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Ella Fitzgerald's Never Before Released Recordings

To celebrate what would have been Ella Fitzgerald's 90th birthday, Starbucks Entertainment and Concord Records are co-releasing Love Letters From Ella, a collection of never-before-released love songs. Recorded with some of her favorite collaborators, including Count Basie and his Orchestra, Joe Pass, and André Previn, Love Letters From Ella also pairs the singer with The London Symphony Orchestra for the first time. (08/05) Read

Keyword(s) : Orchestra, Record, Song, Recording, Symphony

Robot conductors could take the baton from us

The Guardian | 18/05/08

There's more to leading an orchestra than simply beating time, but how long will it be before Honda and co make a robot that can understand music too? Can ... More

Ruben Vartanyan; Conductor Defected From Soviet Union

Washington post | 11/05/08

Ruben Vartanyan, an orchestra conductor who defected from the Soviet Union in 1988 and spent the past 20 years in Northern Virginia, leading the Arlington ... More

The orchestra that is saving children's lives

Telegraph | 06/09/07

A 12-year-old boy is on the streets, hanging out in derelict tenement blocks next to a motorway. At 13, he's hooked on crack cocaine, carrying a gun and ... Read

A symphony for Kazakhstan

The Telegraph | 01/05/07

After Kazakhstan's outraged official response to Sacha Baron Cohen's Borat movie - which included a summit meeting with George Bush in Washington and ... Read

Goth queen Siouxsie rocks with orchestra

Signonsandiego.com | 30/03/07

Long before Madonna, Siouxsie Sioux mastered the formidable art of style over substance. Never a great singer but always a riveting performer, the Londoner ... Read

Mashayekhi to test John Cage's unusual music in Iran

Mehrnews.com | 06/03/07

Tehran Symphony Orchestra conductor Nader Mashayekhi plans to test Iranian tastes for the unusual music of U.S. avant-garde composer John Milton Cage, ... Read

Violinist Hits the Streets on a Mission of Musi

The New York Times | 19/10/07

Walking briskly past Lincoln Center with a violin case in hand and a suitcase in tow, David Juritz looked like a busy orchestral musician arriving in the ... Read

UK orchestra 'pioneers' podcasts

BBC | 12/09/06

The Birmingham Symphony Orchestra is to produce a monthly podcast, claiming a first for a major ensemble. Ex-BBC Radio 3 presenter Tommy Pearson will ... Read

The Rise of a Musical Superpower

Le Courrier International | 10/04/07

Mahler's Eighth may or may not be the greatest symphony ever composed, but it's surely the loudest: at its premiere in Munich in 1910, the impresario ... Read

Concerto for drill and software

The Guardian | 14/11/06

Most amateur orchestras expect their players to be able to scrape or blow a few notes to order. But no such restrictive demands are made on those wanting ... Read

When he takes the stage, anything can happen

The Denver Post | 10/11/06

A few weeks ago, Boulder pianist David Koorevaar talked to a Chicago colleague who mentioned that the once-heralded Ivo Pogorelich was coming for a recital. ... Read

Baidu partners up for music service

Variety Asia | 30/06/08

Faced with mounting pressure from international music orgs over alleged piracy, China's top web search site Baidu has announced a partnership with three ... More

All That Jazz doing fine despite doom in music industry

Steamboat Pilot & Today | 30/06/08

For the past 10 years, music magazines have been flooded with articles about the death of the record store. Joe Kboudi — who opened Wednesday with twice ... More

Music beneath my feet

The Financial Express | 23/06/08

Ever wondered what this underground music is, which is spreading like wildfire? Does it constitute Bollywood or is it just independent artists that we ... More

Warner Tells Kid Rock To Denounce File Sharing; He Denounces Warner Instead

Techdirt | 19/06/08

While Warner Music had claimed that it was getting away from attacking fans who wanted to download, it appears that it still has a long way to go. Atlantic ... More

Music, sex and murder

Jamaica Gleaner | 16/06/08

Like businesses, countries have their competitive advantages, things for which they have a particular propensity. And what Jamaica excels at, or at least ... More

Some retailers give vinyl records a spin

GoErie.com | 16/06/08

It was a fortuitous typo for the Fred Meyer retail chain. This spring, an employee intending to order a special CD-DVD edition of R.E.M.'s latest release ... More

'Nashville Star' lassos NBC

The Arizona Republic | 09/06/08

John Rich, half of the country music sensation Big & Rich, achieved stardom the old-fashioned way: He earned it. The Texas native, with pal Kenny Alphin, ... More

Labels eye variable pricing for digital sales

Reuters | 07/06/08

Arguably the No. 1 item on record labels' to-do list for the year is, "Establish variable pricing for digital downloads." As luck would have it, ... More

A new harmony for music labels, TV

Los Angeles Times | 07/06/08

It's the sobering reality of today's music business -- a record company executive can sign a new act and then tell her, "Keep your day job." That ... More

Idol Dominates Charts: Is This The Day The Music Died?

