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Muzeek Developing Intuitive Gig Booking Platform
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HypeBot
Muzeek is a new gig booking platform that hopes to go beyond simply being a handy booking tool and towards something a bit more powerful. In addition to taking care of agreements, bookkeeping and payments, Muzeek hopes to build a self-reinforcing community to ensure good behavior from acts, promoters and venues. Beyond that they see Muzeek as an “intuitive booking platform" that can ease the booking process based on data. I heard from Muzeek's co-founder and Creative Directory Danny Fiorentini ...
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Charlie Harrington Now Allegra Drums Artist
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Charlie Harrington
Award-Winning Acclaimed Artist, Charlie Harrington, has signed withAllegra Drums. He is an in demand session musician with a well-established reputation as a first call drummer. Charlie joins, among others, country drumming veteran Ric McClure, James Brown funk drummer Erik Hargrove, Spyro Gyra alumn Tom Walsh, as well as jazz drumming and Motown great Mel Brown, in endorsing Allegra Drums. Allegra Drum Crafters was founded in 1996 by Dave Peterson in Portland Oregon. The company enjoys a state of the art ...
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George Shearing at Home
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In January 1983, George Shearing and bassist Don Thompson began a six week engagement at Michael's Pub on East 55th St. in New York. Thompson and Shearing had been working as a duo since June '82 and had developed a strong and trusting musical bond. During this period in early '83, Shearing and Thompson often rehearsed at Shearing's New York apartment, to try things out. [Pictured above: George and Ellie Shearing] The so-called practice sessions were so lyrically deep that ...
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Artistshare Partners With Legendary Blue Note Records
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Brian Camelio
BLUE NOTE RECORDS TO PARTNER WITH ARTISTSHARE TO CREATE BLUE NOTE/ARTISTSHARE A GROUNDBREAKING HYBRID CROWDFUNDING/RECORD LABEL MODEL DEDICATED TO NURTURING NEW JAZZ TALENT The legendary jazz label Blue Note Records, historic home to such greats as Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Art Blakey and Herbie Hancock, and current home to artists such as Wayne Shorter, Terence Blanchard, Joe Lovano, Jason Moran, Jose James and Norah Jones, has joined forces with the pioneer of crowdfunding, ArtistShare, to create a groundbreaking ...
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What is SoLoMo Marketing? And Why It's Time to Start Doing It
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HypeBot
By Brandon Chiat, co-founder, Marquee a live music discovery and rewards application. There's a new buzzword being thrown around by marketing teams. SoLoMo, which stands for Social-Local-Mobile, refers to the integration of social, location-based, and mobile marketing tools into new customer acquisition platforms. Most everyone is familiar with the common SoLoMo platforms like Foursquare and Groupon. What you may not be familiar with is how these tools are strengthening the bond between fans and their favorite artists, venues and events. The ...
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Metadata Confusion Costing the Industry More than Money, Delegates Told at NARM "Music Biz" Summit
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Michael Ricci
Misspellings, multiple identities for a single artist, and multiple release dates are costing the music industry a lot of money and causing great confusion among customers, according to a day-long summit on metadata held at the NARM “Music Biz" gathering at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles. As the music industry becomes more dependent on digital revenue, clean, authoritative metadata becomes increasingly important, which can have an impact not only on sales but also on payment to the ...
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Direct-to-Fan Holds Much Promise, Many Problems
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HypeBot
By Kyle Bylin (@sidewinderfm), founder and editor of sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. The notion of artists selling music directly to their fans holds a powerful allure. Why pay to distribute your music to iTunes and Amazon if you can set up your own online storefront? You keep a higher percentage of the sales revenue and obtain invaluable information about your audience. This information — such as email addresses and buying behavior — empowers you to contact your fans ...
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Billy Verplanck: A Joyous Life
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
The late trombonist-arranger Billy VerPlanck isn't particularly well known to jazz fans today—but he should be. Throughout his career, from the late 1940s to 2009, Billy had a delicate, swinging touch when writing for bands—more harmonic interplay and seduction than sheer bombast and section muscle. VerPlanck's real first name was John; he named himself Billy after hearing Woody Herman trombonist Bill Harris in the '40s. Early on, he preferred being behind the scenes—ghosting and tidying up charts when name arrangers ...
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