Home » Jazz News
Music Industry News
Timely announcements covering new album releases, tours, concert series, special events, job postings, crowdfunding campaigns and more. You can find more news by searching our website, viewing our news stream, seeing what's trending or reading our blog posts. Subscribe to our news RSS feed and/or embed AAJ news content on your website or blog. Learn about our news service here. Submit news here.
Rich Bengloff Steps Down As President Of A2IM
Source:
HypeBot
After more than 8 years at the helm of independent music's largest US based trade organization, A2IM, president Rich Bengloff is stepping down. Bengloff can be credited with successfully steering the organization during the music industry's difficult transition from CD's to downloads and now streaming. After eight and a half years of leading US independent label trade group A2IM, Rich Bengloff will be stepping down as President this summer. The board has begun a search to replace him and in the ...
Continue Reading
The Changing Face Of Music Collaboration
Source:
HypeBot
While the landscape of recorded music is littered with countless famous instances of collaboration between artists it seems that, despite the connectivity of the modern world, many of the creative players in the music industry today are choosing to go solo. Here we look at why that might be, and what can be done to rectify the situation. Guest Post by Stuart Logan on Medium.com Collaborations have produced some of the best, most innovative music in history, but it seems modern artists ...
Continue Reading
SaaSing The Music Business [Ethan Kaplan]
Source:
HypeBot
What does the shift to a streaming music economy mean for the industry as a whole? As the business changes and SasS (Software as a Service) providers become the dominant players, artists will have to work hard to remain relevant. By Ethan Kaplan General Manager / SVP of Music at Gracenote. This first appeared on TechCrunch.com The music business is about to undergo another seismic shift. And Apple’s streaming service is the tsunami that will force the industry to rebuild. ...
Continue Reading
BerkleeICE Releases MUST READ Music Industry Report: "Creators Underpaid By 20-50%"
Source:
HypeBot
Berklee Institute for Creative Entrepreneurship has released an in-depth study that promotes fairness and transparency in the music industry. “Fair Music: Transparency and Money Flows in the Music Industry,” the report studies the global music business and challenges within the current compensation structure. Originating under BerkleeICE's Rethink Music initiative, a new study exposes inefficiencies and deliberate deception that result in millions of dollars going undistributed to rightful creators, backroom licensing deals and opaque royalty statements and accounting systems that are often impossible to ...
Continue Reading
Artists Coalition Declares Sony Spotify Deal "A Breach Of Moral Trust"
Source:
HypeBot
After Sony responded to a lawsuit by 19 Recording and artists including Carrie Underwood and Kelly Clarkson over its deal with Spotify saying it was not required “to structure its affairs in whatever way yields the greatest royalties," artists and artist advocates have gone on the offensive. Responding to the Sony Spotify contract controversy, the Featured Artist Coalition issued this statement. Sony has just defended the leaked deal it did with Spotify in court in the United States by stating that it had no ...
Continue Reading
Live Concert Streaming's Journey To Success
Source:
HypeBot
The Grateful Dead's farewell tour, along with large festivals like Coachella, have been garnering increasingly massive audiences through their live streams. What does this mean for the companies providing the streaming service, and their ability to monetize the phenomenon? Guest Post by Paul Sweeting on Concurrent Media Live music has been on a bit of an over-the-top roll lately. The five shows in the Grateful Dead’s Fare Thee Well tour, which wrapped up in Chicago over the weekend, together racked up ...
Continue Reading
Jazz this week: A tribute to Ray Kennedy, "Music at the Intersection," Marquis Hill, Mike Dillon Band, and more
Source:
St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
If you're trying to shake the mid-summer doldrums after some punishing heat and humidity over the past few days in St. Louis, getting out to hear some live jazz and creative music could be just the thing. This weekend's musical menu features a benefit for the family of a well-known local musician, a visit from a fast-rising trumpet talent, a free evening of music at multiple venues in Grand Center, and more. Let's go to the highlights... Wednesday, July 15 ...
Continue Reading
