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Music Education Monday: Inside the musical mind of Bill Evans

March 3, 2015

Since today marks 56 years to the day since Miles Davis began recording his landmark album Kind of Blue, for this week's “Music Education Monday" let's take a closer look at one of the musicians who played a key role in those sessions. Bill Evans was the pianist in what's often called Davis “first great quintet," ...

News: Recording

Miles on Monday: 56 years of Kind of Blue

March 2, 2015

It was 56 years ago today that Miles Davis went into Columbia Records' 30th Street Studio in New York City to begin recording Kind of Blue, his best-known work that has been cited variously over the ensuing years as the best-selling, most influential, and greatest jazz album of all time. During that first session on Monday, ...

News: Recording

Stax Singles: Vols. 2 and 3

March 3, 2015

Stax sounds like shorthand for “stacks of 45s." But the Memphis soul label actually was a hybrid of Jim Stewart and Estelle Axton's last names. Stewart and Axton were brother-and-sister business partners who started Satellite Records in 1957 and changed the company's name in 1961 to Stax. Back in the 1960s, soul labels in different parts ...

News: Music Industry

Equal And Transparent Streaming For All - A Proposal For Our Industry [Emily White]

March 3, 2015

Legal streaming is something I had been awaiting for years as a music fan. It took our industry over a decade to finally release platforms that are seamless for consumer use as opposed to suing fans in the Napster era." writes Emily White. “As I’m all about things that make sense, as a fan, I couldn’t wait; ...

News: Music Industry

In 6 Months SoundCloud Has Approved Just 100 Premier Partners, Payments Total $1 Million

March 3, 2015

2015 is the year that SoundCloud needs to implement a monetization strategy - both for itself and for the creators that have made the platform so popular. Today the company released the first stats from its Partner platform which launched last August to address the problem. This morning SoundCloud announced that they've signed up 100 Premier Partners ...

News: Music Industry

5 Reasons Music Streaming Services Can Benefit Artists

March 3, 2015

One of the biggest controversies surrounding the music industry is whether music streaming services are good or bad for artists. Here are 5 reasons why music streaming services are good for artists. Guest Post by Daniel Sander on Feature.fm Blog 1. It's where people listen This one is simple. Whether you believe streaming services are good or not, ...

News: Obituary

Orrin Keepnews (1923-2015)

March 2, 2015

Orrin Keepnews, a jazz record producer whose taste in music, integrity and respect for artists resulted in a vast body of legacy recordings by Thelonious Monk, Cannonball Adderley, Wes Montgomery and Bill Evans as well as dozens of other artists, died on March 1. He was 91. His Riverside label operated from 1953 to 1964. What ...

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Article: Building a Jazz Library

Jazz Masterpieces: 1956-1965

by AAJ Staff
March 2, 2015

There are times when you have to hold back and let certain music speak for itself. This list of jazz masterpieces is exactly that kind of music. By definition, these records are without flaw. (Okay, so humans are inherently flawed, but you'll have to get out a microscope to find anything that falls short here.)

News: Obituary

Orrin Keepnews, RIP

March 2, 2015

The influential jazz producer, record company head and author Orrin Keepnews died today at his home in El Cerrito, California. He would have been 92 tomorrow. Keepnews guided the recording careers of Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans, Wes Montgomery, Sonny Rollins and many other leading jazz artists of the 20th Century. The announcement of his death came ...

News: Performance / Tour

The hipster returns

March 2, 2015

Jazz singer Giacomo Gates is full of surprises—for his audience, and his bandmates. His performances are richer for it. Such was the case Saturday night when he closed out February with a South County Jazz Club concert at the Glenridge Performing Arts Center in Sarasota FL.Gates' band for the night, and a pair of jazz bistro ...