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Exploring the Great American and Jazz Songbooks

October 9, 2015

Singer-pianist Danny Sinoff let his piano chops carry most of the load Thursday when his trio opened the South County Jazz Club's 2015-2016 matinee season at the Venice (FL) Art Center. While he is busy with steady club gigs, principally in Fort Myers and Port Charlotte, this was Sinoff's first appearance in Venice. Sinoff is best ...

Ramsey Lewis: The In Crowd

October 8, 2015

This week marks the 50th anniversary of Ramsey Lewis's The In Crowd peaking on the Billboard pop chart at #5. The album of the same name went to #2 in early November 1965, and it remained on the chart for 47 weeks. What's particularly astounding about The In Crowd LP reaching #2 are the other albums ...

The Fundamental “Why” Of Music Discovery

October 8, 2015

Whether it's Apple Music, Spotify, or any number of smaller companies, everyone in the streaming industry is obsessing over music discovery. But just how valuable is discovery for artists, when listener engagement has become so minimal? Guest Post by Cortney Harding on Medium These days, it seems like everyone has an opinion of the best way to discover music. ...

5 Tricks To Getting Booked For More Gigs

October 8, 2015

Competition is stiff these days when it comes to booking your band at an ever declining number of venues. Here are some tips for how to adapt your strategy in order to get the optimal number of gigs on your band's calendar. Guest Post by Dylan Welch on the Sonicbids Blog These days, there are more ...

Pandora Acquires Ticketfly For $450 Million [NYSE:P]

October 8, 2015

Pandora has acquired independent ticketing company Ticketfly. It's a move that diversifies the music streamer's portfolio within the music vertical, and it could also be goods news for artists and promoters offering direct access to Pandora's 80 million monthly users. Pandora (NYSE:P) has entered into an agreement to acquire Ticketfly for $450 million in cash and stock. Ticketfly ...

The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, October 9-15

October 8, 2015

A vibes trio revival at the Black Dog, another round of “jazz painting" at The Nicollet, an irresistible songstress presenting covering an iconic songwriter, the Twin Cities edition of a modern “Modern Jazz Quartet," a tribute to one of the greatest vocalist of all time from one of the Twin Cities' best, and a visit from ...

Jazz this week: Yellowjackets, Peter Martin, Dave Bennett, Tatsuya Nakatani, and more

October 7, 2015

This week's calendar of live jazz and creative music in St. Louis offers an album release event from one of the city's favorite homegrown piano players, plus funk and fusion, free improv, cabaret, swing, and more. Let's go to the highlights... Wednesday, October 7 The popular fusion band Yellowjackets (pictured, top left) return to St. Louis ...

Johnny Mandel: Harper, 1966

October 7, 2015

In 1966, Paul Newman starred in Harper, a film about a private investigator with a spent marriage who takes a challenging case 90 miles north of Los Angeles to get away from it all. In today's world, it's a TV pilot at best, but in the cool '60s, studios didn't need much of an excuse to ...

"Vinyl" - A New Series About The 70's Record Industry Is Coming To HBO [VIDEO]

October 7, 2015

Don Elliott: A Musical Offering

October 6, 2015

There weren't too many instruments Don Elliott couldn't play. Starting in the early 1950s, Elliott recorded on vibes, mellophone, trumpet, bongos, marimba, xylophone, flugelhorn and a variety of percussion instruments. Whats' more, he was a superb vocalist. Like many multi-instrumentalists, Elliott had a multitrack recording studio in New York and at his home in Connecticut. Most ...