Music Industry News

David Lopato, Solo Piano, "Many Moons"

Source: Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards
June 8, 2011

When you do a disk of solo piano improvisations, the spirits of Keith Jarrett and Cecil Taylor loom over your shoulder. They have been so influential that virtually all who have followed after have felt the pull of their respective magnetic zones. David Lopato comes into the fray with Many Moons (Global Coolant 01) and perforce experiences the opposite tugs. His response is to try and keep to the center of influences by evoking jazz tradition, albeit expanded and loosened ...

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Pat Metheny Introduces "What's It All About"

Source: Jazz Online By Joseph Vella
June 8, 2011

After nearly 40 recordings under his own name, this is the first Pat Metheny album where there is not a single Metheny composition represented. But far from being a “covers" album, this a personal view of ten classic songs, some very well known, some less so, filtered through the harmonic and melodic ideology of a modern master with a most individual approach. “Each tune has a real meaning to me musically. Of course, I am aware of the lyrics, but ...

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It Just Got 10 Times Easier to Ticket at the Door...

Source: Digital Music News
June 8, 2011

There's always the wobbly table and bingo-style tickets. But bands have more options than ever for doing serious ticketing at the door—and capturing fan data. That includes everything from the Square mobile credit card reader to Topspin, though Eventbrite really wants to change this game. The company is now preparing to release 'At the Door,' a package for processing credit cards, printing tickets, tracking attendees, and printing receipts for last-minute takers.

This is at the beginning stages, and Eventbrite teased ...

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What You Need to Know About Music Libraries

Source: We All Make Music
June 8, 2011

[The following post is the first in a series about music libraries written by veteran composer, studio musician, consultant and writer Eric Jensen. For a brief, eloquent history of music libraries and how producers have used them, click here.] You have probably noticed a number of articles about licensing your music for film and television. But you are not competing directly with other artists. In many instances, you are competing with production music libraries. Production music libraries are catalogs of ...

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10 Tips to Get Your Music News and Content into Facebook's Top News Feed

Source: HypeBot
June 7, 2011

Since Facebook separated its News Feed into Top News and Most Recent, it's become really important to get into the Top News feed which is the default and where you're most likely to be seen. If not, despite all the fans who liked your account or your band's Facebook Page, much of what you do is likely to go unnoticed. And that means that learning more about EdgeRank, the algorithm which decides who's in and who's out, is key to ...

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Calling Your Fans to Action

Source: We All Make Music
June 7, 2011

[Last week, band manager Ryan Sweeney laid out the basics of how a band should treat the members of its e-mail list. Today, he begins diving into the particulars, starting with the Call to Action] A Call to Action (CTA) is a band's way of asking its fans to do something: buy a ticket, download new music, watch a new video, go to a new website, or cast their vote in a competition. CTAs can be used anywhere – on ...

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Craig Taborn "Avenging Angel"

Source: ECM Records
June 7, 2011

Craig Taborn: piano “Avenging Angel" is Craig Taborn's distinguished contribution to the great solo piano tradition at ECM, a powerful, purposeful and rigorous album, which rises to the challenges of the format and transcends them. The disc explores the textural dimensions of sound, builds new structures, uncovers a rugged lyricism. Recorded in the optimal acoustics of the recital room at Lugano's Studio RSI, with Manfred Eicher producing, it's Taborn's first disc under his own name for ECM, following on from ...

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D&C's "Jazz Stories" Begin for the 2011 XRIJF

Source: Jazz@Rochester
June 6, 2011

Every year one of the treats that comes out of the Democrat & Chronicle's ever-growing coverage of the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival is the series of photo essays by Will Yurman and the “Jazz Stories" videos. The first of those videos, by Annette Lein, was just released (I think today), with a short profile of talented bassist-vocalist Katie Ernst, who just graduated from Eastman School of Music, will stop off for a gig at the XRIJF on June 16th ...

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