QUINN RECORDS TM RELEASES NEW ALBUM ON NOVEMBER 5 THE BEST OF OLIVER JOHNSON

by Dwight L. Quinn
09/29/2013

Two time Sodexho Award-winning blues/soul/jazz trumpeter Oliver Johnson is  one of the most proliferated trumpet greats of all time....Oliver, known as the guy who brought the trumpet to Soul." On November 5, 2013 Quinn Records TM will release The Best of Oliver Johnson, a rocking collection of Oliver's top tunes  celebrating Oliver's six years as an international blues/soul/jazz recording artist and a professional musical experience that started  at age seven. Recorded in Centreville, Illinois and produced by Quinn Records TM producer/ songwriter/ label owner,Dwight L. Quinn the album is a mix of blues and soul sounds that allowed Oliver to stretch his thundering-trumpet solo's to all time highs.

Oliver wrote,You Make Me Sing The Blues track, Quinn wrote five additional tracks and the album was topped with four covers. The songs were collected from Oliver's best-sellers. The Best of Oliver Johnson will bring Oliver's discography to nine albums,since signing with Quinn Records TM in 2004.

 Making up the core of Oliver's Nite Train band on the CD are Benton (drums), Henry Taylor
(guitar), Oliver (keyboards), Nephew Davis (bass), Oliver (Trumpet). Oswald Peters and Julio each add guitar to three tracks. Oliver, who vocal duties are to wam-bam the audience, was inspired by the sessions to monorate in the songs, something that ole band musician use to do, talk to the audience and/or the band members while the song is in play, singing If You Repay Evil For Good,Oliver would break out and direct his Nite Train Band and shout out to whoever is listening that it's hot up in here, making The Best of Oliver Johnson the most personal, free-jamming and just plain fun recording of  his nearly four-decade career.

According to Oliver, "I have a personal attachment to the music in this album. Mr. Harry Turner my music teacher while in high school would always reminded me that music is about feeling -- And I don't ever forget that".
My hope is that everyone who listens to,The Best of Oliver Johnson feels it. I know that I sure did!" Oliver  is signed with the prestigious LA De Da Entertainment and Events in St. Louis and he will be touring nationally in support of the album.

Oliver's history is proof that dreams do come true. Oliver at age six, began his study as a vocalist with his mother,Roberta Johnson of Uttica Mississippi. Roberta, who was a gospel church singer, also introduced Oliver to the music of performers like Louis Armstrong and Nancy Wilson. When Oliver was eight years old, a famous jazz organist Tabb Smith and his groups use to rehearse in Oliver's home. At ten years old, Oliver started the study of the trumpet with Mr. Harry Turner of the Count Basie Band.

Oliver's first professional performances at thirteen, started at the Cosmo Hall in East St. Louis that featured regular acts like Ike Turner, Johnny Johnson, Chuck Berry, Little Milton and Albert King.
After high school Oliver started touring with Waestmoreland, Inc. The Band that eventually became Albert King's Band included Motown-Recording regulars like, Tyrone Perry and Paul Jackson. For twelve years (12) Oliver toured throughout UK and Japan playing trumpet and singing with Mel and Tim (Backfield In Motion), Joe Tex (Skinny Leg's and All), Shirley Brown (Woman to Woman), Albert King (Born Under A Bad Sign), Gladys Knight & The Pips, Rufus Thomas (Walking The Dog), and Carla Thomas (B-A-B-Y Baby).

Aside from Oliver's regular performances he has recently played the Black Rep's Production "One More Time". Oliver is mostly known for his versatility in many different music formats, from Be-bop trumpet to Falsetto R&B singing.

He first recorded under his own name with his Cheese and Butter album a self-produced, project with the help of Roberta his mother. Hard Times! was his second project, Hard Times was later picked up and re-issued on Quinn Records TM label.
He made his first solo albums two in the late 1990's, with bands featuring outstanding musicians, including famed guitarist Oswald Peters. With his be-bop sound and rockin blues band (later featuring side man Henry Taylor), it wasn't long before he was adopted by the southern soul audience as one of their own. .

Oliver signed with Quinn Records TM in 2004, releasing Hard Times: On The Other Side of Midnight!
(which earned him his two Sodexho Lifetime Achievement Awards). In 2007 he joined the late Earl Wilson Jr. Gateway Classics annual events!. He won a Sedexho Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006 for his dedication to the arts.
During the mid-2000s Oliver has continued recording and touring relentlessly, playing clubs, concert halls and festivals all over, electrifying audiences wherever he performs. Oliver's 2012 Argosy Casino Show featuring the legendary Richard Brooks original founding member of infamous,Impressions was hailed as an over-whelming success.
Oliver and his Nite Train Band continues to tour and work nitely in clues and venues all around the St. Louis City and Metropolitan area and shortly Oliver  will be touring  internationally with his own band.


The Best of Oliver Johnson proves Oliver Johnson's be-bop rocking trumpeting  is a true force of nature, while his songs and lyrics are a living history of the blues n soul earning him the reprutation as the guy who bought the trumpet to soul.
His thundering trumpet like Gabriel's is blowing the walls of blues and soul away. His improvisations on the blues and soul are full of fun and good humor. The blues and soul don't get much better."

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MOBILE IS NOT AN OPTION,MOBILE IS A MUST!

by Dwight L. Quinn

Mobile is no longer just a luxury, which is available to an exclusive class of society. 

