Music Industry News

Smooth Jazz Artists Get Music Airplay Plus Your Music on Itunes, E - Music, Sony Connect, Napster and Ringtone Sales

Source: All About Jazz
October 3, 2008

Cimplex Music Studios is a Utah based talent agency that currently offers artists access to digital music marketing on the internet as well airplay on our online radio station. Get your music played on The Que 98.2 internet radio station, which airs in high quality digital audio over the web, from 8AM to 12 Midnight, Mountain time, Everyday. Selected artists will get their music played on The Que 98.2 internet Smooth Jazz/New Age radio. Plus selected artists will have their ...

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FTC Approves Napster Sale to Best Buy

Source: PC Magazine
October 2, 2008

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Retailer Best Buy has been given antitrust approval to buy digital music service Napster, the Federal Trade Commission said on Wednesday. Napster and Best Buy, a leading CD seller with a small digital presence, are betting that the deal will give them a better chance against Apple's dominant iTunes, which has more than 70 percent of the market. The FTC announced the deal's approval in a listing that the agency puts out several times a week. Best ...

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Music for Lifetime Achievement Seeks Donations of Musical Instruments

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
October 2, 2008

As they do every October, the not-for-profit organization Music for Lifetime Achievement (MFLA) and the Sheldon Concert Hall are conducting their annual collection drive to gather used and new musical instruments for underprivileged students at St. Louis area schools. Over the past four years, the MFLA instrument drives have collected almost 500 instruments, which have been recycled to kids in St. Louis City and County school districts who otherwise would not have access to an instrument, and to a variety ...

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Jazz Legends Return to Forever Auctioning Autographed Collectibles to Benefit VH1 Save the Music Foundation

Source: All About Jazz
October 1, 2008

Fresh from their impressive US and European summer reunion tour, the influential jazz fusion/rock foursome Return to Forever has teamed up with Paid, Inc. to auction autographed collectors items online to benefit the VH1 Save The Music Foundation. The auction is live now on www.Return2Forever.com and will conclude on October 6 2008. Return to Forever, a legendary jazz group founded by Chick Corea and beloved worldwide for over 25 years, is hosting the auction to support youth music education. Return ...

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Return to Forever and Paid, Inc. Auctioning Autographed Collectibles

Source: All About Jazz
September 30, 2008

Fresh from their impressive U.S. and European summer reunion tour, the influential jazz fusion/rock foursome Return To Forever has teamed up with the experts at Paid, Inc. to auction autographed collectors items online to benefit the VH1 Save The Music Foundation. The auction is live now on Return2Forever.comand will conclude on October 6, 2008. Return to Forever, a legendary jazz group founded by Chick Corea and beloved worldwide for over 25 years, is hosting the auction to support youth music ...

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Blind Boys and Prez Hall Jazz Band | 09.16 | CO

Source: JamBase
September 30, 2008

Words by: Joe Schicke

Blind Boys of Alabama & Preservation Hall Jazz Band 09.16.08 :: Lincoln Center :: Fort Collins, CO

Preservation Hall Jazz Band Some say you can never have too much of a good thing, and if that's true, then the Down by the Riverside Tour featuring the Blind Boys of Alabama and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band of New Orleans is the proof. As I sat in the beautiful ...

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Jack Bradley's Satchmo

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
September 30, 2008

It was nearly dawn after a round -- several rounds -- of music and conviviality during the 1969 New Orleans Jazz Festival. A few of us were sitting on the balcony of Bobby Hackett's hotel room on Bourbon Street swapping stories and thinking it might be about time to call it a night. Hackett's guests, in alphabetical order, were Count Basie, Jack Bradley, Willis Conover, Eddie “Lockjaw" Davis, Paul Desmond and I. Dropping those names is a bit disturbing because ...

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The Triple Door, Seattle's Swanky Supper Club, Celebrates Its 5th Anniversary

Source: All About Jazz
September 29, 2008

The Bay Area has Yoshi's. In Portland, it's Jimmy Mak's. Seattle's upscale, sit-down, dine-in concert venue is the Triple Door, and it's not bragging to say it's the best of the bunch, and this week marks its fifth anniversary. Historically speaking, swanky supper clubs are a remnant of America's Jazz Age in the 1920s. Today's versions exist somewhere between beer-in-hand nightclub and suit-and-tie concert hall: Luxury and sound quality are paramount, but you can enjoy a cocktail and an hors ...

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