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Paul Williams to Lead ASCAP
Multihyphenate Paul Williams has been elected chairman and prexy of the songwriters rights org ASCAP. Williams will succeed Marilyn Bergman, who announced her resignation as after 15 years at the helm of ASCAP earlier this month. Williams, who has been an ASCAP board member for the past eight years and vice chairman for two years, was ...
SAG and Studios Reach Tentative Deal
Negotiators for the Screen Actors Guild and the major studios have reached a tentative agreement on a new two-year contract for the union's 120,000 members. Sources close to the talks say the union's negotiating task force will be briefed today on the proposed agreement, which is expected to be voted on by SAG's 71-member national board ...
Warner, Universal Set Music Deal
Warner Bros. has brokered a deal that hands administrative rights to all of its movie and TV music to Universal Music Publishing Group. Deal essentially puts UMPG in control of seeking out royalties for catalog and future tunes produced for Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Bros. TV, Lorimar Prods., Castle Rock and New Line. That includes music ...
Guitarist Grant Geissman's New CD, "Cool Man Cool"
Grant Geissman Cool Man Cool April 21 Release Futurism Records 2054 After a long flirtation with smooth jazz, guitarist Grant Geissman went back to his jazzy roots and came up with the most personally satisfying statement of his career in 2006’s Say That!, his paean to the golden era of ...
Wally Marks Delevoper Made Room for the Jazz Bakery
Wally Marks, whose family real estate firm helped develop Santa Monica's Third Street Promenade and preserve the Helms Bakery building, has died. He was 78. Marks, who was also a philanthropist and human rights activist, died Monday of cancer at his West Los Angeles home, said his wife, Suzy. In 1956, his father founded the Beverly ...
Paul McCartney, Tom Hanks, Eric Idle, Tom Petty Salute George Harrison
Paul McCartney topped the star-studded turnout Tuesday in Hollywood for the unveiling of a Walk of Fame star for his former Fab Four band mate George Harrison. The ceremony that also drew such celebrity friends and admirers as Tom Hanks, Tom Petty, Eric Idle, Jeff Lynne, Joe Walsh, T-Bone Burnett and Harrison’s widow, Olivia, and their ...
Derrick Gardner & the Jazz Prophets' Echoes of Ethnicity
Derrick Gardner & The Jazz Prophets +2 ECHOES OF ETHNICITY Owl Studios / April 14 Release Change is in the air these days, and change has come to Derrick Gardner’s long-standing group The Jazz Prophets. After over 20 years as a sextet with a firm front line of Gardner, trumpet, his brother Vincent on trombone and ...
Marcus Miller to Play with Bob Sheppard, Alan Pasqua, Bernie Dresel, and More...
MARCUS MILLER, ALAN PASQUA, BOB SHEPPARD, BERNIE DRESEL, CHRIS TEDESCO, BOB MCCHESENEY, MATT HARRIS, SCOTT WHITFIELD AT THE HW JAZZ FESTIVAL Eight world-renowned jazz musicians will be playing together one time only at the 4th Annual Harvard Westlake Jazz Festival on April 18th. The “All Star Combo” will have Marcus Miller on bass, Bob Sheppard on ...
Rob Mullins Trio to Perform at Riordan Fellows Gala Fundraising Event
LOS ANGELES, CA -- Rob Mullins Trio will perform Saturday April 18 2009 from 7-11p.m. at the Riordan Fellows Gala Fundraising Event. The event will be held at the Beverly Hills Country Club. “We are honored to have such a famous and accomplished entertainer as Rob Mullins for our event" says Hao Hu, Riordan Gala Event ...
DCA Presents the Charles Mingus - Son of Watts - Musical Caravan Project - Part II
Los Angeles - The Charles Mingus - Son of Watts - Musical Caravan is a year-long tribute to the life and work of Charles Mingus, one of the most important figures in 20th Century American Music. The celebration began in September 2008 with the opening of the Charles Mingus Youth Arts Center, and continued with the ...
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