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News: Music Industry

EMI Tries to Pawn Catalog to Stop Citi Takeover

March 23, 2010

EMI is in serious talks with other labels to manage its most valuable asset - a deep catalog including The Beatles, Pink Foyd, Blondie and more - in exchange for the $600 million USD that it needs to stop a takeover by lender Citi. The deal would reportedly run for five years, though sources say that ...

News: Event

SXSW | 03.20.10 | Austin, TX - Day 4

March 23, 2010

Words by: Kayceman | Images by: Scott Dudelson SXSW :: 03.20.10 :: Saturday :: Austin, TX She & Him at Rachel Ray's Party :: 03.20.10 by Dudelson We celebrated the first day of spring with some of the coldest weather Austin has experienced this year. With a bitter wind and temps dipping down into the ...

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News: Recording

Patsy Cline: Decca Masters

March 23, 2010

Jazz and country music have two things in common: the blues and a dependence on songs with heartfelt stories. In the case of jazz, those story songs came largely from urban musicals by way of Tin Pan Alley. In the case of country, tunes with tender tales most often came from hungry writers who found their ...

News: Recording

Skope Magazine Review of Gail Marten's "in Love Again"

March 23, 2010

"Never let me go," Gail Marten sings in the opening track of her album, In Love Again. But she's not just singing, she's pleading. And you're not just listening idly; you're transfixed and fascinated by the voice in your ears, a voice of maturity and depth, smooth and airy, the voice of someone who knows a ...

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News: For Sale

Remastered Black Saint & Soul Note Boxed Sets Have Arrived!

March 23, 2010

Just released and now in stock! THE COMPLETE REMASTERED RECORDINGS ON BLACK SAINT & SOUL NOTE CHARLIE HADEN 5 CD SET BXS 1001 OLD AND NEW DREAMS A TRIBUTE TO BLACKWELL ETUDES SILENCE FIRST SONG ENRICO RAVA 5 CD SET BXS 1002 IL GIRO ...

News: Music Industry

Court: Widow Owns 'King of the Road' Copyright

March 23, 2010

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The widow of country music legend Roger Miller has won a protracted legal battle over the rights to some of his biggest hits, including “King of the Road." A federal judge ruled last week that Mary Miller and Roger Miller Music, Inc. own the copyrights to the songs the artist published in 1964. ...

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News: Obituary

Cherie Decastro of Singing Trio the Decastro Sisters

March 23, 2010

Cherie DeCastro, the last surviving member of the DeCastro Sisters, the Latin singing trio that was a part of television history in Los Angeles, has died. She was 87. DeCastro died March 14 of pneumonia at Valley Hospital Medical Center in Las Vegas, said Alan Eichler, who was the DeCastro's manager. The sisters -- Peggy, Babette ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Rebecca Kilgore and PDXV in Concert

March 23, 2010

Rebecca Kilgore is a singer specializing, although not exclusively, in classic songs of the middle decades of the twentieth century. She loves Irving Berlin, Frank Loesser, Burke & Van Heusen, Dorothy Fields, Cole Porter, Dennis & Adair, Johnny Mercer, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller. Dick Titterington, Kilgore's husband, is a trumpeter who leads a post-bop quintet. Much ...

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News: Obituary

Correspondence: Jamil Nasser's Memorial

March 23, 2010

There was a memorial service Sunday night in New York for the bassist Jamil Nasser, who died last month. Among those in attendance was pianist, composer and writer Jill McManus, who sent Rifftides a report. There was a sizable crowd at Saint Peter's Church in Manhattan on the evening of March 21st to honor and remember ...

News: Video / DVD

Jamil Nasser with Eric Dolphy

March 23, 2010

In a rare instance of Jamil Nasser on video, the clip below shows him performing with alto saxophonist Eric Dolphy in Berlin in 196l. Benny Bailey is the trumpeter, Pepsy Auer the pianist and Buster Smith the drummer. The piece is Dolphy's “245" from his 1960 Prestige album Outward Bound.