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Oliver Nelson and Leo Gooden
After-hours jazz clubs had a certain magic and nocturnal charm in the 1950s and '60s. They existed because in many cities, mainstream jazz clubs were regulated and had to issue a last call around midnight. Musicians and audiences in the know would then head off to clubs with bottles stashed out of sight and plenty of ...
7 Reasons Why You Should Be Pitching Smaller Music Blogs
While it may be the dream of many artists to end up on the front page of Rolling Stone or Pollstar, such a feat isn't only difficult to achieve, it's also not as beneficial as they may assume. This article offers several compelling reasons why up-and-coming artists are better off approaching smaller blogs for their promotional ...
TuneCore Reports 90% Streaming and Download Growth, But Just 6.3% Rise in Payments To Artists
D.I.Y. digital distributor TuneCore announced today that is artists had a collective 3.6 billion downloads and streams in the last 3 months. That resulted in 90% increase versus the same time last year, and artists saw a 6.1% in earnings over the same time period, totaling $34.7 million 90% growth yearly is impressive. but the resulting ...
Pandora Acquires Bankrupt Rdio For $75 Million In Bid To Compete With Spotify, Apple Music
Consolidation in streaming music has begun, though perhaps a bit earlier than expected. Pandora is acquiring “the technology and intellectual property" of streaming music service Rdio for $75 million, and will use the assets to compete with Spotify, Apple Music and others. For Pandora, whose user growth has slowed to 3%, it is a bid to ...
Monday Recommendation: Tom Harrell
Tom Harrell, First Impressions (High Note) The fascination of jazz musicians with French impressionist composers goes back at least as far as Bix Beiderbecke. Among his contemporary successors, Tom Harrell is Beiderbecke’s counterpart not only as a lyrical soloist but also as a musical thinker influenced by the impressionists’ extended harmonies, exotic scales and other devices. ...
Transparency, Accounting And The Creation Of A Fair Music Report
Dividing and allocating funds to those who deserve them continues to be one of the greatest challenges faced by distributors of music, and labels and publishers often claim that to accomplish such a task with 100% accuracy is impossible. This article looks at a recent report from The Fair Music Project which examined this issue, as ...
Clarinets At Grace Cathedral
Over the years, Grace Cathedral on San Francisco’s Nob Hill has hosted countless concerts of importance. Among them, both in 1965, were Duke Ellington’s magnificent Second Sacred Concert and pianist Vince Guaraldi’s Grace Cathedral Concert with his trio and an 86-voice choir. Rifftides reader and veteran audio expert Jim Brown attended last week’s more secular concert ...
Bill Miller: Robbie Williams
To the best of my knowledge, pianist Bill Miller, who accompanied Frank Sinatra for more than 50 years, never recorded an album under his own name. He led a sextet in the early 1960s, but only while accompanying Sinatra on tour. In interviews prior to his death in 2006, Miller intimated that he occasionally played gigs ...
Who Will Save The Music Industry This Week?
Things have certainly been looking grim for the music industry in many areas, and what exactly is needed to turn things around has a been a subject of constant debate among those in the business. This article examines several different ideas for how to save the industry, and why they may or (more likely) may not work. ...
StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Omaha Diner offers menu of reimagined hits
"You've got to have a gimmick" may be a hoary old show-business cliche, but there's still some truth to the idea. Building an act around a distinctive, easily understood concept can help a performer stand out, and as “gimmicks" go, the band Omaha Diner has a pretty good one. The quartet - seven-string guitarist Charlie Hunter, ...
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