It has now emerged as a necessity for users, developers and businesses alike. 

Users who once browsed Websites now do so, on their mobile devices.
Everything, including payment, has now become mobile.

For the first time, web and mobile measurement firm comScore Inc. is breaking 

out mobile commerce sales by product category. The firm offers a glimpse at what 

mobile shoppers are buying.

Following are select product categories, the percentage of web sales from desktop/laptop computers, the percentage from smartphones, and the percentage from tablets, for the first half of 2013, according to comScore:

Event tickets, 84.6%, 10.9%, 4.5%.

Apparel and accessories, 90.3%, 6.2%, 3.5%.

Consumer electronics, 94.4%, 2.6%, 2.9%.

Computer hardware, 94.5%, 3.3%, 2.1%.

Consumer packaged goods, 95.6%, 3.0%, 1.3%.

Overall, 90.4% of total web sales came from desktops and laptops in the first half 

of 2013, 6.0% from smartphones and 3.5% from tablets, comScore says. 

Mobile commerce sales hit $10.6 billion in the first half of 2013, comScore finds, 

up 27.7% from $8.3 billion during the first half of 2012.

“While mobile devices are already extremely influential in the overall buying process, 

they are also beginning to drive a meaningful percentage of digital commerce

,” says comScore chairman Gian Fulgoni. “One out of every ten consumer e-commerce 

dollars is now spent using either a smartphone or a tablet, and growth in this segment 

of the market is outpacing that of traditional e-commerce by a factor of 2x, which itself 

is growing at rates in the mid-teens. Any channel shift has the potential to be disruptive 

to established revenue streams, and it would appear that m-commerce spending has

reached enough of a critical mass that key stakeholders must begin to address this new 

market dynamic today or risk losing competitive advantage.”

Hence, it would be desirable for you to move with the changing times and adapt to

 the latest mobile technologies. It is no more enough to merely get someone create 

an app for your business – you also need an IT team which is “mobile-literate” and 

can take care of post mobile app development aspects, such as developing an 

effective mobile strategy, promoting the app and so on.

Today, each and every company does need to create a powerful enough mobile 

presence. In case you are not ready to develop a mobile app for your business yet, 

you should think of the next best thing – that of creating a mobile Website to 

showcase your products and services. This Website should ideally be compatible for

 viewing on a number of different mobile devices.

You will have to do a bit of research in order to hire the right app developer or team.

You could ask your business contacts or visit forums online and post your query. 

Once you choose a developer, follow the above-mentioned steps to ensure that your app 

development process is smooth and trouble-free.

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THE MARKETING MIX USED TO PROMOTE OUR ARTISTS

by Dwight L. Quinn


Promoting and marketing of the artist is among one of the largest line item spending accounts in Quinn Records TM’s budget. In a extemely high competitive market it is important for artists to benefit from having promotional support if they are to have the opportunity to build and connect with a large audience.

 Today the marketing mix used to promote our artist to fans has changed dramatically over recent years. Social media channels now complement traditional gatekeepers such as radio and television. With an educated guess,we estimate that just five years ago 75 to 80 per cent of our marketing dollars spent was targeted at broadcast advertising, now this amount has fallen to less than 55 per cent of our marketing budget while the increase in online marketing will reach an expected equal balance between the two media mix of 50/50.

 Social marketing is constantly growing. When we released Kevin Wheeler’s KL&R2 album, I Got My Swag On in 2010 among the top ten things we needed to do in promoting it was to include – the YouTube video (Quinn President Choice), and a music-targeted Facebook campaign, an Online marketing strategy. Several of the channels did not exist when their previous album, Par-Tae! Get Your Groove On  had been released five years earlier. This was also true when we released their latest album If You Need Me! In July, we again had to add several more new platforms to the mix.” The growth of online media has meant that we have to spend increasing resources to supply the content that these channels need. Dwight Quinn says: “The content that we have to create in the digital erea is probably two-fold in comparsion to what it was five years ago; with the people it has almost become a way of  life.” Ronnie Ray promotion manager Quinn Records TM agrees. “You have to be in your best creative-mode when you do social marketing for your artist, it has to be real-real, it has to be home-grown. It has to come from the artist. It can’t be just what we as a company feeds out to the fans. What’s the message, who is it coming from, how does it get to the consumer? We're planning in the very near future the creation of an entirely new digital department, with upto 10 people.

 There is so much we can be doing with our artists, with their content and with their music.” New media channels offer the opportunity for us to communicate directly with our fans. “The internet has become the new television, with immediate feedback and real-time interaction.” No two promotional campaigns are the alike. Dwight says: “The real beauty of the music business is that there are no scripts. It’s about gut instinct and where ever the dice falls.

Why record companies are so relevant is that we can take more risks than any other industry.” In our experience and our research into this subject we,discovered that today promotional activities can often cover a broader range of activity than was once not the case, traditionally. Many artists such as our own, want to become involved in a range of areas, “Some of our artists want to create clothing lines,fragrants, produce their own materials and so forth, so we, like the Major labels are bringing in experts to offer directions to this new, artist goal along with giving to the artist all sort of advice that will assist the artist in obtaining their goals. So we're investing.

