Music Industry News

EMI to Outsource U.K. Distribution

Source: All About Jazz
July 16, 2008

Music company closes distribution network

EMI Music is shuttering its distribution network in the U.K. and will start using worldwide transport and storage company Ceva to handle its CDs and DVDs, it announced Wednesday. Staffers at EMI's operation in Leamington Spa, 100 miles northwest of London, are now in a consultation about the cuts, although the company says the switch to Ceva will not take place before early next year.

EMI first partnered with Ceva to provide warehousing and distribution ...

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Natalie Cole Diagnosed with Hepatitis C

Source: All About Jazz
July 16, 2008

Singer's Publicist Pinpoints Drug Use As Likely Cause Grammy-winning singer Natalie Cole has hepatitis C.

A statement from her publicist said that the liver disease was discovered during a routine examination and likely was caused by her drug use years ago. Hepatitis C is spread through contact with infected blood. The daughter of jazz legend Nat King Cole says she's committed to meeting this latest challenge. “I've been so fortunate to have learned so much from my past experiences," said ...

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Foreign Jazz Musicians Find Niche in Tokyo's Underground Scene

Source: All About Jazz
July 16, 2008

TOKYO -- Dave Brubeck, Horace Silver, Cannonball Adderley -- just a few of the jazz legends who have been inspired by their experiences in Japan.

If there's any doubt about the country's influence, try listening to Brubeck's “Tokyo Traffic" in the middle of Shinjuku, or his “Zen is When" in Yoyogi Park. If that fails to do the job, take Horace Silver's “Too Much Sake" with you next time you go to an izakaya. In fact, for some jazz pioneers, ...

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Musicians Push for Rights Extension

Source: All About Jazz
July 16, 2008

Lobbying is intensifying as European Commissioners meet this week to consider extending the copyright term on recorded music.

This argument is not about a handful of extremely rich signed artists, it is about a huge number of highly skilled session musicians who are being short changed under the current system. -John Smith, general secretary U.K. Musicians Union The music industry is pushing for European legislators to lengthen copyright protection for recorded music from 50 to 95 years, which ...

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Lyle Lovett Sells Millions, Earns Nothing

Source: All About Jazz
July 16, 2008

Eclectic country singer says he makes money from touring, not albums

Lyle Lovett says he has “never made a dime" from album sales during his two-decade career, and hopes to rectify that situation when his contract expires. The eclectic country singer has two more albums on his deal with Curb/Universal, his home since 1985, and figures the horizons are wide open. Records are very powerful promotional tools to go out and be able to play on the road, but you ...

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Judge Gives a Go-Ahead to James Brown Auction

Source: All About Jazz
July 16, 2008

The personal possessions of the soul singer James Brown, the self-proclaimed “Godfather of Soul," will be auctioned

On Thursday as scheduled after an appeals court judge declined on Monday to block the sale. Christie's, the New York auction house, will offer nearly 350 items, including hair curlers, several performance outfits and a green vinyl sofa, in a sale expected to fetch up to $2 million.

Judge Jasper M. Cureton of South Carolina appeals court said, however, that the South Carolina ...

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Justin Time Records Celebrates 25 Years

Source: All About Jazz
July 15, 2008

The Montreal-based record label Justin Time Records first recording was inspired by a particularly swinging evening at local jazz club. It was there that founder Jim West first heard the Oliver Jones Trio, immediately sensing they should be recorded. It was, shortly thereafter, and Justin Time Records was born. Named for West's then infant son, the label's first release was Live at Biddle's Jazz & Ribs by Oliver Jones Trio (with bassist Charlie Biddle and drummer Bernard Primeau). It was ...

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Capitol Records Underground Protected

Source: All About Jazz
July 15, 2008

Saga of Capitol Records Los Angeles Approves Condo Next to Capitol Records With Provisions to Protect Underground Studios

The city of Los Angeles has approved the building of a new development near the famed Capitol Records building. However, the planned condominium building must provide measures ensuring the recording studios underneath the building are not damaged. Both EMI and Hollywood conservationists expressed concern that the development and its planned underground garage, both to be built at 6230 Yucca Blvd., ...

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