Music Industry News

Amid West Banks Turmoil, the Pull of Strings

Source: Michael Ricci
June 2, 2009

RAMALLAH, West Bank The young man was handy with tools. A carpenters nephew, he liked to fix chairs, windows and door locks. At other times he would stand idly on the street corner.

Ramzi Aburedwan noticed him. Like the Pied Piper, Mr. Aburedwan, a French-trained violist raised in a Palestinian refugee camp, was trying to lead Palestinian children into the world of music: namely, a music center he was establishing in an old quarter of the town.

But he had ...

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Hidden Jazz Dowloads (Vol. 9)

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
June 2, 2009

During one of my recent swings through iTunes and Amazon, I stumbled across five terrific jazz albums you may not know about. Or if you do, you may not be aware that these albums are now available as downloads. As readers of this ongoing feature know, I often come across such gems while hunting for other albums. Or I find the albums after checking to see if they've made it into the download universe. Because iTunes and Amazon do little ...

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Jazz at Holmes Annnounces Summer Schedule

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
June 2, 2009

The Jazz at Holmes series at Washington University has announced its schedule of free concerts for summer 2009.Pianist and former St. Louisan Linda Presgrave and her quintet will kick off the series at 8:00 p.m., Thursday, June 11, with concerts to follow on subsequent Thursdays through July 23 (except July 2). .Other performers for summer 2009 will include pianist Curt Landes, the Legacy Jazz Quintet, trumpeter and singer Dawn Weber (pictured), trombonist Wayne Coniglio and pianist ...

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Mill Valley's Sweetwater May Reopen as Nonprofit Venue

Source: All About Jazz
June 1, 2009

Storefront slated to be the new Sweetwater in Mill Valley. The owners are in talks to turn the club into a nonprofit organization similar to 142 Throckmorton Theatre.

I had the pleasure of speaking to a community group last week about Marin's rock history. Afterward, the first question from the audience was about Sweetwater. What's going on with the long-closed club in Mill Valley? Is one of Marin's rock 'n' roll institutions ever going to reopen?

Good question. The owners ...

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Music Industry Sees Nightclubs as a New Source of Revenue

Source: Michael Ricci
June 1, 2009

PARIS: In Australia, every nightclub-goer is now a lucrative V.I.P. to the music industry, at least.

To pump music out to their dance floors, Australian clubs used to have to pay record companies and artists a nominal 7 Australian cents in royalties per guest, per night. Under a recent copyright settlement, that rate has risen to 50 cents per customer, and it is set to jump to 1.05 dollars, or 84 U.S. cents, in a few years.

We looked at ...

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West Valley Jazz Orchestra Renamed San Jose Jazz Orchestra

Source: All About Jazz
June 1, 2009

San Jose Jazz and West Valley Jazz announced a collaboration to provide enhanced performance and education programs to music fans throughout Silicon Valley. As part of the collaboration, the West Valley Jazz Orchestra will be renamed the 'San Jose Jazz Orchestra' and will continue under the leadership of Artistic Director, Gus Kambeitz. San Jose Jazz will run the group as one of its programs and assume production of West Valley Jazz's existing concert series. The partnership was first announced at ...

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56 Years of Rust: Pell Rescues Prez's Horn

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
June 1, 2009

The following article appeared in the Fall, 2008, issue of the British magazine, Jazz Review. By Doug Ramsey

Lester Young drew on Louis Armstrong, Frank Trumbauer, Bix Beiderbecke and his own genius to create one of the most personal styles in music. In the 1930s he provided an evolutionary step between Armstrong and Charlie Parker. Flying weightlessly over bar lines, Young helped to free the jazz soloist from the arbitrary restrictions of time divisions and showed the way ...

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The Doors Are Closing, but the Jazz Bakery is Still in Play

Source: Michael Ricci
May 31, 2009

The lauded music venue may be closing its doors this weekend, but owner Ruth Price is working on plans to keep the music going.

The Jazz Bakery, a staple of the L.A. music community, will close its doors Sunday after losing its lease, but owner Ruth Price insists it's too early to write a eulogy for the club, which has occupied the same space at the Helms Bakery District for the last 16 years.

“I've been really stressing the word ...

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