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More Changes In The Landscape Of Physical Music Retail
While there's no question that, when it comes to recorded music, the world of retail isn't what it was, it isn't all doom and gloom. Here we look at how selling music has changed, and the state of the music retail industry today. Guest Post by Ben Liemer, National Sales Director/Physical of The Orchard from The Daily Rind You’ve heard ...
Using Radio, Music Blogs To Promote Your Tour
For touring musicians, the best time to begin promotion is before they hit the road, but there're still plenty of ways to attract media attention even if you've already begun. Here we look at several different ways of getting the music industry press interested in your show. Guest Post by Michael Corcoran on MusicSUBMIT Summer touring is upon ...
Tubby Hayes: Split Kick
The year 1972 was the beginning of the end for Tubby Hayes. The British multi-instrumentalist, who was most often featured on the tenor saxophone, was a jazz giant, despite coming up in the '50s without the benefit of New York, Chicago and Los Angeles woodshedding. Something of a cross between Stan Getz and Hank Mobely on ...
StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: More favorite jazz documentaries
With a temporary shortage of upcoming local shows to preview over the next couple of weeks, today's post once again is dedicated to showcasing some favorite jazz documentary films that can be seen online for free. First up is Miles Ahead: The Music of Miles Davis, which was produced in 1986 and and aired by PBS ...
I Wanted To Spend $40 At Your Show, But Instead I Spent $0
Here a concert attendee recounts his disappointment after visiting the merch table following a concert, only to find their supply of records tragically depleted, and issues a warning to artists that fans are still eager to buy physical copies of their music. Guest Post by Brad on The DIY Musician I went to see a great, great band ...
Entrepreneurship In Music: Mideast Tunes
Here Mideast Tunes founder and civil rights activist Esra'a Al-Shafei discusses her new music streaming platform and its goal of promoting social change as well as the work of underground artists from the Middle East and North Africa. Guest Post by Jeremy Young on Soundfly's Flypaper “We want our humanity and our futures in our own hands and we ...
How Much Does Social Media Actually Impact A Band's Draw?
When promoting a show via social media, it can be difficult to tell how much rampant posting across the various platforms actually translates into attendance at shows. Ultimately, it does make a difference, but using said platforms correctly affects dramatically affects the size of that difference. Guest Post by Jhoni Jackson on the Sonicbids Blog Plastic Pinks performing at ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jaz, August 12-18
Mid-August makes it hard to deny that we are on the backside of summer, and our young local musicians are gigging at a frenzied pace before they have to return to school. So many of our area high school and college-age jazzers have filled our venues with new sounds and new projects over the past two ...
Jazz this week: Big Sam's Funky Nation, Louis Armstrong Festival, and more
This weekend's calendar of jazz and creative music in St. Louis has a bit of a New Orleans flavor, with two of that city's favorite working bands playing gigs here, plus two nights of a locally produced tribute to one of the essential New Orleans musicians, Louis Armstrong. Let's go to the highlights... Thursday, August 11 ...
Dizzy Gillespie: Perceptions
Earlier this week, I posted on two superb orchestral albums by Dizzy Gillespie in 1960—A Portrait of Duke Ellington (arranged by Clare Fischer) and Gillespiana (arranged by Lalo Schifrin). Both albums for Verve featured exciting scores with Gillespie soloing. As my friend and saxophonist Bill Kirchner reminded me in an email, Gillespie's orchestral adventures for the ...
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