President, Epic Records); and Monte Lipman (President/CEO, Universal Republic Records) are among the 56 music icons to select 2009 ISC winners. Drawing from the top echelon of recording artists and music industry executives, the International Songwriting Competition (ISC) has assembled its most impressive group ...

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George Wein Seeks Title Sponsor for Newport Folk Festival

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations
September 11, 2009

GEORGE WEIN ANNOUNCES SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES FOR 51st ANNUAL NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL NEW YORK, NY, September 9, 2009 - The world-renowned Newport Folk Festival in Newport, RI, which was founded in 1959 by George Wein and folk icon Pete Seeger, is available for sponsorship. The festival celebrated its 50th anniversary August 1 - 2, 2009, with more than 17,000 music fans in attendance. Scheduled for July 30 - August 1, 2010, the Newport Folk Festival will bring immediate international recognition to ...

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Forrester Study Offers Plan to Save Music Industry

Source: HypeBot
September 10, 2009

A Summary & Commentary - Forrester Research has released an aggressive road map of changes that analyst Mark Mulligan says are “necessary to save the music industry from the current Media Meltdown it finds itself in. The CD is dying, the 99 cent download model clearly isn't enough (nor is live), and ad supported and subsidized models all have much distance to go".

“a continual artist-fan relationship"

The challenge is to make people willing to pay for music again and ...

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Notes from the Net: A Miles Davis Mega-Set; Jimmy Forrest Remembered; Plus News, Reviews, Interviews, and More

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
September 10, 2009

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.What with the time demands of the recent site re-design, keeping up with breaking news, and doing some actual paying work in there somewhere, it's been nearly three weeks since our last installment of NftN, and in that time ...

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Jay Leno: When You're Innocent, Because of All the Secrecy, No One Shakes Your Hand and Says, 'Welcome Back into the Fold,

Source: All About Jazz
September 10, 2009

The Writers Guild Cleared Jay Leno, but Now Must Indict Itself

Few issues during the November 2007/February 2008 writers strike stirred as much anger and emotion as whether Writers Guild, West, member Jay Leno violated the unions strike rules during his return to hosting The Tonight Show. The WGAws investigation into Leno was conducted with utmost secrecy. Last month, Hollywood found out Leno had not been charged but only because his name did not appear on the press release of ...

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