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Meet the People Who Can Save Rock & Roll
How to Save Rock & Roll Nine insiders who are reshaping the music biz for 2009 and beyond Ali and Hadi Partovi Founders of iLike.com The Big Idea: Founded iLike, the top music application on Facebook, creating an interconnected universe of 30 million fans. Why It Matters: iLike ...
Gretsch's 125th Anniversary Limited Edition Progressive Jazz
125th Anniversary Celebration In 1883 Friedrich Gretsch established the Gretsch musical instrument business in a small shop in Brooklyn and a heritage was born. Over the past 125 years, Gretsch Drums has blossomed to develop a musical legacy featuring industry innovations, a hall of fame endorsement roster and - of course - 'That Great ...
Songs from the Heart of a Marketing Plan
IN Creator, the rawest track on Santogolds debut and self-titled album, the singer Santi White boasts, Me Im a creator/Thrill is to make it up/The rules I break got me a place up on the radar. Its a bohemian manifesto in a sound bite, brash and endearing, or at least it was for me until it ...
RAC to be folded into Recording Academy
The Recording Artists' Coalition, founded eight years ago by Don Henley and Sheryl Crow, will be folded into the Recording Academy and become an integral part of the org's Grammy on the Hill initiative. The union of the two groups is to be announced today by Academy president-CEO Neil Portnow and RAC board member Irving Azoff. ...
Cleveland's Ante up Audio Recording Studio Welcomes Classic Steinway Piano
With decades of rich musical history, a classic piano is re-born thanks to a recent purchase made by Cleveland-based recording studio: Ante Up Audio (Cleveland, Ohio, Jan 7,2009)--Ante Up Audio, Cleveland's world-class recording facility, recently welcomed a beautifully maintained 1951 Grand Steinway piano into its musical family. This classic Steinway Model B, which was originally owned ...
Turtle Island Quartet Has Blended Jazz and Strings for Nearly Quarter of a Century
David Balakrishnan took a leap. Some might call it brave, others dumb luck. Either way, now he looks brilliant. For nearly a quarter century, Balakrishnan has taken two beloved forms of music — string quartets and jazz— and mashed them into something that is both reverential and ground breaking. Since founding the Turtle Island Quartet in ...
A Heavenly Collaboration: Dizzy Gillespie and Dr. Jazz
In 1993, my friend Dizzy Gillespie invited me to join him on one of the jazz cruises where musicians perform and hang out with jazz-struck passengers. I had interviewed him before, but this would be in a more extensive and varied setting. Suddenly Dizzy canceled the trip, entering New Jersey's Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, where ...
Blue Note's Birthday
Today is the 70th anniversary of Blue Note Records, and -- what a coincidence -- I have at hand an advance CD by the Blue Note 7. That is the all-star band of Blue Note artists on the verge of a three months tour to celebrate the longevity of a company that has made a difference ...
Reed Mathis Leaves JFJO
Reed Mathis Leaves Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey JFJO Following their highest profile year to date, which contained their fourth tour of Europe and performances at Lincoln Center, Newport Jazz Festival, a Guinness Jazz Award, and much more, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey is very pleased to announce the band's 2009 lineup. The odyssey continues with Brian Haas ...
Ramana Vieira Joins Pacific Coast Jazz Label
San Diego-based independent record label, Pacific Coast Jazz, announces the signing of Bay Area-based Portuguese Fado singer, Ramana Vieira. The agreement anticipates the release of their new CD, Lagrimas De Rainha (Tears Of A Queen), slated for a street date of March 24, 2009. We've been looking for a top quality world artist for our ...


