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The Battle over Venue Sales Reports to Nielson Soundscan and Billboard
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HypeBot
Earlier this month, Billboard and Nielson Soundscan issued a new set of guidelines for reporting music sales at venues and ticket/album bundles. Documented venue sales are combined with other sources to determine position on a many Soundscan and Billboard charts. Most controversial, was a new requirement that fans buying a CD at a venue must sign a sheet to be submitted to Nielson along with others forms. In addition to privacy issues, many found the additional reporting requirement onerous. This ...
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Jazz Around Town: A Sweet Sixteen Days Until We Begin Days of Music at the Xrijf
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Jazz@Rochester
Thursday, May 26, 2011 Gap Mangione Jazz Trio @ Pittsford Grill, 6:00 pm Jazz Dawgs @ Bistro 135, 6:30 pm Amy Montrois @ Lemoncello, 7:00 pm Joe Santora Trio with Emily Kirchoff @ Michael's Valley Grill, 7:00 pm Harold Pannell with Tenaj @ Tala Vera Cantina, 8:00 pm
Friday, May 27, 2011 Alexandria Bay Ragtime Jasstime Festival @ The Bonnie Castle Resort, Alexandria Bay (1000 Islands) Johnny Matt Band with Jon Seiger @ Wegmans-Eastway, 5:30 pm Bobby DiBaudo @ Bistro ...
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Jason Parker Quartet - Five Leaves Left
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Music and More by Tim Niland
The late British singer-songwriter Nick Drake is having something of a resurgence in jazz recently, kicked off by pianist Brad Mehldau's cover of “River Man" and now extending to this well executed album by trumpeter Jason Parker. Performing with Parker on this album are Josh Rawlings on piano, Evan Flory-Barnes on bass, D'Vonne Lewis on drums and special guests Michele Khazak on vocals and Cynthia Mullis on tenor saxophone and flute. Five Leaves is a solid if slightly melancholy disc, ...
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Delfeayo Marsalis's New Version of Ellington's "Sweet Thunder"
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Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards
Duke Ellington's post Newport-1955 work for Columbia to me is one of the cornerstones of his output. The suite in tribute to Shakespeare, Such Sweet Thunder, first recorded for the label during that period, I rank high on the list of my Ellington favorites. So when I found that trombonist Delfeayo Marsalis had created a new version of the work (Sweet Thunder [Troubador Jazz 092110]) I was certainly interested, but had misgivings. The latter came out of my more than ...
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3 Major Labels Say They'll Share Limewire Settlement, but New PR Nightmare Emerges
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HypeBot
When Hypebot and others suggested that, based on previous statements, none of the $105 million settlement that LimeWire is paying to labels was unlikely to find its way to artists, the RIAA contacted us to say that they really weren't in control of who got the money. So we went to the four major labels and asked, “Will you be distributing some of this $105 million to your artists?." For the three that replied, the answer is yes. RIAA Pushes ...
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Seven Ways to Sell More Merch
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We All Make Music
If you want to make any money on the road, you'd be well advised to put some effort and thought into your merch table. While it's true that your music matters most, your merch table should never be an afterthought, no matter what stage of your career you're in. Merchandise can and should be the source of a significant portion of your income. Not only will it give you the money needed to fill your gas tank and get to ...
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Eventbrite Grabs $50 Million More for Live Ticket and Marketing Platform
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HypeBot
Even as Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino was touting synergies created by its merger with Ticketmaster at this morning's JP Morgan conference, investors were signalling that it's far from game over for the event ticketing sector. Ticketing upstart Eventbrite announced today it has secured $50 million in a Series E financing round led by Tiger Global. This round brings the company's total funding to $79.5 million. With this capital, Eventbrite says it will to expand and accelerate global expansion and ...
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PT. 2 Fab 5 Freddy: Jazz Upbringing @ The Roots of Hip Hop
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The Independent Ear by Willard Jenkins
In part one (scroll down or check the archives) of our lively conversation with Fab 5 Freddy, the graffiti artist who was one of the pioneers of what has become the global pop phenomenon known as hip hop we discussed the heavy jazz influence on young Fred’s Brooklyn upbringing, which included the significant influence of his godfather NEA Jazz Master Max Roach. One course correction: the crib Fab described in pt. 1 as Max Roach’s home on Gates Avenue, where ...
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