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Company: Epiphany
by John Eyles
Quite simply, Company produced some of the most stimulating improvised music you will ever hear.These recordings date from the Company Week held in June and July 1982. Having begun in 1976, by 1982 this annual improvisation festival was an established (and eagerly awaited) part of the calendar (even if the venue and time of year were unpredictable). Typically, Derek Bailey was looking beyond the cosy [his word] group of tried-and-trusted improvisers and was inviting musicians to Company Week ...
read moreThe First Public Company For Jazz 'BeBop' Makes History On The Stock Market
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Sue Veres Royal
The BeBop Channel Corporation (OTC PINK: BBOP), made history earlier this month as the first Jazz public company, giving a Wall Street voice to the world of Jazz – America’s classical music. Many people in the New York area are already familiar with ‘BeBop’ from their programming, including their recent Off-Broadway production God Doesn’t Mean You Get to Live Forever, the New York Jazz Film Festival, and the television series Giant Steps starring the late Mickey Bass and many top ...
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Soaring Music Publications becomes successor to Song-Royalty rights owned by 1950's music publisher Chase Music Company
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Greg Nathan
Springfield, Oregon is not the entertainment capital of the world, but as a result of a long process, it was there, last month, that Soaring Music Publications became the successor to all of the song-royalty rights owned by the 1950's music publisher Chase Music Company, as SMP's Owner/President, Greg Nathan completed the successor process enabling the merging of his parents' music-publishing business with his own music-publishing business, a process that began in 2014. Actually, music publishing in the Nathan family ...
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Franco Ambrosetti In Splendid Company
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
The Swiss trumpeter and flugelhornist assembles a group of contemporaries to play his compositions and a couple of cherished standard songs. Ambrosetti’s fluid improvisations, sometimes with a Miles Davis bent, are consistently impressive. So, too, is the work of the star-filled rhythm section of pianist Uri Caine, guitarist John Scofield, bassist Scott Colley and drummer Jack DeJohnette. Among the highlights are Ambrosetti’s “Silli’s Waltz,” named for his wife. Although one may usually think of Scofield as an earthy player, his ...
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Universal Music Vault Fire Story Could Alter Company’s Valuation
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HypeBot
Recently a new story from the New York Times revealed that a major fire in one of Universal Studios vaults had caused the company to lose more than 100,000 of its master tapes, and as a large share of the company may be headed for the auction block, questions are being raised as to how this loss might affect its overall value. Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 Last week a bombshell of a story from New York Times contributor Jody Rosen revealed that ...
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Ralph Peterson And Company Remember Art Blakey
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Ralph Peterson & The Messenger Legacy: Legacy Alive (Onyx) We continue our survey of albums, mostly recent, all part of the unceasing Rifftides effort to make you aware of music that the RT staff deems worth hearing. As I write, I glance down occasionally at the four stacks of new releases dropped off over the past couple of weeks by the mailman, FedEx, UPS and, once in a while, delivery services based in exotic places like Sweden, Brazil and Japan. ...
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Apple Becomes A Media Company, Pivots To Subscriptions [Mark Mulligan]
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HypeBot
As iPhone and hardware sales slowed, Apple has sought new revenue streams; and like it has with Apple Music is shifting to a revenue strategy based more on content and subscriptions. It will be a difficult and expensive journey, says MIDiA analyst Mark Mulligan' that will reshape the entire digital content landscape. By Mark Mulligan from the Music Industry blog Last Tuesday Apple announced its arrival on the world stage as a media company, using the lion’s share of its ...
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Blockchain Ticketing Today: One Company’s Quest To Overcome Current Hurdles
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HypeBot
In this piece, the people at Project Admission outline how they're working to make the often fraught concept of blockchain ticketing a reality, transforming the secondary ticketing market and eliminating fraud. Guest post by Josh Baron and Stephen Glicken of Project Admission Blockchain ticketing has hit the live event industry with as much gusto as the Internet did when it completely changed how tickets are sold. There are now more than a dozen blockchain-based ticketing companies around the world that promise ...
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Could This Company Be The Last To Distribute CDs?
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HypeBot
While the CD has hung on longer than some might have guessed, it's decline has been steady. That said, some are still turning a profit from this outdated form of music. Here we look at Alliance Entertainment, the largest wholesaler of physical music in the US. Guest post Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 The CD is fading away, not as quickly as was predicted, but the long slow decline is occurring nonetheless. Streaming is the root cause, of course, and ...
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6 Major Takeaways From Spotify CEO Daniel Ek's Fast Company Profile
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HypeBot
Fast Company has published the first in depth interview with Daniel Ek in three years and the first behind the scenes look at the world's biggest streaming service since it went public. While there are no big reveals, it offers a well sourced portrait of a company deeply committed to and quite capable of truly transforming the music business. 6 major takeaways from the Fast Company Spotify profile: Sweden is the key to Spotify's success and its corporate ethos. Asked ...
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Award-Winning Saxophonist Tony Kofi And The Organisation Release "Point Blank" On The Last Music Company Label on August 31
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The Last Music Company
“I don’t think I set out to create a retro concept, but it’s mostly what I hear in my head. Because I grew up in the 1970s, the music of that era which I love is deeply rooted within my musical ear,” says saxophonist Tony Kofi of this latest collection, which features the classic organ sound of The Organisation throughout. The quartet on these recordings first emerged in 2010 when Kofi, fresh from recording with Ornette Coleman in New York, ...
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