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Stanley Turrentine: At the Shack
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
On April 25, 1960, organist Jimmy Smith recorded for Blue Note with tenor saxophonist Stanley Turrentine and drummer Donald “Duck" Bailey at Rudy Van Gelder's studio in Englewood Cliffs, N.J. Smith handled the bass line with his feet on the organ's pedalboard while the 26-yeat-old Turrentine took the sax solos. The album was Smith's Back to the Chicken Shack, and Turrentine's solo on When I Grow Too Old to Dream would become an early example of jazz-soul saxophone. Four months ...
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The Problem With Music Streaming Exclusives
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HypeBot
Jay-Z’s ambitions for TIDAL has triggered a lot of discussion about how streaming models can evolve. One focus has been exclusives with a number of references to TIDAL ‘doing a Netflix’ by commissioning exclusives. Netflix can attribute much of its growth over the last couple of years to its flagship ‘Netflix Originals’ such as ‘House Of Cards’ and ‘Orange Is the New Black’. It is an appealing model, but... Guest Post by Mark Mulligan on Music Industry Blog There are three main types ...
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Blank Media Levies And The Precedent Of “Who Pays?” Has Ramifications Way Beyond Music…
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The idea of a blank media levy is not at all new. The debate has been around since cassette tapes enabled affordable, large-scale private copying. Today, it seems as if this idea is losing importance given that the ‘access’ model of music consumption is gaining ground against the prevailing ‘ownership’ model in which music is purchased and technically ‘owned’. By Sam Rudy on the UK's MusicTank Historically, most compensation systems for private copying have targeted the consumer as the payee, based ...
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Way Beyond Streaming: Music's Marginal Reinvention
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HypeBot
From the relentless focus on the music industry's latest streaming model, one might think Taylor Swift and streaming services represent the entire future of the music business. When Jay Z recently announced plans and major artist support for his new Tidal streaming service, many seemed to view it through the same lens. Guest Post by Seth Schachner Managing Director, Strat Americas Streaming services and “freemium" models are still important to understanding the future of the recorded music business. But they're actually not ...
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YouTube’s Music Growing Pains - A Look Inside Music Key
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HypeBot
As YouTube turns 10 years old today, Google is putting the finishing touches on an on-demand music streaming service as an add on to its video service. With Spotify, Apple, and Deezer and others, YouTube’s significant foothold in the industry, a YouTube streaming service seemed almost inevitable. Guest Post by Griffin Davis from Berklee College of Music's Music Business Journal In mid-July 2014, Google began reserving a whole slew of urls related to the name YouTube Music Key,1 but a little over a month later ...
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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, April 17-23
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
It's a whirlwind of jazz starting Friday night and swirling through the week, from some impossible choices over the weekend, highly anticipated visiting artists, old favorites and emerging talents, as well as a preview of a new venue in an old haunt. Big Gigs This Week Friday, April 17. Cory Healey's Beautiful Sunshine Band blends young emerging talents with still-young veterans, and the quintet promises to be one of region's leading voices of modern jazz. The University of Northern Iowa ...
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8 Experts Make A Case For Why “Physical” Recorded Music Still Matters
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With all the news about streaming music services and the state of the “new” music business, many independents artists are wondering whether there’sstill a need for physical recorded product (i.e., CDs, download cards, vinyl, and USB flash drives). 8 experts weigh in. Guest Post by Bobby Borg 1. Sydney Alston, Product Specialist at Disc Makers According to Sydney Alston, a representative at Disc Makers, physical products make for a nice memento to fans at your band’s concert. Furthermore, they are still ...
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Record Store Day is Saturday, April 18
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This Saturday is the ninth annual Record Store Day, the national celebration of independent music sellers, and St. Louis record stores will be doing their part, not only selling special limited-edition new releases but also offering various other promotional activities and in-store performances. Yr. humble StLJN editor once again will taking part in some of those activities as one of the “guest DJs" spinning records in-store at Vintage Vinyl in the U City Loop. I'll be taking over the store's ...
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