Music Industry News

Steve Tyrell signs with TKA

Source: All About Jazz
June 10, 2005

BOSTON, MA - June 10, 2005 - Steve Tyrell, acclaimed vocalist who brought the singing of standards back with his sexy swagger, has signed with the booking agency, Ted Kurland Associates for worldwide representation.

Tyrell's first album, A New Standard, released in 1999, topped the Billboard Jazz Charts for a phenomenal 100 plus weeks. His follow-up Standard Time stayed on the Billboard Jazz Chart for an unprecendented two years and hit No. 2 on the chart.

Steve has also had ...

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Aimini P2P Software ver 1.5.02 Released

Source: All About Jazz
June 8, 2005

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Malinverni Gospel/Jazz Artist Share Project

Source: All About Jazz
June 6, 2005

Believing that the musical forms Gospel Music and Jazz were “separated at birth", Pete Malinverni has set about reintroducing these two long lost siblings. To that end, he has been composing music for Gospel Choir and Jazz Quartet for several years and by now has quite a store of selections crafted into suites, featuring singing by a Gospel Choir and soloists and improvisations by some of the brightest lights in jazz today, all knitted together by a narration. This is ...

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musicformovement.com (M4M) announces new partnership with Jack Dejohnette's Golden Beams Productions

Source: All About Jazz
June 3, 2005

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

M4M welcomes Jack Dejohnette as an artist-partner

musicformovement.com is pleased to announce that the complete catalogue of Golden Beams Productions will now be featured on M4M.

Golden Beams is the new label of drummer Jack Dejohnette and currently features two titles, “Music in the Key of OM" and “Music From the Hearts of the Masters" (a collaboration with Foday Musa Suso). Jack is one of the most accomplised and distinguished artists of our time and a he ...

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Firehouse 12 - Now Open in New Haven, CT

Source: All About Jazz
June 1, 2005

Firehouse 12 is a recently completed music performance and recording facility, located in downtown New Haven, CT. The performance space seats 80 people, features a beautiful sounding Nexo PA system (as well as a Steinway Model D concert grand for use in performances) and is wired for multi-track live recording. The control room features an API Legacy, a Studer A827 2" tape machine and a 48 input/output ProTools HD3|Accel recording system, as well as a full complement of microphones (Neumann, ...

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Early Jazz Legends and Legends in the making at the Lighthouse California 1950’s –60’s

Source: All About Jazz
May 29, 2005

Some unbelievably talented people during that time frame. Never before or since has there been so many with so much talent, and to see a lot of them share a stage made it even better. Didn't happen with all of them but enough to just thrill those fortunate enough to be there. Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane, Dizzy and Frank Rosolino , (now that was a kick) , Stan Levey with Charlie Parker and with just about everyone, Stan Getz ...

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New Organization for Improvised Music Launched

Source: All About Jazz
May 26, 2005

The International Society for Improvised Music (ISIM) has been created as a support network for musicians, teachers, students, listeners, scholars, critics, and industry professionals engaged in all forms of improvised music. Membership programs are now available for individuals and organizations online at www.isimprov.org or by contacting ISIM at 734-277-2690.

ISIM arrives at a time when the unprecedented diversity of the musical world calls for a heightened understanding of the improvisatory core to musical creativity. The heading “improvised music” has emerged ...

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London's Vortex spins again

Source: All About Jazz
May 26, 2005

London's cutting edge jazz club The Vortex re-opened in new premises on 19 May, having been silent for a year. The new club is just a mile or so from its previous Stoke Newington N16 home of 17 years, and is part of the new-build Dalston Culture House project in Gillett Street. It is great to have the club back on stream and the programming is as adventurous and busy as ever. Already, in the first week since re-opening, the ...

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