Results for "AAJ Staff"

What Does Your Music Distributor Do For You?

February 13, 2018

10 Important Question To Ask BEFORE Hiring A Music PR Agency

February 13, 2018

While bands or artists may be inclined to jump ahead to hiring a PR company in hopes of having their career made, they are often disappointed by the results. Here we look at ten essential questions to ask yourself before making the decision to have a PR agency take you on. Guest post by Maddy Raven of ...

Musician's Guide To Facebook Live

February 13, 2018

Facebook Live has become an excellent way for artists to connect with fans via impromptu video sessions. Here Chris Robley details how artists can take their Facebook Live presence up a notch, with minimal tools tools needed. Re-post from CD Baby's DIY Musician blog, by Chris Robley  Here’s the thing about Facebook Live: you can go live with nothing more ...

Harold Mabern: Pisces Calling

February 13, 2018

Pianist Harold Mabern has been known for his sideman work. In the 1960s and '70s, he was on Hank Mobley's Dippin', Lee Morgan's The Gigolo, Jackie McLean's Consequence, Blue Mitchell's Bring It Home to Me, Gene Ammons's The Black Cat and Stanley Turrentine's Don't Mess With Mr. T to name a few. Starting in 1968, Mabern ...

Gene Ammons: Brother Jug!

February 12, 2018

The jazz-rock fusion movement of the late 1960s and '70s elevated electronic instruments, particularly the guitar and keyboards. But while the rock guitar, Fender Rhodes electric piano and synthesizers were front and center in many fusion bands, the saxophone experienced a rebirth in the parallel soul-jazz movement. Sidelined as a solo rock instrument since the rise ...

Weekend Listening (And Viewing) Tip: Brent Jensen

February 12, 2018

Bassist Bren Plummer’s live radio broadcast a couple of days ago (scroll down two items) prompted me to check out the KNKX-FM website. There, I found a post about another Pacific Northwest jazz luminary, alto saxophonist Brent Jensen, who was recently video-recorded in one of the station’s live sessions. (Jensen and bassist Jeff Johnson are pictured ...

Wesla Whitfield, RIP

February 11, 2018

Wesla Whitfield, a singer of uncommon talent, taste, musicianship and courage, died yesterday in St. Helena, California. Her husband and accompanist of more than three decades, the pianist Mike Greensill, announced her passing. She had been under treatment for bladder cancer and was recently in hospice care but died at home. She was 70. I once ...

Remembering John Perry Barlow - Grateful Dead Lyricist, Tech Futurist

February 10, 2018

It's inadequate to call John Perry Barlow a product of the 1960's since he did so much to help shape it and the decades that followed. If being a lyricist for the Grateful Dead weren't enough, his “Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace", published 22 years ago this week, and his work as a founding member of ...

Tech, Data, Music and Unintended Consequences

February 10, 2018

In this piece, Bim Ditson looks at the collision of the life a musician with the harsh realities of capitalism, the consolidation of power online, and the dangers of life on the road. Guest post by Bim Ditson from CASH Music I was asked to write about the consolidation of power online. After a number of ...

YouTube Launches Official Artist Channels

February 9, 2018

For a long time official artist channels were found only on label-owned Vevo, but all that is about to change, much to the delight of Google-owned YouTube, which will now allows artists to upgrade their channels to “official" artist channels. Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 Up until now, official artists video channels were ...