Hypebot | 30/05/08

No offense to Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper or Don McLean, but I think we may be witnessing the actual day the music died and this time I can even name the ... More

The music biz's digital flops - a short history

The Register | 26/05/08

Since the record industry first noticed that some of the kids were using the internet in the mid-90s, it's flopped from one puddle to the next. Despite ... More

Rifflet, Like Twitter For Music

Gizmodo | 18/05/08

I like to believe that all of us have rock star alter egos. For most of us, these inner rock beasts sleep latently, awaiting the proper heartbreak or drug ... More

The Cistercian monks being groomed for music stardom

Timesonline | 18/05/08

Within minutes of arriving at the monastery in the Vienna Forest, I see a clutch of men wearing lederhosen, while an oompah band tunes up for the May Day ... More

Music City can turn a citified girl into a country-hummin' gal

Kansascity.com | 18/05/08

The last time I listened to country music was the summer after my senior year of high school when I worked in a sweatshop in Tyrone, Pa., sewing seams ... More

IFPI Advises Kids to Use LimeWire and Kazaa

TorrentFreak | 11/05/08

The campaign's leaflet (pdf) is distributed through schools and colleges, libraries, record stores, teaching portals and websites in 21 countries. It ... More

Music execs stuck in old time rock'n'roll

The Guardian | 11/05/08

It is May 9 1996, and you are a Senior Executive at a Very Big Record Label, in charge of Future Developments. This "internet" thing is being talked ... More

Collectors record Jamaica's music history

Jamaica Gleaner | 11/05/08

Some persons capture special moments on film, others in personal memories, but for some a good record can take them back into that golden moment. Record ... More

Bands are getting into bed with consumer brands

Timesonline | 04/05/08

Gabriel Hubert, horn player with Damon Albarn's favourite street-jazz collective, the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, speaks with the unashamed zeal of a convert: ... More

Musician Jay's music is given life after his death

WalesOnline | 30/06/08

A YOUNG musician is to release an album from beyond the grave. Singer-songwriter Matthew Jay, who drew comparisons with folk legend Nick Drake, died ... More

Average teenager's iPod has 800 illegal music tracks

Timesonline | 16/06/08

Teenagers and students have an average of more than 800 illegally copied songs each on their digital music players, the largest academic survey of young ... More

The next big Ting?

Boston.com | 16/06/08

The British dance-pop duo the Ting Tings are having the kind of year most musicians dream about: hit singles in the UK, a buzzed-about showcase at South ... More

Death of the folk song

Nationmedia.com | 16/06/08

THE TURKANA CULTURAL FESTIval, organised by the German Embassy, debuted recently to showcase the promise of a region that lacks the advantage of numbers ... More

Day the (theme) music died?

Winnipeg Sun | 07/06/08

The CBC is set to launch a song-writing contest open to all Canadians in hopes of finding a new theme song for Hockey Night In Canada, the head of CBC ... More

Virgin warns illegal internet music downloaders

Telegraph | 06/06/08

Teenagers building vast music collections by downloading songs illegally from the internet should beware. Their access to free music faces being cut off ... More

Idol Dominates Charts: Is This The Day The Music Died?

