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Rolling Stones Switch Labels
Ending months of speculation in the music industry, the Rolling Stones have left EMI, the record label that has released the group's music since the early 1990s, and signed a long-term recording deal with the Universal Music Group, the company announced on Friday. The worldwide contract covers three new albums and the rights to release the ...
Compatible Quotes: Composing
You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today--Aaron Copland Well, American composers are the best composers. At this time in the world, we are where the energy ...
Chamber Music America Awards over $660,000 in Grants to Ensembles, Presenters and Festivals
Support for Community Residencies, New Works, and International Collaborations provided by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, JP Morgan Chase Foundation, Argosy Foundation, and CMA's Endowment Funds (New York, NY) Chamber Music America (CMA) announced today that it will award $664,534 to fund 64 ensemble music projects conducted by artists and presenters throughout the U.S. and in ...
Ah Paris, Beacon of Freedom, City of Jazz
With all the theater out there, how inspiring it is to be reminded how invigorating an Off Broadway play can be with just two appealing performers, compelling music and a searching, intelligent script. Lenelle Mose, a poet, playwright and performer, has written, composed and stars in Expatriate," a two-woman production at the Culture Project that delivers ...
Sylvia Syms
In a 1995 Jazz Times review of a Sylvia Syms CD, I wrote: Sylvia Syms had a vibrato like a telephone wire in a breeze. She sometimes slid around both sides of a note before she settled on it. She often added the syllable uh" to the end of a word ("ridin' on the ...
Ghostlight Dominates Nielsen/Soundscan Broadway Chart
The Numbers Speak for Themselves: Ghostlight is #4, #5, #6, #18 and #22 of Top 25 on Nielsen/SoundScan Broadway Chart Legally Blonde Single Debuts in Top 100 on iTunes Ghostlight Records is proud to announce that it has secured five of the Top 25 slots on this week's Nielsen/SoundScan Broadway Chart: #4 for Passing Strange, #5 ...
Ledisi: Once Lost, Now Found
It got to the point where R&B/jazz singer Ledisi was close to giving up on her musical dreams. But then, after years as an independent artist, she finally scored a record deal. Shortly after that came the buzz and acclaim for her 2007 album Lost & Found. Then she earned two Grammy nominations in 2008 for ...
Reporter Tackles Origins of Rock and Roll
Lately, I've been wondering if I was born in the wrong time period. Although I like all types of music, I believe the origins of rock and roll lie in the late 1930s-1950s. With a nod to the rhythm and blues, jazz, country, gospel and boogie-woogie music of the 1920s and the 1930s. Rock really goes ...
Music Producer/Composer Spud Too Tight Creates Hot New R&b Music Style Called "Drag & Push
Minneapolis Music Producer/Composer Spud Too Tight signs Administration/Publishing Deal with Missing Link Music Hoboken, NJ R&B/NuJazz Music Producer/Composer Spud Too Tight creates hot new music style called Drag & Push" Minneapolis - Music Producer/Composer Spud Too Tight - recently signed a Publishing/Administration Deal with Missing Link Music - Hoboken NJ, www.missinglinkmusic.com one of the music industry's ...
Happy Birthday Woody Guthrie
Without Woody Guthrie, there would be no Pete Seeger and no Dylan, Donovan or Byrds. There would be no This Land is Your Land," If I Had a Hammer," Turn, Turn, Turn," and no Dust Bowl Ballads. The trajectory of American folk music would be forever thrown off its established vector. The poor, oppressed and otherwise ...


