Music Industry News

Gasoline Prices Affect Music Industry and Jazz Clubs

Source: All About Jazz
September 1, 2005

The price of gasoline in New York City and elsewhere have had an effect on people who drive to see live jazz entertainment. The cost of simple regular gasoline is now $5.00 in some spots around New York City and elsewhere worse. In some areas people have had to cancel their vacation plans due to high gasoline prices. Opening up the reserves only is part of the solution as refineries are down due to the storm Katrina and the crude ...

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Christian McBride Accepts Creative Chair for Jazz Post at Los Angeles Philharmonic

Source: All About Jazz
August 31, 2005

The Los Angeles Philharmonic Association Names Christian Mcbride Creative Chair For Jazz Grammy-Award Winning Jazz Bassist Succeeds Legendary Vocalist Dianne Reeves as Second to Hold Post Los Angeles (August 31, 2005)—The Los Angeles Philharmonic Association is pleased to announce that Grammy Award winning jazz bassist Christian McBride will succeed legendary jazz vocalist Dianne Reeves as the second Creative Chair for Jazz for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association. “I intend to continue the tradition that was started with Dianne Reeves of ...

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JazCraft Relocates From Hawaii To Long Beach, California>

Source: All About Jazz
August 23, 2005

JazCraft Relocates From Hawaii To Long Beach, California>

JazCraft which, among other achievements, started the nation’s first songwriting workshop as an accredited subject in a secondary public school, has recently relocated to Long Beach, California from Hawaii.

JazCraft is also the online home of internationally acclaimed pianist and composer, G. F. Mlely, whom the Washington Post calls “a tour de force.”   Acclaimed for his music around the world, Mlely’s composition Threnody, a track from the CD Re-Entry on ...

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Adventure Music Signs Renowned Pianist Jovino Santos Neto

Source: All About Jazz
August 20, 2005

Adventure Music has announced that the acclaimed Brazilian pianist Jovino Santos Neto has been formally signed to the label, and has just completed recording an as-yet untitled CD for release in early 2006. The new CD is Santos Neto’s first recording as a leader since 2003’s Canto de Rio, which was a Latin Grammyã nominee.

The upcoming release captures Santos Neto in a trio setting, where he is joined by Roger Botter-Maio, who also contributed to Weber Iago’s recent Adventure ...

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Finding a Sydney Band for a Christmas party or function for your boss

Source: All About Jazz
August 12, 2005

Sydney businesses traditionally give Christmas parties and functions to their staff and associates during November and December. Some parties are held at their own premises, restaurants or at function rooms. The booking of the venue can be reasonably simple, most of the staff can suggest a suitable venue but “the band” in particular can be a trying task, nobody wants to be responsible for suggesting the “wrong band”. For someone that is suddenly placed in that position. where to start ...

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Kansas City Jazz Label Finds Distributions Solutions

Source: All About Jazz
August 11, 2005

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE [ Full story: Music Industry News Network ] Kansas City USA -- With a brand new release by label co-founder, Alaadeen, titled “New Africa Suite”, making its commercial release in July 2005, 'ASR RECORDS management felt that the label needed to find a viable solution for secure online CD sales and major digital distribution. Especially since the new CD had been generating its own “buzz” and has already been met with qualified critical praise by professional jazz ...

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Kansas City Jazz Label Chooses CD Baby

Source: All About Jazz
August 8, 2005

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Kansas City USA -- With a brand new release by label co-founder, Alaadeen, titled “New Africa Suite", making its commercial release in July 2005, 'ASR RECORDS management felt that the label needed to find a viable solution for secure online CD sales and major digital distribution. Especially since the new CD had been generating its own “buzz" and has already been met with qualified critical praise by professional jazz critics and fellow artists like Bobby Watson. Live ...

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OT Records signs new Internet distribution deal to offer CDs outside of the UK for first time.

Source: All About Jazz
August 6, 2005

British independent jazz label OT Records is the first label to join forces with new company E-retail Solutions to make their Jazz and Blues records available outside of the UK for the first time. OT Records, whose roster includes Dylan Howe, Ben Castle, David Tughan, Helium Soul and PD3, will be able to accept payment via Paypal through the newly established E-Retail Solutions website www.e-retailsolutions.com . Many of OT Records releases have been highly praised in the UK with three ...

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