Music Industry News

Anita O'Day Memorial/Funeral Saturday Dec 2, 1pm Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
November 29, 2006

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JazzMando and E.&O. Mari, Inc. announce expanded line of jazz-friendly mandolin strings.

Source: JazzMando.com
November 27, 2006

On the heels of a year's popularity and rave reviews since the introduction the JM-11 flatwound mandolin strings, JazzMando annnounces the expansion of its Labella “JM family" strings with the new JD-13 “JazzDola" mandola strings. (A mandola is tuned in fifths like a mandolin only a fifth lower, CGDA.) Jazz and other more sophisticated chromatic music genres require strings that conducive to closed finger position playing, less fatiquing. The polished metal and lighter composite gauging allow lighter action for better ...

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Buy share in top UK Jazz Star Symeon Cosburn

Source: All About Jazz
November 24, 2006

Symeon Cosburn, one of the first UK jazz influenced artists to explore the use of “Sellaband" a new music portal Website to promote his career further has already raised over $1100 by selling shares in his music in just under four weeks on the site. The basic concept of “Sellaband" is to allow music fans, or “Believers" as they are referred to on the website, to buy a share in the Artist or Artists music publishing whom they believe will ...

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New Care For Musicians & Performing Artists: The Music & Health Clinic at The Louis Armstrong Center for Music & Medicine Beth Israel Medical Center

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
November 22, 2006

ANNOUNCING: NEW CARE FOR MUSICIANS & PERFORMING ARTISTS

The Music & Health Clinic at The Louis Armstrong Center for Music & Medicine Beth Israel Medical Center, New York NY

Our mission at The Music & Health Clinic of The Louis Armstrong Center for Music & Medicine is to provide high service, low cost health care tailored to meet the unique physical, mental and emotional needs of musicians and performing artists. Performance can be stifled by chronic fatigue, overuse injuries, scar ...

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Kurt Elling Signs With Concord Records

Source: All About Jazz
November 14, 2006

Concord Records is proud to announce that Grammy-nominated singer Kurt Elling has signed an exclusive recording contract with the company. His Concord debut is scheduled to be released in early 2007. Elling has risen to international acclaim as a jazz artist and singer, in just 10 short years as professional. All of his six previous albums have been nominated for Grammy awards, including three nods for Best Jazz Vocal Album. Kurt has topped Downbeat Critic's and Jazz Times Readers polls ...

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Armen Nalbandian has joined Nino Moschella & The Little Big People

Source: All About Jazz
November 14, 2006

Pianist/composer, Armen Nalbandian has joined the band of ubiquity recording artist, Nino Moschella. Nalbandian had just ended performing with his Funk project, The Armen Nalbandian Experiment (one of his many groups) when approached by Moschella to join his group. From armennalbandian.com: In addition to Armen's current activites as the F.A.M.'s Musical Director and leading his trio (with a new recording scheduled to be released in 2007), Armen is now a member of the band Nino Moschella and the Little Big ...

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Thomas Dolby, K-Fed Reach settlement in Copyright Infringement Case

Source: conqueroo
November 7, 2006

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- Kevin Federline and Thomas Dolby have reached an out-of-court settlement in their recent copyright infringement case. Federline, husband of pop singer Britney Spears, made an undisclosed cash payment to Dolby to compensate him for the illegal use of a sample from “She Blinded Me With Science" in the song “America's Most Wanted" which appeared on K-Fed's MySpace page this past Spring and received over half a million downloads.

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Clairdee's Inside Story - Hi-Tech and Grass Roots

Source: Davis & Associates Public Relations
October 30, 2006

A little-known singer with a big talent has attracted the attention of a legendary talent manager and a pair of Grammy-winning producers. The stir started last January at the International Association of Jazz Educators' conference where Clairdee's showcase had everyone's toes a- tapping. But in today's marketplace, with its focus on youth and pop- culture, the path to a sustainable career as a real jazz artist is more difficult than ever. If anyone knows this to be true it is ...

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