Home » Jazz News
Music Industry News
Timely announcements covering new album releases, tours, concert series, special events, job postings, crowdfunding campaigns and more. You can find more news by searching our website, viewing our news stream, seeing what's trending or reading our blog posts. Subscribe to our news RSS feed and/or embed AAJ news content on your website or blog. Learn about our news service here. Submit news here.
Album Reissues: Exploiting Our Cultural Heritage
Source:
HypeBot
Reporter Fiona Sturges has penned a rather thought provoking article where she poses the question as to what happens when the major labels begin focusing too much on re-releasing, deluxe edition granting, and ultimately living off the back catalog, as opposed to actually investing in new artists and releases. She paints an interesting perspective of what happens if financial incentives align towards catalog and away from new artists, at a time, when the likelihood that they will be able to ...
Continue Reading
Jazzwax List: 28 Aces of Clubs
Source:
JazzWax by Marc Myers
Live albums make up a good chunk of any good jazz collection. Many of the best ones were recorded at New York jazz clubs that are long gone. Some clubs even made their way into jazz album titles--like Wes Montgomery's Smokin' at the Half Note, Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street East, Thelonious Monk's Live at the Five Spot and Mingus at the Bohemia.
Ever wonder where those and other long lost New York nightspots were located? So ...
Continue Reading
Socialmention: Like Google Alerts, for Social Media
Source:
HypeBot
As anyone who operates in this space knows, tracking and monitoring conversations around your business, artists, and blog is a constant must.
There are many tools out there, some good, some not so much. One site I have just become familiar with is called Social Mention; it is a social media search and analysis platform that aggregates user generated content from across the web into a single stream of information. Judging by a few preliminary searches, the site seems like ...
Continue Reading
Music Piracy and the End of Culture
Source:
HypeBot
This guest post is by Charlotta Hedman (@fjoms), a journalist who blogs for the Music 4.5 project, a series of events that bring together people from the technology and the music industry.
The music industry seems to be bracing itself for peak-revenue in the same way the rest of the world is waiting for the oil to run out. Is it really true that piracy will turn some countries into a cultural wasteland? According to some reports it's already happening. ...
Continue Reading
Comparing Traditional and Brilliant Finish Cymbals
Source:
AAJ Staff
Traditional finish cymbals do not have a high gloss shine or coating applied. Lathing is a traditional finished cymbals finished look. Brilliant finish cymbals have a high gloss shine and if there are lathed grooves they are not as deep because they have been buffed down. Brilliant finish cymbals have great stage presents because of their eye catching high gloss shine. These cymbals are easier to clean than traditional finished cymbals because the grooves are not as deep to collect ...
Continue Reading
"Operators" Are Standing By
Source:
Brilliant Corners, a Boston Jazz Blog
Some have castigated the recent alliance between Sony and the Miles Davis estate which offers “A mouthpiece replica of exactly the 'Gustat' Heim 2 model used by Davis especially created by Kanstul," t-shirts and other fascinating items. They even throw in 43 CD's.In fact, those corporate giants don't go nearly far enough in offering a package that can truly bring fans closer to their favorite artists. I have therefore forged a metaheuristic liaison with certain Ukranian businessmen and ...
Continue Reading
