Music Industry News

Sylvia Syms

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
July 24, 2008

In a 1995 Jazz Times review of a Sylvia Syms CD, I wrote:

Sylvia Syms had a vibrato like a telephone wire in a breeze. She sometimes slid around both sides of a note before she settled on it. She often added the syllable “uh" to the end of a word ("ridin' on the moon-uh"). She could pounce on a consonant and ignore the vowel next door. Some of her power notes were pure brass and there were ...

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Ghostlight Dominates Nielsen/Soundscan Broadway Chart

Source: Seth Cohen PR
July 23, 2008

The Numbers Speak for Themselves: Ghostlight is #4, #5, #6, #18 and #22 of Top 25 on Nielsen/SoundScan Broadway Chart

Legally Blonde Single Debuts in Top 100 on iTunes

Ghostlight Records is proud to announce that it has secured five of the Top 25 slots on this week's Nielsen/SoundScan Broadway Chart: #4 for Passing Strange, #5 for Legally Blonde, #6 for In The Heights, #18 for [title of show] and #22 for Drowsy Chaperone.

In addition, Ghostlight's single release of ...

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Ledisi: Once Lost, Now Found

Source: All About Jazz
July 23, 2008

It got to the point where R&B/jazz singer Ledisi was close to giving up on her musical dreams. But then, after years as an independent artist, she finally scored a record deal. Shortly after that came the buzz and acclaim for her 2007 album Lost & Found. Then she earned two Grammy nominations in 2008 for Best New Artist and Best R&B Album. Now she's on a high profile tour, landing interviews on national television, and even appearing in films ...

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Reporter Tackles Origins of Rock and Roll

Source: All About Jazz
July 21, 2008

Lately, I've been wondering if I was born in the wrong time period. Although I like all types of music, I believe the origins of rock and roll lie in the late 1930s-1950s.

With a nod to the rhythm and blues, jazz, country, gospel and boogie-woogie music of the 1920s and the 1930s. Rock really goes back further. It took a lot of mixing together of various popular, regional and cultural musical genres throughout time to create the music we ...

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Music Producer/Composer Spud Too Tight Creates Hot New R&b Music Style Called "Drag & Push

Source: entertainmentPR
July 20, 2008

Minneapolis Music Producer/Composer Spud Too Tight signs Administration/Publishing Deal with Missing Link Music Hoboken, NJ R&B/NuJazz Music Producer/Composer Spud Too Tight creates hot new music style called “Drag & Push" Minneapolis - Music Producer/Composer Spud Too Tight - recently signed a Publishing/Administration Deal with Missing Link Music - Hoboken NJ, www.missinglinkmusic.com one of the music industry's leading music publishing and copyright administration companies covering all genres of music from R&B and Rock to Hip-Hop to Jazz and all styles in ...

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Happy Birthday Woody Guthrie

Source: All About Jazz
July 19, 2008

Without Woody Guthrie, there would be no Pete Seeger and no Dylan, Donovan or Byrds.

There would be no “This Land is Your Land," “If I Had a Hammer," “Turn, Turn, Turn," and no Dust Bowl Ballads. The trajectory of American folk music would be forever thrown off its established vector. The poor, oppressed and otherwise dispossessed would be without an acoustic champion. Woody Guthrie was born in Oklahoma in 1912, and spent the rest of his life fighting the ...

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Jazzing It up in India

Source: All About Jazz
July 19, 2008

Miles Davis fan's and Jazz enthusiasts can look forward to some unusual fusion music. India's foremost musicians have compiled an album titled Miles From India, a cross-cultural celebration of the music of Miles Davis who is considered one of the most important figures in jazz history. He was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer and was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006. “Miles experimented with all kinds of music from acid jazz, street ...

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Flight of the Conchords

Source: All About Jazz
July 19, 2008

By: Scott Caffrey

Bah! I shoulda known better. In my heart of hearts, I thought Flight of the Conchords' self-titled full-length was going to give me more than a partial soundtrack to the show. So fine, maybe I wasn't paying attention. But did they really have to go and mine most of their Grammy-winning EP, The Distant Future, to fill it out? Especially when they left off a solid handful of gems? Maybe I'm misguided, but I think they're better ...

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