Dga Head Takes Aim At Sag

The Directors Guild of America, which has signed an agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, has taken issue with the Screen Actors Guild, which has non, over the issue of union jurisdiction over programs produced for the Internet. SAG is insisting that all such shows be produced under the footing of the union narrow; producers maintain that they must be allowed to experiment with low-cost productions but have agreed to union jurisdiction if simply one union member is employed. The DGA has accepted the AMPTP's damage. On Wednesday, the DGA released a copy of a letter to its members from DGA President Michael Apted saying in effect that SAG's stead (he doesn't mention the sister union by name) would make online experimentation by the producers "structurally and economically unfeasible" and result in new media production gravitating "toward the Googles and Microsofts of the domain" which are not signatories to a union squeeze. The alternative would be for the studios to create "nonunion subsidiaries." Apted argued "Before there tin be a union caper, there has to be a caper. And scorn all the grandiose speak about the coming windfall, new media hasn't yet started raining money. The truth is that for new media production to realize its undeniably brobdingnagian potential -- and create all those jobs we want our members to have -- it must be granted the room to evolve and grow." Daily Variety quoted SAG National Executive Director Doug Allen as responding "I think what really stands logic on its head is the idea that the way to form union work is to encourage signatories to produce non-union under our contracts." �

21/08/2008

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Artist: Coleman Hawkins: mp3 download    Genre(s):  Jazz Other     Discography:      Desafinado: Bossa Nova and Jazz Samba    Year: 2006    Tracks: 1      Body and Soul    Year: 2003    Tracks: 23      Ken Burns Jazz Collection    Year: 2000    Tracks: 19      The Genius of Coleman Hawkins    Year: 1998    Tracks: 21      Sirius    Year: 1995    Tracks: 9      Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins    Year: 1995    Tracks: 9      High and Mighty Hawk    Year: 1993    Tracks: 6      The Hawk Flies High    Year: 1991    Tracks: 1      Hawkins! Eldridge! Hodges Alive!    Year: 1961    Tracks: 7      Body and Soul Revisited    Year: 1951    Tracks: 20      Ken Burns Jazz Series: Coleman Hawkins    Year:     Tracks: 19      Jazz Masters 34    Year:     Tracks: 16 Coleman Hawkins was the first significant tenor saxophonist and he stiff one of the greatest of all time. A systematically modern improviser whose noesis of chords and harmonies was encyclopaedic, Hawkins had a 40-year meridian (1925-1965) during which he could entertain his possess with whatever challenger. Coleman Hawkins started pianissimo lessons when he was five-spot, switched to violoncello at age seven-spot, and iI years afterwards began on tenor. At a sentence when the sax was considered a knickknack official document, used in music hall and as a poor substitute for the trombone in marching bands, Hawkins sought-after to develop his possess sound. A professional when he was 12, Hawkins was playing in a Kansas City field of operations endocarp band in 1921, when Mamie Smith hired him to play with her Jazz Hounds. Hawkins was with the blues singer until June 1923, making many records in a screen background role and he was now and then heard on instrumentals. After going Smith, he freelanced around New York, played in brief with Wilbur Sweatman, and in August 1923 made his first gear recordings with Fletcher Henderson. When Henderson formed a permanent orchestra in January 1924, Hawkins was his superstar tenor. Although (due mostly to lack of contention) Coleman Hawkins was the top tenor in jazz in 1924, his staccato runs and use of slap-tonguing sound rather dated today. However, after Louis Armstrong joined Henderson later in the year, Hawkins learned from the cornetist's relaxed smooth stylus and advanced quickly. By 1925, Hawkins was truly a major soloist, and the following class his solo on "Stampede" became influential. Hawk (wHO double in other age on clarinet and bass adolphe Sax) would be with Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra up to 1934, and during this sentence he was the obvious pacemaker among tenors; Bud Freeman was around the only tenor world Health Organization did not sound like a close up congeneric of the hard-toned Hawkins. In addition to his solos with Henderson, Hawkins backed some blues singers, recorded with McKinney's Cotton Pickers, and, with Red McKenzie in 1929, he cut his first gear classical ballad statement on "One Hour." By 1934, Coleman Hawkins had tired of the struggling Fletcher Henderson Orchestra and he affected to Europe, spending five-spot years (1934-1939) abroad. He played at first gear with Jack Hylton's Orchestra in England, and then freelanced passim the continent. His nigh celebrated recording from this period of time was a 1937 date with Benny Carter, Alix Combille, Andre Ekyan, Django Reinhardt, and Stephane Grappelli that resulted in classical renditions of "Crazy Rhythm" and "Honeysuckle Rose." With World War II coming close, Hawkins returned to the U.S. in 1939. Although Lester Young had emerged with a whole raw style on tenor, Hawkins showed that he was still a dominant force by victorious a few het chock up roger Huntington Sessions. His recording of "Body and Soul" that yr became his to the highest degree renowned record. In 1940, he light-emitting diode a braggy band that failed to capture on, so Hawkins stony-broke it up and became a fix on 52nd Street. Some of his finest recordings were reduce during the first half of the forties, including a stunning quartette variant of "The Man I Love." Although he was already a 20-year veteran soldier, Hawkins bucked up the jr. bop-oriented musicians and did non motivation to adjust his harmonically advanced style in order to toy with them. He used Thelonious Monk in his 1944 quartet; lED the low official federal Bureau of Prisons record academic term (which included Dizzy Gillespie and Don Byas); had Oscar Pettiford, Miles Davis, and Max Roach as sidemen early in their careers; toured in California with a sextuplet featuring Howard McGhee; and in 1946, utilized J.J. Johnson and Fats Navarro on record dates. Hawkins toured with Jazz at the Philharmonic several times during 1946-1950, visited Europe on a few occasions, and in 1948 recorded the first unaccompanied saxophone solo, "Picasso." By the early '50s, the Lester Young-influenced Four Brothers sound had suit a a great deal greater influence on offspring tenors than Hawkins' style, and he was considered by some to be out of fashion. However, Hawkins unbroken on on the job and occasionally recording, and by the mid-'50s was experiencing a renaissance. The industrious Sonny Rollins considered Hawkins his master influence, Hawk started teaming up regularly with Roy Eldridge in an exciting quintette (their show at the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival was noteworthy), and he proven to still be in his prize. Coleman Hawkins appeared in a wide variety of settings, from Red Allen's het Dixieland dance orchestra at the Metropole and stellar a bebop escort featuring Idrees Sulieman and J.J. Johnson, to guest appearances on records that included Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, and (in the early '60s) Max Roach and Eric Dolphy. During the first half of the 1960s, Coleman Hawkins had an opportunity to record with Duke Ellington, collaborated on one jolly case session with Sonny Rollins, and even did a bossa nova album. By 1965, Hawkins was even display the influence of John Coltrane in his exploratory flights and seemed eternal. Alas, 1965 was Coleman Hawkins' last serious year. Whether it was senility or defeat, Hawkins began to lose interest in life history. He practically give up feeding, increased his drinking, and quickly wasted away. Other than a surprisingly in force show with Jazz at the Philharmonic in early 1969, identical slight of Hawkins' work during his terminal three and a half days (a geological period during which he largely stopped recording) is up to the level one would expect from the corking master. However, in that location ar loads of brilliant Coleman Hawkins recordings presently available and, as Eddie Jefferson said in his vocalese version of "Body and Soul," "he was the martin Luther King Jr. of the saxophone."

