Music Industry News

Hard to Find Imports, Independent Jazz on CD and LP

Source: All About Jazz
March 16, 2006

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2006 Canadian National Jazz Maximum Jazz Award Nominees

Source: All About Jazz
March 15, 2006

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George Avakian's 87th Birthday Celebration at Birdland this Wednesday!

Source: All About Jazz
March 14, 2006

Come celebrate George Avakian's 87th birthday on Wednesday, March 15, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm at Birdland, 315 West 44th Street just west of 8th Avenue, with George himself...

...who produced the first jazz album (1939-40), the first series of annotated reissues of classic jazz (1940), the first 100 pop LP's (1948) and established popular albums as the industry's biggest source of income (1954), which continues into the CD era...

...and this all part of the regular Wednesday engagement of ...

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The Berkeley Item - #272

Source: All About Jazz
March 14, 2006

During its Memphis heyday (1957-1975), Stax Records became synonymous with Southern soul music, churning out hit after exhilarating hit by artists like Booker T. & the MGs, Johnnie Taylor, the Staple Singers, Otis Redding, and Eddie Floyd. Choice tracks by those artists and five others are showcased in ten new single-artist STAX PROFILES CDs, compiled by musicians and industry figures including Elvis Costello (Booker T.), Blues Brother Dan Aykroyd (Floyd), Huey Lewis (Taylor), and MG guitarist Steve Cropper (Redding).

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Blue Note Records: Recent Releases on Sale & Last Chance Items

Source: All About Jazz
March 14, 2006

RECENT RELEASES SALE PRICE THROUGH MARCH 31st These recent jazz releases from Blue Note are on sale at www.truebluemusic.com through March 31st. Thelonious Monk Quartet At Carnegie Hall with John Coltrane (Sale price $12.98) The most amazing jazz discovery in years: a heretofore unknown November 1957 Carnegie Hall concert taped in excellent fidelity by the legendary Monk Quartet with John Coltrane, Ahmet Abdul-Malik and Shadow Wilson. And the music more than delivers on its promise. Andrew Hill - ...

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Tarik Shah update (March, 'O6)

Source: All About Jazz
March 12, 2006

This is an update on the case of Harlem bassist Tarik Shah, accused of “conspiracy" and “terrorism" by the government, and held in the Tombs for eight months in solitary confinement without trial and without actually being accused of committing any violent crime. (Please see tariksfriends.faithweb.com for more information on the case before now.)

On Saturday, March 11, 2006 at 10:50 AM, Erika McDaniel Edwards [co-counsel of attorney Anthony Ricco] wrote to Margaret Davis:

Mr. Shah has a new attorney ...

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Jazz At Lincoln Center Announces 2006-07 Season

Source: All About Jazz
March 9, 2006

Concerts, educational events and publications, tours, broadcasts and recordings celebrate innovations in jazz--America's greatest cultural invention

SEPTEMBER 2006

Coltrane Featuring the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis September 14, 15 & 16, 2006, 8pm, Rose Theater Jazz at Lincoln Center's 2006-07 season opens with the Coltrane Festival featuring three days of this legendary saxophonist's music at Frederick P. Rose Hall. The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis celebrates Mr. Coltrane's 80th birthday ...

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IPO Recordings Announces Distribution Deal With The Allegro Group

Source: All About Jazz
March 7, 2006

IPO RECORDINGS Announces Distribution Deal With THE ALLEGRO GROUP

IPO RECORDINGS is pleased to announce that it has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with The Allegro Group for the distribution of IPO's jazz and classical catalogs in the USA and Canada.

New York based IPO Recordings was started in 2003 and has received wide critical acclaim for its releases. These include a series of new jazz recordings by some of the legendary figures of modern jazz, including Hank Jones, James ...

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