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200 New Additions to AAJ Upcoming Jazz Release Center

Source: All About Jazz
June 20, 2008

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Danny Davis Country Artist Dies

Source: All About Jazz
June 20, 2008

Country music artist Danny Davis dies at 83 Grammy winner pioneered use of horns in genre Grammy award winner Danny Davis, who pioneered the use of horns in country music, has died aged 83, his publicist Betty Hofer said Friday. Davis died of a heart attack at Nashville's St. Thomas Hospital, she said. The Nashville Brass instrumental group Davis founded in 1968 produced a brassy version of Hank Williams' “Kaw-liga" which won him a Grammy. His only Top ...

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New Service Offers Jazz Video For $350

Source: All About Jazz
June 20, 2008

Attention Musicians and Record Labels There is now a cost effective way for musicians and labels to utilize web video as a marketing tool. JazzEPK.com offers promotional videos starting at $350. A Jazz EPK is a 3-5 minute video used to promote a recording featuring audio excerpts, photos, and info about the artist, music and personnel, which is posted on the web to market the music and reach the largest possible audience. Jazz EPK was created by Bret Primack, aka, ...

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The iPhone's Next Frontier: Porn

Source: All About Jazz
June 20, 2008

Apple may be golden because of the iPhone, but the soon-to-be-updated device is also increasingly the source of forbidden fruit.

Steve Jobs' company is keeping a civil, if embarrassed, silence on one of the potentially most lucrative and controversial uses of its handheld jewel: porn. The technological feats of the 3G iPhone are key to the coming pornucopia. To date, mobile porn has consisted largely of still images, racy text services and “moan tones," which are sultry-sounding ringtones. In Europe ...

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Clearly Channeling a Lot of Crap

Source: All About Jazz
June 20, 2008

From Boston comes a story that is sounding a little familiar. For 34 years, Bill Trowbridge was a sign hanger, one of those guys who puts up billboards.

Five years ago, the media conglomerate Clear Channel bought the company and tried to make a profitable business more profitable. They offered buyouts that cut the 48 employees in Local 391 of the sign workers in half. But that wasn't enough. Last March, Clear Channel told the remaining workers that they were ...

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Clear Channel Values Size Scale over Quality

Source: All About Jazz
June 20, 2008

Clearly, Something is Wrong Here Corporation values size, scale over quality

Clear Channel Exhibitions values stagecraft; the replication of the Sistine Chapel ceiling embodies this approach.

The Vatican has been keenly aware of the promotional value of art for centuries. There would be no Sistine Chapel ceiling without this point of view. Clear Channel Entertainment, a 900-pound gorilla in the American concert, radio and billboard industries based in San Antonio, Texas, clearly believes exhibitions are part of its ...

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Jan & Dean Definitive Liberty Singles Collection Coming On Collectors' Choice on August 26

Source: conqueroo
June 20, 2008

42-song set on Collectors' Choice includes such hits as “Surf City," “Little Old Lady From Pasadena," “Dead Man's Curve," “Drag City," “Ride the Wild Surf," “Batman" and “Popsicle," plus Jan Berry solo singles and extensive liner notes and photos

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Jan & Dean rode the surf wave to the top of the charts in the early to mid-'60s, and even introduced the sub-genre of hot-rod rock. Yet their Liberty singles have never been comprehensively compiled into one ...

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Your Favourite Records Presents the Finest in Young Danish Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
June 20, 2008

The newly established record company Your Favourite Records offers an exciting programme during this summer's Copenhagen Jazz Festival. “The Finest In Young Danish Jazz" is what the company calls it's project which among others includes the winners of the Young Jazz Competition, 2007, EXIL. Hot Young Jazz to Nrrebro During Copenhagen Jazz Festival there are not many offers on Nrrebro to jazz-lovers, but the record company Your Favourite Records has taken matters into their own hands and offers 50 DKR-partout ...

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