Enter the "Dexter Gordon - Night Ballads: Montreal 1977" Giveaway at All About Jazz!
All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Uptown Records “Dexter Gordon - Night Ballads: Montreal 1977“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on June 26th. Click here to enter the contest (Following Dexter Gordon at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck! Your Friends ...
All About Jazz Improves Showcase Advertising Service
All About Jazz's New Release Showcase service has helped musicians and record labels successfully promote their new album releases since 2002. The only service of its kind on the jazz web, Showcase greatly raises the awareness of a new album while driving traffic to a musician's website, social pages and retail stores of their choosing. Vocalist ...
Average Concert Ticket Prices: 1981-2005...
This was a central exhibit in a ten-year, exhaustive class action lawsuit against former Live Nation parent Clear Channel. It focused on the markets of Denver and Los Angeles, and attempted to prove that monopoly control was unfairly driving ticket prices into the stratosphere. It was ultimately rejected and tossed by a federal judge for a ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Miles Davis
All About Jazz is celebrating Miles Davis' birthday today!
Throughout a professional career lasting 50 years, Miles Davis played the trumpet in a lyrical, introspective, and melodic style, often employing a stemless harmon mute to make his sound more personal and intimate. But if his approach to his instrument was constant, his approach to jazz was ...
Why Most Music Startups Fail - Hypebot Sessions @ NARM
Earlier this month, Hypebot hosted a series of panels during NARM's Music Biz 2012 in L.A. One, hosted by Kyle Bylin, examined of why most music startups fail and but others succeed. Why Most Music Startups Fail There is no shortage of startups working to transform how we discover, market and monetize music, but most of ...
Are Music Fans Craving Exclusivity?
Unless you've been hiding under a rock, you'll most likely be familiar with Amanda Palmer's impressive KickStarter campaign (she's raised over $750,000 through the crowd-funding platform). At risk of being 'one more to add to the list', I want to focus on what we can learn from her and what the success of her campaign suggests ...
STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Happy Birthday, Miles Davis!
Today is the 86th anniversary of the birth of Miles Davis, the most famous and historically significant jazz musician to come from the St. Louis area. In tribute, today we've got six extended-length performance videos of Davis for your listening and viewing enjoyment over the holiday weekend. Representing four ...
Red Cat Publicity Upcoming Events: Spring/Summer 2012
The Cornelia Street Cafe Celebrates Its 35th Anniversary! This July, 2012, The Cornelia Street Café, a true New York City landmark, an epicurean destination, an artist's café that cultivates and inspires, and one of the few remaining Greenwich Village bastions for creative music, spoken word, art, theatre, cabaret and much more, Celebrates its 35th Anniversary The ...
Todd Clouser and Erik Deutsch Crack New Music Seminar's 2012 "Artist On The Verge" Top 100 Chart
Guitarist/Composer Todd Clouser and Pianist/Composer Erik Deutsch were selected for the New Music Seminar “Artist On The Verge" Top 100 Chart. All About Jazz participated in the nominating process and both Todd and Erik were included on AAJ's recommendation list. About the NMS “Artist On The Verge" Program NMS “Artist On The Verge" (AOV) project offers ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Wallace Roney
All About Jazz is celebrating Wallace Roney's birthday today!
At a time when much of the Jazz world seems content to simply attempt to recreate the past, trumpeter/composer Wallace Roney follows the true Jazz tradition of utilizing the past to move forward. This has resulted in acknowledgment by the public and his peers with his receipt ...
Doris Duke Foundation Announces First Class of Doris Duke Artists
Twenty-one of America’s most vital and productive performing artists in contemporary dance, jazz, theatre and multidisciplinary work were announced today as the first class of Doris Duke Artists, sharing a total of $5.775 million awarded in an unprecedented new initiative of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF). Each member of the first class will receive an ...
Catskill Chill Music Festival Artist Line-Up September 7-9
Catskill Chill Music Festival unveils their artist line-up for the third annual Chill at the picturesque Camp Minglewood in Hancock, New York. Taking place September 7th – 9th, the 2012 event will host over 40 bands on three stages during the 3-day camping festival.
Nestled in the Catskill Mountains, where the beauty of nature synchronizes with ...
Tedeschi Trucks Band Celebrates 1st Anniversary With Release Of Live Double-Disc Album "Everybody's Talkin"
Everybody’s Talkin’ — released on May 22 — is the title of the uplifting, energy-packed sophomore recording by Tedeschi Trucks Band, the 11-piece ensemble led by husband-wife team Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi that recently marked their first anniversary with a Grammy win for their debut album Revelator. TTB (as their fans know them) shows off ...
"When I Left Home: My Story" by Buddy Guy
When I Left Home: My Story tells, for the first time, Buddy's picaresque story in his own unique voice, told as only he can tell it — with deep personal insight and unforgettable, candid portraits of all the key players of the first generation of electric blues artists, whose music changed the world forever. Buddy's on ...
