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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, July 3-9
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
Is it difficult to come down from a jazz festival high? I'll let you know when I come down. After three solid days of music at the Twin Cities Jazz Festival, I am off to another three-day extravaganza, the Iowa City Jazz Festival (July 2-4), where I expect to see a couple dozen Twin Citians as well as two of my favorite MN bands— the Atlantis Quartet and Dakota Combo. They perform in Iowa as part of the first Iowa-Minnesota ...
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Apple Music Directs Independent Artists To CD Baby
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HypeBot
While checking out Apple Music after it launched this morning, I noticed a link targeting undistributed independent artists that points straight to CD Baby. While another link below it leads to a full list of approved providers, Apple, which seems to be making a real effort to support indie music, chose to highlight CD Baby as an onramp. Why would Apple highlight CD Baby? Apple certainly doesn’t want to take phone calls and field questions from hundreds of thousands of independent artists, but ...
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Six of the Most Underrated Music Cities in America
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HypeBot
It seems like there are two kinds of “musical cities": those that are known as being enormous hubs filled with music lovers, headquarters for industry companies, and go-tos for ambitious artists trying to make it – such as New York City, Los Angeles, and especially Nashville – and those that have thriving, growing arts scenes that remain somewhat unknown to the general public. Original Post Written By Hugh McIntyre on Sonicbids Blog Smaller, less glamorous towns often have great music ...
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Blue Note Expands With New Venues In Hawaii, China
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HypeBot
The Blue Note night club chain is expanding it's brand beyond current outlets in New York City, Japan and Italy, with deals to add venues in Hawaii and China. Blue Note Entertainment Group has partnered with Outrigger Resorts to launch a new live music venue in Hawaii. The Blue Note's chain's Hawaii outlet will be located in the former Society of Seven showroom inside Outrigger Waikiki Beach Resort and will feature both local talent and touring artists. As a part of ...
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Why Apple Music And Tidal Are The Right Business Models With The Wrong Optics
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HypeBot
Since Spotify launched in 2010 the music business has been in an existential crisis. Convinced that ad-supported unlimited free access to on-demand music would ultimately grow recorded music revenues the major labels opted into what may be their worst decision ever. Original Post Written By David Lowery on The Trichordist Blog This decision aided by an estimated 18% (or more) equity position in Spotify has not grown overall music revenues over the past five years. In fact, for the year ending 2014 ...
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In Praise of Mood Music
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In yesterday's Wall Street Journal, I wrote an essay on the history of easy-listening music and its 70th anniversary, which as you'd expect was completely overlooked (go here). Easy listening was meant to be overlooked. It's whole reason for being was to be there but never get in your way, engaging your emotions but not your brain. The father of easy listening is arranger Paul Weston, who at the end of May 1945 released what's considered the first easy listening ...
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Neil Young Issues Statement Reacting To Donald Trump
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Since it was a “public performance," it was probably legal when Donald Trumps used a Neil Young song to herald his entrance into the race for the Republican presidential nod. But that doesn't mean it was smart. Now, Young has issued a personal statement on Trump’s use of his song, “Rockin' In The Free World." Here is the full text of Neil Young's statement: Yesterday my song “Rockin' In The Free World" was used in an announcement for a US ...
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Soaring Music Publications Launches A Promotional Campaign For Jazz Guitarist Mike Denny
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Greg Nathan
Soaring Music Publications has launched a promotional campaign to increase exposure to world-class jazz guitarist Mike Denny's work on Soaring Music Publications' recently released CD I'll Think of Something. The promotion includes an updated profile at the All About Jazz website, and an ad campaign including the Cadence Jazz World website and the Cadence Magazine July and annual issues. Soaring Music Publications is also unveiling the addition of two “Mike Denny" pages on its website. These pages will offer different ...
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