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Your Marketing Resolutions For 2017: COLLECT
Here the FanBridge Team offers some advice on how to start off 2017 right by improving your mailing list by collecting more email subscribers and increasing the number of active fans regularly receiving your emails. Guest Post by Team FanBridge It’s a new year! Which certainly means one thing: new fans. Kick off 2017 right by improving ...
Sarasota Jazz Project returns for a strong big band night
What a difference three years makes. The Sarasota Jazz Project returned to Port Charlotte on Monday, January 9 for Big Band Night in the Charlotte County Jazz Society's concert series. With very few personnel changes, the band was stronger and more in the groove compared to its ho-hum December 2013 performance. It showcased both classic and ...
Stan Hasselgard: How Great?
In November 1948, U.S. immigration laws required foreign nationals seeking residence and employment in the States to leave the country and renter, re-setting the legality of their stay under a new visa. If Swedish clarinetist Stan Hasselgard wanted to fulfill a new record deal with Capitol Records, he'd have to update his visa. One of the ...
James McMurtry On State of Texas, State Of The Music Business Plus The Digital Tip Jar [INTERVIEW]
In this interview Brad Auerbach speaking with singer-songwriter and proud Austin resident James McMurtry about the rapid evolution of the music industry, and his thoughts on digital tip jar" and artistic philanthropy in general. Guest post by Brad Auerbach on Forbes James McMurtry is one of America’s songwriting treasures. Too often just out of the mainstream spotlight, ...
Artist vs. Songs: Building An Identity In The Streaming Era
As 2016 drew to a close, much of the industry animosity targeted at streaming seems to have been replaced with a largely favorable outlook. Here Nick Susi examines the state streaming today and what its long-term impact might be. Guest Post by Nick Susi, creative strategist in music & media on Rethink Music Entering 2017, a popular ...
Is CES The New SXSW?
Or is it the new Advertising Week? Or is there just a cabal of brand managers who live on jets and touch down at these events once every few weeks, making them all essentially the same? Cortney Harding was less than impressed, but from this sea of homogeneity did come announcements on hi-res music and VR. By ...
Blockchain For Music: The Promise and Problems
Know who owns rights to what is one of the greatest challenges currently faced by the music industry as well as those involved in it. Many believe Blockchain technology could be the answer to this issue by making royalty payments faster and more efficient whenever a song is consumed. Guest post by Alexander Stewart from Berklee's ...
Il 2016 in rassegna
by AAJ Staff
Se nel 2016 il Guardian si è chiesto se il jazz stava entrando in una nuova età aurea ci sarà una ragione. In una confluenza di artisti affermati e nuove promesse, la vitalità dimostrata dalla musica che amiamo è rassicurante, e il mercato discografico lo conferma. La millantata crisi del CD" continua ma il rinnovato interesse ...
Nat Hentoff (1925-2017)
Nat Hentoff, the dean of jazz essayists who in the 1950s applied modern feature-writing techniques to musicians who up until that point had been treated as little more than hip novelties by many trade journalists and print hacks, died of natural causes on Jan. 7. He was 91. As an intellectual, Nat was many things, including ...
Nat Hentoff Is Gone
Last night we lost Nat Hentoff, a defender of civil liberties and—notably, for this readership—a lifelong champion of jazz. He was 91. His son Nick reported that members of the family were nearby and a Billie Holiday record was playing when Hentoff died in his Greenwich Village apartment in New York. Influential as a jazz critic ...

