Music industry executives and key industry players who died in 2024. Honoring producers, songwriters, agents, managers, lawyers and others.
Interview: Irwin Chusid discusses the music of band leader Juan Garcia Esquivel, who died recently at the age of 83LIANE HANSEN
Both panels highlighted the complexities inherent to scoring — describing it as an intuitive dance between composers and directors or producers, who often know the emotion they hope to evoke but may not have the words to express it. "In a way, composers are translators beca...
This situation lasted until the early 2010s, when the genre was finally “discovered” by mainstream music producers and consumers. However, for many of the very first movers of the genre, it was already too late: who knows what levels of success they could have reached if their music hadn...
The 2022 GRAMMYs telecast on CBS featured an In Memoriam segment highlighting some of these individuals via a video tribute, and all of these individuals who died prior to its print date are included in the official2023 GRAMMYs program book. ...
To add to the confusion, there often have been seemingly unbridgeable perceptual differences between the producers of jazz (performers, composers, and arrangers) and its audiences. For example, with the arrival of free jazz and other latter-day avant-garde manifestations, many senior musicians ...
Tom T. Hall(born May 25, 1936, near Olive Hill,Kentucky, U.S.—died August 20, 2021,Franklin, Tennessee) was an American songwriter and entertainer, popularly known as the “Storyteller,” who expanded the stylistic and topical range of thecountry musicidiomwith plainspoken, highly literate,...
Events:Thornton’s producers forum has hosted speakers including Merck Mercuriadis, founder and CEO of Hipgnosis Songs Fund, and Lee Zeidman, president of Crypto.com Arena, Peacock Theater and L.A. Live. William Paterson University Wayne, N.J. ...
instead of waiting a beat and continuing the song, he stopped cold, looked at his watch and said, “Valuable advertising time going by… dollars.” Joel later said that he was protesting because producers cut off Frank Sinatra’s acceptance speech earlier in the telecast when Sinatra was given...
‘our’ because it’s the producers and it’s me and we’re working very closely together. Tutsijo really gets the style and he finishes it off really nicely I think and if we’re going to LA to write songs or to London or whatever I always try not to go to studios I always try...