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Ted Cohen Gets Google, Merlin, Amazon and Universal Music in the Same Room @ #midem

January 31, 2012

The panel “How To Work With The Fab Four" moderated by Ted Cohen served as the centrepiece of Midem's Visionary Monday afternoon session. The panel comprised Charles Caldas, CEO of Merlin; Zahavah Levine, director of content partnerships for Android at Google; Craig Pape, director of music content acquisition at Amazon; and Rob Wells, president of Universal ...

Techdirt's Masnick Offers "Totally Positive" View of Music Industry @ #midem

January 31, 2012

Techdirt publisher Mike Masnick took the stage in Cannes today offering an optimistic view of the music industry. “The industry is amazing right now... we have more content than ever before, more access than ever before, and more opportunity than ever before. “And this is a good thing," he said. The challenge is very much a ...

Jazz Pianist Yoko Miwa Performing at les Zygomates in Boston on January 31

January 31, 2012

Jazz Bassist John Patitucci Performs at Regattabar Jazz Club on January 31

January 31, 2012

Acoustic bassist John Patitucci is the featured performed at a special concert by the Berklee Global Jazz Institute, taking place at the Regattabar Jazz Club in Cambridge on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased online or at the door. Born in New York City, Patitucci has performed with ...

NAMM Slam 2012: Can 92,000 Be Wrong?

January 31, 2012

Generally NAMM is described by me as a 100,000 square foot Guitar Center with about 70,000 people playing Stairway to Heaven. Not this year. Aside form a record breaking 92,000 attendees, NAMM has grown with the times, expanding from mere trade show to conference, power broker meet-n-greet. Up until last year, had an aspiring artist asked ...

Roger Hodgson, the Voice of Supertramp, Announces New 'Breakfast in America' Tour

January 31, 2012

Roger Hodgson, the voice of Supertramp, will embark on his Breakfast in America Tour next month, kicking off with two sold out shows at the Pechanga Resort Casino in Temecula, Calif. Hodgson and his band will perform all of Supertramp's timeless hits, including “Breakfast in America," “The Logical Song," “Dreamer," “Give a Little Bit," “Take the ...

Ian Anderson Will Return to Jethro Tull's Thick as a Brick for First Time in Decades

January 30, 2012

Ian Anderson is celebrating the 40th anniversary of Jethro Tull's Thick as a Brick by playing the progressive rock epic in its entirety for the first time since 1972. But not with the band with which he once sang and played the flute. Anderson prefers the more intimate settings that a solo tour provides: “The audiences ...

STLJN Audio Archive: John Hicks - Hells Bells

January 30, 2012

For today's Audio Archive post, we feature Hells Bells, the very first session recorded as a bandleader by the late pianist and former St. Louisan John Hicks. Hells Bells—spelled without the apostrophe on the album cover (pictured), but sometimes with it in other references—was recorded in 1975 for trumpeter Charles Tolliver's Strata-East label, though it wasn't ...

Art Blakey Goes to the Movies

January 30, 2012

Back in October 2010, I posted twice (here and here) about a little-known Art Blakey session recorded in May 1956 in New York for The Cool Voice of Rita Reys, a Dutch singer. Onthe album, Jazz Messengers Donald Byrd (tp), Hank Mobley (ts), Horace Silver (p), Doug Watkins (b) and Blakey (d) accompanied a singer, a ...

U2 Manager Calls Google "Monopoly", Spotify "Promotional Medium" #midem

January 30, 2012

From Cannes by Stuart Dredge for Midem content partner Music Ally. Find them at musically.com and @musically. Google's role in the recent campaign against the proposed SOPA anti-piracy legislation in the US came in for a sustained attack by U2's manager Paul McGuinness this morning, at the Midem conference in Cannes. “Why are they not trying ...