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Jazz this week: Benny Green Trio, "Superheroes of Blackness," Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, and more
This week's calendar of jazz and creative music in St. Louis includes a visit from a stellar straight-ahead jazz pianist, some adventurous electronic sounds, shows mixing music with poetry and video animations, and more. Let's go to the highlights... Wednesday, February 21 Pianist Benny Green eturns with his trio for the first of four nights at ...
Add A Booking Section On Your Music Website
When it comes to landing gigs for you band, it's essential to have a booking section on your website that provides any potentially interested promoter with answers to all their booking inquiries, from basic info to average crowd size. Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 One of the things that’s vital to getting your ...
FCC Chief Boss Investigated Agency For Being Cozy With Industry He Regulates
Controversial FCC chief Ajit Pai has drawn fire from the music and tech industry for leading the charge to dismantle net neutrality. Now Pai is facing the biggest threat to his short rein yet with news that the FCC has launched an internal investigation into his “too close" relationship with the media and other companies he's ...
Barbara Moore: Swinging Pop
The British rock invasion of the mid-1960s had a profound effect on American music and the culture at large. For the first time in history, adolescents held sway over the record industry. By decade's end, the generation's influence extended to virtually all corners of the marketplace, and everything became more youthful. Kids no longer wanted to ...
Four Videos: Happy Prez Day
Today is President's Day in the U.S. On this day at JazzWax, we celebrate Lester Young. Billie Holiday called him the President, which was shortened to Pres or Prez. She meant president of the tenor saxophone. If you know nothing about Young but would love to know why he's such a big deal, here it is ...
Streaming Platforms Are Changing Music Promotion, Discovery: Here's How
While streaming has revitalized the music industry in lots of ways, many artists continue to struggle to make ends meet, something which the launch of numerous new analytic and discovery features by streaming services could help to change. Guest post by Patrick McGuire of the TuneCore Blog [Editors Note: This article was written by Patrick McGuire.] As music ...
Google Is Sending You More Traffic Than Facebook
In the first week of February, Google sent publishers 40% more or 466 million more pageviews than it did in January 2017. That same week, Facebook sent 200 million fewer, or 20% less. This shift is happening as Facebook adjust its algorithm to prioritize posts from friends and family over business, bands and publishers. Chartbeat data ...
Discs To Digital: The Strange History Of Music Formats
While streaming has become the dominant form of music consumption, the road to get here was a complex and varied one. Here we look at the history of the physical music formats, dating back as far as the 1870s, and how it led us to where we are now. Guest post by Jaclyn Kendall of Soundfly's ...
Radio Holds Key To Streaming Growth [Mark Mulligan]
Streaming use is growing and broadcast radio's audience is shrinking. No surprise there. But what is of interest is the slow pace of the shift, which presents opportunities for streaming to reach a much broader audience and the time for radio to reinvent itself. By Mark Mulligan of MIDiA Last week MIDiA held its latest quarterly ...
Videos: Bossa Nova Legends
Well, it's Friday once again. So let's tilt our seats back, put up our feet and jet down to Rio. Here are four fab videos of bossa nova founders that I found surfing around on YouTube yesterday: Here's Luiz Bonfa playing his Batucada, Tenderly, Manhã de Carnaval and Menina Flor... Here's João Gilberto playing his Desafinado... ...
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Boney James: A Simple Man And A Lifetime Study
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Steve Coleman on Dave Holland
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