Musicians' retirement home to close

Ivor Newton House, the only installation in the UK that specifically caters for retired musicians, is to close in October.


The Musicians Benevolent Fund, world Health Organization run the 21-bed home in Bromley, south east London, enjoin that the it is unable to offer the specialist nursing and dementia care needed by its residents, and is determination it more and more difficult to fill beds, according to BBC News.


"This decision has not been taken without a great deal of thought," MBF chairman Richard Lyttelton told the BBC. "But it has become increasingly hard to fill up the home as more and more people quest our reinforcement wish to go into residential care closer to where they live or near family and friends."


Czech director Vilem Tausky and British conductor Stanford Robinson have both been residents at the home.


The Musicians Union has expressed concern at the gag law, which has been met by an angry response from residents, many of whom ar in their 90s, and their families.


The MBF has promised to

MySpace Music Partners With Three Major Labels For Digital Download Service

It takes a major player to challenge Apple's iTunes in the download market, and so far, nobody has been able to come close to the industry leader. But MySpace, which is to social networking what iTunes is to MP3s, thinks it has the answer.

The social-networking site announced on Thursday (April 3) that it has joined with Universal Music Group, Sony BMG and Warner Music Group to form the new MySpace Music, a service that will offer DRM-free MP3 downloads of songs and videos from the three major labels, as well as ad-supported video and audio streams, ringtones, merchandise and concert tickets.

"We're really excited to partner with these industry leaders to create the most ... innovative and dynamic music service on the marketplace and on the planet," MySpace cofounder and CEO Chris DeWolfe said in a conference call with reporters Thursday morning. "MySpace Music integrates the world's most popular music community with the most popular catalog of music content available online from the world's biggest music companies."

