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Mose Allison: Thinkin' + Feelin'
Yesterday while writing, I had a terrible craving for Mose Allison. If you know Mose Allison's music, you know the feeling. There's a warm-weather quality about Mose's piano playing that combines happy-as-a-lark optimism with sage simplicity, sly humor and sophisticated note choices, rhythms and lyrics. Mose grew up in Mississippi, so he has the Delta in ...
Broadcast Radio Losing Influence As Teens Flock To Streaming And YouTube, Says New "Music And Millennials" Study
On demand streaming is now the format of choice for 15-19 year olds, according to a new study by the Music Business Association and LOOP, and most of those listeners are coming from broadcast radio. 15-to-19 year olds have embraced on-demand streaming as their format of choice, accounting for 51% of their total listening time on a ...
Art Van Damme with Flutes
Between now and the end of 2017, the entire MPS jazz catalog of 500 albums will be reissued digitally as downloads. The German record label known for its sterling sound was founded in 1968 and lasted until 1983, when the rights were sold to Polygram. MPS stood for Musik Produktion Schwarzwald—or Music Production Black Forest, where ...
Vinyl May Be Up, But The Album Is Dying
Although vinyl has seen a slight bump, the album format overall is in a steady and rapid decline, something which artists and the music industry as a whole need to take steps to embrace, rather than continuing to create a product which is irrelevant to modern audiences. Guest Post by Bobby Owsinski on Music 3.0 The ...
5 Words Which Will Define The Next 10 Years Of Music
Looking ahead to the future of the music business, this article lays out the five words which are most likely to define the coming ten years of music technology, creation, and consumption. Guest Post by Scott Parsons on Landr The only guarantee is change. Music is more contested right now than a Steph Curry layup. The same ...
A Look At Nielsen Music’s Mid-Year Report: Streaming Explodes • Rock, Country Struggle To Keep Up With R&B/Hip-Hop. Latin
Nielsen recently released its 2016 mid-year music report and it has some big takeaways. On-demand streaming is exploding. R&B/hip-hop and Latin are surging and Rock and country music need to catch up, says Pandora's Glenn Peoples. By Glenn Peoples, Music Insights & Analytics at Pandora Nielsen Music’s report on the first-half of 2016 is out. The main themes ...
Radio Airplay: Still Worth It? [Brian Hazard]
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Here musician Brian Hazard walks us through his experience using Jango/Radio Airplay to promote his music, allowing us to see how effective this sort of paid promotion is, and whether it's actually worth the time and money invested. Guest Post by Brian Hazard on Passive Promotion Jango is a free internet radio platform similar to Pandora. Feed ...
7 Habits Of Highly Ineffective Artists
While we spend a lot time trying to figure out what it is that successful artists do in order to be so, it is perhaps equally important to consider what unsuccessful artists do, so as to avoid a similar circumstance. Guest Post by Alex Houton on Artist Development And Music Production Over the years that I’ve worked in artist ...
Passings: Friedman, Jones, Thompson
The generations move on. It’s a sad part of an observer’s task to acknowledge the deaths of musicians who made important contributions. Pianist Don Friedman died of pancreatic cancer at home in New York City on June 30. He was 81. Friedman was treasured by fellow musicians for the subtlety and strength of his support as ...
Music Education Monday: A Q&A session with saxophonist Jimmy Heath
A lesson needn't be formal to be valuable, and so in that spirit, today for Music Education Monday here's a video of the veteran saxophonist Jimmy Heath answering questions posed by high school students from the Tucson Jazz Institute's ensemble devoted to the music of Duke Ellington. Posted in May of this year, the footage was ...
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