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Electrifying Track: Heavy Dipper
In September 1957, trumpeter Lee Morgan recorded his album The Cooker with baritone saxophonist Pepper Adams, pianist Bobby Timmons, bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Philly Joe Jones. Heavy Dipper is a Morgan original. It's a light, high-stepping tune that alternates between minor and major keys and has plenty of snap. Everyone in the quintet gets a ...
WMG Sells All Spotify Stock, Pays Artists, Labels $126M
Warner Music Group has sold its entire holdings in Spotify stock for $504 million and will begin payments to artists and labels this month, the company announced on an earnings call Tuesday. “In February 2016, we were the first major to announce a policy to share proceeds from equity in streaming services with artists,” said WMG ...
Soundbetter Passes $10 Million Paid To Musicians, Producers
SoundBetter, a marketplace for music production talent, announced that it has delivered over $10 million to artists and producers on the platform. “Most of that in the past 18 months," according to Shachar Gilad, SoundBetter Founder and CEO. SoundBetter helps artists create “release-ready" songs by connecting them with music producers, singers, songwriters sound engineers, while helping ...
Industry Giant Brian Eno Talks Music, Global Politics
Few creative forces in the music industry are held in as high esteem as Brian Eno, noted for not only his musical contributions but also his work as a producer, writer, and thinker in the music business. Here he sat down to discuss his innovative musical work, as well as his involvement in global political affairs. ...
5 FREE Ways To Promote Music Long Before It's Released
In this piece Patrick McGuire details the importance of a solid pre-release program, and how it's necessary for building hype and excitement, growing your audience, and ensuring your release makes the biggest splash possible. Guest post by Patrick McGuire from the Landr blog Promoting your new music shouldn’t start on the release date. Waiting until your music is released ...
10 Rules Of Music Business Networking
No matter how talented you are, you won't be able to advance your career unless someone else knows. Here we look at the challenge of networking, and how to implement the ten best practices for personal networking. Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 Regardless of how much talent you may have, unless someone hears ...
6 Major Takeaways From Spotify CEO Daniel Ek's Fast Company Profile
Fast Company has published the first in depth interview with Daniel Ek in three years and the first behind the scenes look at the world's biggest streaming service since it went public. While there are no big reveals, it offers a well sourced portrait of a company deeply committed to and quite capable of truly transforming ...
AdRev Payments To Artists, Publishers Passes $100M
AdRev, the music rights administration service and platform, announced today that they have paid out over $100 million to their growing roster of artists, publishers and TV and film production libraries. The company represents music rights found in over 320 million videos on YouTube. “Music rights holders handing over YouTube claiming rights to their distributors hoping for ...
Freddie Slack in the '40s
Pianist Freddie Slack led smart bands between 1942 and 1949. Many of them featured crafty arrangements that delivered a spectacular snap. They also had marvelous sidemen. Players at different points in time included guitarist T. Bone Walker, trumpeters Mannie Klein and Ray Linn, reed players Barney Bigard and Les Baxter, bassist Howard Rumsey and Harry Babison, ...
Bobby Sanabria: West Side Story
In August 1957, West Side Story opened at Broadway's Winter Garden Theatre. The musical was fashioned after Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and was set on New York's Upper West Side in a neighborhood polarized by Puerto Rican and working-class white families. The show received positive reviews, and four years later the musical was adapted for the ...
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