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HOW DO A SONG MAKE IT ON OUR TOP 10?

by Dwight L. Quinn

Each week (Monday and Friday), Quinn Records TM puts together a chart of it's top 10 most popular songs based on a national sample of top 10 radio airplay, top 10 radio playlists, and music sales. Since our Top 10 comes from the 220 radio stations, APD,89 Digital Companies,YouTube Reporting, 40 Cable TV Channels tracked each week, let's look at how our tracking is compiled. 

First, there is airplay. What songs of ours that is actually being played on the radio and on music video channels on TV and screaming? Frequent calls to program directors and disc jockeys that reports and have their finger on the music, this is our good measure of what their listeners like. Airplay is tracked through our in-house Radio trackers, Air Play Direct (APD), YouTube and Broadcast Data Systems (BDS), run by Nielsen. BDS uses digital pattern-recognition technology to identify songs that are played on radio stations and music video TV channels across the United States and Canada. With the combination of Physical tracking a.k.a Manual tracking and the incorporation of tracking Technology, we've been able to track 24 hours a day, seven days a week, following over 220 targeted Radio Stations,APD,Digital Distributor,Cable TV YouTube and Spotify weekly. 

 Our Radio Promotions Department manual tracking consist of Playlists and verbal reporting from Radio with emphasis placed on obtaining as close as possible the number of people listening to a the station and we would multiply that number by the number of times one of our songs are played.

 When the company record a new song, a copy of the recording is sent to BDS so it can be encoded and tracked by its system on the stations it monitors. This data is used not only by Quinn in compiling our weekly Top 10 chart, but also by record company executives, radio stations, publishing firms, performance rights organizations (to calculate performance royalties), music retailers, independent promoters, film and TV producers, and artist managers.  

Another measure of what song of ours that is hot and what people are buying. To find out what music is selling in record stores, Quinn goes to Sound Scan  Nielsen Sound Scan is an information system that tracks the sales of music and music videos throughout the United States and Canada. By scanning the bar codes, they can collect sales information from cash registers each week from over 14,000 retail, mass merchant, and non-traditional sources such as online stores, concert sales, etc. The data is compiled and used in positioning the song on our Top 10 each Monday and Friday. Like BDS data, the data from Sound Scan is also very valuable for us in compiling a clear Top 10 Song Chart. 

 Our method for compiling our Top 10 Song chart have gone through a change or two over the past five years. Since publicizing our Radio Promotions Reports and Activities as a Promotional tool, we followed the foot prints of the icon of Charts, Billboard  we to changed the weighting of airplay versus sales in the compiling our Top 10 Song Chart. We found through researching and practical experiences that tracking a single song through album sales isn't exactly accurate, singles sales have always been used to track the sales side of song popularity. But, since only about 20% of people actually buy singles and over 90% listen to the radio, it made sense for us too, to alter the ratio of points. Now, the overall points are weighted to 20% sales and 80% airplay. 

 Quinn's Top 10 Song Chart is an important and valuable tool that let our fans,user of our music, music retailers,radio stations, promoters, film and TV producers, artist managers know what kind of music that we offer and how the music that we offer is performing in the very highly competitive music marketplace. The information that our Top 10 Song Chart gives to the Buyer is precious, it gives the Buyer the kind of Education that he or she needs to make the right Buying decision. 

 Quinn bases its Top 10 Song charts on its own prerecorded music and what is already being played on the radio and purchased in music stores, this is also the avenue to how radio stations find out about our new music. 

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HOW TO OBTAIN A LICENSE.

by Dwight L. Quinn

Songwriters, composers and music publishers generally join one of three Performing Rights Organizations that license their work to the public: the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI), and SESAC . The PROs send royalties to the copyright owners.

However, obtaining a license from one PRO doesn't necessarily mean you're in the clear -- you only have a license for that PRO’s copyright holders. For example, the composer of a song may be represented by ASCAP, while the lyricist may be with SESAC. To avoid this problem, some businesses choose to purchase a blanket license from each of the PROs, which allows the licensee to play any of the music from each PRO’s library. Blanket licenses can range from the low hundreds to several thousands of dollars per year.

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QUINN RECEIVED SOME ENLIGHTENMENT FROM MARSHALL THOMPSON OF THE CHI-LITES

By Dwight L. Quinn

I'm just a bigger fan today as I was in years past of Groups like the Chi-lites out of Chicago, Illinois. I had the pleasure of speaking with Marshall Thompson Saturday by phone in great length. And I was totally delighted with the wisdom and enlightenment that I gained from my conversation with Marshall. He brought me out of that Old School mode and into the understanding of the now a day, what-you-should-know, about the entertainment climate the habits, attitudes and practices that influences the Live Music Market. 

Well it soon became pretty clear that I had been walking around with blinders on, being distracted by the effects, and paying little or no attention to the,cause i.e.(the Market). We both agreed that the Music business has definitely changed and the audience (the Market) that we play to today is just as different as we were (the Market) in the 60's. I can't emphasize enough as to how different that we were. And it's that different that causes,change, how they buy, how they listen to music, how they move it around, what's acceptable today as opposed to what 
was and wasn't acceptable yesteryear is 360 degrees different. But the fundamental foundation of the Business are still intact.
Marshall Thompson new Album, Hot On A Thing is riding on the waves of the today's sound but like a pro, Marshall carefully applied this legendary Groups signature-sound-style that is a legacy of the Chi-Lites. 
For those of you, who haven't had the pleasure of hearing, Marshall's new Album, Hot On A Thing. I highly recommend you to click this link and Listen, 


