Music Industry News

Derek Trucks Remix Contest

Source: JamBase
February 22, 2009

YOUR CHANCE TO JAM WITH THE BAND

Derek Trucks by Tracy McKay Ever wanted to jam with Derek Trucks? Well, pickers, singers and players, of any skill level, now have a chance. The Derek Trucks Band have teamed up with IndabaMusic to create the “'Get What You Deserve' Remix Contest," which invites fans to collaborate with Derek and the band on the tune “Get What You Deserve," from the band's latest release, Already Free.

To participate, just head to the ...

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Clark's Last Leap: Sonny Clark, 1961-62

Source: Night Lights Classic Jazz
February 22, 2009

Sonny Clark was a hardbop piano master who appeared on a slew of classic late-1950s and early-1960s jazz recordings. Though Clark has garnered a cult following over the years, especially on the heels of saxophonist John Zorn's late-1980s tribute to him, his name is not often found in histories of jazz piano. Music critic Robert Palmer wrote of “the particular special aura that hovers around Mr. Clark's music, an aura that musicians recognize but that critics have found difficult to ...

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Home Life with Mikes: A Jazz History

Source: Michael Ricci
February 21, 2009

THE cardboard boxes are everywhere, stacked almost to the ceiling, in the Manhattan loft where W. Eugene Smith, the renowned American photojournalist, once shared living space with Hall Overton, an obscure composer and pianist.

Inside the boxes are wigs, maybe thousands, the inventory of a Chinese business that now holds the lease. Nothing about this nondescript building in the flower district betrays its decade-long history as a bustling clubhouse for the jazz scene, beginning in the mid- 1950s.

So it ...

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Jazz Label in Full Swing in Portugal's Fado-Land

Source: All About Jazz
February 20, 2009

Portugal's capital is normally associated with the melancholic fado music, but a new Portuguese jazz label is making a name for itself around the world with an adventurous approach to producing modern jazz.

Lisbon's Clean Feed Records has been winning awards and gathering praise from critics in the jazz world for its vibrant exploration of modern jazz.

Founded in 2001, it has released 140 titles from jazz musicians across the planet, one- third of them from the United States, which ...

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DHR Music Names Bill Neale Director of Client and Artist Relations

Source: All About Jazz
February 20, 2009

DHR Music, a premier dealer for Benedetto, Breedlove and Hamer Guitars and Henriksen JazzAmps, welcomes guitarist Bill Neale as Director of Client and Artist Relations. “Bill is an accomplished musician and businessman who brings many years of expertise as an award-winning guitarist as well as more than 20 years of sales management.He will be a great asset to the company," said Dale Rabiner, DHR's President. Bill Neale took to the guitar very early on and by the age of 18 ...

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Have Your Promotional Toolkit Ready

Source: HypeBot
February 20, 2009

It's important to take charge of your own promotion and not assume that anyone else is doing it for you. But doing so requires making sure that you have all the important tools readily available. Post them somewhere that they can be found easily on your web site (for those writers on a 2AM deadline) and store an emailable copy on the computer of everyone on your team. Be sure to include:

Nat King Cole Remixed

Source: JamBase
February 20, 2009

RE:GENERATIONS FEATURES REVAMPS FROM TV ON THE RADIO, BEBEL GILBERTO, STEPHEN MARLEY, THE ROOTS

During the past several months, Nat King Cole has virtually been in the studio and on the mic with some of today's hip-hop, Latin, reggae and rock artists and producers. On March 10, 2009 a new recording entitled RE:GENERATIONS arrives with modern reinterpretations of Cole's work. RE:GENERATIONS aims to construct a tuneful bridge between generations, cultures and races.

Executive Produced by Michaelangelo L'Acqua and ...

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Daptone Records Robbed

Source: JamBase
February 20, 2009

MASSIVE THEFT HURTS GREAT INDEPENDENT LABEL

The Budos Band On Monday, February 16, Daptone Records' studio in Brooklyn, NY was broken into and robbed. Unfortunately, lots of valuable equipment was stolen and damaged. Daptone Records is asking for everyone's help in keeping an eye out for the stolen stuff showing up on ebay/craigslist/local music shops, and secondly (and more realistically) keeping an eye out for good deals on headphones, mics, pre-amps, etc.

Daptone is the home of Sharon Jones and ...

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