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Clark Terry enters hospice care
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Via Clark Terry's Facebook page, some sad news about the 94-year-old legendary trumpeter and St. Louis native: “It is with a heavy heart we share that our beloved Clark Terry is now in hospice care. Gwen and the health care team are making sure that Clark is as comfortable as possible. During this time the family is asking for your prayers. If you would like to share your favorite stories or music about Clark please do so here or on ...
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Fast Company Names 10 Most Innovative Music Companies 2015
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Each year Fast Company names the year's most innovative companies including a special category for music. In addition to putting the spotlight on some great companies, it's an interesting glimpse into how the mainstream business press views innovation in the music industry. In 2015, only Spotify returns from 2014's Top 10 Music Company list. Fast Company's 10 Most Innovative Music Companies Of 2015 1. NEXT BIG SOUND (music analytics) “For making music out of the music industry’s data" 2. PARKWOOD ...
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Music As A Marketing Tool
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Guest Post by Colin Shaw on LinkedIn Pulse Music has a unique effect on our brain, especially concerning memory. Apple brilliantly capitalizes on all of them in its holiday ad. When it comes to branding there might be no better way than using music to help a Customer remember your brand promise. Here is the ad, in case you missed it: Part of the reason these studies showed the link is because music activates many centers across the brain, including the emotional ones. From ...
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TuneGo Raises $1.2 Million To Expand Emerging Artist Platform
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TuneGo, a music discovery platform for emerging artists, has raised $1.2 million from serial entrepreneur Chris Murray and Pasadena Angel investor Kenny Kam. Alongside the funding, TuneGo announced deals with Spotify, Slacker and APM Music as distribution partners and some heavy-hitting producers including Peter Asher, Desmond Child and Ron Dante. How TuneGo Works Still in open beta, TuneGo works to connect emerging artists both with fans and music industry insiders. TuneGO Score uses patent-pending algorithmic filtering which combines social activity, crowd-sourced feedback, ...
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Uncommon jazz trio is spellbinding
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
There is a notable, and rather robust, roster of jazz-playing siblings through the years. A much leaner list of identical twins playing jazz shows that most play different instruments. That makes sense. If you are working together a lot as budding musicians, you need a variety of position players in a band. Peter and Will Anderson are identical-twin rarities because they play the same instruments.* The saxophone-and clarinet-playing brothers brought their finely honed skills to the Charlotte County Jazz Society’s ...
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Music Tech - It's Been A Long Hard Winter
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Guest Post by Cortney Harding on This Week In Music Tech An update on last week’s post: there were some pretty good discussions on Twitter and elsewhere, most of which were civil and interesting. Over at Billboard, Andrew Flanagan dug deeper and reported that, according to YouTube, artists who choose not to be part of Music Key would still have right to use Content ID and pull down any or all of their music, should they choose to. Assuming YouTube doesn’t reverse course, it ...
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Major Record Labels Are Keeping Nearly All The Money They Get From Spotify, Rather Than Giving It To Artists
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Guest Post by Mike Masnick on TechDirt A small group of very vocal musicians has decided that the new target of their anger, after attacking cyberlockers, search engines and torrent sites, should be legal, authorized streaming services. They've decided that the payouts from these services are simply too low, even though almost none of these services are anywhere close to profitable, and most are handing out the vast majority of their revenue to copyright holders. The complaints are often nonsensical. Way back in 2012, we noted ...
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How to Measure if Your PR Campaign Was Successful
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Guest Post by Amy Sciaretto on Sonicbids Blog If you've launched a PR campaign, there are several ways to measure how successful it was or wasn't, but the science is hardly exact. Know this going into it: you shouldn't be looking for quantifiable things that unfold in a set amount of time, because the measurement formula has changed so much, and it's no longer about record sales. You have to be able to understand the intangibles and things that live largely online. Also, you ...
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