Hypebot | 30/05/08

No offense to Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper or Don McLean, but I think we may be witnessing the actual day the music died and this time I can even name the ... More

Let's face the music

The Guardian | 28/05/08

It's worth entering the Eurovision song contest, and indeed worth losing, just to hear Terry Wogan attempt to have a huff about partiality on his way ... More

New MP3 Revolutionizes Way You Listen to Music

The Korea Times | 23/05/08

If you are a serious guitar-master wannabe and you want to focus on the tune of Brian May's guitar and don't want to hear Freddie Mercury's voice and ... More

Rifflet, Like Twitter For Music

Gizmodo | 18/05/08

I like to believe that all of us have rock star alter egos. For most of us, these inner rock beasts sleep latently, awaiting the proper heartbreak or drug ... More

Enigmatic appeal

The Star | 11/05/08

I HAVE often railed at the fact that music has become more about the visuals than the song itself. Yet, in hypocritical fashion, I'm going to tell you ... More

Cops on song, criminals face the music

Times of India | 11/05/08

Tirhut range DIG Arvind Pandey does not find fighting crime and music contradictory. "A recent report in America suggests that music makes police officers ... More

When DRM detonates your music collection

Timesonline | 11/05/08

Imagine if you had a bedroom full of CDs and decided to buy a new player one day, only to discover that none of your albums would play on the new system. ... More

How much should music cost?

Los Angeles Times | 06/05/08

hree interesting developments today on the issue of music pricing and price elasticity, a subject close to my heart. While one label starts flirting with ... More

Dolly Parton and Lessons on Bad Branding

Wall Street Journal | 04/05/08

There is nothing wrong with the product. But boy, the branding bites. That's what I thought last night at Radio City Music Hall as I watched one of ... More

Guitar Hero Band Releases First Full Album

Wired News | 02/05/08

Plastic ax-wielding players of Guitar Hero II surely remember the dub/metal hybrid "Elephant Bones" by a band called That Handsome Devil. The song managed ... Read

The music biz's digital flops - a short history

The Register | 26/05/08

Since the record industry first noticed that some of the kids were using the internet in the mid-90s, it's flopped from one puddle to the next. Despite ... More

Musopen puts classical recordings, scores in public domain

Ars Technica | 22/05/08

Pre-twentieth century music all exists in the public domain, but that doesn't mean it's easy to get access either to recordings or sheet music. Want ... More

Amazon's CreateSpace Puts Out-Of-Print Music Back On The Market

InformationWeek | 06/05/08

CreateSpace, a subsidiary of Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), on Monday expanded its print-on-demand CD publishing service in an effort to put an end to the concept ... More

Now hear this: surround sound for MP3

Greater Paramus News | 02/01/08

In the small San Diego County offices of French multimedia giant Thomson, employees crank up Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon," a recording laden ... Read

RIAA wiped off the net

The Register | 21/01/08

A lack of security controls allowed hackers to "wipe" the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) website on Sunday. The existence of an ... Read

Recording industry should brace for more bad news

CNet | 17/01/08

Forget about Warner Music Group's plummeting stock price, or the shrinking retail floor space. Forget about EMI's announcement this week that it's cutting ... Read

EMI to exit IFPI

Variety | 10/01/08

In a move designed to get major music trade organizations to reorganize, EMI has made the first step to exit the British trade group IFPI. Top operating ... Read

Trent Reznor is happy to say goodbye

Sootoday.com | 09/10/07

In a short news post on the Nine Inch Nails website, Trent Reznor yesterday announced that his contract with Interscope has been fulfilled and he is now ... Read

Conspiracy Against Shareaza and Open Letter to the Recording Industry

Torrentfreak | 02/01/08

La Societe Des Producteurs De Phonogrammes En France (SPPF), which represents recording labels in France, is suing three P2P software vendors, Shareaza, ... Read

RIAA Defendant to Appeal Jury's Verdict

Wired News | 08/10/07

The woman who lost the nation's first Recording Industry Association of America music pirating trial said Monday she is appealing the $222,000 verdict ... Read

Warner Music May Fall on Report Madonna Will Leave

Bloomberg | 11/10/07

Warner Music Group Corp. may fall following a report that Madonna will leave the company and sign a recording and performance contract with Live Nation ... Read

Universal Music CEO Doug Morris Speaks, Recording Industry in Even Deeper Shit Than We Thought

New York Magazine | 27/11/07

In the December issue of Wired, Seth Mnookin sits down with Universal Music Group CEO/supervillain Doug Morris for a pretty excellent profile (which is, ... Read

Saul Williams Offers Trent Reznor Produced Album For Free

antiMUSIC | 26/10/07

The Fader Label, the recording branch of The Fader, today announced the release of the new recording by esteemed poet, artist and musician Saul Williams: ... Read

Symphony of Millions

The New-Yorker | 30/06/08

n March, Chen Qigang, a Chinese composer who is supervising the music program for the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics, received a National ... More