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Jazz this week: Greater St. Louis Jazz Festival, tributes to Oliver Nelson and Ella Fitzgerald, a new weekly jam session, and more
As Jazz Appreciation Month 2017 moves past the halfway point, the calendar of live jazz and creative music performances here in St. Louis takes a turn toward the historic, with events scheduled to pay tribute to St. Louis' own Oliver Nelson, as well as to Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, and Dizzy Gillespie, and more. Let's go ...
Renaud Digs Gryce + Jaspar
Yesterday, I posted about a marvelous and rare Jimmy Rowles album called Profile: The Music of Henri Renaud (French Columbia), which was produced by Renaud in 1981. The reaction to my post was so strong, I decided to look way back at Renaud's discography to see how the French pianist's optimistic hard bop was shaped and ...
Streaming May Have Slowed Piracy, But It Certainly Hasn't Stopped It [CHART]
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The convenience of streaming has unquestionably slowed music piracy. But it certainly has not stopped it. According to a late 2016 study by Ipsos for the IFPI which surveyed 12,600 internet users in 13 countries, more than 1/3 said they had still accessed copyright infringing music over the previous 6 months. And how they're pirating music has ...
Increase Your Audience Reach, Album Sales Using Pinterest
Although using various forms of social media to promote new music or an upcoming tour is par for the course by this point, many artists may be neglecting to consider the power of Pinterest, which can be a great resource for inexpensively building your audience and driving web traffic. Guest post by Jessica Hackett of Soundfly's ...
Survival Of The Shortest: Did Streaming Kill Song Intros?
While lengthy, dramatic intros used to be commonplace in the power pop ballads of a few decades ago, a recent study has revealed that the hits of today have significantly more truncated, something for which consumers shortened attention spans are likely to blame. Guest post by Misti Crane of The Ohio State University “It’s survival-of-the-fittest: Songs that ...
Jimmy Rowles Digs Henri Renaud
Henri Renaud was a Parisian jazz pianist in the 1940s and '50s who never lost his French touch. Outgoing, charming and a delightful composer, he was a natural point person for American musicians on tour in Paris searching for sidemen, venues and recording opportunities. In addition to recording in the early 1950s in Paris with Bobby ...
7 Steps For Organizing Your Own DIY Music Festival
While certainly challenging, putting together a modest, multi-day festival is by no means un-achievable, provided you're willing to put in the time and research, and are willing to work together with the rest of your DIY community. Here we review the seven steps to putting a successful festival together. Guest post by Jhoni Jackson of Soundfly's ...
Closing The Value Gap - On Terrestrial Radio?
For months, YouTube has been the music service the industry loves to hate. Love, because of its huge audience that can clearly break artists and boost releases. Hate, because of the comparatively small revenue it returns to creators and rightsholders. But now broadcast radio is feeling the heat, and for exactly the same reasons. By digital ...
Discogs Attacked By Pirate Spam On Two Fronts
Popular crowdsourced music database Discogs is being attacked on two fronts—one by pirates posting links to illegal downloads and the other by an anti-piracy outfit filing takedown demands for thousands of legitimate links. Music database Discogs is under attack from two different and difficult to combat kinds of spam. Hundreds of fake movie and TV links ...
If You Want To Save Net Neutrality, Don't Bother Waiting For Google, Netflix Or Facebook's Help
As the gutting of neutrality and killing off of privacy protections continues to proceed, companies like Netflix, Google, and Facebook, although making something of show of lobbying against such things, appear to be doing little actual good in their opposition efforts. Guest post by Karl Bode of Techdirt So if you've not been paying attention, broadband ISPs ...
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