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The Afro Latin Jazz Alliance on the Most Recent Grammy Category Changes...

April 12, 2011

The Afro Latin Jazz Alliance is shocked and disappointed by the news that the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences has chosen to eliminate the Latin Jazz category from the GRAMMY awards. Latinos are the second-largest demographic group in the United States, at over 50 million people in the 2010 Census, and our contributions to ...

News: Radio

The Jazz Session #256: Fay Victor

April 12, 2011

Vocalist Fay Victor explores her Trinidadian roots in the company of Other Dimensions In Music on Kaiso Stories (Silkheart, 2011). In this interview, Victor talks about the chance meeting that led to the new CD; how she melded the calypso music of Trinidad with the experimental jazz shes known for; and the many projects with which ...

News: Performance / Tour

Phish Add Summer Dates

April 12, 2011

NEW DATES INCLUDE FIRST-EVER HOLLYWOOD BOWL CONCERT, FIRST SHOWS IN LAKE TAHOE, TWO NIGHTS AT THE GORGE IN GEORGE, WA, THREE NIGHTS AT CHICAGO'S UIC PAVILION Phish announced additional dates to their 2011 Summer Tour, including the band's first-ever concert at the Hollywood Bowl (and their first Los Angeles appearance since 2003), and their first shows ...

News: Music Industry

Part 2: Resume Building

April 12, 2011

I wanted to play keyboards on Broadway, but I didn't know where to start. I did know, at least, that moving straight to New York with a liberal arts degree and 10 years experience in community theatre was a bad idea. I knew the first thing I needed to do was gain more experience and build ...

News: Radio

XM Settles, Agrees to Pay Indepedent Labels $3.6m

April 12, 2011

Independent music agency Merlin and other members of the indie music community have agreed to a settlement of $3.6 million in a long-running dispute with XM Satellite Radio over the Pioneer Inno recordable radio receiver. Out of court settlements had been reached with the four major record labels between 2007 and 2008. As a result of ...

News: Music Industry

Labels Could Owe Artists More Than $2 Billion in Unpaid Royalites

April 12, 2011

This guest post by Dave Kusek, a VP at Berklee College of Music and CEO of Berkleemusic was experpted with permission from his Future Of Music blog. If you are a recording artist or a manager and have been distributing music on iTunes under a deal with one of the big record labels, pay attention. ...the ...

News: Radio

Spreaker: Artist Marketing Tool or Waste of Time?

April 12, 2011

(UPDATED) Spreaker is a free and straightforward online radio and podcast service with resources like video tutorials to make it easy to use. Set up a show, upload media files and record audio directly into a mic. You specify the sequencing and Spreaker mixes it together on their end. Sounds like a simple and effective tool ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Grubb - Gypsy Roma Urban Balkan Beats, the North American Premia Re of a Humanitarian Musical Show

April 12, 2011

The 32nd edition of the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal presents GRUBB Gypsy Roma Urban Balkan Beats, the North American première of a humanitarian musical show Tickets now on sale Montreal, Monday, April 11, 2011—Twenty-two Serbians between the ages of 13 and 17 in America for the first time. A melody. Slow, bewitching, with a ...

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News: Performance / Tour

126th Boston Pops Season Filled with Jazz, Dixieland, Gospel and More

April 12, 2011

The 2011 season of the Boston Pops—which runs from May 11 through June 26, 2011—has a great line-up of jazz, gospel and Dixieland along with patriotic, classical, and Broadway performances. On May 17-18, Mardi Gras in May features the Dukes of Dixieland as guests artists with conductor Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops, performing classic standards ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Tammy Scheffer Sextet Performing at Beehive in Boston on Tuesday, April 12

April 12, 2011

Celebrating their debut album, Wake Up, Fall Asleep, the Tammy Scheffer Sextet is performing at the Beehive Jazz Club in Boston's South End on Tuesday, April 12, 2011 from 8:00 p.m. to Midnight. Born in Belgium and raised in Israel, Ms. Scheffer is a talented singer and composer whose band includes Andrew Urbina (alto sax), Steve ...