Music Industry News

Mingus Awareness Project: A Word from Jon Godston

Source: RVAjazz
October 25, 2008

Mingus Awareness Project co-creator Jon Godston sent the following message after the most recent piece was published:

It was an idea that Dan and I talked about after our Mom passed away in May'06. Both of us live in Chicago, and Dan is pretty active on the jazz scene (his non-profit, Borderbend Arts Collective, organizes a few music festivals here) - his main instrument is the trumpet (I've been playing the soprano sax for a few years). We've ...

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Compatible Quotes: Harry James

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
October 24, 2008

This very thin guy with swept back hair...climbed on the stage. He'd sung only eight bars of “Night and Day" when I felt the hairs on the back of my neck rising.--on first hearing the unknown young singer Frank Sinatra I was the only member in the band to be silly enough to put some of those drunken ideas into practice. Amazing what alcohol does for you eh? The only problem with having a great year is it makes you ...

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Ticketmaster Gets in the Artist Management Game

Source: Michael Ricci
October 23, 2008

The turf war between the world's top ticketing company and the world's top concert promoter just got bloodier.

Ticketmaster Inc. announced today that it had acquired a controlling stake in Front Line Management Group Inc., the artist management company that's home to legacy acts like the Eagles and Journey along with divas and divos like Christina Aguilera and Axl Rose's Guns N' Roses. The deal gives the much-maligned ticket giant a boost in a category in which it previously didn't ...

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Jazz Drummer & Agent Myles Weinstein's Success / Miguel Zenon 2nd MacArthur Award Client

Source: All About Jazz
October 22, 2008

Drummer and percussionist Myles Weinstein has led two very different professional lives, one as a performing artist and the other as a booking agent to many of the best musicians in jazz today. One of those musicians, Miguel Zenon, was the latest to receive the MacArthur Award, often called the “genius” award. Weinstein’s booking agency, Unlimited Myles, Inc., exclusively represents multi-award-winning artists including violinist Regina Carter, his first artist to receive the MacArthur Award; pianists Kenny Barron and Vijay Iyer; ...

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David Sanborn Save the Music Foundation Auction Update

Source: Universal Music Enterprises
October 22, 2008

Maverick saxophonist David Sanborn, who has performed alongside such heavyweights as James Brown, Eric Clapton, Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie, and innumerable others is stepping up in support of young musicians across the country and participating in an exclusive auction to benefit the VH1 Save The Music Foundation, which donates instruments for public school music programs.

Beginning on October 14th and closing on October 24th on eBay.com. The auction boasts two tickets to any one of Sanborn’s upcoming tour ...

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A Ferment of World Jazz Yields a Trove of Tapes

Source: Michael Ricci
October 22, 2008

WOODSTOCK, N.Y. — The Creative Music Studio here remains underdocumented and little understood. But a definitive history of jazz in the 1970s — a book yet to be written — ought to give it central importance. During the dawning years of jazz education the studio, run out of various repurposed settings — a barn, a Lutheran youth camp, a motel — was the unmusic school, roughly analogous to Black Mountain College, the progressive school in North Carolina that brought together ...

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Jazz Society Seeks New Music Venues in Yuma

Source: All About Jazz
October 22, 2008

Nonprofit groups strive to better their community in lots of ways, but one wants to give Yuma the gift of jazz and blues. A local music promoter founded the Yuma Jazz Society in August with the goal of creating more jazz and blues events in Yuma, including an annual festival and smaller events ranging from jams to jazz camps. “The society will be organizing events and promoting jazz to the community," said founder and director Richard Bridgeforth. “We just want ...

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Record Site Taken Down for Violating Own Copyright

Source: PC Magazine
October 22, 2008

A donation-based record label is back online Tuesday after its Web-hosting company took the label's Web site offline for alleged copyright violations. One problem, though. The label – Quote Unquote Records – produces all of its own content, and was perplexed as to how it could have infringed upon itself. “A little over a week ago, I was notified by my web hosting company that I had some files of copyrighted music on my Web site," label founder Jeff Rosenstock ...

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