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Jazz this week: Adam Larson, Lettuce, Youngblood Brass Band, March Fourth!, The New Mastersounds, and more
This week's calendar of live jazz and creative music in and around St. Louis features a couple of different acts purveying instrumental funk, a saxophone phenom working in the modern jazz mainstream, a mutant marching band, and, as the saying goes, much, much more. Let's go to the highlights... Wednesday, October 14 Up-and-coming saxophonist Adam Larson ...
Billy Eckstine and Vocal Groups
Billy Eckstine was a sex symbol in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The vocalist's movie-star looks and seductive baritone earned him a prominent place in magazines and jukeboxes, leaving black and white girls with a terrible crush on him. All were smitten by the tenderness and understanding in Eckstine's butterscotch voice. Today, Eckstine and the ...
Pandora's Ticketfly Purchase Good For Artists And Shareholders
Pandora made a bold move recently by acquiring the online ticketing service Ticketfly, shifting the popular music streaming service into an area where it may turn a something of a profit, particularly if it can get more listeners to take off their headphones and attend live shows. Guest Post by Bobby Owsinski on Music 3.0 Streaming ...
Streaming Services Or Major Labels: Who's The Real Bad Guy?
Platforms like Spotify and Pandora are often vilified for not paying sufficient royalties to artists, but could it be that it's not, in fact, the streaming services who are the true enemy, but the major labels to which they are contractually beholden? Guest Post by Chris Robley on The DIY Musician Since its launch, Spotify has paid out over two billion ...
Surprising New Study Shows 66% Of U.S. Streams Music, Amazon #1 Paid Music Service
Streaming music is growing even faster than we thought, according to a new U.S. study, and Amazon is the #1 choice for those who pay for streaming. That Amazon's music costs are bundled with shipping and other services could provide a hint as to how music streamers can gain more paid subscribers. New research from Parks Associates shows ...
Complete Bee Hive Sessions
The late 1970s was a weird time for acoustic jazz. The profitability of rock and soul in the late 1960s and early '70s had drained the talent in jazz departments at all record labels. If you worked on the jazz side and hadn't made the leap to producing rock and soul artists, you were most likely ...
4 Crucial Music Goals You Can Still Accomplish Before The New Year
With 2016 rapidly approaching and 2015 soon to be a distant memory, here are a few important goals to check off your list while there's still time, whether it's beefing up your web presence, getting a jump on next year's gigs, or simply making sure your intellectual property is safe. Guest Post by Christine Occhino on the Sonicbids Blog Image ...
The Future Of Transparency In The Music Business
The process by which music royalties are determined has always been a convoluted one, but the rise of the web has made it even more complex, while simultaneously increasing the demand for more transparency regarding where the money is coming from, and where it's going. Guest Post by Cortney Harding on Medium Last week, I shipped up to Boston for ...
MedRhythms Uses Music To Treat Brain Injuries
While a lot of the talk surrounding music these days looks at it from a business perspective, it's important to remember music's more intangible value. Here George Howard speaks with MedRhythms' CEO Brian Harris about his company's work using music to heal traumatic brain injuries. Guest Post by George Howard on Forbes Amidst all of the ...
Don Cheadle’s Miles Davis Biopic
Miles Ahead, the movie, opened today at the New York Film Festival. Veteran actor Don Cheadle directed the film, which stars him in the title role. Since it became known months ago that the motion picture was in the works, speculation has been rampant about its faithfulness to Davis’s character and, particularly, about musical accuracy. An ...
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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...
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Steve Coleman on Dave Holland
Reanimating Conversations Past
John Scofield: Meant To Be
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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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