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Would You Pay for Access? Blazetrak Hopes So.
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HypeBot
Would you pay to have a successful musician, producer, songwriter or choreographer review your portfolio or answer a question about the music industry? Startup Blazetrak thinks so, and has built a platform to make the transaction happen. Most of the professionals charge $100-$200 (R&B star Kenny Lattimore will let you spend the day with him for $7500.) and answer via a short video. The video insures that the response comes from the pro, not an intern; and Blazetrak will give ...
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New Nimbit Marketing Alliance Offers One Stop Direct-to-Fan Services
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HypeBot
Artist services provider Nimbit has just opened a Direct-to-Fan Marketing Services Alliance made up of companies who compliment and extend its platform's existing ability to enable artists and their teams to effectively market and sell direct to fans. Charter members of the Nimbit Direct-to-Fan Marketing Services Alliance include:
Ariel Publicity & Cyber PR HypeGenius Lotos Nile - Media Marketing Music Music Business Solutions MarKyr Media The MuseBox Powderfinger Promotions Radar Music Videos ...Continue Reading
Jazz This Week: Season's Greetings from St. Louis Jazz Notes
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
With the Christmas holiday on Friday, it's a slow weekend for live music generally in St. Louis, but there are a couple of noteworthy shows happening early next week.On Monday, bassist David Certain, who's played with Eddie Henderson, Gary Bartz and Little Jimmy Scott, leads a quartet at BB's Jazz, Blues and Soups, featuring drummer Stan Hale plus saxophonist “Blind" Willie Dineen and trumpeter Rob Endicott of the Voodoo Blues Band. (Full disclosure: Yr. humble editor has gigged ...
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Nielson Names Top 5 Entertainments Trends of 2009
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HypeBot
In music, sales of physical CDs were down 20%, while digital album sales were up 17%, and they continue to show growth. But what about the broader entertainment marketplace. According to Nielson:
1. Digital media shows solid growth. Digital albums could reach 50% of all album sales in 2010--up from 41%; Digital books, downloaded to devices such as Amazon's Kindle and Barnes & Noble's Nook, also present a new opportunity for publishers to combine text, music and video ...
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Savoy Jazz Partners with Universal for Australian Distribution Deal
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Michael Ricci
Savoy Jazz, the U.S. record label which is home to some of the most iconic artists in the history of jazz music has confirmed a new marketing and distribution agreement with Universal Music Australia, it was announced today by Steve Vining, President of the Savoy Label Group. Beginning January 4, 2010, the entire Savoy Jazz catalog, which includes the extensive works of pioneering jazz musicians such as Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Cannonball Adderly, John Coltrane, Billy Eckstine, Dizzy Gillespie and ...
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The Language of Tribes: True Fans and Outsiders
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Kyle Bylin, Associate Editor
Photo Courtesy of Sara Kiesling
During the 1970's, “the black concert tour T-Shirt became a ubiquitous as a way for individuals (mostly teenagers) to signal to others that they had actually been there to see The Who in 1974 or Led Zeppelin in 1975."1 Initially, music fans wore concert T-Shirts as a badge that proclaimed where they had been -- what experiences they shared. But, as concert T-Shirts became an essential part of music culture ...
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Schreiber's Names
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
If you a follower of the occasional Rifftides discussions about the music and wit of the late bassist Freddie Schreiber, you know that his inventiveness overlapped into name creation. Dean Reilly, the San Francisco bassist who is an admirer of Schreiber on all fronts, provided what appears to be an authentic list of some of the names Freddie invented. Schreiber's original names inspired imitations that can be found on many web sites. For now, we confine ourselves to a few ...
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Ron Kaplan, Kapland Records and American Songbook Preservation Society
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Michael Ricci
Greetings one and all... Happy Holidays and New Year too! A few updates from Ron Kaplan, Kapland Records and American Songbook Preservation Society. I'm happy to report that I will be appearing at Kuumbwa Jazz Center on Thursday, January 7, 2010 and will be performing the repertoire from my recording entitled New York. I had the opportunity to perform this material in NYC this summer at Feinstein's. It was great fun. If you love NY, you will love ...
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