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Jazz this week: The return of Rene Marie, Gaslight Cabaret Festival, and more
Check out more events at Jazz Near You: St. Louis. This week's lineup of jazz and creative music performances in St. Louis puts the spotlight on vocalists, starting with an internationally known singer once signed to a local label, and continuing with the latest set of shows featuring performers from the thriving local cabaret scene. Mix ...
Corky Hale at Vitello's
In the '50s and '60s, Corky Hale recorded with Clark Terry, Kitty White and Herbie Harper. She's on Chet Baker Sings and Plays with Bud Shank, Russ Freeman and Strings, most of the Ella Fitzgerald songbook albums, and she accompanied Anita O'Day and June Christy on albums as well as Billie Holiday in Las Vegas and ...
3 Simple Social Media Tweaks That Impact Fan Engagement
Little tweaks in your social media strategy and simple messages, tweets, or emails can make a surprisingly large impact on your music career. And those little changes can add up to something game-changing. Guest Post by Dave Kusek on Sonicbids Blog The New Year always brings thoughts of big changes and complete revamps when it comes to your music career, ...
Using Spotify Playlists To Boost Your Fan Base
One thing that artists can do to increase fan engagement and even their fan base is to create and share Spotify playlists.This has been shown to gain a lot of attention with both fans and non-fans alike. It's also something that big brands do all the time. Guest Post by Bobby Owsinski on Music 3.0 One example is Red ...
Bill Evans and Carol Stevens
Back in January 2014, I interviewed singer Carol Stevens (here and here), who recorded That Satin Doll for Atlantic in 1957. In 1959, she appeared in a TV pilot for a show called After Hours, featuring Coleman Hawkins and Roy Eldridge among other top New York jazz musicians. At one point during my interview, I asked ...
Just Because: Dizzy Gillespie, 1987
In the year of his 70th birthday, Dizzy Gillespie toured extensively in Europe with prominent jazz artists who had played with him in various phases of his career. On February 27, 1987, he gave a concert at the Theaterhaus in Stuttgart, Germany. It included a set by his quintet with Sam Rivers, tenor saxophone; Ed Cherry, ...
Why YouTube's 1 Billion Viewers Still Aren't Enough To Turn Profit
YouTube has succeeded in establishing itself as the premier destination for online video consumption, so how is it possible for a platform with an audience exceeding 1 billion viewers to remain an unprofitable business? It's really quite simple. YouTube is stuck. The company is treading water - while top competitors are gaining ground. According to the ...
How To Create 5-Year Business Plan For Your Band
In any endeavor, it is a good idea to plan, plan, plan. While the music business can often be seen as only a creative endeavor, having a good business plan for your music career is just as important. Every successful business does a lot of planning BEFORE they even begin to do the work they set ...
Bulletin Board Members' Picks
by AAJ Staff
Since we started the Building a Jazz Library (BAJL) series, we've assembled more than sixty collections, and that number continues to grow. We thought it might be interesting to see what readers would recommend, so we asked AAJ Bulletin Board members to provide a short list of recordings they considered essential, and the 159 different lists ...
Naxos Introduces Lossless Classical Music Streaming With ClassicsOnline HD•LL
To the average music consumer, the loss in sound quality created by buffering is virtually undetectable - but to the classically trained ear, the difference detectable when streaming music can be shocking. Naxos has countered the problem by introducing ClassicsOnline HD•LL, a lossless streaming service for classical music worldwide. The streaming service on ClassicsOnline HD•LL employs the ...
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Points of View: Celebrating Dave Holland
Interview
Boney James: A Simple Man And A Lifetime Study
Interview
Miles Okazaki's Monkathon: The Complete Thelonious...
Interview
Bill Bruford And Pete Roth: A One-Of-A-Kind Juxtaposition
Musician 2 Musician
Steve Coleman on Dave Holland
Live Review
Isaiah Collier Plays Coltrane: Live at Jazz Alley in Seattle
Reanimating Conversations Past
John Scofield: Meant To Be
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