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Charlie Haden's Quartet West Turns 25
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Jazz Online By Joseph Vella
This year marks the 25th anniversary of Charlie Haden's band Quartet West. What started out as a simple gig in Santa Monica has developed into one of the greatest jazz groups in the past quarter century. In marking this milestone, the band has just released their seventh recording Sophisticated Ladies which includes half instrumentals from the quartet and half vocal pieces featuring some of the greatest female singers of today including Diana Krall, Cassandra Wilson and Norah Jones. But before ...
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Pitchify: Spotify's Music + Pitchfork's Taste
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HypeBot
Love them or hate them, it's tough to deny that online music review outlets Pitchfork Media and Drowned In Sound are tastemaking kings when it comes to influencing trends in new music. Combining long-form reviews, analysis, and commentary with user-friendly number ratings, both Pitchfork and Drowned In Sound provide one-stop, easily navigable guidance in the often-daunting world of new music and up-and-coming artists. Pitchify makes the process of discovering new music even easier, at least for those with access to ...
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Eric Jackson and Dayla Santurri Talk About Boston's JazzWeek '11 on BNN
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MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
In Terms of Songwriter Royalties, 250,000 Youtube Plays = $8...
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Digital Music News
So says David Renzer, chairman & CEO of Universal Music Group Publishing, who shared the stat at a recent publishing forum (we just got our hands on the recording). “For every 250,000 streams on YouTube, that is the equivalent of one credit of ASCAP performing rights value," Renzer relayed. “One credit is less than $8, it's about $7.60." The forum was held by the Association of Independent Music Publishing (AIMP) in Los Angeles earlier this year. Renzer aptly described the ...
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The Root's ?uestlove on Marketing Music Careers by Building Music Movements
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HypeBot
In 2008, Derek Jennings interviewed The Roots' ?uestlove in a wide ranging discussion that included a section about building a movement with other musicians that has stayed with me ever since. ?uestlove described how big acts in popular music had always been part of larger music movements so that's what he and Roots' manager Richard Nichols decided to try to create. It's an interesting perspective that one sees echoed in the building of local scenes, musician collectives and even festivals ...
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Rethink Music Preview: Ralph Jaccodine on the Future of Artist Management
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We All Make Music
[Editor's Note: Next week, we're going to be covering Rethink Music up in Boston. To get you in the mood, we thought we'd reach out to a couple panel moderators and get some advice/information out of them. This second and final piece is a Q&A with artist manager Ralph Jaccodine] For all the upheaval that the music business has experienced in the past 15 years, the work and priorities of the artist manager haven't changed that much. “I remember I ...
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Rethink Music Preview: The Orchard's Richard Gottehrer on What Independent Musicians Can Expect from Record Labels
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We All Make Music
[Editor's Note: Next week, we're going to be covering Rethink Music up in Boston. To get you in the mood, we thought we'd reach out to a couple panel moderators and get some advice/information out of them. This is the first of two pieces] Richard Gottehrer knows the music business inside and out. Over the course of his nearly 50 year career, Gottehrer has worked as a songwriter, artist, manager, label head, and producer for some fairly incredible names: he ...
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The Tyranny of Novelty
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This guest post comes from Jeremy Schlosberg, the founder and curator of Fingertips , which has been seeking out the web's best free and legal music since 2003. A press release received yesterday afternoon informs me that Ben Folds, Amanda Palmer, Damian Kulash of the band OK Go, and writer Neil Gaiman (Palmer's husband) will be writing and recording eight songs in eight hours on Monday April 25 at Boston's Berklee College of Music, and will release them 10 hours ...
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