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Sarasota Jazz Festival is well underway
The main stage portion of the 39th annual Sarasota Jazz Festival opened Wednesday night with a new location, a relaxed flavor and fine music from event newcomers and old hands. The festival has moved from the Riverview High School Performing Arts Center to the hotel ballroom and function rooms of the waterside Hyatt Regency Hotel, bringing ...
6 Analytics Tools: How To Change Future of Music Marketing
After a tough few years during which the sale of physical albums declined precipitously, the music industry seems to be making a relatively speedy recovery. This rebound has been assisted heavily by music companies' harnessing of analytics and big data. Here we look at six such analytics tools that are shaping the future of music marketing. ...
Streaming Revenue Impressive, But Can It Ever Make Up For Lost Physical Sales?
With streaming revenue showing a massive increase in comparison to previous years, the major three record labels are rejoicing at their annual haul. A big part of this income still draws from physical sales however, and as these old-school revenue streams continue to thin to a trickle, will streaming be able to fully compensate? Guest post ...
10 Videos of Bossa Nova Trios
I was in Rio de Janeiro yesterday. Not the real Rio but the Rio of YouTube and my imagination. With temperatures still frigid in New York, my mind drifted off to South America and the many great bossa trios that have emerged from Brazil over the years. Here are 10 clips of trios, seven of which ...
Over A Third Of Americans Now Own Smart Speakers, So What Does That Mean For Artists?
As an increasing number of Americans (now over 36%) acquire smart speakers, changing what the future of audio consumption looks like, some artists may be forced to rethink not just their promotional strategy, but their entire brand identity. Guest post by James Shotwell of Haulix More than 1/3 of American consumers have smart speakers in their ...
Artists Are Increasingly Rejecting Record Deals
Some record executives are starting to sweat, as the music industry morphs into one where the climate is significantly more favorable towards a DIY way of doing business and many artists are eschewing traditional label deals in favor of doing things their own way. Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 If you speak with ...
Don Fagerquist: Eight By Eight
The octet plays a special role in the evolution of jazz, especially on the West Coast in the 1950s. Record labels loved octets because they saved them money without compromising much on sound. Jazz fans loved them because eight instruments seemed to be the maximum number the ear could hear distinctly. Octets also meant a lower ...
Streaming Playlist Innovation: What's Next?
How streaming playlists have changed music creation and consumption is the subject of serious debate. Here, MIDiA's Keith Jopling takes his own deep dive into the subject, along with a call for playlist innovation and hat tips to apps like Soundsgood, Stationhead and Lost. By MIDiA Research’s Keith Jopling from the Music Industry blog In this ...
2 Additional Rules For Success For Blockchain Music Entrepreneurs [George Howard]
After a previous article outlining an initial two key points of failure awaiting unsuspecting Blockchain music entrepreneurs, this articles details the risks of the second pair, helping artists to successfully navigate a revolutionary technology that, despite its pitfalls, has huge potential to benefit artists. Guest post by George Howard. This article originally appeared on Forbes My last ...
Maurice Vander: Piano Jazz
Paris after World War II was awash in jazz pianists. Many of them were raised in musical families. Others studied music in school. The reason they were in Paris was for the steady club work. Paris also was where the French record companies were based. The list of French jazz pianists in the late 1940s and ...
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