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News: Book / Magazine

Monday Recommendation: Playboy Swings

September 29, 2015

Patty Farmer, Playboy Swings: How Hugh Hefner and Playboy Changed the Face of Music (Beaufort Books) For sixty years, Hugh Hefner and his Playboy magazine have been easy targets for lampoon and parody. With their fixation on the care and feeding of the male libido, they have attracted plenty of both. But there has always been ...

News: Education

Music Education Monday: Paquito D'Rivera on composing and playing clarinet, and more

September 28, 2015

Born in 1948 in Cuba, Paquito D'Rivera first became well-known in the USA in the early 1980s as the fiery alto saxophonist for the high-energy band Irakere. Over the ensuing decades, he's revealed other aspects of his musical personality, too—such as his clarinet playing, which has been consistently good enough to earn D'Rivera a place in ...

News: Video / DVD

Bill Evans: Last TV Show

September 29, 2015

Less than three weeks before his death on Sept. 15, 1980, Bill Evans appeared on the Merv Griffin Show. He came out in a white suit, chatted with Griffin and then played his composition Your Story. The show aired on Sept. 23. Reader Gregory Lee had told me about this appearance some time ago and yesterday ...

News: Music Industry

YouTube Paid Subscription Music And Video Service To Launch In October [REPORT]

September 29, 2015

The music industry has been pushing Google to monetize YouTube beyond just advertising since shortly after its launch 10 years ago. After more than a year of beta trails and rumored launch dates, a subscription version of YouTube along with a new companion music service are finally nearing launch. A letter sent to YouTube creators and ...

News: Career

Why You Still Should Register A "Copyrighted" Work

September 29, 2015

While many creatives in the entertainment industry believe (and are partly correct) that a work is copyrighted as soon as it is fixed in a tangible medium it still pays, often literally, to formally register the work with the U.S. Copyright Office, particularly where legal issues are concerned. Guest Post by Justin M. Jacobson, The Jacobson ...

News: Obituary

Jazz has lost another true master - Phil Woods

September 29, 2015

Word spread very quickly through the jazz community this afternoon that alto saxophonist and NEA Jazz Master (Class of 2007) Phil Woods passed away today. He was 83. The news came less than a month after Woods told the audience at a September 4 concert at the Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild in Pittsburgh that he had just ...

News: Performance / Tour

Hayes Cannonball Legacy At The Seasons

September 27, 2015

The Seasons performance hall in Yakima, Washington, kicked off its new jazz series last night with drummer Louis Hayes and his Cannonball Adderley Legacy band. The Hayes quintet is dedicated to interpreting the music of Cannonball Adderley (1928-1975) and his cornetist brother Nat (1931-2000). Alto saxophonist Vincent Herring, trumpeter Jeremy Pelt and pianist Rick Germanson have ...

News: Career

Ratafire: New Free Crowdfunding Platform For Musicians, Others

September 26, 2015

Ratafire, a new crowdfunding platform, is designed to be easily integrated with pre-existing sites such as Facebook or a blog, allowing artists to raise money for their creative projects while simultaneously connecting with fans and fellow musicians. Guest Post by Clyde Smith on his great new blog Crowd Funding For Musicians Ratafire is a new patronage platform, similar to Patreon in many respects, that launched this year to support ...

News: Video / DVD

StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Evan Parker and Peter Evans

September 26, 2015

Today, let's spend a few minutes with saxophonist Evan Parker and trumpeter Peter Evans, who will give a duo performance to kick off New Music Circle's 2015-16 season next Friday, October 2 at Joe's Cafe. (Both men also will take part in a free workshop/Q&A at 11 a.m. the next day (Saturday, October 3) at Foam.) ...

News: Music Industry

Freemium Model Works For Pandora But Is Devastating To Songwriters [Op-Ed]

September 26, 2015

Although Pandora's CEO Brian McAndrews recently boasted of the success of their free music streaming service, claiming that Americans are unwilling to pay for streaming, a breakdown of their revenue model shows that Pandora's system is detrimental to songwriters, says the head of the NMPA. Guest Post by David Israelite of the National Music Publishers Association In his editorial in Billboard on Wednesday, ...