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Music Piracy Has Increased [New Study]
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With the rise of streaming, access to music (and media in general) has become easier than ever. While one might assume that this would negate any need for illegally downloading music, it appears that piracy is actually on the rise. Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 We live in an age where it’s probably ...
Steve Allee's compositions - and playing - in the spotlight
Pianist Steve Allee is a musical quadruple threat- as a player, arranger, composer and educator. All four of those roles were on display on Monday, March 26 when he was the featured artist at the University of South Florida in Tampa. The Indianapolis native, now an assistant professor of music at the University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory ...
Taking The Music Industry Monopoly Seriously
As weakening antitrust laws and consolidation of businesses continue, virtually every corner of the music industry is now controlled by a choice few companies, whether its streaming or live music, writes Will Meyer. Here he explores why these monopolies must be taken seriously. Guest post by Will Meyer of CASH Music Everyone can agree, at this ...
U.S. Actually Just Expanded Arts, Public Broadcast Funding
After a great deal of bluster and promises to eliminate federal funding for the arts and public broadcasting, Donald Trump signed a $1.3 trillion spending bill that actually increases funding for the threatened programs last week. In February, Trump released a proposed budget that threatened to cut the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s budget to the bone, ...
Georgie Auld: To the Losers
The last time I wrote about an exceptional tribute album to Frank Sinatra by a jazz artist was in January. The album was Oscar Peterson's A Jazz Portrait of Frank Sinatra, recorded in May 1959. Now I want to hip you to another gem. It's Here's to the Losers, a glorious little-known album by tenor saxophonist ...
Jazz this week: The Baylor Project, Don Dietrich & Ben Hall, "Essentially Ellington" festival, and more
This week's calendar of live jazz and creative music in St. Louis features the local debut of a Grammy-nominated act featuring one of the city's own; a rare local appearance from a founder of one of the most uncompromising free jazz/noise bands of all time; several student ensembles showing off what they've learned this year, and ...
A magical afternoon of jazz
Singer Alexis Cole wound up a three-stop Florida mini-tour on Sunday, March 25, treating the Firehouse Cultural Center audience in Ruskin to a rather unusual source of material for a jazz band. Quite simply, it was all about what she called “The Magic of Disney Love Songs." She mined the Disney songbooks extensively to find these ...
5 Great Ways That You Can Market Your Music
The world’s most successful musicians haven’t achieved their fame and fortunes through sheer grit, determination, and talent alone: each and everyone of them have supplemented the raw materials at their disposal by expertly advertising their music. Guest post by Victoria Greene Advertising your music is a case of how, not if. There are a huge number of ...
Listen: First Album Composed By Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence has hit a number of milestones of late. Forget self-driving cars and microbots, the music industry has just seen its first album composed using artificial intelligence. Guest post from FrtyFve, powered by TalentAI insights 'Hello World' is the first full-length album composed using artificial intelligence. The project released by SKYGGE aims to illustrate that AI “can be used ...
Oscar Peterson: Hello Herbie
Oscar Peterson first heard guitarist Herb Ellis in the spring of 1953. Ellis was playing at a club in Buffalo, N.Y., with the Soft Winds, a trio featuring Ellis, Johnny Frigo doubling on bass and violin, and Lou Carter on piano. Peterson and Ellis met briefly between sets, and the pianist filed away Ellis's name. And ...
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