Results for "Music Industry"

Jimmy Buffett is Cashing in on Margaritaville

January 5, 2009

Singers fortune expands thanks to numerous products, marketing deals. Jimmy Buffett, who turned 62 on Christmas Day, has long been an icon of certain baby boomers, who tapped into his tropical party vibe as they toiled in cubicles and offices. But in the past decade this chronicler of Margaritaville has really cashed in on his image. ...

The Culture of Scarcity

January 4, 2009

Will the current economic crisis lead us to embrace restraint and disdain excess? We shopped. Then we dropped. Then we started making culture again -- dancing on the rubble of our own excesses, stitching together art from the ragbag of our desires. Every generation or so, throughout modern American history, the culture of hardship has followed ...

B.J. Jansen Joins Red Holloway, Donald Harrison, James Carter and Azar Lawrence as an International Woodwind Artist

January 4, 2009

Happy Birthday, John Paul Jones!

January 4, 2009

ZEPPELIN'S BASS GOD IS A HEARTY 63-YEARS-OLD TODAY The “quiet one" in Led Zeppelin was also the one responsible for many of that band's innovative nuances, not to mention his strata shaking low end brilliance. We adore every little thing about John Paul Jones - his musicianship, his versatility, his gentlemanly ways. JPJ is everything good ...

W.C. Handy Said It

January 3, 2009

"Then the depression came, and white people suffered the pinch along with their darker brothers. With us, of course, being broke and low-down is an old story. With us there has never been anything else but depression. We have known for years how to laugh under trying circumstances, how to go on living with nothing but ...

3 Great Reasons for Musicians to Sleep Late

January 2, 2009

3 Smart Things About Sleeping Late 1. You may need more sleep than you think. Research by Henry Ford Hospital Sleep Disorders Center found that people who slept eight hours and then claimed they were “well rested" actually performed better and were more alert if they slept another two hours. That figures. ...

The Dead to Tour In '09

January 2, 2009

From dead.net: The Dead will be touring for the first time in more than four years, with nearly twenty shows spread across a month from mid-April through mid-May. The lineup for this edition of The Dead will be the same one that rocked the house at Penn State last fall at the Obama benefit: The Core ...

Bill Ramsay, Octogenarian Swinger

January 2, 2009

LISTENING TIP Bill Ramsay is a veteran saxophonist widely admired in jazz circles across the US but little known to the public outside the Pacific Northwest. Accomplished on alto and baritone saxes, he co-leads the Ramsay-Kleeb band and is the baritone sparkplug of the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra. Ramsay has been a first-call sub on the ...

By the Numbers: Digital Music Sales Hit New High

January 1, 2009

Weekly U.S. digital track sales set a new record Dec. 22- 28 with 47.7 million sold That's a 126% jump from the prior week Why the increase? Filling up iPods and redeeming download cards received as gifts Digital sales were up 27% from 2007 1.07 billion tracks were ...

STLJN 2008 Year in Review

January 1, 2009

On this final day of 2008, let's take a look back at some of the most newsworthy, noteworthy and/or interesting items posted here on St. Louis Jazz Notes over the past 12 months:January 2008Erin Bode says legal woes are “officially over."Jazz St. Louis, SIU-E to host band director academy in JulyVon Doren, Ehrlich ...