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Posted: Mon 16:09, 05 Aug 2013 Post subject: inferences were being made about an A& |
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industry has had with black artists regarding record deals, promotional and touring support, and the exploitation and appropriation of black American sounds, whether in jazz, R&B, or hip-hop.Last week,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], I followed up with Wulf Müller, senior A&R consultant, and Chuck Mitchell, senior vice president of Sony Masterworks, via Skype. The two had taken issue with the essay, and during our conversation mentioned a number of African-American artists who OKeh is in the process of signing but who for legal and business reasons can't have their names made public yet. Below is our conversation, edited for concision and clarity.What disturbed you about the essay?Chuck Mitchell: From my point of view, inferences were being made about an A&R direction for OKeh in its reconstitution and reinvention; those [inferences] were being made on a very limited sample over the course of building a roster. We started out with these three records [John Medeski's A Different Time, Bob James and David Sanborn's Quartette Humaine,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],
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