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Vito Price: Swingin' the Loop
Saxophonist Vito Price is virtually unknown today. In fact, he was virtually unknown back in January 1958, when he recorded Swinging the Loop for Chicago's Argo label. At the time, Price was 28 and a veteran of a clutch of road bands led by Bob Chester, Art Mooney, Tony Pastor and Chubby Jackson. He moved to ...
StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Up close with the Chick Corea Trio
This week, let's take a look at some video of the Chick Corea Trio with Christian McBride and Brian Blade, who will be in St. Louis to perform on Tuesday, June 21 and Wednesday, June 22 at Jazz at the Bistro. While all three musicians have played St. Louis before on multiple occasions with other groups, ...
Distributor Allegro Closes, Leaving 100s Of Indie Labels In Limbo
The latest victim of the rapid decline in music sales is indie distributor Allegro Media. It's sudden closure has left hundreds of independent labels with their product locked in a warehouse and no distribution. Music and video distributor Allegro has shut down unexpectedly, laying off employees and leaving dozens of independent labels in limbo. A source ...
Rhapsody / Napster Restructures, Laying Off Staff, Closing San Francisco Office
Rhapsody and Napster are reportedly closing their San Francisco office and laying off staff in a broad restructuring effort, as the company fights to find profitability in the increasingly competitive streaming music sector. Rhapsody is closing its long time San Francisco office and laying off staff, according to source with knowledge of the situation. The company's corporate ...
5 Free Organizational Tools For Musicians
The life of an independent artist can often tend towards chaos, but staying organized is huge component of achieving success in your music career. In this piece we look at five different tools musicians can use to keep entropy at bay. Guest Post by Eric Bernsen on the Sonicbids Blog Staying organized is half the battle ...
Pandora Learns From Spotify's Mistakes, Offers Fairer Terms For Songwiters, Publishers
If you think that streaming music treats musicians unfairly, take a look at how it affects songwriters. Pandora has taken a small but significant step towards righting that wrong. By Chris Castle of Music Tech Solutions Music industry licenses that require a music service to pay a royalty to a copyright owner have traditionally included what’s come to ...
Do Freemium Music Services Actually Offer Greater Revenue Per User Than Radio + Sales?
Many in the music industry seem to long for a simpler time when free ad-supported radio was used as a mechanism for selling records, but was the revenue from that model that much greater than the freemium streaming which we see today? Guest Post by David Touve on Rockonomic The purpose of this story is rather simple: ...
Jeremy Steig, 1942-2016
Flutist Jeremy Steig died on April 13 at his home in Japan. He was 73. His death wasconfirmed days after the fact. “He didn’t like to read about musicians’ deaths in newspaper obituaries,” his wife Asako told The New York Times. “He wanted me to delay the announcement of his death, so that it wouldn’t really ...
Beach Boys: Pet Sounds Turns 50
The release today of the Beach Boys' 50th anniversary remastered five-disc Pet Sounds box provides me with a perfect hook to chat a bit about one of my favorite pop-rock albums. The new set features mono and stereo version of the album plus instrumental tracks, vocal tracks, surround sound mono, stereo and stereo instrumental tracks and ...
Indie Empresario Graham Stairs On The Music Industry, Great Songs And Staring A New Record Label
Here Odario Williams speaks with Graham Stairs about his new digital label imprint known as the Confidence Emperors, what it's place is in the industry, and what he looks for in a song. By Odario Williams Graham Stairs got his start in the business with Intrepid Records where, as their A&R rep, he was responsible for ...
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