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News: Performance / Tour

Jazz St. Louis Polling Fans on Next Year's Bistro Bookings

February 9, 2011

Once again this year, Jazz St. Louis is polling local jazz fans to find out who they'd like to see perform at Jazz at the Bistro. The poll on the front page of the JSL site asks respondents to choose from a menu of musicians including Don Byron, Ravi Coltrane, Kevin Eubanks, Tia Fuller, Hilary Kole, ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Jonathan Kreisberg Quartet at Smalls Jazz Club February 11th and 12th, 2011

February 9, 2011

Guitarist/Composer & Bandleader Jonathan Kreisberg will be performing with his group at Smalls Jazz Club in New York City on Friday February 11th, 2011 & Saturday February 12th, 2011—Set Time is 10:00PM. This performance is in celebration of Jonathan Kreisberg's new CD release Shadowless from New for Now Music. The Jonathan Kreisberg Quartet Jonathan ...

News: Performance / Tour

Eli Degibri's Upcoming 2011 Tour Dates

February 9, 2011

February 24, Smalls Jazz Club, New York, NY Eli Degibri Quartet with Gary Versace, Doug Weiss, Johnathan Blake March 25, Hamburg, Germany Eli Degibri with the Al Foster Quartet March 26, Piacenza, Italy Eli Degibri with the Al Foster Quartet March 28, Ravenna, Italy Eli Degibri with the Al Foster Quartet March 29, Ravenna, Italy Eli ...

News: Interview

Interview: B.B. King

February 9, 2011

Proud of your vast CD collection? Think your iTunes library is bursting with great stuff? Trust me, B.B. King has you beat. Two weeks ago, when I was in Missouri to interview the 85-year-old blues legend while he was touring on the road, I spent time with “the Boss" in the back of his cozy bus. ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Los Amigos Invisibles: New Album; on Tour Now w/ Trombone Shorty

February 9, 2011

NOT SO COMMERCIAL OUT NOW ON ITUNES, HITS STORES MARCH 15; NATIONAL TOUR WITH TROMBONE SHORTY HAPPENING NOW Los Amigos Invisibles' new album Not So Commercial is available early this week on iTunes; it hits stores nationwide on March 15. This new release follows the group's first-career Latin Grammy win with Commercial awarded as the “2009 ...

News: Music Industry

Hurry up and Wait For Legal Cloud-Stored Music - EMI vs. MP3tunes Decision 2-6 Months Away

February 9, 2011

Is cloud-stored music legal? Do labels deserve an extra payment? We'll see. EMI's lawsuit against Michael Robertson's MP3tunes has winded down. A ruling, however, may be 2-6 months away. If won, MP3tunes will be deemed legal and Google can store user's songs in the cloud whether the major labels like it or not. Right now, labels ...

News: Technology

TuneSecure - "Let's Drive Music Piracy Underground, Make It Hard to Download."

February 9, 2011

It's still good to know that some tech-companies still have their thinking caps on. The solution to music piracy is to make it hard for the average person to download. This revolutionary idea comes by way of the Australian tech startup TuneSecure. We've heard this one before. They figure that file-sharing is all about convenience and ...

News: Music Industry

5 Ways Artists Can Use Foursquare to Engage Fans

February 9, 2011

This post is by Alison McCarthy. She's an intern at Hypebot. In an interview at MIDEM, Foursquare co-founder Naveen Selvadurai said the location-based social network is now valued at more than $250 million with over 6 million users, potentially increasing to 10 million by June. Though Foursquare is now seeing increased competition from Facebook and Twitter which have ...

News: Music Industry

Read the Letter CEO Roger Faxon Sent to EMI Staff After the Citigroup Takeover

February 9, 2011

CEO Roger Faxon has to be given credit for trying to move EMI forward in very difficult times. Amid staff cuts, lawsuits and now a forced shift in ownership to its banker, Faxon has sought to portray EMI as a music group in transition rather than one in crisis. Keeping his EMI team, buoyed by a ...

News: Music Industry

Creative Leadership Absent in Major Labels - Or Why the Record Industry is Fucked Nowadays

February 9, 2011

A new study suggests that people who express creative ideas are less likely to be identified as having leadership potential. In other words, when staff members in major label boardroom meetings talk about ways to move the record industry in profitable new directions, questions about their suitability for roles of higher leadership arise. Even though the ...