Just fourteen and half more weeks will mark a very special milestone at Quinn Records TM. It will be 42 years ago that I recorded and released my first album, by a local r&b group from St. Louis called The Amazing Dramas. Thus began the amazing legacy of River City Records and approximately one month later  the label was re-named Quinn Records TM. 
LiL Aaron Mosby’ Rev. Anderson Sparks, Chas. O. Collier & The Original Golden Ares of Cincinnati,The Kirkwood Spiritual Ares,The Masonic Quintet,Albert Phillips & The Divine Messengers, Jimmy Jones’ Carolyn Adams, Terry Williams, Oliver Johnson, Nikki Cunningham, KL&R2, Osee Anderson,Mississippi Red,Melvin "Smokehouse" Moore, Rev. Roy Page & The Spiritual Ares, Leroy Crisp & The Orig. Southern Harmonizers, Carlina Q. Aldridge, James Gilbert all were recorded by Dwight L. Quinn. 
Adding to this musical legacy. Quinn has released over 633 songs, over 50  jazz, 150 gospel and 110 r&b,soul,hip-hop,owned D.L. Quinn Music Publishing and Boogie City Music Group in St. Louis. 
Since 1971 Quinn Records TM is still going as strong as ever with new releases on KL& R2, James Gilbert, and Oliver Johnson available now. GO SLOW-Blues Crossing.

We continue our look at the Boogie City 33 tour scene with James Gilbert feature on GO SLOW- Blues Crossing CD Compilation, Oliver Johnson and KL&R2. 
Oliver is looking towards the last week in September, 2013 to get things rolling. The Show is planned to awesome Artists will be performing the hit recordings and will feature Nationally known Recording artists performing on each Show. Will have a complete Show Schedule a few days and we will posting this Online at Quinnrecords.net.

It’s time for Quinn to get the Digital Mood. We've got a nice bunch of new songs being release for this year and I am making my customer choices easier. I've  added a Digital Download Station category online at the Quinn Store, and I've reduced the songs that I'm offering to you in Digital format from $0.99 to $0.89 go to  www.quinnrecords.net and buy digitally. It’s the fastest, easiest and cheaper way to buy our music..

 And don’t forget, the Quinn Records TM Top-10 Song Charts are now posted Mondays and Fridays on our website as well.


Dwight L. Quinn

Founder

IT'S MUSIC BUSINESS TODAY!

by Dwight L. Quinn



As the model for a label has changed, so has the role of the artist in the industry. 
Artists today are more powerful than ever, noting that an active Artist can reach 
high on Charts today with very little traditional radio or other marketing. 
They are business people, marketers... They know how to relate to their audience 
and know how to connect properly. Selling "Show Tickets" is the Artist goal. The
income is huge for an Artist who sells from 6,000 to 28,000 tickets per year with a 
indie Label. 
Quinn Records TM and other  different independent labels have different programs 
and signing with John Doe label, for example, is not the same as signing with Willie Earl
records. Artists need to be aware of which indie labels do what best before signing a deal.
An Artist that's into Techno Soul is not going to do well with a Traditional Blues indie Label.

And with today's artists having more options than ever of how to release their music, 
The old record contracts are being  tossed aside in favor of a more 
egalitarian split -- and with digital platforms becoming ubiquitous, the differences between 
major labels and indies will be reduced. Yet the role of the label -- as the vessel, the support 
structure and the team assisting the artist in achieving success -- will not be going away.

The power is and always have been with the artist "but the infrastructure and guidance 
of a label is still a very important and necessary role in the music industry."

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NEW SONG ADDED TO QUINN'S PRESIDENT CHOICE CHANNEL-HEAR IT-FIRST!

by Dwight L. Quinn

 Blues This Morning by James Gilbert (QR 121222-1)
WARNING!READERS PLEASE THIS SONG IS THE REAL BLUES- IF SOMEONE HAVE BROKEN YOUR HEART OR THE PEOPLE IN POWER IS MAKING IT HARD FOR YOU TO MAKE ENDS MEET, THAN CAUTION IS ADVISED.
"JAMES GILBERT, IS POURING HIS HEART OUT IN THIS SONG!"

 Blues This Morning is a slow,moody soulful cut written by Eugene Smiley an awesome articulate song writer and composer.Smiley laid down a mixed of styles that you can easily pick on as you listen and involve with this song, for instant the piano part is much a Ray Charles signature, a melody that haunts you, and spells out Little Milton Campbell in all expects, the drive and mood puts you back to top of the sixties when Stax Records began to experiment with Soul and Specialty along with Peacock was putting a New spin on the way Blues licks was being laid down no more twelve bar Blues licks, the search was on for new sounding blues,Soul with deeper into the Church house. Blues This Morning got all of Old Soul flavor put into it. And James Gilbert a young up coming Bluester with powerful vocals is wailing out the sound that he heard from his mentors of the Blues and Soul arena. James has to be given an "E" for excellence for vocal job on Blues This Morning.

 It's moody! It's the Blues."Blues This Morning CD.
Available on CD Compilation;
Album: GO SLOW-Blues Crossing Cat.No. (QR121222-1)
Format: CD/CAS/12"Vinyl/ Digital Genre: Blues/Soul
Order Online: www.quinnrecords.net
 Published 6/27/2013

YouTube Quinn'President Choice Have a listen, "Blues This Morning" Enjoy.

GET A SINGLE SONG OR AN ENTIRE ALBUM AT OUR DIGITAL MUSIC STORE..

