Doug Smiley, New York Music Marketing Exec, Dies at 42
Doug Smiley, New York Music Marketing Exec, Dies at 42 Doug stands out as a pillar of the authenticity that I strove toward, said Santigold, one of the artists Smiley worked with.
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Doug Smiley, the marketing director for Verve Music Group, died Saturday, February 27. He had been diagnosed with Stage 4 Pancreatic Cancer less than a month before dying at home in Maplewood, NJ, surrounded by family. He was 42.
Smiley joined Universal Music Group’s Verve division last year as its marketing director. He was the founder and CEO of Intergalactic Outreach, which he started in 2019 as a strategy and marketing firm. He previously held marketing posts at Brilliant Corners Artist Management, Cornerstone/The Fader, Songs Music Publishing, MeanRed Productions, and Downtown Music.
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By Adam Feibel Impulse! Records
Sixty years ago, Impulse Records released its very first recording. Now, the iconic jazz label is celebrating its 60th anniversary with a series of new releases, reissues, rarities and more.
Founded by Creed Taylor in 1960, Impulse made its debut a year later with
The Great Kai & J. J. by trombonists Kai Winding and J. J. Johnson. By the end of that first year, the imprint had issued recordings by Ray Charles, Gil Evans, Oliver Nelson, Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, Max Roach and John Coltrane. The label came to be known as “the house that Trane built,” thanks to Coltrane’s commercial success and critical acclaim.
For 60 years, the legendary
Impulse! Records has been home to the greatest jazz artists of all time, including John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Archie Shepp, Alice Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Quincy Jones, and more. The orange-and-black imprint known as the House That Trane Built was a cultural beacon of progressivism, spiritualism, and activism throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Today, the label thrives with a new vanguard of jazz artists including Shabaka Hutchings, Sons of Kemet, The Comet Is Coming, Brandee Younger, Ted Poor and more.
To celebrate its 60th anniversary, Impulse! Records and UMe, the global catalog company of Universal Music Group, announce today a year-long campaign that includes a gorgeous, curated box set, a reimagined Alice Coltrane rarity, Turiya Sings, high-fidelity vinyl reissues, curated playlists, brand partnerships, new deep-dive video content and more to be announced throughout 2021.