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Jazz this week: Jeff Lorber Fusion, Lotte Anker & Okkyung Lee, and more
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week's jazz and creative music offerings in St. Louis run the gamut from fusion to free improvisation, with plenty of mainstream sounds as well. Let's go to the highlights... Wednesday, February 18 Keyboardist Jeff Lorber and the latest iteration of his Fusion group featuring bassist Jimmy Haslip and saxophonist Eric Marienthal (pictured, top left) will begin a four-night engagement continuing through Saturday at Jazz at the Bistro. You can see a video preview of the performances here, and Lorber, ...
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The Best Time to Release Your Album: A Month by Month Guide
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HypeBot
When you are an independent artist, making an album is a feat in itself. All of the months of planning, writing, recording can be enough to occupy all of your energy. Now that the project is done, it is now time to market and release your album. But how do you know when is the right time to set your album out for release? Seasoned music publicist, Janelle Rogers, breaks down each month of the year in the world of album releases ...
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Tumblr Gets Tough On Music, Implements 3 Strikes Like Policy
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HypeBot
Tumblr users publish more than 110 million posts daily (that's not a typo), and naturally some of them include music. But in recent days,Tumblr has been punishing users who publish tracks without permission with both takedowns and outright bans. Tumblr has been getting much tougher on users who post music without permission. In recent days, the blogging platform has not just taking down offending tracks, but suspending users in what appears to be a new three strikes policy. “As outlined ...
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SoundExchange Adds Two Music Industry Veterans To Executive Suite
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HypeBot
SoundExchange continues to add to its senior executive team with the hiring of two music industry veterans as VP, Strategic Initiatives and SVP, Communications. SoundExchange today announced the addition of Mark Eisenberg as SVP, Strategic Initiatives and Jacqueline Peterson as SVP, Communications. Both are music industry veterans. Eisenberg most recently served as Global Head of Content Acquisition and Strategy for MixRadio. prior to that he spent 15 years as the Executive Vice President and Head of Business & Legal Affairs for ...
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Drummer, Richie Pratt (March 11, 1943 - February 12, 2015)
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Artists Recording Collective + the ARC Record Label
"It is with sadness that I inform you of the passing of drummer, Richie Pratt (March 11, 1943 - February 12, 2015) at his home in the Kansas City metro area", stated Artists Recording Collective label COO, Christopher Burnett. “Richie was a prolific musician on the New York City and global jazz scenes as mostly a sideman and studio musician during the 1970s and 1980s. He also worked on and off Broadway, most notably in the Tony Award winning tribute ...
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The Music World Isn't Flat... Yet.
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HypeBot
Guest Post by Cortney Harding on This Week In Music Tech I travel internationally a handful of times a year, and each trip usually has a few “the world is flat” moments. I talked baseball with a cab driver in Japan! I flew to Africa and wound up in a hipster motorcycle shop/coffee bar just like the one three blocks from my house! I watched a movie, starring French people, about young artists in Brooklyn, in Paris. Basically, every trip ...
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YouTube Turns 10 Years Old Today and The Music Industry Is Frightened
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HypeBot
Happy Birthday YouTube! You've created an amazing new channel for music discovery. Now it's time to fairly compensate the creators that are making you millions. YouTube is turning 10 years old and its importance to the music industry can not be overstated. 300 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute, and a sizable portion of that is music related.Ask anyone under 25 where they check out new music and the vast majority will answer YouTube. Music videos—carefully produced, ...
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Music Licensing Bracing For "The Big One"
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Guest Post by Bobby Owsinski on Music 3.0 Blog Everyone acknowledges that the current copyright law that we live under is outdated, but it's been really difficult getting any updates to the law passed in recent years, mostly because of special interest groups and the fact the a complete overhaul is required rather than just a few band aids. That overhaul just got a little easer thanks to a 245 page report issued last week by the US Copyright Office officially throwing ...
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