Indian consumers jazz up mobile music sales
The News Review:
- Indian consumers jazz up mobile music sales
- PEPLE F NTE: Marlena Shaw: A Golden Voice in Jazz
- At two prominent jazz festivals bright moments and cloudy forecasts
- Jazz cafe strikes note for neighborhood unity
- Colin D’Cruz-jazz musician from India
- Tue Jun 26 2007 (8pm & 10pm) – All ages welcome
- Jazz pianist Xia Jia
Indian consumers jazz up mobile music sales
Economic Times – Jun 26, 2007
And if they are listening toa song when the phone rings they might as well carry on. Because it?sthat ringing tone along with the handset that is coming to the industry?srescue. Indian consumers purchased more mobile than physical music inthe first three months of 2007 and will buy almost nine times more mobile musicthan any other format by 2009 according to data sourced fromPriceWaterhouseCoopers industry associations International Federation of thePhonographic Industry and Internet and Mobile Association of India. ?Whilst mature markets like Australia and the United Stateswill see growing online music revenues at 1:1 online: mobile or greateremerging markets like India will be virtually 100% mobile music-oriented?the data says.
PEPLE F NTE: Marlena Shaw: A Golden Voice in Jazz
Eurweb.com – Jun 26, 2007
Born Marlina Burgess in 1942 in Valhalla New York Marlena was influenced by a musical family who enjoyed gospel music. Thus it was no surprise when Marlena became involved with several gospel groups. Later her uncle Jimmy Burgess exposed her to jazz music. Shaw appeared on the Apollo stage with her uncle Burgess. They were so well received that they were booked for a return engagement however Burgess had another gig so was unable to make the second appearance at the Apollo leaving Marlena to make her first solo performance at the ripe old age of 10. Although Marlena attended State Teacher?s College in Potsdam NY she dropped out before graduating in order to continue her pursuit of music. She worked with Howard McGhee and his trio.
At two prominent jazz festivals bright moments and cloudy forecasts
Village Voice – Jun 26, 2007
‘ But now I’m off to other combats. Referring to the strange spot so much of jazz finds itself in—once commanding popular appeal now an art-music stepchild—Voice critic Francis Davis noted: “The musicians find themselves between a rock and a hard place or as it were between rock and a classical place. Maybe the matter was best addressed during Vision’s opening night. Seated at a small electronic keyboard multi-instrumentalist Cooper-Moore led an ensemble including alto sax cello drums and dancer Marlies Yearby. The group began with an earnest rendition of the traditional spiritual “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” and ended with Cooper-Moore’s grumblings over the music: “Bastard.
Jazz cafe strikes note for neighborhood unity
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription… – Jun 26, 2007
wants his coffee shop to be a gathering place where people can connect and build community kinship. In addition to a hot cup of joe patrons can surf the Internet sit and talk or watch TV as jazz music pipes in softly over the sound system. The three-employee shop serves breakfast and lunch and offers sandwiches soups and wraps. “We used to be a community that talked to one another. We’ve lost that” says Belton who can be found most mornings at the front counter of his cafe whipping up his premium espresso. “We’ve found that many relationships are started and built through venues like this.
Colin D’Cruz-jazz musician from India
eJazzNews – Jun 26, 2007
Meanwhile over two thousand years ago Indian classical musicians were busy setting the rules for those American musician’s joy. If jazz is improvised music Indian classical music is jazz! Now that we’ve discovered who really discovered jazz it’s time to take a good look at the state of jazz in India. The name of India’s most popular live jazz venue located in Mumbai tells the story loud and clear. It started as ‘Jazz by the bay’ changed to ‘Not just jazz by the bay’ and should now be called ‘Just not jazz by the bay’! Granted jazz has a niche audience and commercial music rules but then a few years later the same commercial music that rules is ruled out while jazz blissfully evolves embracing all other forms of music along the way. We now have rock-jazz pop-jazz funk-jazz latin-jazz hip-hop-jazz indo-jazz… If jazz is improvised music Indian classical music is jazz! Now that we’ve discovered who really discovered jazz it’s time to take a good look at the state of jazz in India. The name of India’s most popular live jazz venue located in Mumbai tells the story loud and clear. It started as ‘Jazz by the bay’ changed to ‘Not just jazz by the bay’ and should now be called ‘Just not jazz by the bay’! Granted jazz has a niche audience and commercial music rules but then a few years later the same commercial music that rules is ruled out while jazz blissfully evolves embracing all other forms of music along the way. We now have rock-jazz pop-jazz funk-jazz latin-jazz hip-hop-jazz indo-jazz. to cut a very long story short there is a -jazz attached to every genre of music and there will be a -jazz attached ot every genre that comes along.
Tue Jun 26 2007 (8pm & 10pm) – All ages welcome
SFStation.com – Jun 26, 2007
John Calloway is a multi-instrumentalist performer composer arranger and educator specializing in Afro-Cuban Afro-Latin and Latin Jazz music. For over twenty-five years in the San Francisco Bay Area and the West Coast throughout the US the Caribbean and Latin America he has worked with such renowned artists as Israel “Cachao” Lopez Max Roach mar Sosa Jesus Diaz John Santos and Manny quendo y Libre. John has earned great respect for his arranging and compositions that cover the full spectrum of Afro-Caribbean music ranging from salsa and timba to Latin jazz and to folklore music.
Jazz pianist Xia Jia
央è§åé – Jun 26, 2007
Among the current crop of young talents Xia Jia stands out. His professional skills and innovative compositions incorporate music elements both eastern and western. In today’s “List” we step up to listen to Xia Jia to his life’s philosophy his music and all that Jazz. It’s the debut public appearance of Xia Jia’s Beijing City Jazz rchestra. Their performance: at the capital’s Nine Gates Jazz Festival last month. Xia Jia said “The brass instruments musicians in Beijing are enough for a big band. And I’m confident of getting them together and forming a band.