Music Industry News

Warner Music Shakes up Management

Source: Michael Ricci
September 17, 2008

Warner Music Group Corp., on the heels of three consecutive quarters of overseas revenue growth, today announced a management shake-up that it hopes will streamline its global strategy.

We can no longer organize the company as simply U.S. and non-U.S. operations. Chairman and Chief Executive Edgar Bronfman Jr.

Warner, the sole publicly traded stand-alone music company and home to Kid Rock and My Chemical Romance, will instead divide its work into three regional areas: continental Europe, Asia-Pacific and ...

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Jazz Pianist Boy Katindig - New Presonus Artist

Source: All About Jazz
September 17, 2008

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New Endorser for Degier Guitars & Basses: Habib Faye.

Source: All About Jazz
September 17, 2008

Habib Faye is a bassist, composer and producer from Senegal. Mostly know for his work as the musical director for Youssou N'Dour's Super Etoile de Dakar, Habib Faye has worked with many great artists. His credit list extends with names like Peter Gabriel, Sting, Mark Knopfler, Bruce Springsteen and recent Grammy Award winner Angelique Kidjo!

Habib Faye currently plays on a De Gier Origin Custom four string bass with Bartolini pickups, during the tour with Angelique Kidjo. Although it has ...

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After Renovations, Soulard Preservation Hall Reopens for Concerts, Parties

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
September 17, 2008

According to a recent blog post by St. Louis Post-Dispatch pop music reporter Kevin Johnson, the new owners of Soulard Preservation Hall have completed $2 million in renovations and have reopened the facility hoping to present “jazz concerts, parties, receptions and events." Read the whole post here. Although nowhere near as venerable as the famed New Orleans building from which it borrows a name, the Soulard Preservation Hall has served as a live music venue in the past, ...

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Jazz St. Louis Presenting "Jazz 101" This Thursday, September 18

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
September 17, 2008

In my most recent post about Jazz St. Louis' various educational efforts, I neglected to mention that JSL will also be offering their “Jazz 101" program again this year. “Jazz 101" is an introduction to jazz aimed at adults who'd like to better understand the music, and is presented as a series of musical demonstrations and discussions.JSL director of education Phil Dunlap and his band the Legacy Jazz Quintet will present this season's first “Jazz 101" program, “Understanding ...

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Bag II to Cease Operations at End of 2008

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
September 17, 2008

BAG II, which attempted to revive the spirit of St. Louis' storied Black Artists Group, will be ceasing operations at the end of 2008. Here's the announcement sent out by Zimbabwe Nkenya, bassist/composer and one of the prime movers of BAG II:“Thank you for your support for and interest in “the new" BAG II. For the past year and a half we have offered free public events at Scott Joplin House State Historic Site featuring some of ...

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Gov't Mule New Bassist Band Welcomes Jorgen Carlsson

Source: JamBase
September 16, 2008

GOV'T MULE WELCOMES NEW BASS PLAYER New Bassist Jorgen Carlsson To Debut on Fall Tour

Gov't Mule Balancing evocative songs and expressive improvisation, Gov't Mule is a band rooted in both the personal and musical chemistry between its members. “It's not one of those groups that can make a change overnight," explains founding guitarist/vocalist Warren Haynes. It is only after six months of rehearsing, jamming, and hanging out with bassist Jorgen Carlsson that he has been added to ...

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Compatible Quotes: Sonny Rollins

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
September 16, 2008

I think as long as people can hear a record and hear people like Lester Young on a recording, there will always be a great inspiration for somebody to try to create jazz. - Sonny Rollins

No one is original. Everyone is derivative. -- Sonny Rollins

There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle thirties through the sixties, we had a lot of great innovators, all creating ...

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