At press time, the other major label, EMI, had not yet signed on to the project. When asked if it would be joining in the future, DeWolfe said MySpace would like to "do business with everyone." The company is speaking to a number of other labels, both majors and independent, DeWolfe said, but he could not answer whether EMI would be part of the project.

DeWolfe said that the new features would be rolling out on the existing MySpace Music community over the next few months in the United States and would spread worldwide once international issues concerning rights are ironed out. He would not talk about financial specifics of the deal or nail down the exact price of the downloads, except to say that it would be "very competitive."

Though COO Amit Kapur said the download service would be available on "any device or computer," DeWolfe explained that MySpace realizes that many of its users own iPods, and "to whatever extent we can leverage the environment to make it accessible to iPods, we will do that."

Part of the deal reportedly involves Universal dropping its 2006 copyright-infringement suit against MySpace for an undisclosed settlement. Last year, industry leader Universal began limiting its artists from streaming full songs on MySpace, asking them to cut the clips down to 90 seconds. According to the New York Post (which, like MySpace, is owned by News Corp.), the deal does not involve the transfer of any money, but will give the label groups minority stakes in MySpace Music and a chance to participate in ad revenues that News Corp. hopes to generate from the service.

DeWolfe said the current MySpace Music site draws 30 million unique visitors a month and has more than 5 million artist pages, ranging from unknown, unsigned acts to major-label superstars.

"We believe that the Web is becoming increasingly more social, and MySpace Music is a new way of consuming and experiencing music online that everyone can participate in," DeWolfe said. "Today really represents the beginning of a new chapter in the story of modern music. We feel that modern music is about giving up control and taking the content to the people and letting the people define their own experience. Our goal is to empower users and artists to define their own music experience."

Given MySpace Music's already huge reach, DeWolfe added that the new venture is starting with a "big, big" head start on the competition. Asked if there are any exclusivity deals that would prevent such competitors as Facebook from cutting the very same deals with the labels, DeWolfe said he could not discuss that, but he again stressed that his company has a huge jump on rival sites because of its already large user base.

No indication was given of how many tracks the service would offer, but Kapur said that users would be able to stream all the songs in the catalog and use them to create and trade playlists.






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LiveDaily Song of the Day: The Delta Fiasco - "Death Letters"

Today's Song of the Day is by The Delta Fiasco [ tickets ]. The group's featured cut is "Death Letters," which appears on their forthcoming "Dreameater" E.P.

Kojak

   
Artist: Kojak

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 Every Room On Every Floor

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 13


   
 Crime in the City

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 18

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Hard Rock International Delivers Unprecedented Access to Historic Collection Of Rock 'N' Roll Memorabilia On-Line

Naomi Campbell To Face Assault Charges

Supermodel Naomi Campbell will face criminal charges over her alleged spat with a policeman at an airport last month.
The 38-year-old will be prosecuted after she was removed from the first class cabin of a British Airways flight bound for Los Angeles at London's Heathrow airport.
The notoriously tempestuous star had allegedly lost her temper after being told one of her bags had been misplaced, with claims she then assaulted armed officers who arrived to escort her from the aeroplane.
Although Campbell’s spokesperson refused to comment, The Daily Mirror reports she will now face charges after originally being on suspicion of assaulting a police officer.
"She will be keeping the courts busy for some time,"  a source says.

Kanye West - Kanye West Fumes At Music Critic After B Concert Review

Kanye West has reacted furiously after a music critic gave a negative review to his live show.

Chris Wilson, a writer for Entertainment Weekly, had given West's Glow in the Dark tour a B+ and said the show - which also features Rihanna and N*E*R*D was "the ultimate ego-trip".

And in response, the Stronger star West has launched an expletive-laden retort on his blog.

"What's a B+ mean? I'm an extremist," he wrote. "It's either pass or fail! A+ or F-! You know what, f**k you and the whole f*****g staff."

Wilson had said of West's show: "In space, no one can hear you scream, but if you're West, everyone will hear you self-actualise."

But West said only a "very miserable person" could have produced such a cynical review.

"I actually feel sorry for you guys. Your job forces you to not have fun anymore," he continued.

"Grab a drink, holla at some nice girls, and party b****. You don't know s*** about passion and art. You'll never gain credibility at this rate. You're f****** trash.

"I make art. You can't rate this. I'm a real person. I'm not a pop star. I don't care about anything but making great art."

West, who recently split with his fiancee, ended his tirade by telling Wilson to never attend one of his shows again.

"You're not invited and if you see me...BOW," he added.


