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Johnny Costa
The recent Rifftides review of pianist Sullivan Fortner’s new album mentions Johnny Costa as an influence. The influence came early. Like millions of other American children, Fortner grew up watching Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood. He was captivated by the music Costa played with his trio on the television show. Costa was Rogers’ musical director from the birth ...
10 Best Saloon Songs
A saloon song, by definition, is a conversation set to music that one has with oneself or with an imaginary bartender about being dumped. It doesn't matter if the “bartender" is actually listening, and the person singing it can be a man or woman. What matters most is the impression the singer leaves with the listener ...
Spotify Could Go Away Overnight And No One Would Care
Although Spotify was able to get its foot in the door early, the presence of companies like Apple Music, Amazon Prime, and others means that the historically un-profitable streaming service either needs to find away to differentiate itself from the competition or risk crashing and burning. Op Ed by Kelli Richards Before Apple Music was ever announced, it ...
Al Cohn: Rifftide, June 1986
A year and a half before Al Cohn's death of liver cancer in Feb. 1988, the tenor saxophonist was on tour in Europe. In June 1986, he was in Monster, the Netherlands, recording Rifftide with Dutch jazz musicians Rein de Graaff (p) Koos Serierse (b) Eric Ineke (d) at Studio 44 for the Timelss label. It's ...
Music Education Monday: A master class with Michael Brecker, and more
Saxophonist Michael Brecker was a prolific and influential jazz, rock, pop, and session player for the better part of four decades, starting at the turn of the 1970s and continuing until his untimely death from complications of leukemia in 2007, when he was just 57 years old. Brecker's distinctive sound and approach, drawing on the innovations ...
How Your SoundCloud Upload And Digital Distribution Can Work Together
As with many web-based marketing strategies, it pays to cast a wide net, and by confining yourself to a limited number of online retailers, or using exclusively SoundCloud, you could be missing opportunities to engage new listeners. This article examines how to you can get your SoundCloud and digital stores working with greater synergy. Guest Post by Kevin Cornell of TuneCore ...
StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Catching up with Karrin Allyson
This week, let's check out some videos featuring Karrin Allyson, who returns to St. Louis next week to perform on Wednesday, November 11 and Thursday, November 12 at Jazz at the Bistro. Allyson, a Kansas City native now based in NYC, was a favorite of Jazz at the Bistro founder Barbara Rose, and performed here a ...
Sony/ATV Music Publishing Cuts "Unprecedented" Direct Deal With Pandora [NYSE: P]
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Pandora and music publishing giant Sony/ATV Music today announced a multi-year catalog licensing agreement. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the direct publishing deal creates business benefits for Pandora, while improving rates and modernizing compensation for Sony/ATV songwriters in the US, the companies said in a joint statement. Sony/ATV has been telegraphing its desire ...
How To Successfully Crowdfund: 7 Stats from 100,000 Crowdfunding Campaigns On Indiegogo
Crowdfunding has certainly become an extremely popular means of raising money for projects, but some campaigns are more successful than others. Here we look at seven different crowdfunding stats from a recent study that musicians should keep in mind when looking to raise capital for their next artistic endeavor. Guest Post by Amy Yeh on the ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, November 6-12
Still no hard frost? Perhaps the heat of the local jazz scene is keeping winter at bey! Probably we can not hope for many more relatively warm days, but we can surely count on a string of hot nights thanks to gigs, concerts, mini-fests and CD releases in the Twin Cities in the coming week! Big ...
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Points of View: Celebrating Dave Holland
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Boney James: A Simple Man And A Lifetime Study
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Miles Okazaki's Monkathon: The Complete Thelonious...
Musician 2 Musician
Steve Coleman on Dave Holland
Reanimating Conversations Past
John Scofield: Meant To Be
Live Review
Isaiah Collier Plays Coltrane: Live at Jazz Alley in Seattle
Phil Schaap's Jazz Room
Franc Williams: Live From The West End
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