Music Industry News

"Women of Jazz, a Celebration of Today's Divas" New Oil Paintings by Riki R. Nelson

Source: All About Jazz
July 3, 2007

" Women of Jazz, A Celebration of Today's Divas", A Collection of New Oil paintings by Artist

*Riki R. Nelson*

Recent & never before shown large oil paintings in the style of contemporary realism celebrating the beauty and uniqueness of today's Jazz Divas. Subjects include Rita Coolidge, Roseanna Vitro, and Paula West as they appeared in their San Francisco Bay Area performances.

Gallery Exhibition & Artist Reception Location: ...

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Trumpet Star Enrico Rava Sees Italian Jazz Blossom

Source: All About Jazz
July 2, 2007

July 2 -- Enrico Rava is the most internationally acclaimed Italian jazz musician, and you can spot how he is a combination of cultures by the way he disses his homeland with the soulful passion of a born improviser. Genoa, where the trumpet player presently lives--he calls himself a “professional mover"--is “filthy and boring." Romano Prodi's coalition leftist Italian government is “even worse than Berlusconi's." You can also spot it in his hopeless-hipster shrug: “Everything is in extremes here, the ...

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Issue 12 of Point of Departure Launches Today

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
July 2, 2007

Issue 12 of Point of Departure Launches 2 July 2007 Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Award Nominee for Best Website Concentrating on Jazz: 2006 and 2007 Issue 12 of Point of Departure launches 2 July 2007 Issue 12 features an extraordinary travelogue by percussionist/ composer Harris Eisenstadt - African Music as Social Fabric - detailing his journeys throughout Senegal and Gambia. A panel of Australian improvisers take part in this issue's What's New? Roundtable: drummer ...

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Rolling Stone: The Record Industry's Decline

Source: All About Jazz
June 28, 2007

Rolling Stone has a scathing article on the self-immolation of the record industry. It's a must-read for anyone interested in music. From RollingStone.com This is the first part of a two-part series on the decline of the record industry. Today we're including Brian Hiatt and Evan Serpick's report on where the music business went wrong, from the current issue of Rolling Stone, as well as an interactive graphic illustrating the industry's slide. Tomorrow, check back with RollingStone.com for interviews with ...

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Free Dental Care Available to Musicians Through MusiCares

Source: All About Jazz
June 25, 2007

On July 24th, MusiCares in conjunction with American Mobile Dental will be providing dental screenings, teeth cleaning, dental x-rays and other basic treatments to singers, musicians and other professionals in the music business in need of these services. The treatments will be provided free of charge to pre-screened, pre-approved clients, upon establishing eligibility. The services will be provided via American Mobile Dental, a mobile dental clinic which will be set up outside MusiCares New York office at 156 W. 56th ...

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A Cardboard Box 2-String Acoustic/Electric Double Bass?

Source: All About Jazz
June 22, 2007

As of June 22 2007, Bogdon has sold 232 Bogdon Box Basses for $69.95 and has shipped them all over the world via EBay.com. The 2-string box bass is featured in the June 2007 issue of Bass Player Magazine on page 15. The webpage has been featured on Fox News Detroit and the box bass has a viewing total surpassing 500,000 on youtube.com and growing. The Bogdon Box Bass isn't a replacement for high quality materials and fine craftmanship, but ...

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Harmonica Music in the Pocono Mountains

Source: All About Jazz
June 20, 2007

After 15 years in the Garden State Harmonica Club (NJ) I moved to the Pocono Mountains of PA. No matter how hard I tried to convince my New Jersey people to come with me, none of them did.

As a result, I have had to organize my own club here. The POCONO MOUNTAIN HARMONICA CLUB has had its first meeting.

A wonderful collection of players, wannabes, listners showed up and exhibited much enthusiasm. My personal preference is the chromatic and ...

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Fifty Years of Stax and Soul Music Honored by U.S. House of Representatives

Source: conqueroo
June 19, 2007

MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Soulsville, the nonprofit parent company of the Stax Music Academy, Stax Museum of American Soul Music and the Soulsville Charter School, announced its gratitude today to the United States House of Representatives for honoring the 50th Anniversary of Stax Records with House Resolution 154, sponsored by U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn.

At the start of a 15-minute session that aired nationally on C-SPAN at 1 p.m. CST, U.S. Rep. Raul Grijala (D-Ariz.) thanked Memphis and Stax Records ...

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