Results for "AAJ Staff"

Duduka Da Fonseca: Tom Jobim

July 26, 2019

Duduka Da Fonseca plays drums with a stirring, sensuality. It's like listening to crushed ice melt at the beach. His last album in 2018 was a loving tribute to Brazilian samba-funk pianist Dom Salvador, who I believe is still playing regularly at New York's River Café at age 81. Duduka's latest album is Samba Jazz & ...

FTC Announces $5B Facebook Fine, Revamped Privacy Controls

July 25, 2019

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has officially announced the terms of its $5 billion settlement with Facebook. The social giant has also promised improved privacy oversight within the company. It is the largest fine imposed on any company for violating consumers’ privacy and almost 20 times greater than the largest privacy or data security penalty ever ...

Music Physical Product Issues Signals Upheaval Ahead

July 25, 2019

Although the sale of physical music is still a large part of the revenue pulled in by major labels, their whole-hearted embrace of streaming has caused them to neglect traditional retail sales, with some fairly disastrous results. Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 The U.S. recorded music industry has now totally bought into streaming, ...

Come Together: Why The Music Industry Must Break Down Data Silos

July 25, 2019

In this article, Jeppe Faurfelt breaks down the different data silos which industry artists should be keeping track of, why the distinction between them is so important, and why everyone on an artist's team should have access to all of them. Guest post by Jeppe Faurfelt, Co-Founder & CCO at Linkfire Recently, I had the opportunity ...

Cannonball Adderley: EmArcy #1

July 25, 2019

Born in Tampa, Fla., and raised in Tallahassee, alto saxophonist Cannonball Adderley studied music at Florida A&M before becoming the band director at Dillard High School in Fort Lauderdale. In 1955, Adderley moved to New York to explore studying at graduate-level music schools. He was joined by his brother, trumpeter and cornetist Nat Adderley, who had ...

Mixhalo Raises $10.7M To Improve Concert Sound Quality

July 24, 2019

Live music audio startup Mixhalo has raised $10.7 million in Series A funding. The company was co-founded by Incubus guitarist Mike Einziger and his wife, violinist Ann Marie Simpson-Einziger. The new funding was led by Foundry Group, alongside Sapphire Sport, Founders Fund, Defy Partners, Cowboy Ventures, Red Light Management, Another Planet Entertainment, Rick Farman and Rich ...

Bringing Performance Into The Practice Room

July 24, 2019

While traditional practicing is all well and good for honing your technical expertise, it won't do as much good when it comes to getting your comfortable with being on stage. Enter performance practicing! Guest post by Erica Sipes of Soundfly's Flypaper. This article originally appeared on Beyond the Notes I don’t really know where I got ...

Pandora Adds Conversational Voice Mode For All Users 'that sweeps the floor with anything else out there'

July 24, 2019

This morning, Pandora rolled out Voice Mode for all users. The advanced, conversational voice interface combines voice-recognition and Natural Language Processing with Pandora’s Music Genome Project personalization technology so that users can talk conversationally with Pandora as specific or vague as they want. Pandora is calling Voice Mode “the most advanced, conversational voice interface that sweeps ...

How To Strategically Set Up Your Next Music Release [Music Biz Weekly Podcast]

July 24, 2019

Fabulous Dorsey Brothers in Hi-Fi

July 24, 2019

When trombonist and bandleader Tommy Dorsey died in November 1956 at his 23-room mansion in Greenwich, Ct., his financial affairs were a mess. Married to his third wife, Janie New, Dorsey passed away several days shy of a court appearance to reply to New's divorce suit. According to the autopsy, Dorsey, 51, had thrown up while ...