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Amoeba Music Forced To Move Iconic LA Store
The LA City Council has approved zoning changes that clear the way for the demolition of Amoeba Music's distinctive Los Angeles outlet. According to the LA Times, the vote facilitates the development of a new, 26-story building at the site of the current Amoeba Music store, located at the corner of Sunset and Cahuenga boulevards. The ...
10 Little-Known Maiden Voyages
In January 1965, jazz pianist Herbie Hancock received a call from a Hollywood jingle agency. Its client, Yardley, needed background music for a TV commercial and wanted a trio playing something jazzy, since the men’s fragrance ad took place in a sophisticated club. But instead of writing straight-ahead jazz, Mr. Hancock arranged a catchy rhythmic line ...
Live Nation Partners With Adobe For The ‘Creative Tour’
Adobe, the software company behind apps like Photoshop, and Spark, has announced the Adobe Creative Tour, a partnership with Live Nation aimed at music fans and creators. The Creative Tour is designed to inspire creators and music fans to participate in digital creative challenges using Adobe Products such as Lightroom, Premiere Rush and the Adobe Spark ...
Building Your Artist Development Team
Choosing which people you want on your team to help you make it the music industry is one of the most important decisions an artist can make, and choosing incorrectly can not only slow you progress, but seriously derail an otherwise promising career. Guest post by Camille Barbone of the Symphonic Blog Part 1 of our ...
AI Completes Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony, But Who Owns The Copyright?
While technology can solve a lot of legal problems, it's also capable of creating plenty as well, as evidenced in the recent instance of artificial intelligence being utilized to complete Franz Schubert's unfinished Symphony No. 8.- raising the question of who exactly owns the copyright of this newly completed piece of music. Guest post by Bobby ...
Emily Remler: Firefly/Take Two
Sometime in 1984, WKCR-FM's Bird Flight host Phil Schaap introduced me to guitarist Emily Remler. I was an early fan, and she was playing at the West End Bar near Columbia University where I had just completed grad school. As I recall, the place was half full and I was sitting in a booth when Phil ...
Blue Mitchell: Smooth as Wind
One more Tadd Dameron album that is a masterpiece—Blue Mitchell's Smooth as the Wind. Recorded in 1960 and '61 for Riverside, the album showcased Mitchell's fleshy trumpet backed by sophisticated and sympathetic brass and strings. Seven of the songs were arranged by Dameron, with the remaining three by Benny Golson. The songs arranged by Dameron are ...
Mark Turner + Gary Foster
Seventy years ago, on March 4, 1949, cool jazz was recorded for the first time. Given a mandate to record whatever new jazz was important, Pete Rugolo, Capitol's head of A&R, brought the Lennie Tristano Sextet into the studio to tape two songs—Wow and Crosscurrent. The music by Lee Konitz (as), Warne Marsh (ts), Lennie Tristano ...
5 Out-Of-The-Box Promotion Ideas For Your Next Album
In this ever-expanding world of entertainment publicity, reaching your listeners and fans requires a carefully orchestrated, unique marketing plan. Here we look at five eye-catching promotion ideas for building that extra bit of buzz around your next release. Guest post by Cait McMahon of the Symphonic Blog In the ever-growing world of entertainment publicity, reaching thousands ...
Is It Worth Mastering For Different Digital Platforms?
While the digital age has given the music business a number of exciting technological advances, it has also splintered the number of platforms on which we consume music, making the challenge of mixing even greater. So, is it worth tailoring your latest track over and over again to sound perfect on Spotify, YouTube, and TIDAL? Guest ...


