Music Industry News

Albert Ayler: Free-Jazz Pioneer, Aware of His Legacy

Source: All About Jazz
November 8, 2007

he Ohio-born tenor saxophonist Albert Ayler probably would have gotten a kick out of Kasper Collin's documentary about his life, “My Name Is Albert Ayler," which opens today at the Anthology Film Archives. Named after one of his albums and built around snippets of audio interviews with Mr. Ayler, it attempts and often achieves a fresh, playful style that's equally informed by jazz traditions and Mr. Ayler's urge to shatter them. Mr. Ayler used marchlike structures as the foundation for ...

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Big Easy is Still Tops for Music

Source: All About Jazz
November 8, 2007

Imagine four recently retired baby boomers, life-long music lovers, who frequent the Yale and Railway clubs in Vancouver. We set off on a six-week road trip, travelling 14,000 kilometres on a quest to experience music in the deep South, where the roots of all modern music began. Our journey took us to New Orleans, the Mississippi Delta region, Nashville and Memphis. We sought out musicians playing the music that we love -- blues, jazz and rock 'n' roll. First stop, ...

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Exalt Entertainment Group Celebrates Return of Jazz Music

Source: Mosnar Communications, Inc
November 7, 2007

Detroit, Michigan -- eXalt Entertainment Group premiering jazz and spoken word artists nationally. Today announced that the love of jazz music is returning and acquiring new audiences. The company reports that they have seen a resurgence in demand for the art form of jazz music as new rebirth passion in the US and world-wide. Jazz music is considered a fundamental American musical art form that was established roughly in the beginning of the 20th century in chiefly African American communities ...

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Great Places to See Live Music: Iridium Jazz Club Featured on Pandora

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
November 1, 2007

51st and Broadway, midtown Manhattan. It's an amazing neighborhood that features a particularly great place to experience live jazz: Iridium Jazz Club. During the day, Iridium's founder Ron Sturm filled us in on the club's history and showed us around backstage. That night, jazz clarinetist Eddie Daniels http://www.eddiedanielsclarinet.com/ played a few great sets, all while celebrating both his birthday and the release of his new album, Live At The Iridium Homecoming on IPO Records. The video is now online. ---> ...

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Exalt Entertainment Group Selects Mosnar Communications, Inc for Public Relations

Source: Mosnar Communications, Inc
October 30, 2007

(Detroit, Michigan) -- eXalt Entertainment Group premiering jazz and spoken word artists nationally. Today announced that Mosnar Communications, Inc has been retained as their public relations representative. eXalt Entertainment Group is successful at reintroducing jazz and spoken word artists to audiences Internationally. According to Brenda Bradley, eXalt Entertainment Group's Owner “Mosnar Communications, Inc has the right publicity branding solutions for us to identify our specific target audiences and implement our product offerings." Celebrated eXalt Entertainment Group artists are New Orleans' ...

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Songbird Travel Services for Musicians, Promoters and Music Lovers

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
October 30, 2007

Songbird Travel Services is a full service travel agency that specializes in travel/tour arrangements for musicians/promoters, music lovers, and anyone else looking for luxurious travel arrangements at bargain prices. We're experts at getting the very most out of your travel dollar and nothing proves it more than the deals we've booked for some of our clients in the past few months and, yes, these prices are for real! New York City: Parker Meridien $139, Sheraton (mid-town) $95, Marriott Marquis $135, ...

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Win an Ovation Guitar Signed by Al Dimeola

Source: All About Jazz
October 29, 2007

On October 30, 2007, MVD Visual and Inakustik are proud to announce the release of Al DiMeola's first all acoustic CD, Diabolic Inventions And Seduction For Solo Guitar, Volume I, and his first electric DVD, Speak A Volcano: Return To Electric Guitar. To celebrate these releases, MVD Visual and Inakustik is giving away an Ovation guitar signed by Al DiMeola. Visit our website for contest details.

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UK Founder Eddie Jobson Announces New Project UKZ

Source: Lori Hehr Public Relations
October 25, 2007

Announcing “UKZ"--the definitive musicians' band, formed by keyboard and electric-violin legend Eddie Jobson. Returning from a self-imposed 27-year retirement from band and touring activity, the reclusive progressive-music pioneer and “UK" co-founder set out to find the same caliber of next-generation musicians for the new UKZ project that would equal or surpass the talents of his previous colleagues and collaborators--an impressive list that includes Frank Zappa, Robert Fripp, Bill Bruford, Phil Collins, John Entwistle, Ian Anderson, Simon Phillips, Terry Bozzio, Allan ...

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