Results for "Michael Ricci"

AccuJazz Internet Radio Launches All-'90s Jazz Channel

August 20, 2009

AccuJazz Internet radio continues its periodic roll-out of decade-based jazz channels with the launch of “Decade: '90s," a free, easy-to-use streaming jazz channel playing the best jazz from the 1990s. The '90s were a time of incredible diversity in the jazz world. It's impossible to tether the decade's jazz activity to any single style, concept, or ...

LA Phil Presents Ask Your Mama - Inspired by Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz

August 20, 2009

LA Phil Presents Ask Your Mama – Sunday, August 30, 7:30pm at the Hollywood Bowl Hollywood Bowl Orchestra George Manahan, conductor Jessye Norman, soprano Nnenna Freelon, vocalist de'Adre Aziza, vocalist The Roots Laura Karpman, composer

iTunes Sells 25% of All Us Music, 69% of Downloads

August 20, 2009

But You Still Need To Press A CD A new NPD MusicWatch study shows that now iTunes leads the U.S. with 25% percent of total music sold including downloads and CDs That's up from 21% in '08 and 14% in '07. Walmart (including Walmart, Walmart.com, Walmart Music Downloads) remains in second position ...

Why iLike Sold to MySpace for so Little

August 20, 2009

“The recent distressed exit of iLike reminds us of the need to build real value in our startups if we hope to create lasting companies and wealth... If we look over the past fifteen years of webtime, we see a few categories emerge where real value was created: Efficiency/Cost Reduction (DoubleClick, RedHat, PayPal, ...

Moby: Album/Live Band Tour

August 20, 2009

Moby Announces U.S. Tour Dates In Support Of New Album Wait For Me Moby Moby will tour the U.S. this fall in support of his new album Wait For Me, which Rolling Stone has called “A return to form." For his live show, Moby will be on guitar, piano, percussion and occasionally singing lead. Joining Moby ...

Music Software Popularity Index

August 20, 2009

They've just released the second Music Software Popularity Index for the second quarter of 2009. The ten most popular music software products based on recent search engine activity, are: PRODUCT (INDEX) 1. DigiDesign Pro Tools (13.3) 2. Steinberg Cubase (10.2) 3. FL Studio (8.3) 4. Cakewalk Sonar (7.1) ...

The United States Army Field Band Assists Young Jazz Composer

August 20, 2009

By Heather Santos Fort George G. Meade, Md.-- When the Jazz Ambassadors--America's Big Band, a component of The United States Army Field Band (TUSAFB), were approached by Atholton High School Senior Jonathan Engelberg to assist him in submitting his original jazz composition for a National competition, the band jumped at the chance. The student of former ...

U.S. Army Field Band Soldier-Musician Wins State Award for Musical Composition

August 20, 2009

By Heather Santos Fort George G. Meade, Md.--Master Sgt. Jeffrey Thomas Lopez, bass player for the Jazz Ambassadors - America's Big Band, won a 2009 Individual Artist Award in Music Composition from the Maryland State Arts Council (MSAC) for his original Latin-Jazz scores, “Gibraltar," “Blue Waves," “Las Mujeres," “Chile Sauce," as well as his original composition ...

The Jazz Session #73: Bill Anschell and Brent Jensen

August 20, 2009

Official: MySpace Buys iLike

August 20, 2009

+ Owen Van Natta, the Chief Executive Officer of MySpace, has confirmed reports that MySpace has purchased music centered social networker iLike. Sources put the purchase price at a recession battered $20 million. “iLike users and the artist community should expect the iLike experience to be unaffected by the acquisition," MySpace said in a statement. iLike ...