Music Industry News

Bob Weinberg Joins Hot House Florida

Source: All About Jazz
June 14, 2008

Bob Weinberg is a veteran jazz and blues writer living in South Florida. For more than a dozen years, he was employed by the alternative weekly City Link, where he penned a jazz and blues column and other features. In addition to writing the Traditions column for Jazziz magazine and freelance arts pieces for the Sun-Sentinel, and contributing reviews and interviews to the Miami NPR affiliate WLRN-91.3 FM, Weinberg currently contributes artist previews and CD reviews to the Hot House ...

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Ornette Coleman Plays Burlington

Source: All About Jazz
June 14, 2008

By: Josh Potter

Ornette Coleman :: 06.07.08 :: Flynn Theater :: Burlington, VT

Ornette Coleman In most cases, the debate over a given artist's “genius" is generally moot - relative, as it were, to the way a listener fits the art in their own schema of history, interest and influence. As a result, we often talk about “legends" and “heroes," those individuals who have risen in a timeless sort of way to ...

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Sirius: Roots of the Dead

Source: All About Jazz
June 14, 2008

SIRIUS SATELLITE RADIO TO FEATURE THE “ROOTS & BRANCHES" OF THE GRATEFUL DEAD Music that inspired The Grateful Dead and artists they influenced to be featured on SIRIUS Satellite Radio's exclusive Grateful Dead Channel

The Grateful Dead WHAT: SIRIUS' Grateful Dead channel to launch a new feature celebrating music that inspired The Grateful Dead as well as the songs that were influenced by the iconic band. Each day this special feature, Roots & Branches of the ...

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E Dog Benefit for Detroit Sax Man

Source: JazzStage Productions
June 14, 2008

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How I Conquered Space

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
June 14, 2008

Anyone with a large compact disc collection will understand the difficult choice I faced: get rid of several hundred CDs (at least), build a wing on the house to accommodate the collection or find a way to make the existing shelves hold more. The point of desperation was approaching, fast. Then a friend casually mentioned that he had found the solution to his own CD space problem. The answer was vinyl sleeves sold by a company called Jazz Loft. I ...

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Replay: Joe Segal's Jazz Showcase Lives Again

Source: All About Jazz
June 14, 2008

"Good to see you up and running," says an enthusiastic attendee Thursday night at the packed opening of Joe Segal's new Jazz Showcase. “Feels like 'Up and creeping,'" responds Segal, with characteristic dry humor and skepticism. But there's a lot to be said for the perseverance of Chicago jazz club owners. Just as saxophonist Fred Anderson succeeded in reviving his Velvet Lounge on South Indiana, which was bulldozed in 2006, only to rise phoenix-like round the corner, Segal -- the ...

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Afro-Peruvian Jazz: Pasache Music

Source: All About Jazz
June 13, 2008

On a Mission to Promote Afro-Peruvian Jazz: Pasache Music NY good business begins every days work with a focus upon their mission statement. Its generally a paragraph that simply and clearly states the companys goals and defines the motivation behind their work. It provides each employee with a direction to guide their work and it allows everyone to see an overall goal. With this bigger objective in mind, each worker can ask an essential question - does my current task ...

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Bobby Womack: Soul Survivor

Source: All About Jazz
June 13, 2008

By: Kayceman

I was the third brother of five Doing whatever I had to do to survive I'm not saying what I did was alright Trying to break out of the ghetto was a day-to-day fight

I got one more thing I'd like to talk to y'all about right now Hey brother, there's a better way out Snorting that coke, shooting that dope, man you're copping out Take ...

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