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What Do Music Fans Want to Own, and Why?
On Music Think Tank, Chris Stoneman discusses the topic of ownership. With the changes in how fans consume music, ownership has changed as well. Chris explains three ways we desire music and how these desires affect our need to own something. Read on to see how fans want to consume music and what some companies are ...
A2im Analysis Show Grammy Hurt Indie Labels More Than Majors
(UPDATED) An analysis by the American Association of Independent Music (A2IM) trade organization of the past two years of Grammy Awards showed that if winning is the primary measure of success, the impact of the recent category reductions and consolidations would effect the independent label community and the four major labels equally. But the bottom line ...
The Tyranny of Novelty
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 ...
Barney McClure on Jazz Northwest This Weekend
Barney McClure has been a boatbuilder, Mayor of Port Townsend, State Representative, Events Organizer and more, but it's as a jazz musician we know him best. Whether playing piano or organ, leading his own groups, or backing singers and touring artists, Barney McClure has been a prominent part of the Northwest jazz scene for many years. ...
One Track Mind: Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis, "Losing Hand" (2011)
Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis continue a stirringly offbeat musical dialogue begun with their 2008 release Two Men with the Blues, this time focusing on the music of Ray Charles. Here We Go Again, issued last month by Blue Note, also includes several turns by Norah Jones—not to mention some tasty asides by saxophonist Walter Blanding ...
Rethink Music Preview: The Orchard's Richard Gottehrer on What Independent Musicians Can Expect from Record Labels
[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 ...
Potsa Lotsa - The Complete Works of Eric Dolphy (Jazzwerkstatt, 2011)
Multi-instrumentalist Eric Dolphy was primarily known as a virtuoso musician and improviser during his brief life, playing with the likes of Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, and making records on his own. But as this two-disc set shows, he was quite a prolific composer as well. Potsa Lotsa is a collective band featuring Silke Eberhard on alto ...
A Capella Choral Works by Messiaen and His Students Stockhausen and Xenakis
The high-modernists did not typically work within an a capella choral framework. In fact the heyday of such a grouping belongs to the Middle Ages and the Rennaissance. After that there is a precipitous decline, except in religious-based music where of course liturgical traditions help encourage the continued emergence of new compositions for vocal groupings. Given ...
Music Matters
And in case we forget that music matters, there's an annual reminder staged by the MacPhail Center for Music in the form of their Music Matters Luncheon fundraiser. One of the nation's largest community music schools, serving well over 8,000 students from infants to centenarians, MacPhail is also one of the Twin Cities' oldest arts institutions, ...
Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Impulse Records
Legendary producer Creed Taylor launched the legendary Impulse label 50 years ago, wrapping his roster in a definitive look and an instantly iconic logo. First Impulse: The Creed Taylor Collection, an exciting 4-disc collection from Verve Select, includes all six albums produced by Taylor for the label that proudly wore its signature colors of orange and ...
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