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The Ravens on National
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Back in 1947, while Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie were pioneering bebop, another jazz group was developing a different style of music that would have a lasting impact on American music in the three decades that followed. The group was comprised of four black vocalists, and as The Ravens they recorded singles that wound up inspiring Doo-wop groups in the '50s, soul ensembles of the '60s, and the Philadelphia and Detroit disco sound of the '70s. Black vocal groups were ...
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The Benefits - And Risks - Of a Residency
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We All Make Music
[Editor's Note: The following is the first in a series of articles by Ryan Sweeney about getting a residency for your band]
A residency is a phenomenal opportunity to give fans something unique. Though they come in all shapes and sizes—three or four shows on consecutive nights, one show a week for several weeks; promoter pays a guarantee, venue gives you a percentage of the door—residencies are, at their heart, a chance to show off a new side of your ...
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How to Structure a Company to Succeed in the Current Music Industry
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HypeBot
With all the challenges in the music industry, what kind of company structure would best suit this industry? Frank Woodworth has ideas on how to structure a music company on Music Think Tank. He details the current problems in the music ecosystem and proposes a basic structure. “The possibilities for content in the future are limited only by technology we create, and there will be even more changes down the road that are hard to imagine at this point in ...
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After 7 Yr Decline Music Sales up in 1st Half of 2011
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HypeBot
It's much too early to call this a trend, but after 7 years of decline Nielsen Soundscan data is showing that U.S. music sales are up for the first half of 2011. Through the week ending July 3: Album sales (physical and digital) were up almost 1% Track Equivalent Albums were up 3.6% to 221.5 million units, from 213.6 million a year ago. MORE DATA: The album figures include compact discs and digital albums. Nielsen also counts 10 tracks ...
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Business Journal Says Jazz St. Louis to Launch Major Fundraising Drive for New Building, Endowment
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
In a story in this week's edition (July 1- 7), the St. Louis Business Journal reports that Jazz St. Louis plans to launch a major fundraising effort to create an endowment and build a new headquarters and performance facility. The report by E.B. Solomont of the Business Journal staff says that with a price tag estimated at $10 million, “the new venue would have up to 250 seats, up from 150. It also would house classrooms; exhibit, rehearsal and education ...
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Music Company RS Berkeley Donates A Full Orchestra Of Musical Instruments To Cuban Music Students
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Jennifer Kramer
New York, NY—In a major announcement last week, Les Silver, President and CEO of RS Berkeley Musical Instruments, pledged that the company will donate all the brand-new, acoustic instruments needed to completely outfit a student orchestra at the Amadeo Roldán Academy of Music in Havana, Cuba's premier academy of music. The New Jersey company will contribute 28 brass, woodwind, stringed and percussion instruments—saxes, trumpets, trombones, violins and basses, even a tuba—to the New York organization, Horns to Havana, which intends ...
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Jay Frank: What Does iCloud Really Mean for Music?
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HypeBot
Jay Frank is the SVP of Music Strategy at CMT. His book and FutureHitDNA blog are must-reads. After Apple's announcement of the iCloud, my instinct, as always, was to write an immediate reaction piece on “what it means." Yet, the more I thought about it, the more thoughts popped in my head. The more I discussed this with friends, the more angles I arrived at. When I summarized the pros and cons in my head, I came to this conclusion: ...
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Is Targeting the Problem? Fanbridge Has an Idea...
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Digital Music News
If the noisefloor hasn't drowned your band yet, FanBridge has an idea. The company is now experimenting with a range of targeted ad products designed to reach fans most likely to appreciate your music. And, break through the increasingly-noisy net in the process. “We know how to find the folks who want to find you," FanBridge is pitching. The idea, currently in pilot phase, is called FanFinder Suite, and early results are still being monitored. The collection of ad products ...
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