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Quincy Jones Note to Obama: How About a Secretary of the Arts?
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Michael Ricci
Last November, music producer and songwriter Quincy Jones mentioned to John Schaefer during an interview on the New York radio program Soundcheck that he thought President-elect Barack Obama should create a Cabinet-level position of secretary of the Arts.
One of the next conversations I have with President Obama is to beg for a secretary of the Arts. Quincy Jones
Jaime Austria heard about Jones' comments and thought that was a great idea. So Austria launched an online petition. ...
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A Hard Dose of Economic Reality
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All About Jazz
Out there in the tough real world, the CD distributors, essential businesses in the ecology of the music industry, are going to the wall.
First Pinnacle, the physical distributor of record labels went into administration before Christmas. Leaving some jazz musicians in the unenviable position of being offered their stock/back catalogue back -but at a price.
Now comes the fall-out from Pinnacle: New Note into administration last Friday. Leaving debts to smaller labels unpaid. New Note were never a flashy ...
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Emi Music Taps Boosey & Hawkes to Rep Legendary Blue Note Label for Synch Exploitation
Source:
All About Jazz
EMI Music has tapped Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishing to represent legendary jazz imprint Blue Note Records for synchronization of its master recordings on a global basis. EMI appointed Boosey & Hawkes for its expertise in jazz repertoire as Blue Note celebrates its 70th anniversary this year. Founded in 1939, Blue Note has become one of the definitive jazz labels boasting an extraordinary catalogue of classic recordings and works by many of the true giants of the genre including such ...
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New FCC Chair Has Strong Venture and Digital Ties
Source:
HypeBot
UPDATE: The appointment is now official. Reaction to the appointment from the indie label community via A2IM President Rich Bengloff after the jump below/
Julius Genachowski has been named the new Chairman of The Federal Communications Commission. As with most things Obama, this is not you're father's FCC chair. From his bio:
Cofounder and managing director of venture capital firm Rock Creek. Founding partner of LaunchBox Digital Chairman and cofounder of Thummit From 1997-2005, senior ...Continue Reading
Hecho a Mano En Cuba Announces Start of New U.S. Label
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Calabro Music
Los Angeles, CA -- Hecho A Mano En Cuba (Handmade In Cuba) is the first United States record label devoted solely to the legendary music of the country of Cuba. The majority of Cuban artists have not been properly introduced to a United States audience over the last five decades because of the strained relationships between the respective governments. Cuban artists have always been at the forefront of Spanish language music. Hecho A Mano En Cuba will function as a ...
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Times Square Virgin Megastore to Close
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Billboard Magazine
The Times Square Virgin Megastore, which is the highest volume music store in the U.S., will shut down come April. The store has been at the center of speculation since August 2007 when the Virgin Entertainment Group North America was acquired by two real estate companies — the Related Cos. and Vornado — in a joint venture. Last June, a Vornado executive told Reuters that the store would shut down in the first quarter of 2009. The decision to close ...
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Report: Obama Picks Genachowski to Head FCC
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PC Magazine
President-elect Barack Obama has reportedly selected former FCC staffer and IAC/InterActiveCorp executive Julius Genachowski to be the next chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. Genachowski is already serving on Obama's transition team and most recently worked as a venture capitalist in Washington. Genachowski 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. “Under Julius Genachowski's leadership, the FCC's compass would point toward the public ...
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Alfred Cobbs Said It
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
"See, what happened in that era, when we go to record, we go down to the studio. The man say, 'Okay, Jimmie [Lunceford, pictured], what you got?' 'Okay, I got this number, I got that number.' 'Good, let's record it.' Now those were numbers that we had played on the road, and numbers that we had gotten any good response to. New numbers, you know what I mean. So there we knew just what the public liked, what they wanted, ...
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