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Grammy Award Winner And Diva Big Band Anchor Women In Jazz Programming
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Artists Recording Collective + the ARC Record Label
The American Jazz Museum presents Women In Jazz Programming in March during a month-long celebration featuring a stellar line up of musicians, entertainers, music and art scholars in a wonderful cultural setting. “Women have always played a significant role in developing the music through creative compositions, stellar performances and their work behind the scenes in presenting the music. Unfortunately, these contributions have gone either unrecognized or were written out of the history books. The American Jazz Museum takes pride in ...
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7 Useful Tips To "Earning" People's Help
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HypeBot
Guest Post By Bobby Borg, Music Business Consultant, Author, Musician Let’s face it, every young and developing artist could use some help with getting to that next level of their career—whether it’s getting a producer excited about recording your music at a discount price, or getting a well-connected consultant interested in recommending you for that audition. But to get people’s help, you must first earn their help. Remember these 7 useful tips. 1. Show You’ve Got The Skills: If you want people ...
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FAWM Challenges Artists To Write 14 Songs During The 28 Days Of February
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HypeBot
Inspired by National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), FAWM Founder, Burr Settles issued the same type of charge to musicians in the form of February Album Writing Month (FAWM) - where artists are challenged to write 14 songs during the 28 days of February. The 11th Annual FAWM challenge is already underway, bringing artists of all ages, styles, and talents together again to make music for music's sake. FAWM prides itself on being a community that spurs spontaneous creativity and fosters ...
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Charles Lloyd Signs To Blue Note
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Michael Ricci
More than 50 years into an already legendary career, 2015 is shaping up to be a momentous year for Charles Lloyd. As reported today in The New York Times, the esteemed saxophonist and composer has signed with Blue Note Records and will release his first album for the iconic label in 30 years with the April 14 arrival of Wild Man Dance, a magnificent live recording of a remarkable long-form suite commissioned by the Jazztopad Festival in Wroclaw, Poland. Lloyd ...
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Music Licensing: An Insider’s Perspective
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HypeBot
Guest Post by John Steen I had a chance to talk with Adam McCants from The Music Bed on a recent podcast, and he gave me the raw scoop on how to get your music licensed. Adam works with major licensing opportunities every day and The Music Bed library gets over 2 million views a month, so I was very interested in what he had to say.First, he stressed that artists need excellent production quality. He regularly shoots down a multitude ...
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SoundExchange Bests Personal Record With $773 Million In Royalty Payouts In 2014
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HypeBot
SoundExchange released it's 2014 year end numbers this morning, revealing a new record for the company of $773 million in royalty payouts to recording artists and record labels. 2014's total payout is up 31% from the $590 paid out to artist and labels the year prior. The fourth quarter of 2014 also brought with it a significant increase in distribution with more than 38,000 payouts totaling approximately $183 million. “2014 was a banner year for SoundExchange. Not only did we ...
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Sony To Close Music Unlimited, Partners With Spotify For New Service
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HypeBot
One major sign that a sector is heating up is the quantity and quality of the deal making, as rivals jockey for position. By that, and almost any other measure, streaming music is on fire; and today's announcement that Sony Music Limited will shut down to be replaced by a new partnership with Spotify is a major win for the pre-IPO startup. Sony Network Entertainment and Spotify today announced a global partnership to deliver digital music to the PlayStation Network's ...
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Why Are Artist Managers Taking Center Stage?
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HypeBot
By Eric Peckham on Medium.com The evolving music industry is turning top managers into moguls—operating across media, tech and consumer brands The evolution of the music industry is putting greater power into the hands of top artist managers and transforming their firms—traditionally very small, behind-the-scenes operations—into miniature conglomerates operating across media, tech, and consumer brands. The root of this transformation is the broader shift in power from labels to artists, and thus to artists’ management teams. The internet empowers artists with the ability ...
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