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Event

New Music Seminar NYC 2010 Concludes Sold Out Conference Event

Source: Michael Ricci
July 23, 2010

Key artists and industry leaders engage in intensive and powerful dialogue about the future of the music industry, the new solutions, technologies and investments necessary to bring it back from the brink New York, NY--New Music Seminar, the future of music conference for artists, industry, entrepreneurs, technologists, labels, brands/agencies, investors and more concluded yesterday with a packed audience at the sold out New Music Seminar NYC 2010 at Webster Hall in New York City. The three-day event featured five high-level ...

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Obituary

Dick Buckley, 85, riffed on jazz for a half century

Source: Michael Ricci
July 23, 2010

One of the “good old good ones," Dick Buckley, 85, longtime jazz presence on Chicago radio stations, died on July 22, 2010 of pneumonia at West Suburban Medical Center. Buckley, an Oak Park resident, discovered jazz growing up during the Depression in Indiana. His radio career in Chicago spanned more than 50 years, 1956-2008, and he became a beloved and trusted voice, spinning jazz tunes and providing extensive background, insight and personal recollections of jazz greats that few could match. ...

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Music Industry

Al Jarreau Hospitalized, Listed in Critical Condition

Source: Michael Ricci
July 23, 2010

Jarreau collapsed during a concert on Thursday night in Barcelonnette, France There are only two recording artists in the history of the music industry to have been awarded with Grammys in three separate musical categories. One is the late “King of Pop," Michael Jackson, and the other is Al Jarreau, who has been honored in the categories of jazz, pop and R&B. According to Reuters in the UK, Jarreau collapsed during a concert on Thursday night in Barcelonnette, France as ...

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Radio

Swing! / Episode 2 - "Birth of the Big Bands"

Source: J. Scott Fugate
July 23, 2010

Soulandjazz.com Presents: Swing! Episode 2--Birth of the Big Bands Hosted and Produced by J. Scott Fugate, “The Jazz Evangelist" As always, the show is free, absolutely legal, fun for the whole family, and available for listening right now, right here. Welcome back to another episode of Swing! This month we explore the birth of the big bands . . . or, rather, take a very quick overview of this dynamic movement that changed the way the entire world listened ...

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Obituary

RIP Harry Beckett (1935-2010)

Source: LondonJazz by Sebastian Scotney
July 23, 2010

The much-admired trumpeter and flugelhorn player Harry Beckett died this afternoon after a stroke on Tuesday. His last gig was Big Band Britannia with Guy Barker's orchestra last month. The roll-call of bands he was in makes him a central figure of the 60s/70s British scene: Ian Carr's Nucleus, the Brotherhood of Breath and The Dedication Orchestra, London Jazz Composers Orchestra, John Surman, Octet Django Bates Ronnie Scott's Quintet, Kathy Stobart, Charlie Watts, Stan Tracey's Big Band and Octet; Elton ...

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Special Offers

Get 15% off the New Music Marketing Book "101 Ways to Market Your Music on the Web"

Source: MyMusicSuccess.com
July 23, 2010

MyMusicSuccess.Com launches new book to give independent music artists and bands hands on practical advice on where and how to market, promote and publicise their music effectively online. All About Jazz readers enter discount code AAJ when purchasing the digital eBook at mymusicsuccess.com and receive 15% off list price* Whilst major record labels continue to struggle to survive in the wake of the new digital economy, independent artists and bands are in a unique position to take advantage of the ...

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Video / DVD

Amos Bros Media Announce Their New Line Of Mini Jazz Documentaries

Source: Jason Amos
July 23, 2010

The new monthly series Milestones Of Jazz chronicles original versions of jazz standards and the most notable remakes. The first release features the Herbie Hancock and the Headhunter's jazz/funk/fusion classic “Chameleon." Milestones Of Jazz is the brain child of New Orleans based jazz musicians Jason and Jamaal Amos. Future releases will include Mr. Magic (Grover Washington jr.), Put It Where You Want It (The Crusaders) and Birdland (Weather Report). Jazz critic James J.J. Johnson comments on the first release: “The ...

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Event

Louis Prima To Get Star On Hollywood Walk of Fame. Louis Prima Jr. To Perform Live, July 25

Source: Nina Gordon Public Relations
July 23, 2010

Get Ready to “Jump, Jive, an' Wail" LOUIS PRIMA TO GET STAR ON HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME JULY 25TH. LOUIS PRIMA JR. AND THE WITNESSES FEATURING SARAH SPIEGEL TO PERFORM LIVE IN CONCERT AFTER CEREMONY AT 11:30 AM. LOS ANGELES, CA--Louis Prima, one of the greatest contributors to popular music and a powerful entertainment influence for the past eight decades, will be presented posthumously with his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Sunday, July 25th at 11:30 a.m. in ...

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