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Howard Rumsey (1917-2015)
Howard Rumsey, a West Coast jazz bassist who began his recording career in Stan Kenton's orchestra in 1941 and managed the Lighthouse in Hermosa Beach, Calif., a club that became ground zero for the West Coast jazz sound starting in the early 1950s, died July 15 in Newport Beach, Calif. He was 97. When I interviewed ...
Talking Artist Management With Mark McLewee
Looking for some advice on band management? In another installment of Tunecore's ongoing Artist Management Series, they speak to indie manager Mark McLewee about his experience in the industry. Guest Post by Kevin Cornell on Tunecore.com We’re back with the second installment of our Artist Management Series, where we’ve been talking with current managers of independent artists about ...
7 Tips For Tweeting A Live Event
Have a live event planned? Before recklessly blowing up your fans' Twitter feeds, review these seven helpful tips on how to effectively live tweet an event. Guest Post by Bobby Owsinski on Music 3.0 Adweek recently ran a great post about tips for Tweeting a live event. They were thinking more about a business conference than ...
Rich Bengloff Steps Down As President Of A2IM
After more than 8 years at the helm of independent music's largest US based trade organization, A2IM, president Rich Bengloff is stepping down. Bengloff can be credited with successfully steering the organization during the music industry's difficult transition from CD's to downloads and now streaming. After eight and a half years of leading US independent label ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, July 17-23
Happy to report there is now another venue with significant jazz bookings to include in the Lead Sheet— Vieux Carré opened earlier this week; the websiteis up and running, and the club calendar is pretty much filled for July with music five nights per week, jazz at least two of those nights and often more. Add ...
Cal Tjader’s 90th
This is the 90th birthday of Cal Tjader (1925-1982). Tjader may have been best known for his pioneering Latin jazz, but in the late 1940s and early ‘50s with the Dave Brubeck Trio, he was respected for his mainstream drumming. Pianist Hank Jones told me that when he played on Tjader’s 1953 record session for Savoy, ...
Sassy and Ronnell Bright
I had a lovely phone chat with Ronnell Bright last week. As is the case whenever we talk, the conversation turned to Sarah Vaughan. Ronnell accompanied Sassy in the late 1950s and early '60s before working with Nancy Wilson. As readers of this blog know, Ronnell is my favorite accompanist. I love his chord voicings and ...
SaaSing The Music Business [Ethan Kaplan]
What does the shift to a streaming music economy mean for the industry as a whole? As the business changes and SasS (Software as a Service) providers become the dominant players, artists will have to work hard to remain relevant. By Ethan Kaplan General Manager / SVP of Music at Gracenote. This first appeared on TechCrunch.com ...
The Changing Face Of Music Collaboration
While the landscape of recorded music is littered with countless famous instances of collaboration between artists it seems that, despite the connectivity of the modern world, many of the creative players in the music industry today are choosing to go solo. Here we look at why that might be, and what can be done to rectify the situation. ...
BerkleeICE Releases MUST READ Music Industry Report: "Creators Underpaid By 20-50%"
Berklee Institute for Creative Entrepreneurship has released an in-depth study that promotes fairness and transparency in the music industry. “Fair Music: Transparency and Money Flows in the Music Industry,” the report studies the global music business and challenges within the current compensation structure. Originating under BerkleeICE's Rethink Music initiative, a new study exposes inefficiencies and deliberate deception that result ...
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