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Mother alleging Spears was drugged

Britney Spears' mother has alleged that the 26-year-old singer was "drugged" by her self-styled manager, Sam Lufti, in order to take control of her life, home and money.
Reuters reports that Lynne Spears' allegations were contained in a sworn declaration submitted to the court in order to obtain a temporary restraining order against Lufti.
The restraining order against Lufti forbids him from contacting Spears in any way.
In the declaration, Lynne Spears alleged: "Mr Lutfi drugged Britney. He has cut Britney's home phone line and removed her cell-phone chargers. He yells at her. He claims to control everything - Britney's business manager, her attorneys and security guards at the gate."
Lynne Spears describes arriving at her daughter's home on 28 January and finding her in a confused state.
She said: "Britney... became very agitated and could not stop moving. She cleaned the house. She changed her clothes many times. She also changed her dogs' clothes many times. Britney spoke to me in a tone and with the level of understanding of a very young girl."
The singer's mother claims that Lufti told her and a friend that he gave the 26-year-old tablets ground up in her food to keep her quiet and told the troubled entertainer that she had to take "10 pills a day" if she wanted to see her two young sons.
Britney Spears' father Jamie and attorney Andrew Wallete have been granted temporary control of the star's assets, pending further legal proceedings.
A judge has ruled that Spears must be examined by a court-appointed psychiatrist to determine if she understands the legal proceedings.

La Luna (An Electronic Night Ceremony)

   
Artist: La Luna (An Electronic Night Ceremony)

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 La Luna

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 1

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Wentworth Miller - Miller Will Only Cook For Love

PRISON BREAK star WENTWORTH MILLER knows when he is in love with a woman - because he will offer to cook for her.

The hunky actor, 35, admits he is a disaster in the kitchen, but he is willing to exercise his culinary skills - for the right woman.

He says, "Preparing a meal, because I don't cook. I'm afraid of the kitchen; when the stove's on it makes me nervous.

"If I actually leap over that hurdle and cook something simple, like spaghetti Bolognese, that would really show someone I'm into them."

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Libertines duo reunite to pen stage musical

Pete Doherty and his former bandmate Carl Barat have reunited to write a stage musical together, it has been confirmed.
The pair, who were formerly in The Libertines, will write the musical for the Donmar Warehouse in London.
A spokesperson for the theatre, which is located in London's Covent Garden, said its associate director, actor Douglas Hodge, had been working with the songwriting duo.
The project, however, was "very much in the early stages of development, with no deadlines attached", she said.
According to various reports, the musical will document the struggles of an up-and-coming rock 'n' roll band.
Last April, Doherty and Barat performed together for the first time since the Libertines split up in 2004.
Both have new band projects, with Doherty fronting Babyshambles and Barat currently working on his second album for Dirty Pretty Things.
Their one-off reunion in April followed an interview with Barat in which he said he would be "happy" to work with Doherty again "at some point".
At last week's NME Awards, Barat told the Sunday Mirror he had been approached by the Donmar to write a musical with Doherty.
He said: "The theatre wants lots of new songs. We'll probably have to write about 20."

REM announce new album details

REM have announced details of their new album, which will be released in the spring.
Billboard reports that 'Accelerate' will be released on 1 April and will feature the tracks 'Staring Down the Barrel of the Middle Distance', 'Living Well Is the Best Revenge' and 'Horse to Water'.
Commenting on the direction of the band's 14th studio album, REM's manager, Bertis Downs, said: "It's not like we're going to pretend these are ballads. These are rockers."
Songs from 'Accelerate' were recorded at Grouse Lodge Studios in Co Westmeath.
REM previewed their new material during the band's five-night run at Dublin's Olympia Theatre in the summer.
Listen to Dave Fanning's interview with REM during their Olympia Theatre run last summer here.
Listen to archive Dave Fanning interviews with REM here.

Nas flier for video screening uses N-word

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NEW YORK -- Despite shifting his controversially titled album from "N*****" to an untitled project, a flier touting a screening for Nas' new video, "Be a N***** Too," hit the Web on Thursday night.
Nas released the single "Be a N***** Too" online two weeks ago. On Thursday night, a flier for the video's screening hit the Web depicting feet bound with a rope and swinging above a lawn, as if to suggest that the person photographed was hanged. The flier promises a private screening in New York for the clip but does not specify a date.
The Queens MC recently shot the video with director Rik Cordero in Los Angeles and New York. According to New York's WQHT Hot 97, the clip will feature several celebrity cameos and a plot line drawn from a film dealing with race relations in America.
Nas changed the name of his upcoming album to an untitled LP on Monday, which prompted mixed reactions from the fans. The Rev. Al Sharpton, who has long spoken negatively to the press about Nas' previous album title, called the album's title change a victory in the New York Daily News this week.
Def Jam was unavailable for comment. Nas' upcoming album is slated for release July 1.