The Artists Recording Collective (ARC) Record Label division is pleased to announce that Donald Harrison will be releasing a new recording by his trio project with us.  The release is scheduled for sometime in winter of 2010. The group members of this edition of the Donald Harrison Trio are Chris Severin on Bass, Herman Jackson [...]

THE FOUR FRESHMEN and THE GEORGE KAHN TRIO TO HEADLINE CJF FUNDRAISER FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Los Angeles, CA —) The California Jazz Foundation will present The Four Freshmen and The George Kahn Trio at the Catalina Jazz Club, 6725 West Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood on August 8th at 5:15 P.M. The Grammy-nominated Four Freshmen have [...]

Honorary ARC member organization, the Mutual Musicians Foundation (MMF) has a new grand piano. The announcement was made by President Will Matthews and Chairman Clarence Smith on June 16, 2010 as a result of an Emergency Board and Membership Meeting that was conducted on June 14th. After due administrative process and having been presented with [...]

Customer Service and Support is too often a lost art in practice among too many businesses operating in our modern age. Customer service is the provision of service to customers before, during and after a purchase. According to Jamier L. Scott, “Customer service is a series of activities designed to enhance the level of customer [...]

Kansas City Jazz & Blues Past, Present & Future A Documentary Film by Sue Vicory ARC member Stan Kessler and ARC honorary Leon Brady are featured in the documentary film, “Kansas City Jazz & Blues: Past, Present & Future, which premieres May 6 at the Gem Theater. The cast reads like a jazz and blues [...]

Check out the ARC March 2010 Headlines Also, of note in this issue for Recording Academy members … INDUSTRY NEWS | The Recording Academy The Grammy Chapter Govenor elections are still open. Please click on the link below to retrieve your Chapter’s ballots. Your Member Number and Votenet-generated password are provided for you below to access [...]

THE KANSAS CITY JAZZ ORCHESTRA TO PRESENT “Sweet Kansas City” Celebrating the 50 th anniversary of its recording A multi-media concert performance of Benny Carter’s Kansas City Suite along with music by Charlie Parker, Ernie Wilkins and Nat Pierce FRIDAY April 30 – 8:00 PM Folly Theater 12th and Central KCMO The Kansas City Jazz [...]

MLK Memorial Public Affairs Lecture expanded to include filmmaker Louis Massiah and jazz musicians John Blake Jr. and Adam Faulk, March 3 at SU [JOHN BLAKE, JR. ON TOUR] ——————————- Article by: Rob Enslin The Department of African American Studies, housed in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, has announced an expanded lineup for [...]

ARC co-founder, Erica Lindsay just informed us in a recent email: “Also, I just got my letter of acceptance to the American Orchestra/Columbia program for Jazz Composers that Mark Taylor is going to attend as well. It will be great seeing Mark after almost twenty years.” Therefore, of the 35 composers drawn from a national [...]

ARC member Mark Taylor has been accepted into the Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute at Columbia University this summer! “Some of my regular FB visitors may remember that last month I was doing a bit of hand-wringing over writing a “narrative statement of purpose” for a submission packet I was working on. Well, the application was [...]