Jazz News

Solitaire Miles "Born to be Blue" CD Release Party at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago

Source: Michael Ricci
July 1, 2010

Please join us as we celebrate the release of vocalist Solitaire Miles's Born to Be Blue on July 13th at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago 8-12 pm. The band will include a long list of Chicago greats including Willie Pickens on piano, Art Davis on trumpet, Neal Alger on guitar, Marlene Rosenberg on bass and Robert Shy on drums, along with many others. BTBB has been featured as “CD of the Month" on Chicago's jazz radio station WDCB. “This delightful ...

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Dr. Ronnell L. Bright Joins ARC

Source: Artists Recording Collective + the ARC Record Label
July 1, 2010

The Artists Recording Collective (ARC) is pleased to officially announce that Dr. Ronnell L. Bright has joined our artist roster. In a telephone conversation with ARC, Dr. Bright and his wife Dianna, stated that material ranging from unreleased musical recordings, as well as audio and video interviews will be released. “...Jazz is about the truth. It's about creating and playing music from your center, so that what comes out is really you." -- Ronnell Bright We encourage readers to also ...

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An Interview with Jeff Clayton

Source: Michael Ricci
July 1, 2010

Now available on The Clayton Brother's “The New Song and Dance" project experience page is the second part of a recent interview with ArtistShare. In this interview, Jeff Clayton speaks about his influences and compositional process for “The New Song and Dance". This interview with Jeff offers an amazing insight into the creative process of The Clayton Brothers to musicians and music lovers alike. To access this exclusive interview as well as audio clips from the record, video interviews, performances ...

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Enjoy a Handful of Keys at Carefusion Newport Jazz Festival

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations
July 1, 2010

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Robert and Clara and Sting and Trudie

Source: Michael Ricci
July 1, 2010

Crossover projects in classical music have traditionally been matters of opera singers or big-ticket instrumentalists performing jazz, pop or folk music, usually not as well as the musicians who perform this material full time.

But since the late 1980s, crossover has moved in the other direction too. Stewart Copeland and Roger Waters have written operas; Paul McCartney has written a stream of orchestral, choral and piano works; Elvis Costello has composed a ballet; and Sting--Mr. Copeland's onetime colleague in the ...

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Feds Crack Down on Internet Movie Pirates, Score Bust

Source: Michael Ricci
July 1, 2010

Adding some swashbuckling to its tough talk on fighting piracy, the federal government Wednesday seized several websites that were offering downloads of pirated movies such as “Toy Story 3" and “Iron Man 2" within hours of their release in theaters.

Federal authorities announced that they had seized domain names from nine websites engaged in the “criminal theft of American movies and television." The websites include TVShack.net, PlanetMoviez.com and ThePirateCity.org and Ninjavideo.net. The sites combined drew 6.7 million visitors a month, ...

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Hollywood Bowl Fireworks with Vince Gill

Source: All About Jazz
July 1, 2010

It doesn't get much more all-American than fireworks and Vince Gill.

The country superstar joins the L.A. Philharmonic and the U.S. Air Force Band of the Golden West for a night of patriotic music and dazzling pyrotechnics.

July 2nd through July 4th Daily : 7:30 p.m. $12-$120

Hollywood Bowl 2301 N. Highland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90068 Neighborhood: Hollywood 323-850-2000

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Warner Music Group Aligns with MTV Networks in Music Video Ad Deal

Source: Michael Ricci
July 1, 2010

Warner Music Group hears music in MTV's online advertising network. The music conglomerate on Wednesday announced a multiyear, nonexclusive deal to let MTV sell the ads for thousands of Warner's online music videos.

The music video business, which MTV pioneered three decades ago but has largely abandoned, has migrated online in recent years to sites such as YouTube, Vevo and on artists' individual home pages. The diaspora, however, has meant that artists and labels have collected very little advertising money ...

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