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Michael Jackson Returns to Disneyland in Captain EO Tribute
Eight months after Michael Jackson's death, Disneyland on Tuesday will unveil Captain EO Tribute, a revamped and restored music video from the height of the pop stars fame. Following the success of the This Is It concert film, Disney has decided to dust off the 23-year-old music video for a limited engagement at the Anaheim theme ...
Best Original Song Nominee List Missing a Few Songs of Note
U2, Paul McCartney and Mary J. Blige are among those who miss out on the short list. While T Bone Burnett and Ryan Bingham are up for “Weary Kind (Theme From 'Crazy Heart')." Oscar noms -- who got snubbed? By most criteria, Paul McCartney and U2 have little reason to regard French composers Reinhardt ...
Michael Giacchino Was a Crazed 9-Year-Old 'Star Wars' Geek
When Michael Giacchino was in elementary school, all his friends were following the rock bands of the moment, notably Led Zeppelin, the Who and the Beatles. But Giacchino admits that he was “pretty adverse" to rock 'n' roll. “I hate to admit it," he told me the other day, “but I was listening to a lot ...
Copenhagen's Legendary Jazzhus Montmartre to Re-Open May 2010
Denmark's once legendary jazz club Montmartre re-opens in May 2010 in its original premises in Copenhagen. During the 1960s and 70s the club served as a European home for American giants like Ben Webster, Dexter Gordon, Stan Getz, Kenny Drew and many others. The historic re-opening is initiated by the 46-year old Paris-based Danish jazz pianist ...
Say Goodbye to EMI
Moses Avalon I know, I know. I'm usually the guy who's very Bullish on the condition of the music business, but this is one story even I cannot spin upward. To save the beleaguered major label, EMI, its owner, Guy Hands has about a month to come up with about $150 Million to satisfy payroll and ...
EMI Says Abbey Road Studios NOT for Sale
After nearly a week of public outcry over reports that Abbey Road Studios in London was up for sale, its owner, the financially troubled British record label EMI, has finally spoken. In a statement issued Sunday, EMI denied that the studio was being put on the market but confirmed that it was seeking financial help to ...
Crate Digging: The Jazz Record Store as Endangered Species
The demise of four-wall record stores has been painful to many of certain generations, myself included. Leafing through the stacks or crate digging as its popularly referred to these days is the way many of us educated ourselves about various forms of music. There are indeed survivors of this demise, stalwart record dealers who I suspect ...
Other Places: Studios and Sound
In their list of priorities, most serious listeners put music's content before the quality of its sound. In one of our listening sessions at my house, I apologized to Paul Desmond for the scratchy surface of the old vinyl LP I was playing for him. “I don't care if it's recorded on cellophane strips," he said, ...
Mr. Mellencamp Goes to Washington?
Singer's not likely to run for Senate seat, but Dems love his appeal In the wake of Evan Bayh's decision not to seek another term as a senator from Indiana, you could call it a sign of Democrats' dire need that some activists have launched a movement to draft singer John Mellencamp as a replacement candidate. ...
Gordon Lightfoot Lives!
If you could read Gordon Lightfoot's mind right now, what a tale his thoughts would tell. On Thursday, the Canadian news media (not to mention the general population of the Twitterverse) was abuzz with apparent news that Mr. Lightfoot, 71, the smooth-voiced singer-songwriter of “Sundown" and “Carefree Highway," had died while on tour. But like the ...
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