Warner Bros. Jazz and CustomDisc.com Announce "Best of Smooth Jazz" CustomDisc Contest.BURBANK, Calif./STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 29, 1999-- Grand Prize Winner To Be Awarded All Expense Paid Trip To Catalina Island Catalina Island: see Santa Catalina. Jazz Festival Noun 1. jazz festival - a festival that features performances by jazz artists festival, fete - an organized series of acts and performances (usually in one place); "a drama festival" Warner Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) . Jazz and CustomDisc.com, the leader in offering the ability to create custom music CDs through the Web, today announced a "Best of Smooth Jazz This article has multiple issues: * Its quality may be compromised by peacock terms. * Its neutrality is disputed. * It needs additional references or sources for verification. " Web-based contest and promotion. Beginning April 1st, consumers will be invited to create and purchase a "Best of Smooth Jazz" CustomDisc(TM), courtesy of Warner Bros. Jazz and CustomDisc.com. Each person who creates a "Best of Smooth Jazz" CustomDisc before May 1st will automatically be entered into a contest to determine the best compilation, which will be judged by Warner Jazz recording artist, Boney James James "Boney James" Oppenheim, (born September 1, 1961 in Lowell, Massachusetts) is a saxophonist who popularized urban jazz (an updated version of contemporary jazz that contains elements of hip-hop). Boney James is a two-time Grammy nominee and a Soul Train Award winner. . Prizes, including a grand prize all expense paid trip to the Catalina Island Jazz Festival, will be awarded to the people who have created the best compilations based on title, cover and song selections. Consumers who visit http://www.customdisc.com/warnerjazz can choose 12 songs from a list of 50 tracks culled from the esteemed Warner Jazz catalog. Featured artists include George Benson George Benson (b. March 22 1943, Pittsburgh) is an American musician, whose recording career began at the age of 21 as a jazz guitarist. He is however, better known to the public at large as a Pop/R&B singer, famous for such hits as "Give Me The Night", "Lady Love Me (One More , George Duke This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. , Michael Franks, Fourplay, Bob James, Boney James, Earl Klugh, Al Jarreau, David Sanborn, and the YellowJackets. Each 12-track CD will cost $15.99 plus shipping and handling. More than 25 leading Web destinations will feature the "Best of Smooth Jazz" CustomDisc contest on their sites, including Tower Records (www.towerrecords.com), Trans World Entertainment Trans World Entertainment Corporation is a chain of entertainment media retail stores in the United States. It currently operates over 800 freestanding and shopping mall-based stores under several brand names. (www.TWEC TWEC Trans World Entertainment Corp. TWEC Todd-Wadena Electric Cooperative .com), CD Universe (www.cduniverse.com), Microsoft Network (shopping.msn.com), XOOM XOOM Extraction of Object Oriented Software Metrics .com (www.xoom.com), Spree.com (www.spree.com) and all 23 Microsoft Sidewalk Web sites. "The Warner Jazz department and its artists are delighted to engage in this powerful promotion with CustomDisc.com," said Randall Kennedy, vice president of jazz sales and marketing at Warner Bros. Records Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an American record label that operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Music Group. It is internationally known as WEA International Inc. . "We expect to gain a tremendous amount of valuable feedback from this 'give the consumer a choice' type of program". Prizes for the winners of the "Best of Smooth Jazz" custom CD contest, include: - One Grand Prize - All expense paid trip for two to the Catalina Island Jazz Festival; one portable CD player; five CDs from the Warner Jazz catalog; the new Boney James CD, "Body Language;" $100 gift certificate at the Warner Company Store; a signed lithograph of the cover of the new Boney James CD - Three Runner-up Prizes - Three winners receive one portable CD player; three CDs each from the Warner Jazz catalog; one copy each of the new Boney James CD; $50 gift certificate at the Warner Company Store - Five Honorable Mentions - Five winners will each receive one portable CD player a copy of the new Boney James CD. In addition to prizes, contest winners will also have their compilations featured in a special Warner Bros. Jazz area of CustomDisc.com where visitors can view and purchase them. For more information about the contest, please visit http://www.customdisc.com/warnerjazz About Custom Revolutions, Inc. Based in Stamford, Connecticut and founded in 1996, Custom Revolutions Inc. is a privately-held company specializing in the creation of custom digital products for consumers and businesses. The company's flagship product is CustomDisc(TM), a turnkey marketing, manufacturing and distribution service that employs the Internet to let consumers compile and purchase unique audio compact discs from music selections that record labels license to the company. To date, the company has licensed more than 185,000 tracks from more than 125 record labels. The company also has established the only completely automated and scalable CustomDisc manufacturing operation in the world to ensure that each CustomDisc is manufactured and shipped on the same day that the order is placed. More information on Custom Revolutions Inc. can be found on its Web site located at http://www.customdisc.com. About Warner Bros. Jazz An industry leader in the smooth jazz genre (Smooth Jazz Label of the Decade - Gavin Magazine) with a growing reputation for traditional jazz (multiple winners in both Downbeat's and Jazz Times Critic's and Reader's Polls). Artists like Boney James, Norman Brown, Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau and Kevin Mahogany represent the next step in advancing the jazz art form and while also bridging the gap to a more mainstream audience. Warner Bros. Jazz is also a leader among major labels in the online arena being the first major jazz label online; JazzSpace wbjazz.com and the first label to present a jazz artist live in concert on the Net (Joshua Redman at the Fashion Cafe, NYC NYC abbr. New York City NYC New York City October 1994). |
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