Music Industry News

Catching up with Jean Kittrell

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
January 24, 2009

Decatur Herald-Review columnist Bob Fallstrom has a piece this week in which he catches up with traditional jazz pianist and singer Jean Kittrell, who retired from music last summer after being diagnosed with colon cancer.The good news is that Ms. Kittrell, a longtime St. Louis favorite who was also a regular at the Central Illinois Jazz Festival in Decatur and many other jazz fests around the country, is recuperating after surgery for her illness and seems in good ...

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PCAMI* Welcomes Gaea Schell

Source: Paul Collins Artist Management International
January 23, 2009

PCAMI* is pleased to announce the addition of Gaea Schell to our prolific musical family. Gaea is from Alberta, Canada and began playing piano at the age of five. Initially interested in the classical harp, Gaeas interests turned to jazz piano after being inspired by such legends as Charlie Parker, Bill Evans and Oscar Peterson among others. After graduating from the jazz program at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, Gaea moved to Los Angeles and quickly became absorbed in the ...

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Artie Shaw: Hop, Skip and Jump

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
January 23, 2009

Speaking of Alec Wilder (yesterday's post), the composer may have had an inadvertent influence on Artie Shaw's decision to start his Gramercy Five combo in 1940. Forming small jazz groups within big bands was nothing new. Benny Goodman, Bob Crosby and Tommy Dorsey had created them in the 1930s. What was different about Shaw's first sextet was the use of the harpsichord instead of the piano. A year earlier, Wilder had recorded with a harpsichord in his pseudo-jazz octet, and ...

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Rogue Brewery Produces Limited Edition Jazz Guy Ale Bottles

Source: All About Jazz
January 22, 2009

Rogue Nation is Jazzed up! PORTLAND, OR – World class jazz calls for world class beer. So for the fourth year, Rogue Ales has produced a limited edition Jazz Guy Ale bottle for the Portland Jazz Festival. The Portland Jazz Festival has been named one of the top five jazz festivals by Jazz journalist Magazine and Jazz Guy ale is a six-time World Champion amber ale. The festival will bring top national and international acts to venues throughout Portland during ...

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Tipitina's 31st Anniversary | NOLA

Source: JamBase
January 22, 2009

Words & Images by: Jeffrey Dupuis

Tipitina's 31st Anniversary Midnite Disturbers, 504 Brass Band, Johnny Sketch, Good Enough for Good Times Ivan Neville & Friends, Billy Iuso and Restless Natives, Groovesect, PBS 01.14 - 01.17 :: New Orleans, LA

Fess Founded in 1977 as a neighborhood juke joint, Tipitina's recently celebrated its 31st anniversary. Founded by fourteen young music fans (The Fabulous Fo'teen) as a place for Professor Longhair to play in his later ...

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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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