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News: Music Industry

Are You Media Ready?

December 9, 2010

[This guest post was written by Jem Bahaijoub, the founder of Imagine PR, a music marketing and PR agency based in Washington, D.C.] If you can't afford the luxury of a publicist, dealing with the media can be a daunting, even overwhelming task. But it is also a necessary one, and to make the process bearable, ...

News: TV / Film

Movie: I Need That Record! (MVD Visual, 2010)

December 9, 2010

The independent record store holds a special place in my heart. For a while I was a regular at a couple of great ones, The Last Vestige (my home away from home during grad school) and the long lamented Izzy's Records (one of the few bastions of culture in urban New Jersey) where I met my ...

News: Music Industry

Music Marketing: Is It Really Just Like Exercise?

December 9, 2010

Bad advice is oftentimes free advice. But at a music conference, you're actually paying for the privilege. And, attempting to sort and sift through what will actually help your career or company, versus what won't. And oftentimes, it won't. Is that worth the price of admission? This was a serious concern at CMJ in New York, ...

News: Music Industry

Still Not Taking This Seriously? Spotify Hits 750,000...

December 9, 2010

Ahead of Halloween, Spotify was careening past 650,000 paying subscribers—of which, 90 percent were paying the highest tier. Now, that number is 750,000, according to word from CEO Daniel Ek. But the prospects of entering the US this year are slim-to-zilch, and Ek conceded as much during a recent D:Dive Into Mobile chit-chat. Bigger numbers, same ...

News: Festival

Festival Passes on Sale Now in Time for Christmas!

December 10, 2010

Due to popular demand after last summer's triumphant TD Ottawa International Jazz Festival, advanced Festival passes are on sale now! Festival Gold Circle ($282.50—HST included), Bronze ($158.20—HST included) and Student ($73.45—HST included) Passes are on sale for Festival members only until December 17 and for the general public on December 18! In partnership with some of ...

News: Obituary

James Moody, 1925-2010

December 10, 2010

We knew it was coming. That doesn't make it easier. James Moody died this afternoon of the pancreatic cancer he had known about for nearly a year but did not make public untilNovember. He was 85. Moody was in hospice in San Diego, his hometown for many years. His wife Linda was by his side, as ...

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News: Interview

Latin Jazz Conversations: Samuel Quinto (Part 1)

December 10, 2010

Our early years put a lot of pieces in place for us artistically, but they never cement our musical future into place. The sights and sounds of our childhood certainly stay with us, building an unconscious foundation for our future endeavors. They become a comfort zone and the measuring stick for all the music that we ...

News: Radio

The Jazz Session #223: Gabriel Gloege

December 10, 2010

Drummer Gabriel Gloeges Dymaxion Quartet takes inspiration from Buckminster Fuller and photographer Asca S.R. Aull on the album Sympathetic Vibrations. In this interview, Gloege talks about those two sources of inspiration; how Fullers ideas and Aulls photos inform the music on this album; and how he structures his compositions in the absence of a chordal instrument. ...

News: Interview

Interview: Don Sebesky (Part 1)

December 10, 2010

Arranger Don Sebesky is among only a handful of musicians today who toured and recorded with both Stan Kenton and Maynard Ferguson's big bands at the tail end of the '50s. Don also arranged Wes Montgomery's most popular recordings for Verve and A&M in the '60s, and in the '70s arranged and conducted many of CTI's ...

News: Interview

Daniel Lanois: The Blacker the Dub, the Sweeter the Juice

December 10, 2010

By Dennis Cook Infusing music with soul is no easy task. And we're not talking some stock R&B thing, this is soul in the archetypal sense—the invisible, overarching embodiment of things beyond the world we can see and taste. Soul in music is what makes it more than ditties meant to shift units and pass the ...