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Future of Music Coalition Wants to Rewrite Rules of the Music Industry
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HypeBot
Artist lobbying group, The Future Of Music Coalition, has issued a “Principles for Artist Compensation in New Business Models". The goals is the adoption of “legitimate digital business models and legitimate digital music marketplaces" which FOMC believes are “critical to musicians' ability to promote, distribute and earn compensation for their music". Highlights include:
Licensing, Collection and Distribution of Revenues
Revenue sharing: Revenues must be equitably shared between copyright owner and original creator(s). Unattributable income: Unattributable income, such as advertising revenue, ...Continue Reading
The Big Band Thing: New Perspectives
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Comments are still arriving about Bill Kirchner's list of recommended big band recordings since 1955. You will find the original item here and followups here. Not all of the comments are coming to Rifftides. As discussions will in the internet age, this one gravitated to other sites.
Here is a little of what the unfailingly provocative young composer and bandleader Darcy James Argue wrote on his Secrety Society web site.
The thing is, there's an awful lot of bigband music ...Continue Reading
Harry Meets Frank: Sweet Lorraine
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
While it's common knowledge that Frank Sinatra idolized Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong and other jazz artists, he sadly recorded with too few of them in the 1940s. Much of this neglect was due to the image Columbia fashioned for him, his marathon schedule, and corporate fears and racism. Like film-industry movie stars of the period, top singers like Sinatra were told what to do and when to do it by the record labels that employed them. They had little choice. ...
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Saxophonist Osby teams up with jazz legend Willie Akins
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Alto saxophonist Greg Osby is among the foremost jazz artists of his generation. His albums for the esteemed Blue Note label, including “Art Forum" (1996), “Banned in New York" (1998) and “Channel Three" (2005), set a standard for improvisational risk-taking. Osby's popularity is international, and his eye for talent is admirable: Acclaimed pianist Jason Moran first got noticed as a member of his band. But Osby, a St. Louis native, remains in awe of his role model: tenor saxophonist and ...
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Actors and Studios Said to be Close to New Contract
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Michael Ricci
After weeks of back-channel talks, Hollywood's biggest actor union and the major studios appear to have broken their logjam and could be close to reaching an agreement on a new three-year contract, according to people close to the situation.
The agreement would come as a breakthrough for the Screen Actors Guild, whose members have been working without a contract for nine months as various attempts at negotiations with the studios collapsed amid acrimony and frustration. Talks picked up again after ...
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Wynton Marsalis Remembering the Duke
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Michael Ricci
In Duke Ellington's world, people are smiling, they are dancing and they are making love. They're having a good time because his music's most basic concern is uplift of the human spirit.
It's a music that celebrates freedom of expression, freedom of choice. That's why we love it. It wants us to love being ourselves and to revel in the majesty of life.
The arrival in April 29, 1999 marked the centennial of the birth of Edward Kennedy (Duke) Ellington, ...
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Strike Seen as Likely at New York City Opera
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Michael Ricci
Efforts by the New York City Opera to get back on its feet hit a road bump road Friday when a union leader cited what he called the likelihood of a strike by singers, chorus members and production staff members.
The official, Alan Gordon, said he had sent a letter to singers agents accusing City Opera management of trying to void the contract unilaterally to extract concessions. When announcing the companys 2009-10 season, its general manager and artistic director, George ...
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Why Legalizing Marijuana Makes Sense
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All About Jazz
For the past several years, I've been harboring a fantasy, a last political crusade for the baby-boom generation. We, who started on the path of righteousness, marching for civil rights and against the war in Vietnam, need to find an appropriately high-minded approach to life's exit ramp.
In this case, I mean the high-minded part literally. And so, a deal: give us drugs, after a certain age say, 80 all drugs, any drugs we want. In return, we will give ...
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