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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Spotlight on Laurence Hobgood
This week, let's take a look at some videos featuring pianist Laurence Hobgood, who's coming to St. Louis to perform with his trio on Wednesday, April 5 and Thursday, April 6 at Jazz at the Bistro. Known widely for his more than 20 years as musical director for singer Kurt Elling, Hobgood split from Elling at ...
Bill Introduced That Will Politicize U.S. Copyright Office
Rep. Bob Goodlatte and U.S. congressional leaders have promised copyright reform; and if a new bill just introduced is any indication, that will mean putting more control in the hands of the RIAA and MPAA, says Mike Masnick. By Mike Masnick of Techdirt Well, we all knew this was coming, but Rep. Bob Goodlatte has been passing ...
SoundCloud Gets A Lifeline: $70 Million In Debt Financing
After publicly admitting that it could run out of cash later this year, SoundCloud has received $70 million in debt financing. The company had, for months, tried and failed to raise $100 million in venture financing Struggling music service SoundCloud has received a much needed $70 million loan from Kreos Capital, the Davidson Technology Growth Debt ...
Google To Let Musicians, Others Post Messages Directly Into Their Search Results
Imagine searching Google for “Kanye West" and finding a message purposely posted there by the mercurial musician? Google has begun taking applications for a program it had tested during the U.S. elections that enables this kind of direct in-search posts. Google is taking applications to verify museums, sports teams, sports leagues and movies in the US ...
iHeartRadio Passes 100M Users, Adding 10M In Just 7 Months
iHeartRadio announced this morning that it has more than 100 million registered users, up 10 million from just seven months ago. The milestone comes on the heels of its launch of a new on-demand music services in January. iHeartRadio, iHeartMedia’s digital music, podcasting and live streaming radio service, today announced it had passed 100 million registered ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, March 24-30
The calendar says Spring so it must be true. And I know summer is coming because Steve Heckler has announced the Twin Cities Jazz Fest headliners with McCoy Tyner, Terence Blanchard, Anat Cohen and Bobby Lyle. But there's another jazz fest coming this Saturday with three great area bands and another visiting ensemble (Drobka-Weller Duo). The ...
Jazz this week: Emmet Cohen, Madeleine Peyroux, Victor Wooten, and more
This week's calendar of jazz and creative music in St. Louis includes the local debut of a promising young pianist, a festival of student big bands, return appearances from a jazz-influenced singer and a virtuoso electric bassist, and more. Let's go to the highlights... Wednesday, March 22 The NYC-based pianist Emmet Cohen will perform at the ...
Oscar Dennard: Phantom Pianist
Precious little is known about Oscar Dennard. A gifted pianist with octopus hands and superb time, Dennard made far too few recordings and wasn't alive long enough to be fully appreciated or routinely interviewed. Now, with the release of The 4 American Jazz Men in Tangier (Groovin' High/Sunnyside), we have a rich new find. The first ...
How To Run A Successful Crowdfunding Campaign: 10 Tips
Once you've got your music ready to go, the costs of making a record may quickly cause you to turn to crowdfunding, but doing so successfully is no easy task, and will necessitate massive amounts of persistence and hard work. Guest post by Leah Waldo of Berklee College of Music So you’ve got some killer tunes, ...
Looking ahead: Southwest Florida jazz calendar
Here is a rundown of noteworthy jazz events, principally in the Sarasota to Naples territory, from now through April when the 2016-2017 concert season winds down. Friday, March 24 – Trombonist Wycliffe Gordon. The Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center, Fort Myers, 8 p.m. Saturday, April 1 – Brazilian guitarist Diego Figueiredo and St. Petersburg-based O ...
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