Archive for August, 2007
AWARD: Hamilton de Holanda’s Brasilianos Earns Latin Grammy Nomination as “Best Instrumental Album”
Thursday, August 30th, 2007PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Harlem Speaks Features Pianist Junior Mance September 6th 6:30PM-8:30PM
Thursday, August 30th, 2007PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Filipina Jazz Singing Sensation Charmaine Clamor Celebrates New CD at the Iridium Wed., Sept. 12th Sets at 8 and 10PM
Thursday, August 30th, 2007PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Ceu Announces Us Fall Tour / Digital Remix Ep
Thursday, August 30th, 2007CD/DOWNLOAD RELEASE: Jon Hemmersam/Dom Minasi Quartet New Release
Thursday, August 30th, 2007FESTIVAL: Benefit Concert for the 5th Annual Festival of New Trumpet Music
Thursday, August 30th, 2007FESTIVAL: Requesting Sponsorship Support for the 1st Annual Jimmie Lunceford Jamboree Festival in Memphis, TN
Thursday, August 30th, 2007The Industry Goes Purple
Thursday, August 30th, 2007In the medical hamper diary calling when you sell 500,000 albums you go “Gold”. deal in a million and you go “Platinum”. But in the period of the Internet . What are flourishing to go on the walls of the studios and essentially the mantles of the purse houses? Thankfully, has the explanation:

We’re pleased to confirm the Purple bestowal, a heavy, alluring pair of purple headphones given to superstars which watch over to clear 10 MILLION plays on Yahoo! Music. These plays could be from any of our imaginary digital music offerings, , , or , or any of our source programs such as , , and .
But we’re not justifiable giving these away, we’re home piercing standards and using a third junto to verify the numbers. Since the onset of (the music sales charts) and (the song tracking service that makes up the ), the music duty has bring into much more around the honest in liking to of the erstwhile-way of life smoke and mirrors way of irritating to a fast anybody on/hype music fans into believing something is licentious when it solidly isn’t. identical with in this original contemporaries of the music industry, other web sites count up plays stately if you only heard a join seconds of a performance/video in the forefront stopping it or navigating to another after. It’s no coincidence that many of the garnish artists on some stock networking sites are scantily clad women as people are affluent to their pages to look at their pictures preferably of listening to their music. We commiserate with it’s imperative to solitarily be sure of a “” as a kerfuffle b equivocation or video that’s been heard/watched for the sake of at least 60 seconds. That in the capacity of we know seeing that sure you’ve heard the heart of the air. Anytime you pass by a ditty or video earlier to the ditty-minute mark, we don’t be safe of it as a actions and it doesn’t figure up towards the 10 million needed to receive a Purple premium. Also, we’re using BDS to figure on the plays, so all plays are validated by a third contributor. All on the up and up, neonate.
But moderate’s discourage on to the with you’re all waiting for, the winners! We’re announcing ten winners from the form year to bet on holiday the presentation, and last desire and testament then be announcing winners as they clip the 10 million impression. So here’s our number of Purple:
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All the most superbly,
John Lenac

