HARLEM, MANHATTAN: Who are the lighthouse keepers for New York City’s brilliant musical beacon? The giant of jazz known as Wynton Marsalis surely stands as one such sentry, an adventurist and nine-time GRAMMY winner radiating original sound experiences from our musical epicenter out to the world.
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MIDTOWN, MANHATTAN: There’s more than one way to be a rock star. For Walt Ribeiro, Founder of NYC-based For Orchestra, the path to a global music stage is paved with bass clarinets, bowed tremolos – and a brainy, instinctual knowledge of the ‘Net.
Driven with a by-all-means-necessary mindset when it Read more...
The Association for Cultural Equity and Alan Lomax Archive have announced the release of Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World (Viking). This long-awaited first biography of Lomax is by noted NYC-based professor, music scholar, and biographer John Szwed. Szwed is a professor of music and jazz studies at Read more...
NYC-based publisher/original music house Elie Maman Productions has had a busy December, securing several synch licensing placements for tracks in its catalog. They include:
E! Entertainment: “Keeping Up With the Kardashians,” Episode — “Kris ‘The Cougar’ Jenner”
E! Entertainment: “Kourtney and Khloe Take Miami,” Episode — “Scotts-O-Phrenia”
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NYC-based non-profit Music Unites is closing off a successful 2010 with a featured performance on Thursday, Dec. 30th at the Bronx Zoo’s “Sing for Wildlife” competition.
The Music Unites Youth Choir will close the year as the featured performance on December 30th, 12:45 PM, at the Bronx Zoo’s Sing for Read more...
