Results for "Music Industry"

Rounding up the "Best Jazz of 2008" Lists

December 31, 2008

It's once again that time of year when jazz journalists, DJs, critics and bloggers publish their annual “Best Of" lists, and once again, St. Louis Jazz Notes is going all meta on the whole list-making concept by offering a list with links to all of the “Best Jazz of 2008" lists we can locate. It's a ...

3 Trends Driving the Music Industry in 2009

December 31, 2008

Predictions are easy. Being good at them is much harder. As I've been working on my predictions for the music industry for 2009, however, three recurring themes seem to be dominating the industry conversation as we begin the new year. DEMOCRATIZATION -  Giving entrepreneurs, artists and even fans the tools to compete with the major labels ...

Music is Looking to Ads for Revenue in Middle of Three Year Sales Slump

December 31, 2008

Living Theater Revives "The Connection"

December 31, 2008

The Living Theater is reviving Jack Gelber's groundbreaking 1959 play The Connection, a study of drug addicts (some of them jazz musicians) pontificating on their lives and chemical loves. The cast includes saxophonist Rene McLean, whose father Jackie performed in the original version, and will be directed once again by Judith Malina, who will also play ...

Meet Ralph Rainger

December 31, 2008

Rainger was a very good pianist. In 1933, Paramount featured him playing his music in apromotional short subject that included cameo appearances by Bing Crosby and Maurice Chevalier. It ends with superimposed shots of Rainger improvising separate parts simultaneously on three pianos. Sound familiar? Of course, but it was three decades before Bill Evans recorded Conversations ...

All He Needs is Royalties

December 30, 2008

You may not recognize the name Patrick Halling, but if you’re a Beatles fan you’ve surely heard his work: he played violin on the recording of “All You Need Is Love,” and he is among the musicians asking European Union lawmakers to extend the period during which they can receive royalties for their recorded work. Mr. ...

Writing Nice 'N Easy for Sinatra

December 30, 2008

In the fall of 1959, a dashing Los Angeles writer of tunes named Lew Spence got a call from Frank Sinatra’s people. In between concerts on the Vegas Strip, the most popular jazz singer in America had finished a new album of classic, lightly swinging love songs, “The Nearness of You,” named for a Hoagy Carmichael ...

L.A. Clubs Offer Cheaper New Year's Eve Revelry

December 30, 2008

On New Year's Eve, the Viper Room on the Sunset Strip will charge a basic cover of $50, or $100 with drinks and other goodies included. Venues on the Sunset Strip and in Hollywood are cutting cover charges and drink prices to draw partygoers. The beat is slowing on the Sunset Strip, muffled by a less-than-festive ...

Swinging 60s: Brit Girls Rule

December 30, 2008

In 1968, when I was a kid, my artist parents took me and my brother to London for a few weeks on a budget summer vacation. In retrospect, I wish they had taken us a few years earlier so I could have seen Swinging London at the height of its glory. But in 1968, I still ...

Microsoft Patents Pay-as-You-Go PC Computing

December 30, 2008

Did you purchase the entire Microsoft Office Suite, but only use Word? Were visions of becoming a Photoshop whiz short-lived? Do you only use the Internet to check e-mail? A pay-as-you-go computer developed by Microsoft might be an economical choice down the line. The software giant has applied for a patent that would offer low-priced computers ...