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Music's Urgency Of Inclusion
While gender diversity is a pervasive problem across almost all industries, a new study has highlighted just how bad of problem this is in the music industry in particular. Here a close examination of music business stats and recent Grammy wins reveals the troubling reality of gender inequality in the music world. Guest post by Megan ...
Beware: Greg Maffei Is Now Music's Most Powerful Executive
Move over Daniel Ek and Lucian Grainge, Greg Maffei is now the most powerful executive in the music industry. Maffei is the president and CEO of Liberty Media, Chairman of Live Nation Entertainment and Chairman of SiriusXM, which yesterday acquired Pandora. If that's not enough to make Maffei music's new king, Liberty Media also controls 71% ...
Bud Powell at Birland, 1953
The modern jazz piano starts with Bud Powell. It's almost impossible to listen to any post-World War II jazz pianist without first studying the recordings of Powell. If you're new to Powell, the best entry point is The Complete Bud Powell on Verve, a five-CD set that covers Powell in a trio studio setting from 1949 ...
SiriusXM Acquires Pandora For $3.5B and Why It Matters
SiriusXM will acquire Pandora in an all stock transaction valued at $3.5 billion. The combined companies create what they are calling “the world's largest audio entertainment company" with $7 billion in expected 2018 revenue. SiriusXM has been interested in Pandora for more than a year. Last summer, the satellite broadcaster invested $480 million in cash in ...
10 Most Influential College Radio Stations In The US
Many a legend tells of the big breakout that came as the result of an early pickup by a college radio station, and while radio may not have the grip it once did, college radio stations remain an extremely desirable place for emerging artists, and are much more likely to take on chance on an artist ...
Shazam Removes Ads As Apple Completes Acquisition
Apple announced that it has completed its acquisition of music recognition app Shazam which is used by hundreds of millions globally. Along with the acquisition, Apple will make the app ad free. Shazam has been downloaded over 1 billion times and users identify songs using the Shazam app over 20 million times daily. “Apple and Shazam ...
Songs By Jackie Paris
The high-point of singer Jackie Paris's recording career came in November 1955. Over the course of three days, Paris recorded Jackie Paris for the Wing label, a Mercury subsidiary (the album also is known as Songs by Paris). Paris's voice was at its romantic club-cool peak, but even more impressive was the arranger—Manny Albam—and the players ...
Guy Lafitte's Quartet and Quintet
Paris was loaded with French saxophonists in the years immediately after World War II. Native-born eed players included Alix Combelle, Michel de Villers, Michel Attenoux, William Boucaya, Maurice Meunier, Andre “Teddy" Hameline and Andre Debonneville, Armand Conrad, to name a handful. One of the best of the French soloists was Guy Lafitte (above). More on him ...
Eventbrite Stock Up 60% In Market Debut
Concert and event ticketing platform Eventbrite stick soared as much as 70% during its Thursday IPO. Eventbrite shares had been priced $23 but at opened at $36 and climbed as high as $39.30 before ending the day up 59% at $36.50 per share. The self-service Eventbrite platform is popular with smaller venues and promoters, and its ...
StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Introducing Alex Mercado
Today, let's take a look at some videos featuring pianist Alex Mercado, who will make his St. Louis debut in a concert next Friday, September 28 at the Kranzberg Arts Center. The date is part of a brief tour of the Midwest, for which Mercado will be accompanied by Rodrigo Villanueva on drums and St. Louis' ...
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