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Mingus, Mingus and More Mingus
The Naples Philharmonic Jazz Orchestra dug deeply into the music of bassist and composer Charles Mingus in a concert Wednesday night at Artis Naples' Daniels Pavilion. It underscored his imprint on jazz as a bassist, composer and social commentator. The concert included a wide range of ambitious Mingus works, even touching on his early days as ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, May 23-29
A summery holiday weekend will set the stage for some steamy music, starting with some “good vibes" at Jazz Central, setting the stage for more hefty strings and one of the most sublime trios in jazz as we move toward the end of the month. Big Gigs This Week Friday, May 23. The Bridge Series at ...
Bill Holman: 87 and Swinging
This is Bill Holman’s birthday. At 87, the great arranger shows no inclination to sit around basking in the glow of his achievements. He and his band are gearing up for a concert tomorrow night at the Los Angeles Jazz Institute’s Adventures In Big Band Jazz, a four-day celebration featuring music associated with 13 big bands. ...
Sonny Rollins + Thelonious Monk
One of jazz's big turning points came on October 25, 1954, when Sonny Rollins altered the direction of the tenor saxophone at Rudy Van Gelder's studio in his parents' Hackensack, N.J., house. The session for Prestige featured Sonny, Thelonious Monk on piano, Tommy Potter on bass and Art Taylor on drums. Up until then, Sonny's sound ...
LyricFind Becomes Sole 3rd Party Representing Universal Music Publishing Group's Lyrics
Yesterday LyricFind and Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG) announced a deal making LyricFind the sole third party able to offer future licenses for UMPG-controlled lyrics. UMPG will continue to handle direct licensing but the agreement with LyricFind is another major point of validation for the lyrics licensing service. In 2012 LyricFind was the first to license ...
How to Get Your Music on College Radio
By Patrick Hertz of Tinderbox. This article originally appeared on the Sonicbids Blog. College radio is a unique mix of non-commercial stations that range from small-watt student-run operations to huge, vastly influential public and/or community stations. This spectrum allows for most any independent artist to find terrestrial radio airplay – that is, of course, if the ...
New Release Marketing Drivers: What Your Label Manager Needs to Know
By Ben South, The Orchard's Senior Manager of Client Relations, UK. So, your biggest priority of the year is approaching: a new album from the most prominent artist on your roster. You’re feeling organised; with 3 months to go before release date, the album is mastered and in production for physical. The digital is uploaded and ...
How Will Twitch Acquisition Influence YouTube?
By Corey Rice of The AristoMedia Group. YouTube’s acquisition of Twitch has a lot of feathers ruffled over how Google’s influence will affect the social broadcasting gaming site. Will users be forced to login with Google+? Will they have to contend with Google’s voracious content ID system? But the really exciting part of this acquisition is ...
Roland Kirk: Limelight/Verve Albums
With the exception of Sun Ra, few jazz artists were more visually arresting than Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Blind from adolescence, Kirk wore dark glasses and often performed with multiple reed instruments hung around his neck or lodged in his mouth. Uninitiated listeners automatically assumed Kirk's music wouldn't be easy to grasp or likable. The funny thing ...
Crowdtilt Expands DIY Crowdfunding and Ecommerce with "Sell Something"
Crowdtilt launched as a way for groups to pool money and has grown into a multifaceted service for pooling money, fundraising and selling things all of which share elements of crowdfunding. Earlier this year they launched Crowdtilt Open, an open source platform for DIY crowdfunding, and yesterday they launched Sell Something, a platform for selling anything ...
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