The Quinn Digital Music Store has a large music library of the label's prerecorded blues, gospel,jazz and soul music all selected for your best musical enjoyment-- ensuring you that every one of our genre is catered for. You have the option to preview any music track before you buy via a 30-second music clip (for a track over 2:30 (U.S. only). The Quinn Digital Music Store is always being updated with new releases, keeping the selection fresh and up to date.So that you can keep your digital music collection spiced up with the newest and latest in blues,gospel,jazz and soul music
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HOW TO ORDER YOUR MUSIC FROM QUINN RECORDS TM.

NEWS UPDATE:

HOW TO ORDER YOUR MUSIC FROM QUINN RECORDS TM.

Need assistance placing an order? Need to track an existing order?
We can help by phone, by live chat or by email.
That's 3 easy ways to contact us. When you call Quinn,you will
speak to a live representative.
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IT'S RADIO TALK TODAY!

NEWS UPDATE: 
RADIO TALK-GO SLOW-Blues Crossing  CD Compilation

From: Ronnie Ray,Promotions Manager/Quinn Records TM

Below is a fantastic Radio interview with our own Rockin' Blues Artist James Gilbert.
GO SLOW-Blues Crossing got introduced to the Kansas City Blues scene by way of James Gilbert's informative radio interview with Kansas City's  ever-popular radio personality  Mike Lytle,host of "The Real Deal Blues Show on station KKFI 90 FM radio. The interview took place last Friday night May 31st, 2013. James is a native of Kansas City and for some he's a hometown legend. James was invited to the show by Mike to let his fan know how his musical career was moving along and that he has the number one song on Quinn Records TM's  new Go Slow-Blues Crossing album,titled, "Blues This Morning," while at the same time his other fan favorite titled ,It's A Real Good Sign," has been dominating Quinn's Top-10 Song Chart for the past eleven weeks. Mike told James in the interview that this is some good stuff. So, listen while James Gilbert gives his home-town nesting place, Kansas City, Missouri some good information as well as a touch of the Blues. 




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NEWS & UPDATES TO BE REPORTED:

APD Global Radio Indicator Charts ™

Top 50 APD Blues / Jazz / R&B Albums - Last Week, 

(as of 10:18 pm Friday, May 24th 2013)

#48-Quinn Records TM Present "GO SLOW Blues Crossing"

Location: AMERICA NORTH: USA:Missouri (MO)

2013 Summer Release Season

by Dwight L. Quinn

We're well into our 2013 Summer release season. And the Season looks  very good  for CD Sales,because of their unexpected increase  during this tuf economy. Of course that's music to our ear. Since  the past five years or so, we've released our projects in both formats digital and CD. We know that Digital and streaming is a great way for  fans to get their music fast and convenient, but the CD is still the format of choice by fans and industry professionals. In fact this is not a new phenomenon in the music industry. The music industry has always offered music in two formats simultaneously. 
 This Summer we are going to release three new projects and they're all going to be available in both formats digital and CD,also our customers still will be able to buy the releases in our Special order formats,vinyl, cassette tape and sheet music. This year projects will have a difference that is going to be easily recognized by our regular customers and that is we're going to be offering several covers that will be playing a big part in this years releases and I'm rather excited about this plan because it is not usually our preference to use cover songs in a new projects, since we offer and promote to our customers, new music. Smooth Jazz is one the categories that we will be providing a new product. Kevin has finished four new cuts for this category and I know our Smooth Jazz fans are going to truly love what we got to offer them in the Smooth Jazz area. The other categories that we will  offer this Summer is of course, our signature category,"Blues" with the release of our hot,fast-moving CD Compilation,"GO SLOW-Blues Crossing",the album already has produced a lead off, run away hit song, it's James Gilbert's"Blues In The Morning" the song has been Blues Radio's top selection for the past nine weeks.Other popular songs on the Album is,"Mississippi Red's,Send Me Someone To Love,"Osee Anderson, Breaking Up Somebody's Home," Lil Aaron Mosby,Last Night" and Oliver Johnson,Want You Dance With Me". To further promote the GO SLOW-Blues Crossing Album we're booking a five city tour scheduled to start in July, 2013 promoting the the targeted Cities are,St.Louis,MO.,Chicago,IL.,Houston,TX.,Lansing,MI. and Memphis,TN. We're on a mission to galvanize our Artists fan base by bringing them a hot show that will be packed with new moving and entertaining sounds.

And if you would want the Show to stop in your City email; dwight@quinnrecords.net. 

 Lastly, we are expecting to cover a release in our Jazz category with a Single that's been on the drawing board for nearly three years and the cut is a most-waited on tune since a few Radio pros has already got a sample of it and sitting on needles waiting on it's completion. You can learn more about our new releases and coming soon projects on our website; Visit www.quinnrecords.net

NEWS & UPDATES

NEWS & UPDATES TO BE REPORTED:

APD Global Radio Indicator Charts ™

Top 50 APD Blues / Jazz / R&B Albums - Last Week, 

(as of 10:18 pm Thursday, May 9th 2013)

#13-Quinn Records TM Present "GO SLOW Blues Crossing"

Location: AMERICA NORTH: USA:Missouri (MO)

Keep Your Ears Up

TWO ROSTER ARTISTS
TO WATCH IN 2013

It's already established that 2013 is a big year for World music  by RIAA's account, music Sales has increased by a rather promising percentage. By all accounts the label scene is more vibrant than it has been in years. Steadfast positive attitude and optimism can have a strange feel to it but with our awesome demeanor towards self-appreciation  the news brings sure of relief. But, lately our music deserves it and some. In keeping, here are two Quinn Records TM 
roster artists that deserve your attention in 2013.

