Results for "Music Industry"

Gat3 Names Wade Starnes Director of Digital Media

June 30, 2008

Wade Starnes brings over 25 years of music industry experience to Gat3 Charlotte, NC, June 30, 2008--Gat3 today announced that Wade Starnes has been named Director of Digital Media. Wade Starnes will work with major motion picture, television, and gaming industries in addition to producing and engineering projects for music artists. Gat3 president, Glenn Tabor remarks ...

Bruce Janu: Sinatra and Sudan

June 30, 2008

It sometimes takes Rifftides posts a while to catch up with their subjects. On August 22, 2006, I reported the results of research into the matter of a high school teacher who received a lot of attention in 1993 for using Frank Sinatra to punish miscreant students. Sinatra did not come to class to administer the ...

How to Pose Perfect Campaign Question '08

June 29, 2008

When Ambassadors Had Rhythm

June 29, 2008

When Ambassadors Had Rhythm Louis Armstrong House Museum HALF a century ago, when America was having problems with its image during the cold war, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., the United States representative from Harlem, had an idea. Stop sending symphony orchestras and ballet companies on international tours, he told the State Department. Let the ...

Mickey Hart Band Tour

June 28, 2008

Mickey Hart Band Tour Mickey Hart Band Mickey Hart is enjoying one of his busiest years ever with multiple new releases, collaborations, and up-and-coming tours. Hart will be touring behind the Mickey Hart Band this summer with a lineup that is a dream team of some of the best musicians in the live music scene. The ...

Tributes to Bob Florence

June 28, 2008

Friends and admirers of Bob Florence, including his Limited Edition band, gathered at the Catalina Bar and Grill in Hollywood on June 15 to pay tribute to the arranger, composer, leader and pianist.. Florence died exactly a month earlier at the age of seventy-five. In Florence's honor, the piano remained silent. A jazz fan and videographer, ...

Ask David Amram

June 27, 2008

Revisiting Latin Jazz Classics: Manhattan Mambo, Hilton Ruiz

June 27, 2008

he Revisiting series features albums from the past that played a significant role in Latin Jazz history. The purpose of this series is to introduce new Latin Jazz listeners to important albums and look back at these albums in historical perspective. Each entry will jump to a different point in Latin Jazz history - this week ...

Ernestine Anderson's Predicament

June 26, 2008

Around 1955 (I must have been in kindergarten), I went to a concert at the 5th Avenue Theater in Seattle and for the first time heard Ernestine Anderson. She sang with a big band. I was impressed with the quality of her voice, her phrasing, her time, the lack of gimmickry in her delivery and how ...

Coldplay's Strong Sales Buck Industry Trend

June 25, 2008

You can't rely as much on the traditional methods. Near the beginning of Coldplay's free concert at Madison Square Garden on Monday night to promote its new album, “Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends," Chris Martin, the lead singer, joked with the crowd: “I understand there have been some complaints about the ticket ...