Bassist/vocalist Anthony Caceres Inspired By Earth, Wind & Fire
Q: When did it start for you, the decision to become a vocalist? A: I decided to pursue singing seriously back in 2006 while I was on tour with the Glenn Miller Orchestra. Up to that point I was primarily a sideman performing on electric bass and upright bass with many different groups. Q: Was jazz ...
A Streaming Music Service You've Never Heard of Has 10.5 Million Active Users
Dhingana, a legal Indian music streaming service, recently surpassed 10.5 million monthly active visitors, becoming the largest legal Indian music streaming service. It is a social music streaming service that allows users to discover and enjoy Bollywood and Indian music, and is accessed by users across 220+ countries / territories every month. Dhingana is also said ...
File Sharing Research Supports Adaptation as Best Industry Reponse
A recent study from a researcher at NC State University in Raleigh found connections between increased filesharing of leaked albums and increased sales of those albums. The findings were a bit limited but it correlates nicely with an overview of filesharing research conducted by Drew Wilson at ZeroPaid. Wilson took a close look at nineteen academic ...
Burt Bacharach: Top of the Pops
When I visited with Burt Bacharach at his home back in October for my Wall Street Journal interview, we spoke about the Gershwin Prize he was due to receive in May. Burt seemed a bit stunned by the enormity of the award and generous in praise of the others who had won previously. On May 8, ...
Chad Wackerman: Dreams, Nightmares and Improvisations - Zappa Drummer Releases New CD Featuring Guitar Legend Allan Holdsworth.
"Chad Wackerman has a beautiful ear for harmonies and melodies that lets your inner musician soar, and with 'Dreams, Nightmares and Improvisations' it comes together and expresses his potential as an artist. All the musicians who play on this record are the inspired elite and on this CD they create a magnificent and ethereal listening experience." ...
An Interview With Rashell
Q: When did you decide to become a singer? A: When I was a little girl I was often exposed to music of many genres. I had music all around me; a lot of my family members are musically inclined. One summer I went on an overnight camp to help my grandfather. He was a preacher ...
Tierney Sutton Band Plays The Catalina Club
Join Doug McIntyre at the Catalina Jazz Club, Friday May 25th to see the Tierney Sutton Band! For a great night of music join me, Doug McIntyre at Catalina Jazz Club in Hollywood for the Tierney Sutton Band! 4 time Grammy Nominee! Great food, laughs and brilliant music. One of my all time favorite performers! Dinner ...
Dusseldorf Jazz Rally Celebrates 20 Years Of Pure Jazz
For the twentieth anniversary gala of what has become a Rhineland rite of springtime and swing time, the observant organizers of the Dusseldorf Jazz Rally simply continued doing what they do best. That’s all jazz, all the time. Once again, the Jazz Rally lives up to its name with a program composed of almost 100% pure ...
Fats Waller Tribute This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
On Memorial Day Weekend 1989, Riverwalk Jazz made its national debut. This week, to celebrate over twenty years on the air, we revisit our first national broadcast, a program with piano legend Dick Hyman devoted to Thomas ‘Fats’ Waller. Since that first national broadcast, Dick Hyman has joined us for so many radio shows that we ...
Why Radio Plays Same 20 Songs: The Sad Truth of Media Consolidation [infographic]
If you've ever tuned into terrestrial radio in your car, at home or at the office, then you're well aware that commercial radio stations tend to play the same songs in rotation over and over again. Is it because these songs are so hot that people are just demanding stations play them? Hardly. The sad truth of ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Archie Shepp
All About Jazz is celebrating Archie Shepp's birthday today!
Archie Shepp is a New York City native and alumnus of Goddard College. Archie started playing jazz in the early 60\'s and continues to dazzle audiences around the world playing tenor saxophone and piano, accompanied by his soulful voice. Currently residing in Massachusetts, he teaches music history ...
New Music Seminar Announces The First Ever NMS New York Music Festival On June 17-20
Over 100 Of The Top Emerging Artists Confirmed To Perform New York, NY: New Music Seminar (NMS) announces the first ever NMS New York Music Festival scheduled to take place in 17 venues throughout New York City and Brooklyn from June 17-20. NMS, along with their Partners: BMI, eMusic, Filter Magazine, Folk Alliance, OurStage, ReverbNation and ...
Chicago-based Jazz Vocalist Milton Suggs Releases “Lyrical, Volume 1” New CD On Skiptone Music Label, July 24
In 2010 with his debut album as a leader, Things to Come, vocalist Milton Suggs established himself as an artist to be aware of and watch closely. He cements that idea with a strong showing in 2012 with the first volume in an anticipated series of albums simply and appropriately entitled, “Lyrical.” Lyrical, Volume I was ...
Clearwater Festival 2012 Line-Up
Clearwater's 2012 Great Hudson River Revival, also known as the Clearwater Festival, the country’s oldest music and environmental festival, will be held on June 16 and 17 this year. Over the weekend, hundreds of musical artists will appear at the beautiful Croton Point Park in Croton-on-Hudson, NY to perform on 7 bio-diesel and solar powered stages. ...
