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Two for the Show Media Celebrates Another Year Serving the Jazz World
2009 marks another year in the books for the Jazz publicity firm Two for the Show Media. The agency based out of New York welcomed in the New Year with two grammy nominations (Peter Erskine & Arturo O’Farrill) and one Grammy win for Best Latin Jazz CD for “Song for Chico” (Arturo O’Farrill & The Afro-Latin ...
The Piano's Status in U.S. Living Rooms is Declining
They were once a symbol of success and a love of music. Giovanni Lovatelli and his family lucked into a long-term loan of a 1948 baby grand piano when a friend moved to New York years ago. Five-year-old Giacomo began taking lessons, practicing diligently for a year or so. “We had to keep pushing a little ...
Al Haig: March 13, 1954
Like Bud Powell, Al Haig had two sides to his piano-playing personality. He could play as fast and as meticulously as any bebop pianist on New York's 52nd Street in the 1940s, making him a first pick of both Charlie Parker and Stan Getz. But Haig also had a lush, romantic side that favored melody, dense ...
Changing the Economics of Music
Tim Ferriss' 4 Hour Work Week blog has a chapter from Fast Company Magazine founder Alan Webber's new book Rules of Thumb: 52 Truths for Winning at Business Without Losing Your Self. Using The Grateful Dead as a transformative business model, the excerpt contains several important lessons that apply to any artist, label or tech company ...
Music Takes Center Stage in Congress
The U.S. House Judiciary Committee is expected debate the newly introduced Webcaster Settlement Act today at a hearing that will also consider the Performance Rights Act that would require broadcast radio stations to pay performers royalties similar to those which songwriters receive. Digital broadcasters currently pay performance royalties and it is their overall payments that the ...
Top 10 Jazz Ironies
Like the music itself, the history of jazz is loaded with irony. Stuff happens for strange reasons, or there are coincidences that are spring-loaded with unsaid meaning and hidden messages. Sometimes it's the space that says more than the notes. If irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom, as French poet Anatole ...
Peace, Quiet and Pajama-Clad Jazz
Frankie Foye styles hair for a living, traveling to studios and locations around the world to make models look just right in fashion advertisements for such clients as Bergdorf Goodman and Victoria’s Secret. Since she spends so many days working with big crews in noisy photography studios filled with blaring music and inordinate demands, she has ...
Live Nation Attendance Drops 22%. is Live Music in Trouble Too?
Conventional wisdom says that live music is exempt from recessions. Even when times are tough - perhaps particularly when times are tough - people want to party. But that didn"t prevent Live Nation's first-quarter losses widened as the company saw a sharp drop in attendance for North American concerts. Live Nation's quarterly earnings report showed a ...
Harry James: In a Mist
Trumpeter Harry James recorded Bix Beiderbecke's In a Mist just twice--once in 1949 and again in mid-1950. One was a studio date, the other a live radio remote. What's interesting here, of course, is that Bix never recorded his own composition on cornet. For Bix, In a Mist was a piano solo recorded in September 1927. ...
Jazz This Week: Tony Bennett, Umoja Orchestra, Erin Bode, Denise Thimes, a Tribute to Kind of Blue, and More
There's a nice range of choices over the next few days for fans of jazz and creative music in St. Louis, from the swinging sounds of a classic crooner to the percussive gumbo of a young twelve-member ensemble blending jazz, funk, Latin, African music and more. Let's go to the highlights:Tonight, there's a tribute ...
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