KL&R2: Kevin is taking on an ambitious undertaking that is bigger than what the group have experimented with in the past.
When KL&R2 first came to the label, they were hard-core hip/hop with many different focal points, but something changed in the making of their fifth single, things took off in  an entirely  different direction and today, with Kevin at  the helm as lead vocalist of KL&R2 the group is converted and re vamped itself into the World of R&B/Soul and when they lay their style down Live on stage they gets your attention. What the group is gearing up for today is touring. Kevin has put together a whole new band made up of funk jazz, soul and blues musicians that has a wealth of on stage experience.
KL&R2 is magic in that they manage to still have that hip/hop feel while venturing way out there in the world of R&B/Soul. But it's working, whatever the formula, the audiences are showing their pleasure with it and the group seems to gain a multitude of fans with every performance.
Don't be surprise what the group might do, they always have something in their show that is fresh and new, it might be their dress wear,a cover song, roses for the ladies, but there's one thing that is for sure, the group takes themselves very seriously. - Jus Brown

James Gilbert: Kansas City' James Gilbert a.k.a Jimmy G, came to the label by way of a Music Submission by the late Big Woody band. The demo was filed away in the our Music Library for nearly two years before it was selected for a new upcoming project that was planned to be release in September,2012. The singer,songwriter and multi-talented musician has already made a name for himself in the industry performing as an opening act and sideman for and with some of the top names in the business like,John Lee Hooker, B.B. King, Phil Guy, Little Milton Campbell, Little Johnny Taylor, A.C. Reed, David Dee, Tinsly Ellis, Charley Musselewhite, Little Hatch, Mary Moore, Lavalle White, Chick Willis, Vernon Garrett, Little Joe Blue, Blues Boy Willie, Buster Benton, Millie Jackson, Gary BB Coleman, Zapp, Bobby Bland,Koko Taylor, Johnny Taylor, Johnny Winter, Delbert McClinton, War, Doyle, Bramhall,Screaming Jay Hawkins, Tyrone Davis and Denise LaSalle. James can take his fans from one sphere to another with personal lyrics delivered in mellow baritone vocals reminiscence of Brook Benton,Jerry Butler  and Chuck Jackson to name a few. He transcends to this almost Super-star like Karma  when appear on  stage and we have heard it said many times that James sounds notoriously better Live than he do on his recordings. James will undoubtedly sell a lot records while building an huge dedicated fan base. -  Fred Walker  

