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Getting Sensible About Pandora Royalties: An Analysis by Jay Frank
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HypeBot
By Jay Frank (@Repojay), Owner and CEO of DigSin. Pandora royalties came under fire once again last week, with a firestorm of blog posts pointing a ton of virtual fingers. Facts become “facts" as each side is skewing the story to their benefit. All sides should take equal blame for misrepresentation. The truth is that online plays equal audience impressions, and this disparity causes confusion on both sides. When you do the actual math, Pandora is likely paying songwriters less ...
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"Originals By Originals" This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, jazz legends perform their own compositions with The Jim Cullum Jazz Band. We dig into the archive for “Originals by Originals." The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website. You can also drop in on a continuous stream of shows at the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound. Improvisation is “composition on the fly.” The jazz musician’s lifelong mission ...
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Shorty Rogers: Rock Sessions
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Shorty Rogers led a double life in the 1950s. By day, he was one of West Coast jazz's founding fathers—standing out as a dynamic bandleader and prolific big-band and small-group arranger. On his off hours, he had an alter-ego—Boots Brown, an early rock-and-roller who recorded about a dozen jump-boogie singles. Why Rogers bothered and went incognito to do so has been something of a mystery. Did he really need the money? Or was he simply gaslighting the music industry—showing executives ...
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Tio Family Clarinet Dynasty This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
It’s the story of The Tio Family, a New Orleans clarinet dynasty, this week on Riverwalk Jazz. The Jim Cullum Jazz Band welcomes Evan Christopher, a dynamic New Orleans-based clarinetist and student of early jazz. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website. You can also drop in on a continuous stream of shows at the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound. The Tio ...
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The Best Jazz Of All Time, Streaming For Free On Internet Radio
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Lucas Gillan
Anyone who considers him or herself a jazz fan knows that the depth and breadth of the music’s history can be a little overwhelming. No doubt, most anyone who has had a conversation with a fellow jazz enthusiast has heard the line, “What? You’ve NEVER heard that record?!” To help listeners to become acquainted with (and, consequently, fall in love with) the essential tracks and records from throughout jazz’s rich history, AccuJazz Internet Radio is proud to present two new ...
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Artie Shaw: Portrait Of Perfection This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, Jim Cullum and the Band pay tribute to Artie Shaw, the only serious rival Benny Goodman had to his title as “The King of Swing." By the time he was 30, Shaw’s effortless clarinet solos, his innovative musical arrangements, and his unusual band instrumentation earned him a place in the pantheon of 20th-century jazz greats. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be streamed on-demand ...
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Amy Niles Named Acting President & CEO During Cephas Bowles' Leave
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Carolyn McClair Public Relations
Amy Niles Named Acting President and CEO of WBGO Jazz 88.3 FM NEWARK, NJ: Effective immediately, Cephas Bowles, President and CEO of WBGO Jazz 88.3 FM, will take a leave of absence for health reasons, it was announced today by Stephen N. Ifshin, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Newark Public Radio/WBGO. It also was announced that Amy Niles, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, will serve as Acting President and CEO in the interim. “Cephas has been ...
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Dick Hyman, Stephanie Nakasian On Riverwalk Jazz This Week
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William Carter
The historic Filoli Estate and Gardens south of San Francisco is the setting for this week’s Riverwalk Jazz broadcast, “Sweet Ballads and Red Hot Pianos." Piano legend Dick Hyman and jazz vocalist Stephanie Nakasian join The Jim Cullum Jazz Band for an outdoor concert including a set of songs by composer Walter Donaldson. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website. You can ...
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