Quincy Jones Inks Two-Book Deal with Insight Editions
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 1 -- Insight Editions is pleased to
announce a two-book publication agreement with the legendary Quincy Jones.
The first volume, The Complete Quincy Jones: My Journey & Passions: Photos,
Letters, Memories & More from Q's Personal Collection will be published
October 28, 2008. Quincy Jones: 60 Years of American Music is scheduled for
a September 2009 release. Random House distributes Insight Editions, an
imprint of Palace Publishing Group, to the trade.
In honor of Quincy Jones' seventy-fifth birthday, he is opening his
private archives for the first time ever, offering an inner look into
his imaging, enterprise, and humanity in The Complete Quincy Jones: My
Journey & Passions. "The length, breadth, and diverseness of Quincy Jones'
career may only be known for the showtime time through this comprehensive and
visually stimulating mass," explains Raoul Goff, Publisher and CEO of
Insight Editions. "His creative genius crosses not only all genres of
music, but likewise TV, film, broadcasting, magazine publisher publishing, philanthropy,
activism, and style! We are honored to bring light to the various talents
and achievements of someone in our day and metre who is truly a living
legend."
The Complete Quincy Jones: My Journey & Passions examines the
virtuosity of the piece Frank Sinatra named "Q," celebrating his prolific
contribution to American art and culture. The book includes a preface by
Clint Eastwood, preface from Bono, an introduction by Maya Angelou and an
afterword by Sidney Poitier. Comprised of personal interviews and
recollections from Quincy, this collection peers behind the embryonic membrane of
fame, with over-the-top access to his originative inspirations and
achievements. Through private notebooks, correspondence, and photographs,
Quincy offers unprecedented self-examination into the depths of his creativeness
and the histories of his ventures. From the volumes of his memorabilia,
Quincy emerges as a contemplative and dynamic maestro, flourishing on
intuition and incessantly pursuing the soul of his artistic creation and philanthropic
passions. Recently proclaimed unitary of the coolest men by Ebony Magazine,
Quincy Jones was named by Time Magazine as one of the to the highest degree influential malarkey
musicians of the 20th century.
All awards, under-the-table photography, celebrity snapshots,
ledgers, letters, set lists, and other memorabilia included in the book are
from Quincy's previously unseen, private collection and personally selected
by Quincy. The Complete Quincy Jones is the only official Quincy "retentivity"
book uncommitted.
Quincy Delight Jones, Jr. is the most fertile living music producer
and the creative force slow many of the iconic moments in contemporary
American popular culture. As one of the nearly awarded entertainers and
philanthropists of all time, Quincy has the distinction of being the most
nominated Grammy creative person ever, having received 27 Grammy awards
and a record 79 nominations. Additionally he has earned seven
Oscar nominations, as well as an Emmy for his work on Roots. His debut as a
filmmaker occurred in 1985 when he co-produced Steven Spielberg's
adaptation of Alice Walker's The Color Purple, which earned 11 Academy
Award nominations. Quincy also co-produced the Tony award-nominated
Broadway play The Color Purple. His philanthropic accomplishments include
the era-defining benefit concerts We Are The World, Net Aid, and We Are The
Future. Harvard University named him Mentor of the Year in 2007. He is the
only American musician to receive France's Commandeur de la Legion
d'Honneur. In 2001, Quincy was named a Kennedy Center Honoree, for his
contributions to the cultural fabric of the United States of America; and
most recently was recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts as a
Jazz Master, the nation's highest jazz honor.
Composer, producer, performer, philanthropist, and immeasurably gifted
musician -- a true rebirth man -- Quincy has orchestrated the sounds of
Frank Sinatra; co-produced with and set the ambiance for Steven Spielberg,
cultivated the natural endowment of Michael Jackson, and introduced the world to Oprah
Winfrey and Will Smith -- to name a few. He founded Qwest Records, Qwest
Broadcasting, and Vibe Magazine. Quincy is the composer of more than
thirty-eight film scores and is a multi- platinum-selling musician.
A paragon of humanitarian thought and action, Quincy played an active
role in Rev. Jesse Jackson's Operation P.U.S.H., helped found the Institute
for Black American Music and the Black Arts Festival, and created The
Quincy Jones Foundation in partnership with Harvard School of Public Health
after Foundation, which spearheads several humanitarian initiatives to
benefit Africa and children in global conflict zones.
The Complete Quincy Jones: My Journey & Passions chronicles his on-going
achievements, including his late role as an artistic advisor to the
orifice and closing ceremonies of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, his Las
Vegas eating house and club, Q's Jook Joint, set to open in 2009, and his
current wreak producing albums for Tony Bennett and Stevie Wonder, Clark
Terry and Snoop Dogg, and Joe Pesci, with co-producer Phil Ramone, among
other recording projects.
Highlights of the hardback book include:
-- More than 400 color and black-and-white photographs throughout,
-- Gatefold timeline of Quincy's musical calling,
-- Removable facsimiles of notes from recording roger Sessions with Michael
Jackson, Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand and others,
-- Set lists from Quincy's various groups and musical projects,
-- Previously untold stories about the creative process behind the germinal
productions The Color Purple, Thriller, The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, We
Are The World, and The Wiz.