BIRTHDATES OF SOME FAMOUS TAURUS

by Dwight L. Quinn

As Taurus's have a sense of material values and physical possessions, respect for property and a horror of falling into debt, they will do everything in their power to maintain the security of the status quo and be somewhat hostile to change. Mentally, they are keen-witted and practical more often than intellectual, but apt to become fixed in their opinions through their preference for following accepted and reliable patterns of experience. Their character is generally dependable, steadfast, prudent, just, firm 
and unshaken in the face of difficulties. Their vices arise from their virtues, going to extremes on occasion, such as sometimes being too slavish to the conventions they admire.
Here's the Birthdays of some Famous Taurus's. 
April 21, 1816 - Charlotte Bronte - Writer
April 21, 1838 - John Muir - Naturalist
April 21, 1926 - Queen Elizabeth II - British Royalty
April 22, 1724 - Immanuel Kant - Philosopher
April 22, 1870 - Nicolai Lenin - Marxist
April 22, 1904 - Robert Oppenheimer - Physicist
April 22, 1908 - Eddie Albert - Actor
April 22, 1916 - Yehudi Menuhin - Musician
April 22, 1936 - Glen Campbell - Entertainer
April 22, 1937 - Jack Nicholson - Actor
April 23, 1452 - Leonardo Davinci - Artist
April 23, 1519 - Catherine de Medici - French Royalty
April 23, 1891 - Sergei Prokofiev - Composer
April 23, 1928 - Shirley Temple Black - Actress
April 23, 1939 - Lee Majors - Actor
April 24, 1934 - Shirly MacLaine - Actress
April 24, 1942 - Barbara Steisand - Singer
April 25, 1874 - Guglielmo Marconi - Scientist
April 25, 1908 - Eduard R. Murrow - Broadcaster
April 26, 1933 - Carol Burnett - Comedian
April 26, 1924 - Jack Schwartz - Psychic Healer
April 26, 1894 - Rudolph Hess - Nazi
April 27, 1822 - Ulysses S. Grant - U.S. President
April 27, 1891 - Samual Morse - Inventor
April 27, 1822 - Ulysses S. Grant - U.S. President
April 27, 1922 - Jack Klugman - Actor
April 27, 1927 - Coretta King - Activitist
April 28, 1479 - Lucrezia Borgia - Historical Figure
April 28, 1912 - Odette Sanson - Secret Agent
April 29, 1901 - Hirohito - Japanese Royalty
April 29, 1936 - Mehta Zubin - Conductor
April 29, 1947 - Johnny Miller - Golfer
April 29, 1955 - Kate Mulgrew - Actress
April 29, 1970 - Uma Thurman - Actress
April 30, 1893 - J. von Ribbentrop - Nazi
May 01, 1769 - Duke of Wellington - Militarist
May 01, 1881 - Pierre.T. De Chardin - Priest Philosopher
May 01, 1918 - Jack Paar - TV Host
May 01, 1945 - Rita Coolidge - Singer
May 02, 1729 - Catherine the Great - Russian Royality
May 02, 1903 - Dr. Benj. Spock - Child Specialist
May 02, 1903 - Bing Crosby - Singer
May 02, 1925 - Roscoe Lee Browne - Actor
May 03, 1902 - Walter Slezak - Actor
May 03, 1919 - Pete Seeger - Singer
May 03, 1921 - Sugar Ray Robinson - Sports Figure
May 04, 1915 - Moshe Dayan - Politician
May 05, 1599 - Oliver Cromwell - Politician
May 05, 1818 - Karl Marx - Revolutionary
May 05, 1943 - Bob Woodward - Reporter
May 05, 1958 - Annette Benning - Actress
May 06, 1758 - Maximil. Robespierre - Revolutionary
May 06, 1856 - Sigmund Freud - Psychologist
May 06, 1895 - Rudolph Valentino - Actor
May 06, 1913 - Stewart Granger - Actor
May 06, 1915 - Orson Wells - Producer
May 06, 1931 - Willie
Mays - Sports Figure
May 06, 1937 - Rubin Carter - Homicide
May 07, 1861 - Randindranath Tagore - Poet
May 07, 1833 - Johnnes Brahms - Composer
May 07, 1901 - Gary Cooper - Actor
May 07, 1908 - Eva Perone - Dictator
May 08, 1929 - Jane Roberts - Channel
May 08, 1884 - Harry S. Truman - U.S. President
May 09, 1800 - John Brown - Radical
May 09, 1907 - Kathryn Kulman - Evangalist
May 09, 1918 - Mike Wallace - TV Personality
May 09, 1928 - Poncho Gonzales - Sports Figure
May 09, 1942 - David R. Gurgen - TV Personality
May 09, 1944 - Daniel Barrigan - Radical
May 09, 1946 - Candice Bergen - Actress
May 10, 1899 - Fred Astaire - Dancer
May 10, 1902 - David O. Selznick - Producer
May 10, 1900 - Karl Kraft - German Astrologer
May 10, 1939 - Jean Huston - Psychologist
May 10, 1940 - Wayne Dyer - Psychologist
May 11, 1469 - N. Machiavelli - Potitician
May 11, 1888 - Irving Berlin - Composer
May 11, 1894 - Martha Graham - Dancer
May 11, 1927 - Mort Sahl - Comedian
May 12, 1895 - Jeddu Krishnamurti - Religious Leader
May 12, 1820 - Florence Nightingale - Humanitarian
May 12, 1907 - Katherine Hepburn - Actress
May 12, 1937 - George Carlin - Comedian
May 13, 1914 - Joe Lewis - Sports Figure
May 13, 1923 - Richard Avedon - Photographer
May 13, 1931 - Jim Jones - Cultist
May 13, 1939 - Harvey Keitel - Actor
May 13, 1941 - Ritchie Valens - Singer
May 13, 1950 - Stevie Wonder - Singer
May 14, 1925 - Patrice Munsel - Singer
May 14, 1936 - Bobby Darin - Singer
May 14, 1944 - George Lucas - Film maker
May 14, 1952 - David Byrne - Singer
May 15, 1859 - Pierre Curry - Scientist
May 15, 1902 - Richard Daily - Politician
May 15, 1918 - Joseph Wiseman - Activist
May 15, 1937 - Madeleine Albright - Ambassador
May 16, 1905 - Henry Fonda - Actor
May 16, 1908 - Muktananda - Guru
May 16, 1925 - Liberace - Entertainer
May 17, 1866 - Eric Satie - Composer
May 17, 1895 - Gayelord Hauser - Nutritionist
May 18, 1949 - Rick Wakeman
May 19, 1896 - Ida Rolf - Body Worker
May 19, 1964 - Collin Chapman
May 20, 1799 - Honore Balzac - Writer
May 20, 1908 - James Stewart - Actor
May 20, 1946 - Cher - Singer/Actress
May 21, 1904 - Robert Montgomery - Actor
May 21, 1911 - Peter Hurkos - Psychic

