Music Industry News

Susan Tedeschi:Back to the River

Source: JamBase
March 5, 2009

By: Bill Clifford

Back To The River (Verve Forecast) marks a creative high point in Susan Tedeschi's career. It's the first CD of new music she's released since 2002, and Tedeschi wrote or co-wrote all but one of the eleven songs, the most songs she's had a hand in writing on any of her releases.

The driving rocker “Talking About" opens the disc, with aggressive electric guitar turned in by guest Doyle Bramhall II, matched in intensity by Tedeschi's growling ...

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Obama Picks Genachowski as FCC Chairman

Source: PC Magazine
March 5, 2009

President Obama officially nominated Julius Genachowski as the next chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Tuesday. Genachowski is already serving on Obama's transition team and most recently worked as a venture capitalist in Washington. He was chief counsel at the FCC under Reed Hundt, who was FCC chairman from 1993 to 1997, and held executive positions at Internet firm IAC/InteractiveCorp. Reports that Genachowski would succeed Kevin Martin as FCC chair have been making the rounds since early January. After ...

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St. Louis Jazz Cafe to Open Saturday, March 21 with Erin Bode

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
March 5, 2009

Downtown St. Louis' newest jazz venue, the St. Louis Jazz Cafe, has set the date of its grand opening for Saturday, March 21, with singer Erin Bode as the featured entertainment. The club's opening night bash will include a “Happy Hour" from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., dinner service beginning at 5:00 p.m., and two sets of music from Bode and her band, exact times TBA.The Cafe, which has been the subject of a couple of previous posts ...

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Daily. D.I.Y. - Your Best Salesman

Source: HypeBot
March 3, 2009

Building the right team to support and promote your music is essential. But along the way it's important to to remember that quite often you are your own best salesman.

A good manager, agent or publicist has contacts and skills including salesmanship that will help move your career forward. But no one posses your passion for what you create and understanding of exactly who you are and are not. No one is as invested in you as you are - ...

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Transcript: Jim Griffin of Choruss' Keynote at Digital Music Forum East

Source: HypeBot
March 3, 2009

Jim Griffin is an adviser to WMG and founder of Choruss - a plan to license music at the ISP level on college campuses and beyond. His keynote at last week's Digital Music Forum East is causing buzz across the net. The interest is not just because Griffin finally some Choruss details, but also because of his blunt assessments of the industry and the shifts needed to move forward.

“Music is awash in Tarzan Economics: We cling to the frayed ...

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Notes from the Net: Ian Carr Mourned, Linda Presgrave Reviewed, Eric Person on the Road, Plus News, Reviews and More

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

Here's this week's compilation of news and links related to jazz, improvisation, and creative music in St. Louis, including musicians from the Gateway City, recent visitors, and coming attractions - now with even more boldfacing!* Alas, the only significant Miles Davis-related link this week is to the sad news that the British jazz trumpeter and writer Ian Carr died this past Wednesday at age 75. Long considered one of the top trumpet players on the British scene, Carr ...

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John McLaughlin Signs with Ted Kurland Associates (TKA)

Source: All About Jazz
March 2, 2009

Touring the electric Fourth Dimension group in 2010 March 2, 2009 (Boston, MA) -- Ted Kurland Associates announces the addition of the legendary guitarist John McLaughlin to their roster for representation in North America. John McLaughlin is available for booking in North America through TKA by special arrangement with Christophe Deghelt Productions, management and exclusive International Representative for John McLaughlin. Considered by many critics and fans to be one of the greatest guitar players of all-time, John McLaughlin has famously ...

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If I Ran the NEA...

Source: Michael Ricci
March 1, 2009

The slogan of the National Endowment for the Arts is “a great nation deserves great art.”

Were it only that simple.

When Congress voted on President Obama’s $787-billion stimulus package, fiscal conservatives slammed the NEA’s $50-million allocation. It wasn’t the first time the agency, whose 2008 budget was about $144 million, had been thrust under the microscope.

Since awarding its first grant in 1965, the NEA most famously riled opponents in the early 1990s with its plan to award grants ...

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