For further information or to reserve a review copy, liaison: Eileen
Duhne 415.526.1375 / eileen@palacepress.com
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Tuesday 9 September 2008
Wednesday 20 August 2008
Death Cab For Cutie Winter UK & Ireland Tour Revealed
Death Cab For Cutie have a tour of the UK and Ireland coming this Winter, with the U.S. band arrange to spiel their largest venues on these shores yet.
Beginning with shows in Belfast and Ireland on November twelfth and 13th, the band will then head to the UK for basketball team more dates between the 14th and 19th.
Death Cub will be supporting their latest studio album 'Narrow Stairs', as released in May.
November Tour Dates:
Belfast St Georges Market (12)
Dublin Ambassador (13)
Edinburgh Corn Exchange (14)
Nottingham Rock City (15)
Bristol Colston Hall (16)
Sheffield Academy (17)
London Alexandra Palace (19)
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Sunday 10 August 2008
The Verve, Forth
Considering that in a career virtually spanning 20 years that this truly is the Verve's fourth album it's not truly surprising that there's an aura of anticipation in some quarters. While the band's most obvious fellow-travellers, Primal Scream, have at least managed their personal lives well enough to stick unitedly, the rock 'n' stray soap opera of drugs, exhaustion and Richard Ashcroft and guitarist Nick McCabe's feuding lends a fitly lurid subtext to the music. But it doesn't show on the surface. The band sound unbelievably healthy here.
Anyone expecting a new direction will be foiled. While Ashcroft's solo days have tightened a few of these ten songs, by reversive to the more spaced-out territory of their hellenic years the band get delivered an album that will go down smoothly with fans. We get the epic, anthemic moments such as opener, Sit And Wonder, and first single Love Is Noise, alongside the cavernous, reverb-drenched, trippy numbers game like Judas ("you know the trip has simply begun"). Only Valium Skies may possibly lurk a little as well close to the strings-and-repetition formula of Bittersweet Symphony. .
Ashcroft's faux-american accent noneffervescent pays homage to Mick Jagger, specially on the Beggars Banquet-era lurch of Rather Be, yet, overall, Forth is really owned by McCabe. His multi-layered, jitttery psychedelia always provides enough distraction to hold on the material sounding fresher than it might have. There's a sense of the circle taking the leash off and letting it hang, like a post-rave Floyd. Numbness combines David Gilmour's early 70s licks with Ashcroft rustling and intoning like the ghost of Malcolm Mooney. All very cosmic. The only place where this goes a tad excessively far is on the meandering Columbo - a thudding arena thumper bolted onto a three-minute jam. Yet even here the production nigh rescues it, the looped strings existence mind-meltingly intriguing as they blend with more skyscraping six-string work. There very are some genuinely persistent moments here, not least the basic piano vamp of I See Houses.
As to whether you regain this genial of exploration worthy of your tending in this post-Roses geological era is down pat to whether you lost them in the first place. Forth won't convert anyone world Health Organization never bought into the band's second hand stonerisms and Northern braggadocio. However it does brand a very considerable return to active service. Already given a heroes receive at every festival appearance so far, it seems that for the faithful amongst us, The Verve are well and genuinely back.
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Tuesday 1 July 2008
Bass Communion
Artist: Bass Communion
Genre(s):
Other
Ambient
Rock
Discography:
Loss
Year: 2006
Tracks: 2
Indicates Void
Year: 2005
Tracks: 4
Ghosts On Magnetic Tape
Year: 2004
Tracks: 5
Bass Communion
Year: 2000
Tracks: 5
Atmospherics
Year: 1999
Tracks: 18
(II) (CD 2)
Year: 1999
Tracks: 2
(II) (CD 1)
Year: 1999
Tracks: 6
3
Year:
Tracks: 8
Steven Wilson is non a man to rest on his accolade -- care his likewise fain No-Man cooperator Tim Bowness, Wilson isn't content to permit one mathematical group or propose be the nitty-gritty of his musical turn. Starting in 1994, Wilson began solo recordings described as "experiments in texture," resulting in his work out below the constitute Bass Communion. Eschewing synths and keyboards, Wilson, in this pretense, works with sampled unrecorded performances of a variety of instruments, sometimes with the help of other musicians like Robert Fripp, to make a serial of fine ambient/electronic pieces. Two self-titled albums appeared by the end of the '90s, the second of which featured a fillip EP including further work and experiments, patch a third, aggregation various recordings over the long time, appeared in 2001.
Besides this work, two further Bass Communion releases ar available, both of exceptional involvement. Together they contain the amount tot of Wilson's turn with noted subway U.K. electronic artist Bryn Jones, aka Muslimgauze, wHO Wilson first-class honours degree observed via the splendid Blue Mosque set. After a meeting and commutation of music, Wilson was surprised to incur a serial publication of remixes from Jones a few days later on -- he later knowledgeable that Jones was constantly compelled to "meliorate" music granted to him. Inspired by the results -- one No-Man remix later appeared on a formal single outlet -- Wilson proposed a collaborative exploit involving swapping tracks back and forth, which Jones merrily agreed to. A full album titled Bass Communion vs. Muslimgauze was completed just did non go through release before Jones' premature decease in 1998. It appeared the following twelvemonth, patch Wilson completed two last-place tracks for a similarly highborn EP released in 2000.
