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Jazz this week: Ronnie Burrage, a trio of local festivals, Fred Lonberg-Holm, and more
It's another busy weekend for live jazz and creative music in and around the St. Louis area, with homecoming visits from a couple of distinguished expats, local festivals taking place in three different parts of the metro area, a performance from a notable participant in Chicago's thriving improvised music scene, and more. Let's go to the ...
Jazz Legends, in Their Words
Yesterday, producer Tommy LiPuma sent along a link to a documentary from the BBC featuring interviews with jazz legends Louis Armstrong, Lil Hardin, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie,Oscar Peterson and Ella Fitzgerald. The display is a bit pinched on the sides, but the joy and the music come through just the same. Here's the documentary... ...
Why Apple Music And Tidal Are The Right Business Models With The Wrong Optics
Since Spotify launched in 2010 the music business has been in an existential crisis. Convinced that ad-supported unlimited free access to on-demand music would ultimately grow recorded music revenues the major labels opted into what may be their worst decision ever. Original Post Written By David Lowery on The Trichordist Blog This decision aided by an estimated 18% ...
What a wonderful change of pace
The jazz concert season is pretty much gone in Florida from May until the snowbirds start returning in the fall. While there are regular club and restaurant gigs to fill in the gap, it was a treat to have an actual concert to attend. The Venice Art Center and the South County Jazz Club teamed up ...
Mary Lou Williams: 1978
Three years before her death in 1981, pianist Mary Lou Williams performed an extraordinary concert at the Montreux Jazz Festival. Here's nearly an hour of her playing solo, which will give you a full sense of her brilliance and significance. If you can't watch all of it, let it run in the background as you work. ...
Five Reasons Why There's Never Been a Better Time to Be a Musician
If you're a musician, you've probably wondered how your career would have fared if this was another decade. Would you have sold more albums if you were a musician in the late '80s or early '90s? You know, when people actually bought music? Original Post Written By Tyler Allen on Sonicbids Blog To be honest, I ...
10 Uncovered Ways to Promote Indie Music Online
Being an indie musician means waging a constant war for survival. At the times of R.E.M., it was a real nightmare to self-produce and self-promote indie music, as artists didn't have such a powerful tool as the World Wide Web. Original Post Written By Alice Koval - @alicekoval Happily, now things have changed and emerging indie ...
In Praise of Mood Music
In yesterday's Wall Street Journal, I wrote an essay on the history of easy-listening music and its 70th anniversary, which as you'd expect was completely overlooked (go here). Easy listening was meant to be overlooked. It's whole reason for being was to be there but never get in your way, engaging your emotions but not your ...
Why Every Artist Should Be Live Streaming (And How to Do It)
As industry experts tout the benefits of live streaming, the medium is charging up interest and success for many artists. Musicians are now spending hours not just in front of the crowd, but also in front of a camera, broadcasting to the internet. Original Post Written By Oliver Cox on Sonicbids Blog Are these wasted or well-spent hours? Is this just ...
Monday Recommendation: Kenny Dorham
Kenny Dorham, Quiet Kenny (Original Jazz Classics) Dorham was of the generation of trumpet players indebted to Dizzy Gillespie. As his playing gained individuality in the late forties, he developed into one of the trumpet’s great melodic improvisers. His rhythm section here is pianist Tommy Flanagan, bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Arthur Taylor. A few months ...
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