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YouTube Views Double In Single Year To 1 Billion Hours Every Day
YouTube has become the service that the music industry loves to hate. But with stats like those just released, YouTube is also a medium that music would miss dearly if it went- or was pushed- away. As of late last year, users are watching 1 billion hours of video on YouTube every single day. To put ...
SoundCloud Adds Robust $4.99 On Demand Streaming Plan, But Many Artists Remain Unpaid
SoundCloud has added a $4.99 per month 120 million track on demand streaming subscription tier that includes most of the features- but not all of the tracks- that it and competitors charge $9.99 for. SoundCloud Go today added a mid-priced subscription plan that takes its free ad-supported on demand 120 million track service offline and ...
Dave Brubeck: Zurich '64
In September 1964, the Dave Brubeck Quartet was in Zurich, Switzerland, on one of its countless tours of Europe. The group—Brubeck on piano, Paul Desmond on alto saxophone, Eugene Wright on bass and Joe Morello on drums—appeared at the city's Kongresshaus concert hall. Desmond's Take Five had become a massive hit for the group, and Dave ...
Stagelink Expands To US Backed By Seven Figure Investment
German based event crowdsourcing platform Stagelink has expanded to the U.S. after concluding a seven-digit seed financing. Using Stagelink, musicians and other creators uncover fan demand for potential live appearances to produce successful, risk-free events and tours. Stagelink will open its first U.S. office in Santa Monica, California. “Coming to the U.S. is an important step for Stagelink’s ...
Trump Administration Seeks To Cut Or Privatize All Arts Funding
In an alleged effort to reduce spending by the government, the Trump administration recently drafted a budget which would lop off funding for the National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Guest post by Taylor Mims on Amplify In an attempt to reduce government spending, the Trump ...
Big Sid Catlett: 1944-46
Back in January, I posted on drummers Gene Krupa and Big Sid Catlett, whose styles were quite similar in their tap-dance attack. As noted then, Catlett was one of the most influential and dynamic drummers of the 1940s. Sadly, he died in 1951, which means his entire career was spent in the 78rpm era, and his ...
Jane Monheit digs Ella - and plans to keep on digging
Jazz singer Jane Monheit's musical home is the Great American Songbook. She showed a Naples, Florida audience on Friday, February 24, that with sensible bits of personal redecorating, it is still in very good hands. She performed two 75-minute sold-out shows at Artis Naples' Daniels Pavilion, sharing her love for “First Lady of Song" Ella Fitzgerald. ...
Happy 100th
Today is the 100th anniversary of the first recording of the music we call jazz. The Original Dixieland Jass Band went to New York and recorded for the Victor Talking Machine Company on February 26, 1917. Not long into the 1920s, the preferred spelling became ”jazz.” By the end of the twenties another young New Orleanian, ...
StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: The Clayton Brothers Quintet
This week, let's take a look at some videos featuring members of the Clayton Brothers Quintet, who will be performing in St. Louis starting next Monday, March 1 through Saturday, March 4 at Jazz at the Bistro. With a crisp, hard-bop sound evoking memories of saxophonist Cannonball Adderley's classic quintet and any number of vintage Blue ...
Organic Reach From Social Media Is Declining, Here’s What You Can Do About It
The evidence that organic reach is in decline could not be more clear, meaning that preexisting social media stratagems are no longer as effective as they once were. Here we look at the best way for entrepreneurial artists to combat this decline across various social media platform. Guest Post by Kaylynn Chong on Hootsuite Organic reach ...
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