Lust Of Decay
Thursday 19 June 2008
License to print money for Disney
$30 billion in branded retail sales projected for 2008
Branded entertainment merchandise has become an expanding business for those sector players who this week are showcasing their latest dolls, video games and other consumer product wares in the Big Apple.
Driven by such franchises as Hannah Montana, "High School Musical," "Cars" and Disney Princess, retail sales of merchandise licensed by the Walt Disney Co. are on track to rise 12% to a record $30 billion-plus globally this fiscal year, which ends September 30. Disney Consumer Products chairman Andy Mooney made the projection Tuesday at the International Licensing Expo.
Disney and other licensors usually receive a licensing fee of 5%-15% of total retail sales of product associated with their brands, according to experts. So, while the $30 billion translates into much less direct revenue for Disney, it is nonetheless fast becoming a key contributor for the company.
Disney is widely acknowledged as the entertainment company with the highest consumer products revenue. "Disney is unlike any other media major in its efforts, and ability, to build character franchises that can be evergreen in nature," said Miller Tabak analyst David Joyce.
Others also have used the power of their brands to boost their game in this growth business.
Time Warner's Warner Bros. Consumer Products unit expects to see about $6 billion in retail sales this year, a spokesman said. At the Licensing Expo, Warners is showcasing such franchises as Batman, Harry Potter, Looney Tunes, Wonder Woman, Supergirl and Scooby-Doo.
Viacom Inc.'s Nickelodeon, generally seen as the number three entertainment and the top TV-driven licensor, had consumer products retail sales of about $5 billion last year, according to a spokeswoman. Its key franchises include SpongeBob SquarePants. The figures don't include Viacom's other MTV Networks brands, BET or Paramount, which all have their own consumer products businesses.
Companies have struck deals with toy firms, apparel makers and the like who want to tap into the power of film and TV characters, which were the only growth segment across all licensing royalty categories last year, according to the International Licensing Industry Merchandisers' Assn.
For 2007, entertainment character-based licensing revenue reached $2.71 billion, up 1.1% from the previous year, LIMA estimates. That was 45% of the licensing total of $5.99 billion.
While consumer product licensing has been an expanding activity for many entertainment giants, most companies don't disclose detailed financials. Disney's recent re-entry into the Disney Stores with a different business model "is part of the reason, I imagine, (why) they are starting to emphasize publicly their merchandising efforts and metrics," Joyce said.
For Disney, the $30 billion target for this year -- with about 40% coming from North America -- compares to $13 billion just five years ago. Mooney said if trends continue, sales of Disney merchandise by the firm itself and its licensees would surpass $40 billion in about three years. He's already aiming for $50 billion over the next five to seven years.
Disney's "tween" franchises are key growth drivers, with the company predicting that "High School Musical" and "Hannah Montana" combined would reach $2.7 billion in sales for fiscal year 2008. That's nearly seven times the $400 million recorded in the year-ago period.
Mooney suggested Tuesday that the Jonas Brothers, who star in the "Camp Rock" movie that premieres June 20 on the Disney Channel, could well become a third major tween franchise worth about the same as the first two.
"We're nowhere close to being overdistributed," leaving room for further upside in consumer product licensing, Mooney said.
For example, he said that Disney products' share of the children's apparel market is only 2%, and most other categories have a share that can be calculated in fractions of a percentage point. Only in the toy segment is Disney's percentage higher.
And Mooney notes that popular entertainment consumer products are recession-proof. "People on the fringes really suffer through a recession" while consumers continue to pay for strong established brands, he said.
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Wednesday 11 June 2008
McFerrin, Bobby and Chick Corea
Artist: McFerrin, Bobby and Chick Corea
Genre(s):
Pop
Discography:
The Mozart Sessions
Year: 1996
Tracks: 7
Hudson Tunes Up for Record Release
Wednesday 4 June 2008
Zac Efron in Me and Orson Welles
'High School Musical' star Zac Efron is set to star in Richard Linklater's next film 'Me and Orson Welles'.
Based on a novel by Robert Kaplow, the film is set in 1937. The director of 'A Scanner Darkly' has cast the pre-teen idol as a student living in New York, who strolls into the legendary Mercury Theatre founded by Orson Welles.
Once there he gets cast in Welles' production of 'Julius Caesar' and spends a week learning from the legend.
The Hollywood Reporter also reveals that Christian McKay has been cast as Welles, with Ben Chaplain set to play the actor George Coulouris.
Based on a novel by Robert Kaplow, the film is set in 1937. The director of 'A Scanner Darkly' has cast the pre-teen idol as a student living in New York, who strolls into the legendary Mercury Theatre founded by Orson Welles.
Once there he gets cast in Welles' production of 'Julius Caesar' and spends a week learning from the legend.
The Hollywood Reporter also reveals that Christian McKay has been cast as Welles, with Ben Chaplain set to play the actor George Coulouris.
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