Music Industry News

Concord Music Reactivates Stax Records

Source: conqueroo
December 19, 2006

CONCORD MUSIC GROUP REACTIVATES STAX RECORDS; FAMED SOUL LABEL'S 50TH ANNIVERSARY TO INCLUDE REISSUES, NEW ARTISTS, EVENTS, MORE

Year of Releases, Events, Films Mark Milestone; Maurice White/ EWF Tribute First Release on Reactivated Stax; Angie Stone, R&B Icon Isaac Hayes Among New Signings

BEVERLY HILLS, CA -- In honor of the 50th anniversary of the legendary label Stax - home to many of soul music's most enduring recordings - Concord Music Group is pleased to announce a year of activity ...

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Ronald McDonald House Presents $25,000 Grant to Fund Music Education at the Philadelphia Clef Club

Source: All About Jazz
December 18, 2006

Ronald McDonald House Charities presented the Philadelphia Clef Club of Jazz & Performing Arts, Inc. with a $25,000 grant during their annual holiday concert on December 9, 2006. The grant will provide students with new instruments and modern software. The concert featured performances by students from the club's music education program, as well as jazz great and world-renowned saxophonist, Odean Pope. In addition, RMHC of the Philadelphia Region grants approximately $500,000 per year to non-profit organizations that improve children's lives. ...

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Fund Drive for the CMS Archive Project

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
December 13, 2006

Fund Drive for the CMS ARCHIVE PROJECT

The Creative Music Foundation, Inc. announces a fundraising drive to preserve the CMS Archive: the large collection of live recordings of its world-renowned Creative Music Studio program. This collection of recordings is unique in its artistic scope: the CMS program featured some of the most outstanding and ground-breaking composers/performers in World Jazz, World Music, New Music, guiding ensembles of highly motivated emerging artists.

Through a combination of benefit festivals, grants, membership and private ...

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American Soldiers Fighting in Afghanistan Reach Out for Smooth Jazzz

Source: All About Jazz
December 7, 2006

The contemporary jazz group Airborne received an email from a American soldier fighting in Afghanistan, CSM Corey Woodard. It read:

I am currently deployed to Afghanistan with my battalion, consisting of soldiers, airmen, and Marines.

Many of my troops and I are avid smooth jazz listeners. However, we find it extremely difficult to get smooth jazz CDs here in such a remote and austere environment.

I would like to know if you or anyone you know would be willing to ...

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Sydney Band Viva the duo step up to lavish production of Latin International show at Souths Juniors

Source: All About Jazz
December 6, 2006

The new year 2007 sees Viva the Duo stepping up to a new level as part of a lavish Latin International Show production with their first appearance at the auditorium at one of Sydney, Australia's most popular venues, South Juniors Club at Kingsford; the show will be presented on the 12th and 13th January.

Viva the Duo has experienced 2006 as one of their most successful years of performances The duo performed at over 200 venues for the year, the ...

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HighNote Records Signs Trumpeter Tom Harrell To Multi-Disc Deal

Source: MFA - Mitchell Feldman Associates
December 4, 2006

(New York City Dec. 4, 2006) HighNote Records today announced the signing of acclaimed jazz trumpeter Tom Harrell to a multi-disc contract. Harrell, who received a Grammy nomination in 1999 for his big band recording Time's Mirror was voted Best Trumpeter in both the 1996 Downbeat Critics and Readers Polls and the Jazz Times Reader's Poll of 1997. The trumpeter is scheduled to begin recording at Rudy Van Gelder Studios on December 5th with his current band consisting of saxophonist ...

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Daysahead Explores Musical Landscape With Jazz-N-Roll

Source: ADA Creative Communications
December 4, 2006

Given the band's name, it seems only natural that Daysahead was destined to carve out a musical genre. The Atlanta-based band has done so by blending their backgrounds in jazz, soul and rock and roll to create the distinctive sound they describe as “jazz-n-roll."

“So many times in the music industry record company execs and critics try to label artists as one thing," said Daysahead lead vocalist and lyricist Kim Leachman. “In their opinion you have to fit neatly in ...

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Blue Note Label Group Becomes EMI's Global Jazz Repertoire Center

Source: All About Jazz
December 2, 2006

Josh Lerman Appointed Vice President Of International NEW YORK -- The Blue Note Label Group (BNLG), a unit of EMI Music, and the first full-scale, multi-genre music division dedicated to serving the adult music market, will become the Jazz repertoire center for EMI Music worldwide. In addition, the Group has appointed Josh Lerman as vice president of International for The Blue Note Label Group, it was announced by Blue Note Label Group President and CEO Bruce Lundvall. As new headquarters ...

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