August 2, 2019
Jack White’s label Third Man Records recently released a compilation of music recorded live at the Ann Arbor Blues Festival in 1969. On the 50 year anniversary of this famed event, the collection is available on CD and 180 Gram…
July 24, 2019
Bates Meyer is handling music clearance and licensing for director Wayne Wang's latest independent film "Coming Home Again." The film examines an emotional journey home for aspiring writer Chang-rae, as he experiences the challenge of keeping tradition alongside the friction in…
July 10, 2019
Blues legend Jimmy Vaughan has recorded a new version of the T-Bone Walker ballad "I'm Still In Love With You." The track appears on Vaughan's latest album "Baby Please Come Home" out on The Last Music Company Label.
June 30, 2019
The Estate of Aaron "T-Bone" Walker has licensed a special track for the upcoming Steve Miller compilation "Welcome To The Vault," due out this fall on Capitol/Universal Music Entertainment. Multi-platinum rock star Miller will be releasing a set of CDs,…
May 13, 2019
Ernie Watts arrived yesterday in Turkey for a performance at the Zorlu PSM Jazz Festival in Istanbul on May 14, joining his friend pianist Kerem Gorsev on stage. Watts and Gorsev are also slotted to play in Eskisehir on May…
April 13, 2019
Tracy Oliver’s “The First Wives Club,” a BET series based on the film starring Diane Keaton, Bette Midler and Goldie Hawn licensed Ernie Watts’ recording of the Duke Ellington classic “In A Sentimental Mood” for an episode in the upcoming…
April 5, 2019
Bates Meyer is handling the music clearance and licensing for the documentary “Chinatown Rising,” the opening film for CAAMFEST in San Francisco next month. Set against the backdrop of the Civil Rights movement of the mid-1960s, a young San Francisco…
March 4, 2019
Ted Hawkins’ acclaimed recording “The Next Hundred Years” originally produced by Tony Berg for Geffen Records has been released on 200 Gram vinyl by Acoustic Sounds. This new 33-1/3 audiophile reissue has drawn out Hawkins' soulful and gritty voice, embracing…
February 11, 2019
Diane Schuur performs at the Winter International Arts Festival in Sochi, Russia with her quartet on Feb. 17. The jazz singer then takes the stage at the International House of Music in Moscow on Feb. 18. Schuur heads back to…
February 8, 2019
Bates Meyer did the copyright research for the upcoming release by Delta bluesman Leo Bud Welch, due out on the Easy Eye record label created by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys. “The Angels in Heaven Done Signed My Name”…