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Into the Spotlight and Moving Ahead
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
In less than a week, we saw significant attention spotlighting two jazz artists. There's one to watch for on the vocal scene. The other we saw recognized for his decade of moving the music forward while embracing contemporary influences. Ladies first as they say, no matter than the honors are chronologically skewed. On October 4 in Washington DC's Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Cécile McLorin Salvant of Miami won the Thelonious Monk Competition for Jazz Vocals over two other ...
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MTT: Why Fans Are File-Sharing Your Music
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HypeBot
To continue the discussion on file-sharing, Kyle Bylin has written a post on 4 reasons why fans are file-sharing that can't be changed. He brings up the point of Decision Paralysis. Fans are faced with even more choices than ever and end up file-sharing music to cope with the paralysis. Fans also file-share when they feel cheated because an album was overpriced or did not live up to their heightened expectations. “Traditional music consumption systems and tech encouraged certain conduct, ...
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Downloading Music is Forgettable, Buying It Wasn't
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HypeBot
For most of my life, buying music included a pilgrimage. The closest place that sold CDs took an hour drive to get there. I still have a few memories of the trips I would undertake on Tuesdays just to get my hands on a new album. While I never got to experience the thrill of waiting outside of a record store, hours before it opened, with hundreds of other fans clamoring to hear an album for the first time. The ...
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Ask the Readers: Should We Write About Music?
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HypeBot
Recently, it was pointed out to me in the comments section that for all our coverage about the industry of music and the technology that's changing it, Hypebot doesn't write about any music. For minute, I paused and thought rather seriously about the potential of writing about music on the blog and how it might be kind of fun. I really love music; it's how I ended up here. The main reason that I'm so passionate about it is that ...
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Why Amazon Is Unfair To Independent Musicians
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Michael Ricci
To Whom It May Concern: An Independent Musicians Rant Sony Holland's new CD Sanssouci is available at CD Baby, iTunes and yes... Amazon. Dear Amazon, I have purchased a lot of products from your site so I thought it would be great to have you sell my CDs. Unfortunately, it just isn't working out so well. I wish I could break up with you but I am compelled to sell CDs on your site. Because you are so well-known most ...
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"Like, so Not Swingin', Gate"
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Brilliant Corners, a Boston Jazz Blog
By Steve Provizer Yankee Dog mentioned Frank Gorshin's hep cat role in “Where the Boys Are." I have no doubt that there's a large sub-division of the Academic Culture Industry that has chewed on the subject of jazz/beat portrayals in film and TV like a chia pet on a licorice rope. But boys, if you're reading, try to chill. I'm not trying to grab anybody's dissertation. This is just personal flashback and speculation based on such ephemera as I recall ...
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'Most Ways That Artists Try to Earn Money Will Fail.'
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HypeBot
Guardian columnist Helienne Lindvall had some choice words for the proprietors of free last week. Among those charged with misleading artists and telling them to give everything away for free was Cory Doctorow, co-editor of Boing Boing. Funny thing is, Doctorow is a Guardian columnist too. So, when accused of charging high speaking fees on one side of the equation and expulsing the power of free as a marketing tool on the other, all he had to do was pen ...
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Music Would Suck Less if You Savored It More
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HypeBot
Jeff Pollack, CEO of Pollack Media Group, made some very interesting assertions in his most recent column at The Huffington Post. In it, he expresses his concern about the number of comments he's received in the last few months that berate the quality of popular music and present that as reasoning behind the decline in the sales of recorded music and the social epidemic of file-sharing. That new music sucks is not something that Mr. Pollack believes at all. Citing ...
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