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Ladies and Gentlemen, Pandora is Now Profitable...
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Digital Music News
Wall Street was mostly unimpressed, but by music industry standards, this is a moment. On Tuesday, Pandora revealed something remarkable: profitability, at least for a fleeting three months. During its quarterly wrap-up today, Pandora (P) reported a slim profit of $638,000, a reversal from a year-ago decline of $1.77 million.
The number translates into break-even on a per-share basis, and solidly beats a year-ago per-share loss of 15-cents. And, it was enough to beat analyst expectations, thanks to more-than-doubled revenues ...
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Paul Motian Memorial Broadcast on WKCR
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AAJ Staff
Drummer, bandleader, and composer Paul Motian passed away Tuesday November 22nd at the age of 80. Motian's career took off starting with his work in the influential Bill Evan's trio alongside bassist Scott LaFaro in the late 1950s. Thereafter, he went on to record and perform with artists ranging from Charlie Haden and Lee Konitz to Marilyn Crispell and Bill Frisell, developing a distinctive style along the way, a key contribution in an era in which the drums continued to ...
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JazzWeek Radio Chart: November 14, 2011
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Michael Ricci
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 20 — Pat Martino Undeniable: Live At Blues Alley (HighNote) 231 114 +117 0 66 1 2 2 1 4 Christian McBride Big Band The Good Feeling (Mack Avenue) 215 261 -46 0 57 1 7 3 3 5 Roy Haynes Roy-Alty (Dreyfus) 172 184 -12 0 55 2 8 4 4 8 George Benson Guitar Man (Concord Jazz) 166 180 -14 0 37 4 7 5 2 3 Poncho Sanchez & ...
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Tribute to Red Allen This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week, Riverwalk Jazz pays tribute to Henry 'Red' Allen, one of the last great trumpeters to come out of New Orleans in the 1920s. Joining the Jim Cullum Jazz Band on the bandstand at The Landing in San Antonio are Bay Area multi-instrumentalist Clint Baker, New Orleans clarinetist Evan Christopher, New York clarinet legend Kenny Davern, New Orleans trumpeter Duke Heitger and frequent Riverwalk Jazz collaborator and pianist Dick Hyman The program is distributed in the US by Public ...
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JazzWeek Radio Chart: November 7, 2011
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Michael Ricci
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 4 1 Christian McBride Big Band The Good Feeling (Mack Avenue) 261 177 +84 1 55 1 6 2 3 2 Poncho Sanchez & Terence Blanchard Chano y Dizzy (Concord Jazz) 213 179 +34 1 63 1 7 3 5 7 Roy Haynes Roy-Alty (Dreyfus) 184 176 +8 1 48 2 7 4 9 4 Warren Wolf Warren Wolf (Mack Avenue) 180 143 +37 0 50 1 13 4 ...
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Neil Cowley Trio - Radio Silence (2011)
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Something Else!
As the poignant, expressive piano voice behind both of Adele's albums, Neil Cowley has a sound that seems immediately familiar. Yet he doesn't simply rely on that famous association to push along Radio Silence. As often as he performs with a similarly recognizable delightful grace (as on the title track and the “Portal"), Cowley also displays this flinty sense of interplay with bassist Richard Sadler and drummer Evan Jenkins on this, their third recording together. They tear through the randy ...
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STLJN Audio Archive: Charles "Bobo" Shaw and Lester Bowie - Bugle Boy Bop
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
For this installment of the StLJN Audio Archive, we tune into Bugle Boy Bop, an album of duos recorded by drummer Charles “Bobo" Shaw and trumpeter Lester Bowie issued on the Muse label in 1983. The original LP (pictured) was recorded live at saxophonist Sam Rivers' NYC loft venue Studio Rivbea on February 5, 1977, with famed producer Michael Cuscuna overseeing the eventual release. Although Bugle Boy Bop never has been reissued on CD, you can still hear it via ...
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Pandora CTO: Majority of Americans Pay $0 for Music...
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Digital Music News
How many people are actually reaching for their wallets to enjoy music—at least once in a given year? The answer could be depressingly slim, according to talking points jotted down by TechCrunch. “Over half of the US doesn't pay anything for music each year," estimated Pandora CTO Tom Conrad atGigaOm's Roadmap Conference. On top of that, another 40 percent fork over about $15 a year, perhaps the cost of an album with a few a-la-carte downloads tossed in. Which means ...
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