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Jazz this week: Ann Hampton Callaway, Erik Friedlander's Black Phebe Trio, and more
This week's calendar of live jazz and creative music in St. Louis includes the return of a popular singer, the local debut of a challenging trio of improvisors, a tribute to a beloved big band trumpeter and bandleader, and more. Let's go to the highlights... Wednesday, March 15 Longtime St. Louis favorite Ann Hampton Callaway returns ...
Tommy LiPuma (1936-2017)
Tommy LiPuma, a five-time Grammy winning pop and jazz record producer whose passion for music and musicians resulted in career-changing albums for a range of artists, including Randy Newman, George Benson, Bill Evans, Natalie Cole, Paul McCartney and Diana Krall, died on March 13. He was 80. A long-time fan of my writing, both for The ...
Now Amazon Wants To Commoditize Music Festivals
After successfully altering many aspects of consumer spending, Amazon is now looking extend its reach to the commoditization of music festivals. We're not quite sure what that means yet, but they do claim they will never, ever get into secondary ticketing. Guest post by Chris Castle of Music Technology Policy It probably drives Amazon crazy that ...
Pandora Not For Sale, Will Be Profitable This Year, Says Pandora CEO As Stock Falls [VIDEO]
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Pandora founder and CEO Tom Westergren made some bold claims during a CNBC appearance Monday. Wall Street was unimpressed, pushing the stock-6.3% to $11.60 by midday Tuesday. “We intend to be profitable this year," Pandora CEO Tim Westergren declared on CNBC's “Squawk Alley" Monday. The bold claim came on the eve of the launch of its ...
Ed Sheeran Broke The Charts [Mark Mulligan]
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Ed Sheeran is hugely popular; and while no one wants to demean his success (OK, maybe some do...), when one person occupies for 9 of the UK top 10 singles and all 16 tracks from his new album are in the top 20, something is broken. By Mark Mulligan of MIDiA Unless you have been hiding under ...
Piracy Is What Made Me, Says Ed Sheeran
While piracy is often demonized as an aspect of the industry which ruins careers before they've even really begun, the reality is that the illicit dissemination of music can in many ways help to grow an artist's presence in the industry, as was the case with Ed Sheeran. Guest post by Timothy Geigner of Techdirt We ...
New Orleans on parade - and other surprises
Singer Lisa Kelly and trumpeter JB Scott had a few surprises up their sleeves for their return performance at the Charlotte County Jazz Society on Monday, February 13. The Jacksonville-based musicians spent about one-third of their two-hour concert digging deep into music associated with New Orleans. They also.brought a larger band than anticipated and featured Scott ...
Jackie Paris + Anne Marie Moss
Right at the peak of his recording career, when The Song Is Paris (Impulse) was released in 1962, Jackie Paris felt the jazz earth crumble beneath his feet. In the late 1940s and '50s, he had been among New York's hippest club singers, a jazz musician's singer. But by the early '60s, Paris was never able ...
How Music Marketing Is Changing In 2017
Although not without its flaws, 2016 was the first time in a while that the music industry showed signs of real growth, thanks in large part to the rising popularity of streaming services, but the (hopefully) positive changes aren't about to stop. Here, we consider some key ways in which the music industry will likely develop ...
Stop The Legalized Extortion: How To Make The Live Music Experience Fair For All
Here a former venue owner explores the possibilities behind technology bringing transparency to live performance marketplace, thereby ending what has essentially become a form of legalized extortion for artists. Guest post by Zach Bair Here's a fact that may surprise live music lovers: Artists may not see a cent from songs played on jukeboxes, radio, karaoke or ...
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