Results for "AAJ Staff"

Toshiko Akiyoshi: United Notions

July 27, 2016

Globalization once was a guiding principal for the United States. With the proliferation of Communism in the 1950s, America moved quickly to make friends with as many countries around the world as it could. The United Nations was a big deal, Sixth Ave. in New York was known as Avenue of the Americas and the U.S. ...

SoundCloud Gives Creators An "Album" Option

July 27, 2016

Ever since SoundCloud cut its label deals and added a paid service, it's sped up the pace at which its adding new features. Today they added the option to display groups of tracks as an album rather than just as a playlist. When SoundCloud started creators shared their work track-by-track. Over the years, the platform evolved to ...

Streaming Gives Albums Wings: Why Album Sales Aren’t What They Used To Be

July 27, 2016

Although Drake's latest album remained atop the Billboard album charts for a solid nine weeks, this prominence was not the result of sales but rather streaming, demonstrating the power of streaming in the modern music economy. Guest post by Glenn Peoples, Music Insights and Analytics at Pandora Key takeaways: Streaming played a key role in keeping Drake’s ...

SiriusXM Tops 25 Million Paid Subscribers, 10% Revenue Growth

July 27, 2016

SiriusXM is on a tear, and recently the satellite broadcaster made an uninvited advance on Pandora.  The music streamer rebuffed the overture, but they may want to reconsider.  Their combined platforms plus Pandora's ticketing and soon-to launch music streamer would make a powerful combination. Satellite radio broadcaster Sirius XM Holdings (NASDAQ: SIRI) announced this morning that ...

How Indie Artists Can Grow Their YouTube Subscriber Base

July 27, 2016

Cultivating an enthusiastic fanbase is one of the key components of becoming a successful artist, something for which YouTube can be a great resource, particularly if you can convert those viewers and fans into subscribers. Guest Post by Jessica Allossery on Soundfly's Flypaper Maintaining an energized fan base is one of the foundations for success as an indie musician ...

Woody Shaw: The Tour, Vol. 1

July 26, 2016

Let's stick with 1976. Yesterday I posted about Dolo Coker's California Hard, a superb album recorded by the pianist for Xanadu in December of that year. Today, let's dig a newly released album by a working band formed by drummer Louis Hayes in '76 to tour Europe. The live album, Woody Shaw and Louis Hayes: The ...

Top Recording Artists, John Oliver Remind Politicians Not To Use Music Without Permission [VIDEO]

July 26, 2016

Music Education Monday: Master classes with bassist Abraham Laboriel

July 25, 2016

This week for Music Education Monday, you can check out a couple of master classes with the veteran bassist Abraham Laboriel. Since graduating from Berklee and beginning his career in the early 1970s, the 69-year-old Laboriel (pictured) has played thousands of sessions, working on TV and film soundtracks and with top names in jazz, rock, pop, ...

Dolo Coker: California Hard

July 25, 2016

Dolo Coker was an insider's jazz musician. The pianist was little known except among his peers. Coker spent much of his career playing and recording as a sideman and didn't record his first leadership date until 1976, when he was 49. One of his most interesting leadership albums is California Hard (Xanadu), featuring Blue Mitchell on ...

StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Giants of jazz in concert

July 23, 2016

Since this feature is still employing a non-topical, summer-vacation protocol, today's post is simply a sort of video jazz festival, for which your editor has selected full sets from six of the all-time giants of jazz, recorded at various locations around the world in the middle of the last century. In order, the videos are: Louis ...