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Jazzwax List: Detective Jazz III
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
It was a cold and rainy night—the kind made for staying in with a glass of rye and a bad book. Outside, cars drove by slow and sloppy. Inside, the pink neon sign from the bar across the alley kissed the wall over and over, steady and insistent. Then came the knock at my email box. I turned to open the message and wound up face to face with the Crime Jazz guys. “We love ya past lists, but we ...
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Jazz Around Town: The Leaves Are Falling All Around, but There is Still Jazz to be Found ...
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Jazz@Rochester
Thursday, October 13, 2011 Jazz & Wine Happy Hour with The Swooners @ Woodcliff Hotel & Spa, 5:30 pm Drew Moore & Steve Melcher, Serge and Friends @ Rabbit Room Restaurant, Honeoye Falls, 6:00 pm Bob Hanley @ Pittsford Grill, 6:00 pm The John Palocy Trio (Jazz Dawgs) @ Bistro 135, 6:30 pm Joe Santora Trio with Emily Kirchoff @ Michael's Valley Grill, 7:00 pm The Djangoners @ Little Theatre Cafe, 7:30 pm Soul Express @ Pane Vino Ristorante, 8:30 ...
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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Jazz, October 14-20
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
I'll miss most of the music in town this week. My loss! Some cool things are happening. Highlights Can't think of a better horn to put in front of Peter Schimke, Billy Peterson and Kenny Horst than saxman Brandon Wozniak. He's been tearing up one ensemble after another since relocating to the Twin Cities about five years ago. Now a veteran of the Atlantis Quartet and Monk in Motian bands, he's been heard a lot lately with Bryan Nichols and ...
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Just How Much Does Rhapsody Pay Artists?
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HypeBot
Last week, Paul Resnikoff of Digital Music News asked some basic questions about how much the music streaming services pay labels/artists. He had a hard time getting detailed responses from any of the firms he contacted, including Rhapsody. Here's how I'm paid for my self-released albums in the Rhapsody catalog: 1. A penny per stream. For albums distributed by CD Baby and TuneCore, I receive one cent per listener stream. CD Baby, which uses a commission business model, takes a ...
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9 Critical Things You Should Know About Music Publicity Before You Make Your First Move
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HypeBot
By Ariel Hyatt, a regular contributor to MusicThinkTank, whose Ariel Publicity is an indie music focused digital pr firm and educational experience wrapped up in one very cool package.. I just got back from teaching social media master classes throughout Finland, Norway and Iceland and many musicians asked me to help them understand what traditional publicity is and how it fits into their overall planning. This is a past article I wrote which I have recently updated for you for ...
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30 Top Indie Labels Partner for Music Discovery Site thenewrecord.com
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HypeBot
Community building doesn't only happen on Facebook, and a new indie music discovery site founded by Bill Armstrong of Side One Dummy hopes to build a community of indie music fans more tied to the creators than to Mark Zuckerberg. To help make that happen, Armstrong assembled a unique partnership of 30 top independent music labels to launch TheNewRecord.com. The site is designed as a digital newsstand offering a free filtered environment to play and download new songs weeks in ...
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Bjork to 'Takeover' eMusic
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HypeBot
This summer eMusic debuted eMusic Radio featuring staff curated streaming music channels. Now Bjork is helping eMusic launch their new Artist Takeover program featuring Bjork's editorial selections in celebration of the release of her Biophilia album Bjork's new album, Biophilia, caught a lot of attention earlier this year for her decision to release mobile apps for each song. As she now turns to promoting the album in more traditional forms, Bjork is also kicking off eMusic's Artist Takeover program that ...
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Live Jazz in Massachusetts on Saturday, October 8
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MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
Hannah Christianson at the Lily Pad There's great live jazz and blues taking place all across Massachusetts on Saturday, October 8, 2011. Here is just a sampling from MassJazz: Robin Glasper Trio Regattabar Jazz Club at Charles Hotel One Bennett Street, Cambridge Aardvark JazzOrchestra 39th season opener MIT, Killian Hall Cambridge Hannah Christianson and Sarah Brindell Lily Pad Jazz Club 1352 Cambridge Street Inman ...
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