SUBMITTING YOUR MUSIC TO QUINN RECORDS TM

by Dwight Quinn, April 26th, 2013

Today the phone calls are a bit different than they were a few minutes back, when a promising artists would call us and ask, if we accepted unsolicited demos, and in our case the answer would always be "yes and then we would proceed on to give the caller instructions as to  how to send us the demo.
But, today the call come in asking us, do we accept unsolicited demos, and our answer is still,yes, but the different in this call is that the promising artist is now asking us can they email us a mp3 or several mp3's of their song or they would ask us to go to their website to both look and listen to their music. That process is good in one way but harmful in the other. Here's what I mean, Quinn Records TM take music very seriously, and we are always releasing new projects and in most cases with new upcoming artists. But in order to do that on a continuous bases, like year end and year out, we must have an inventory of available music. We get that available music from demos being sent in to us and we process those demos into our inventory and add the demo to our Library. Now only the demos the match our style of music gets to go into that inventory. So when each release quarter  rolls around we don't have to run around looking for new music, we already have it,and ready to go. Call it old school,but we call it resourcefulness. It's clear that technology is great for getting thing their fast,and being accessible, but that human thing that makes us different is utilizing time,each Thursday for many,many minutes we have set aside four hours( 10:00 am til 2:00 p.m) dedicated to listening to the demos that came in that week and when we hear one that meets our standards than we grab it up,process into our Library and contact the Artist with our decision, we don't mess around. We are serious, and we know that the next big act is out there somewhere and we want it. Now the guy that calls in and wants us to stop and go to there website or send us an mp3 along with the 6000 emails that we get everyday, we can't process them in that way. Email gets deleted, computers crashes and gets attacked by viruses, that's not good for neither one of us. Our physical Library don't have those kind of crises or threats, so the artists Demo is always available to us to be used in a Quinn's project.  Our newest Artist to the Quinn Records TM family of Recording Artists, James Gilbert, It's A Real Good Sign, was selected from our Library of Demos and he's doing well, but if it wasn't for our Library of Demos,he would have been over looked. So we have a Demo Policy that is good for both parties, a Demo is a File and that's the way we treat it. And that's the place where we go to four times a year when it's time to get ready for us to release a new project. So I hope that this shaded a little light on submitting your music to Quinn Records TM. Keep your Demos coming in.

OLIVER JOHNSON GOT NEW MATERIAL COMING OUR WAY.

Oliver Johnson "the guy that bought the trumpet to Soul", has been busy working Shows six and sometimes seven nights a week found time to get a little Studio work in between gigs. Today he told me that he have come with some awesome new material that will fit Quinn Records TM taste to a tee. Well, Oliver should know what kind of music that we like. Since he's credited with over eight Albums and four Singles on the Quinn Records TM's label. Oliver Johnson is a very active member of the St. Louis blues, jazz and Motown community. He appears frequently at R& B concerts, clubs, and private parties both as single performer and as a leader of his own group,:The Nite Train Express". Oliver at the age of six, began his study as a vocalist with his mother, Roberta Johnson of Uttica, Mississippi. Roberta, who was a gospel church singer, also introduced Oliver to the music of Performers like Louis Armstrong and Nancy Wilson. When Oliver was eight years old, the famous Jazz organist Tabb Smith and his group would rehearse in Oliver's home. At ten years old, Oliver started the study of the trumpet with Harry Turner of the Count Basie Band. Oliver's first professional performance, at age 13, started at the Cosmo Hall in East St. Louis that featured regular acts like Ike Turner, Johnny Johnson, Chuck Berry, Little Milton and Albert King. After high school Oliver started touring with Westmoreland,Inc. This band that eventually became Albert King's Band included Motown recording regulars like Tyrone Perry and Paul Jackson. For 12 years Oliver toured throughout Europe and Japan playing trumpet and singing with Mel and Tim (Backfield in Motion), Joe Tex (Skinny Leg's and All, Shirley Brown (Woman To Woman, Albert King,(Born Under A Bad Sign), Gladys Knight and The Pips, Rufus Thomas (Walking The Dog), Carla Thomas (B-A-B-Y Baby). Aside from Oliver's regular performances he has recently played the Black Rep's Production"One More Time". Oliver is mostly known for his versatility in many different music formats, from serious Be-bop trumpet to Falsetto R&B singing. Oliver signed on with Quinn Records TM in 2004 and have since created an impressive Catalog of titles both in the R&B, Soul and Jazz genres constantly performing headliners shows in venues all over the St. Louis Metropolitan area.

QUINN HIRES HARVEY LEE AS ITS' NEW ENTERTAINMENT MANAGER.

by Dwight L. Quinn
April 15th, 2013

Managing performances, events, artists and company's entertainers will be the responsibility of Mr. Harvey Lee Entertainment Manager for Quinn Records TM. Harvey Lee is coming to Quinn Records TM with over thirty-five years of Entertainment Management experience. Twenty-six of those were spent the United States Army where he performed as a Musician in Military Bands around the Globe, part of that experience lead Harvey into Club Management while Stationed in Germany. Harvey continued his musical activity playing local and national Bands here in the U.S. and performs occasionally as a Club DJ for various events.Harvey's love for the music business allowed him to gain great exposure and success in Booking acts as part of his wide array of Entertainment activities. A natural people-person a heart, Harvey is a natural for this job. Harvey will work extensively throughout the world. The job that Harvey will be doing for Quinn will provides limitless opportunities to travel nationally or internationally in markets where Quinn's music prominent This is a stressful and demanding job, but Harvey's project management and people skills will assists him in managing sufficiently. The position requires the Harvey to multi task effectively in this competitive, fast paced environment!! As the first order of business Harvey's main focus for Quinn will be to identify, select, create, oversee, manage thirty-three (33) small type venues with seating capacities not to exceed 800 and not less than 400 seats on an ongoing and continue bases, with the expected revenue goal of approximately $264,000 annually and develop an opened door communication with company artists, vendors, local radio stations, records stores, press etc. Harvey also will be working with parks, lodges, holiday venues, international organizations, company artists, hotels, and other companies involved in the entertainment industry. Harvey will create and have a team of professionals to manage and delegate responsibilities to. They include costume designers, makeup artists, sound and lighting technician, performers and other professionals.We Welcome Mr. Harvey Lee aboard. You can contact Mr. Harvey Lee by email: harveylee@quinnrecords.net -GO SLOW-Blues Crossing!