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Jimmy Herring: Don't Say No

Source: JamBase
April 22, 2009

By: Dennis Cook

Jimmy Herring Superheroes don't always look super in their day-to-day lives. Case in point, Jimmy Herring, a quiet, perfectly gracious Southern man, who'll shake your hand and let you yack his ear off longer than he probably should. In short, the definition of mild mannered, but put an electric guitar in his hands and he is transformed into an octopus-fingered, quicksilver smooth marvel, notes gleaming as ...

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Record Store Day Traffic, Sales Up

Source: Billboard Magazine
April 21, 2009

Thanks to the 82 exclusive releases and limited availability, customers lined up at record stores all around the country on Saturday morning and helped kickoff Record Store Day 2009 with a bang. Reports suggest traffic pick-ups and sales volume this year will be more than last year's inaugural event. “It was my best day by far," says Eric Levin, owner of Criminal Records in Atlanta and the head of the Assn. of Independent Media Stores coalition. “We had 600 people ...

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"I Kissed Frank Sinatra"

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
April 19, 2009

Want to host your own radio show? Nancy Barell does. She's an online disc jockey. Heard exclusively on the web, Nancy's 7-hour jazz and pop show, Spotlight on Sinatra, repeats 24 hours a day. She uses Live365.com, one of a growing number of sites that lets your inner deejay run wild. Though Nancy has been hosting her show since 2005 as a lark, her love of radio, pop and jazz began in earnest in 1976, when she met Frank Sinatra. ...

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Carol Kaye First Call L.A. Studio Bassist

Source: All About Jazz
April 19, 2009

Carol Kaye worked extensively with Phil Spector, Brian Wilson, Lee Hazlewood, and other top producers in the 1960s, although she was a straight jazz player when she started guesting on rock dates in the late 1950s.

She received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Pittsburg Jazz Society, “Outstanding Dedication to Bass Performance & Pedagogy" and Lifetime Achievement Award from Bass Player Magazine in 2008. Kaye received the Esteemed Hollywood Composers-Arrangers Award, as well as the Touchstone Pioneer Women in Music ...

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Seattle Times: Ballard Hasn't Gotten Too Big for Jazz Fest

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
April 19, 2009

Changes were coming to Ballard, Bishop and Jorgensen among them. Condominiums, gourmet dog biscuits, indoor-plant boutiques, panko breadcrumbs and all the trappings of yuppie-hood were making their way to old Ballard, the changes literally visible from Bishop’s and Jorgensen’s apartment windows. The density of bars and restaurants, the foot traffic and the changing demographics of their neighborhood made it easy to decide to start the Ballard Jazz Festival in 2003. Now in its sixth season, the five-day festival has grown, ...

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JFJO: Beethoven, Icons, More

Source: JamBase
April 19, 2009

A BUSY 2009 CONTINUES FOR FREEDOM JAZZ SUPERHEROES

JFJO :: 02.12.09 :: Oakland, CA :: By Josh Miller In an effort to out-prolific their already well established business, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey continues to stomp forward in the new year. This week, the quartet went into Josh Roseman' s 58N6 Media Labs in Brooklyn to record Beethoven's 3rd and 6th symphonies, as well as a new EP featuring some of the material the newly minted four-piece have been doing on ...

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Top 7 Music Licensing Sites

Source: HypeBot
April 19, 2009

Here in no particular order is a list of seven companies that help artists place their music in film, television, commercials, games, etc.

Rumblefish - Licensing for television, film, advertisements, websites, videos, games, podcasts, and sonic branding - e.g. your music inside your local Gap. Gamecues - Licensing for the gaming industry. YouLicense - Music licensing marketplace - essentially, their system enables artists and those seeking music to conduct business directly with each other. Pump Audio - ...

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Wilco Add More Dates

Source: JamBase
April 19, 2009

WILCO ANNOUNCE NORTH AMERICAN SUMMER TOURING SCHEDULE PLUS KNOXVILLE IN-STORE APPEARANCE, NEW CONCERT DVD, FREE DOWNLOAD AND MORE

Wilco Wilco have unveiled new concert dates as part of their upcoming North American summer tour. The newest dates include performances at The Joint in Las Vegas, Red Rocks Amphitheater in Morrison, CO, Wolf Trap in Vienna, VA, Maine State Pier in Portland, ME and Art Park in Lewiston, NY. Additionally they will play concerts at four East Coast ballparks: ...

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