Music Industry News

Bonnaroo 2008 Announces New Orleans-Themed Venue

Source: All About Jazz
May 17, 2008

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Copyright to Avail or to Download That is the Question

Source: All About Jazz
May 16, 2008

Music Download Case may be Retried A question as old as poor Hamlet, as he gazed in deep thought at the iPod held in his hand, “to download or to avail, That is the question."

A Minnesota woman ordered to pay $222,000 in the nation's first music download trial may get another chance with a jury. The issue is whether record companies have to prove anyone else actually downloaded their copyrighted songs, or whether it's enough to argue ...

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Quick Live Picks This Weekend

Source: All About Jazz
May 16, 2008

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Compelling Profile of a Compulsive

Source: All About Jazz
May 16, 2008

After David Remnick took command as editor of The New Yorker in 1998, he curtailed the late Whitney Balliett's contributions to the magazine, relegated him to writing about celebrities like Barbra Streisand and eventually dropped the pre-eminent jazz writer altogether. Characteristically, Balliett kept quiet about the slight, but he was hurt and humiliated. In their fury, some of his devoted readers unsubscribed and never forgave Remnick. The editor himself is a gifted writer. The Balliettomanes may be somewhat mollified by ...

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Swami Lateplate - Doomjazz (Veal Records, 2007) ****a1/2

Source: All About Jazz
May 16, 2008

As its title and the cover suggest, the music on this album is dark, gloomy, depressing, but more than that, it is minimalistic, repetitive, slow and all about style. Jamie Saft plays piano and bass and Bobby Previte drums, two musicians who no longer need any introduction, and what they're doing here is to move away from conventions and create their own pretty unique musical universe. The amazing thing about this album is the absolute darkness, despair and sense of ...

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Exalt Entertainment Announces Wedding Planning Tips for Entertainment Bookings

Source: Mosnar Communications, Inc
May 16, 2008

(Detroit, Michigan) -- Exalt Entertainment Group premiering celebrity jazz performing and recording artists and spoken word artists nationally. Today announced wedding planning tips for entertainment bookings. Stressing that during economic downtimes budgets for wedding planning are often reduced and adding quality jazz helps to enhance the ambiance and leave a quality impression. According to Brenda Bradley, Owner of Exalt Entertainment Group weddings are lasting impressions of class, quality, and creativity. She reveals that the condition of the economy has resulted ...

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The New Yorker's 100 Essential Jazz Albums

Source: All About Jazz
May 15, 2008

While finishing “Bird-Watcher," a Profile of the jazz broadcaster and expert Phil Schaap, I thought it might be useful to compile a list of a hundred essential jazz albums, more as a guide for the uninitiated than as a source of quarrelling for the collector. First, I asked Schaap to assemble the list, but, after a couple of false starts, he balked. Such attempts, he said, have been going on for a long time, but “who remembers the lists and ...

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Jazz at Minton's Playhouse in Harlem Prepares to Break Boundaries and World Records

Source: All About Jazz
May 14, 2008

NEW YORK, NY -- Minton's Playhouse announced a massive expansion in its jazz programming and community outreach through the formation of the non-profit foundation Minton's Mentors as well as through an international partnership with South Africa's Fort Hare University and the director of its burgeoning Jazz Studies Department, Hotep Idris Galeta. New developments to Minton's include two year-long Artist in Residence positions, held by Onaje Allan Gumbs and Buster Williams; family-oriented concerts with established jazz legends; jazz internships and jazz ...

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