#MILESAHEAD NOW ON INDIEGOGO from Miles Movie on Vimeo. I want to tell a story that Miles himself would have wanted to see, something hip, cool, alive and AHEAD. I’ve taken my marching orders from Miles’ mandates (“Play what’s not there.” “Fear no mistakes. There are none.”) and focused in …
The 2014 SFJAZZ Center Gala on May 16, 2014 in San Francisco awarded Herbie Hancock the SFJAZZ Lifetime Achievement Award. With more than 600 guests, the Gala raised over $1.4 million for SFJAZZ artistic and education programs. Festivities included performances by Hancock with the star-studded SFJAZZ Collective, the award-winning SFJAZZ …
Third win in even year cycle for ‘NDN Jazz’ artist. Competition particularly stiff this year. BOSTON- Sunday, April 27, 2014 The Hibernian Hall auditorium erupted with applause as Mwalim DaPhunkee Professor (Morgan James Peters) took to the stage to accept his “Best Male Jazz” award at the 9th Annual …
John Stein has always been, at least in musical terms, something of an international traveler. His long-time drummer and musical collaborator, Zé Eduardo Nazario, is a legend in his native Brazil, and customarily gives Stein’s work “um sabor Brasileiro,” a Brazilian flavor. In keeping with the global undercurrent of his …
Beginning this month, SoundExchange will provide monthly royalties to artists, labels and rights owners signed up to receive electronic payments. Previously, SoundExchange sent royalty payments quarterly to its registrants, and is now the first sound recording performance rights organization in the world to offer monthly distributions. Most sound recording performance …
Musicians today, and those associated within the industry have seen so much change in the music business, that many are left guessing how to reconfigure the business model effectively moving forward. The traditional platforms that have disappeared have left many scratching their heads as the floor fell away, to be …
From the 2014 Native American Music Awards, Mwalim DaPhunkee Professor, a soul- funk- jazz musical artist and member of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe took home two Top Nominee medals and an offer from Donald Blackfox to join the Spirit Wind Records family of traditional and contemporary Native American recording artists. …
Album: “Awakened By A Noon Day Sun” – NDN Jazz Artist: Mwalim DaPhunkee Professor Genre: Jazz/ Jazz-Funk/ Break-Beat Label: LMMGM/ Spirit Wind Records CAT#: LMMGM-116 www.mwalim.com www.spiritwindrecords.us “Awakened By A Noon Day Sun” (LMMGM – 116) is the latest album from NDN …
Annual sales of vinyl LPs have crossed the half a million mark for the first time in more than a decade, revealed a BPI analysis of Official Charts Company data released today. Releases from Daft Punk, Arctic Monkeys and David Bowie have helped push the popularity of the format to …
Jazz Vocal Veteran Lenora Zenzalai Helm Launches Web Programs “Vocal Jazz Online” and “The VocalMusicianshipAcademy“ For Serious Singers In Search of a Career in Music Former U.S. Jazz Ambassador and BerkleeCollege of Music Grad Shares Her Passion of Singing with Up and Coming Artists “Lenora Zenzalai Helm possesses an astonishing …
