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Bandcamp to Start Revenue Sharing with Artists

July 17, 2010

All good things come to an end and Bandcamp as a free service is no exception. The name-your-price music and merch distribution platform will being revenue sharing with the artists on its site. Bandcamp is being pretty fair about the whole thing, taking 15% of each transaction, dropping to 10% once an artist's all-time sales exceed ...

Audio Tech Roundup!

July 17, 2010

A quick search through the posting archives reveals that we have not put forth an audio tech roundup since June 3rd. The wait is over! In honor of it being Friday, we will end the drought and allow you to devour tasty bite-sized morsels of audio-related information. To get the ball rolling, check out the piezoelectric ...

2010 TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival: Days 7-10

by AAJ Staff
July 16, 2010

Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 | Days 7-10 TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaJune 25th--July 4th 2010 Day 7 Celebrations of “Canada Day" (acknowledging the country's 1867 birthday, formerly known as Dominion Day previous to 1982) filled city streets, parks and water walkways on ...

Take Five With Peter Douskalis

by AAJ Staff
July 16, 2010

Meet Peter Douskalis:Peter Douskalis is a guitarist from the Washington DC area now living in New York City. He specializes in many aspects of the guitar such as jazz, classical, rock, and world. Peter currently teaches at the New York City Guitar School. In 2009, Douskalis released his second album, ...

Jeff Price of Tunecore "Apologizes" to Silverman

July 16, 2010

Jeff Price, CEO of the digital music distributor TuneCore, has been vocal about his disagreements with Tommy Silverman in the past, but when charged with the account of helping clutter the music environment with crap in a recent WIRED feature on What's Wrong With The Music Biz, Price became quite apologetic: “We're sorry that the ...

Hadley Caliman at Jazz Alley This Sunday, July 18

July 15, 2010

Come support this Seattle legend at this rare Jazz Alley appearance. Celebrating Hadley Caliman with Thomas Marriott July 18--Jazz Alley 2033 6th Avenue 7:30pm, $12.00 Click here to make a reservation for this show or call 206-441-9729. The Pacific Jazz Institute at Dimitriou's Jazz Alley presents saxophonist Hadley Caliman with trumpeter Thomas Marriott. Joining ...

Brubeck and Company in Belgium, Part 5

July 16, 2010

Ending this Rifftides mini-series of videos from the Dave Brubeck Quartet's 1964 appearance on Belgian television is—what else?—the number that became a popular hit in a best-selling album and for Desmond, its composer, an annuity that by terms of his will is still funneling large amounts of money to the Red Cross. The quartet included it ...

Dear Old Ystad

July 16, 2010

A new three-day jazz event joins the roster of festivals that enliven Europe each summer. A musician heads this one. The Swedish pianist Jan Lundgren is organizing an early August festival in his hometown, the historic seaside village of Ystad. In addition to Lundgren's trio, the headliners include Benny Golson, Toots Thielemans, Richard Galliano, ...

Other Matters: Keyboard Brothers

July 16, 2010

Jazz This Week: Reggie Thomas, Tom Byrne, World Percussion Theatre, and More

July 16, 2010

While there are no touring jazz or creative acts of note scheduled to be in St. Louis this mid-summer weekend, there are some local gigs happening over the next few days for which it may be worth braving the muggy, swamp-like weather. Here's a quick look at some highlights:Tonight, guitarist Tom Byrne does a ...