Music Industry News

EMI Names Global and Regional Marketing Team

Source: HypeBot
January 22, 2009

A newly named EMI Music marketing team will include two global priorities teams focusing on major international releases, as well as, key projects from regional and developing artists. The teams will be based in London and New York. A third team will work on major releases from EMI's Catalog division.

The global teams will be complemented by three regional marketing units who will work across global and local releases from both EMI's New Music and Catalog divisions. All ...

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Umphrey's McGee: Power to the People

Source: JamBase
January 21, 2009

By: Court Scott

Umphrey's McGee by Kevin Browning The current state of the music industry is leaving many artists seeking new ways to get their music into your hands. TV show and commercial licensing or signing 360-degree deals, wherein artists exchange part of their touring revenue and merchandise sales for exclusive deals with the world's biggest concert promoters, is becoming commonplace. At the same time iTunes has stopped selling music with digital rights protection and ...

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Solving the Metronome Riddle

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
January 21, 2009

"Ernie Caceres?" That's what I asked myself last Thursday after finishing my post on the historic Metronome All-Stars recording session of January 3, 1949. The date produced two singles, Overtime and Victory Ball, and featured an amazing cast of jazz giants. Except, that is, for Caceres [pictured], who was the baritone saxophonist. A solid player with many of the best big bands and artists of the swing era, Caceres was hardly in the same league as baritone monsters Harry Carney, ...

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Guest Column: 1959, a Good Year

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
January 20, 2009

Rifftides reader Gary Alexander has some thoughts about what he sees as a watershed year for jazz back when popular culture had not yet been reshaped by rock and roll. Mr. Alexander broadcasts a jazz program Mondays and Fridays 3:00 to 5:30 p.m. PST, from KLOI on Lopez Island, Washington. If you are among the 2,200 (+ -) people who live on that enchanting island in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, you may know that KLOI is at 102.9 ...

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David S. Ware Needs a Kidney Donor

Source: All About Jazz
January 19, 2009

Dear friends,

This is an urgent notice on David S. Ware's health. David needs to find a kidney donor.

David S. Ware was diagnosed with kidney failure in 1999 and he began dialysis that fall. He had an intensive three week hemodialysis regime toward beginning peritoneal (self-administered) dialysis, which would allow him to travel. David has been on this self-administered dialysis regime multiple times every day and night since October 1999. While certainly difficult, he has been able to ...

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Vijay Iyer: Intellect Meets Creativity

Source: RVAjazz
January 18, 2009

By Dean ChristesenPianist Vijay Iyer's latest release, Tragicomic, has seen the tops of numerous Best of 2008 lists. The album features his trio (with Stephan Crump on bass and Marcus Gilmore on drums) and quartet (add Rudresh Mahanthappa on alto saxophone) and is a spectacle of brilliant compositions paired with masterful playing on both individual and collective levels.Since 1995, Iyer has recorded numerous albums for various groups including his duo with Mahanthappa, his trio Fieldwork, and ...

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Blues and Lasers

Source: JamBase
January 18, 2009

Blues and Lasers

Blues and Lasers Blues and Lasers is a band formed in late 2007 from Burlington, VT. Their sound focuses on the tradition and roots of delta blues and rock & roll music contrasted with an experimental edge (i.e. the lasers). Blues and Lasers is comprised of Scott Tournet (vocals, lead guitar, harmonica) Matt Burr (drums), and Bryan Dondero (bass, Moog, Theramin) of Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Benny Yurco (vocals, lead guitar) of the Turkey Bouillon Mafia, ...

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Giorgio Dini New Ruby Flower Records Artist Director

Source: All About Jazz
January 17, 2009

Ruby Flower Records is pleased to welcome Giorgio Dini as its new Consultant and Artistic Director. Dini brings to Ruby Flower Records a broad range of experience in the independent music industry as well as a history of successful partnerships with some of the world's leading jazz musicians. Dini's widely considered a talented and respected bass instrumentalist in contemporary music today, varied career in jazz music has included performances with internationally known artists in the likes of Percy Heath, Charlie ...

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