Results for "AAJ Staff"

Spotify's Secret Weapon

December 2, 2014

By Christopher D Amico from Berklee College of Music's Music Business Journal. Spotify announced in March the acquisition of The Echo Nest, the industry’s leading music intelligence company. The deal signals the rising importance of big data in the music industry. Founded by MIT Media Lab doctoral students Tristan Jehan and Brian Whitman, The Echo Nest provided intelligence to ...

Maximizing Musical Collaboration Through Video Conferencing

December 2, 2014

When it comes to enjoying music, there are more listening options than ever before. Whether you prefer the old school record or something more contemporary like MP3s or a streaming service, the fact is, music is so easily accessible that it’s just about impossible to imagine a time when you actually had to attend a live ...

Between Jazz and Rock 'N' Roll

December 1, 2014

In the beginning, there was Fats Waller, whose successful stride piano and whimsical vocals set the tone for regional blues bands. By the mid-1940s following the first recording ban by the American Federation of Musicians, Decca had cornered the market for boogie-woogie revival artists like Lionel Hampton and Louis Jordan. In the late 1940s, the music ...

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: A Roscoe Mitchell Sampler

November 30, 2014

When multi-instrumentalist and composer Roscoe Mitchell performs with keyboardist Craig Taborn next Friday, December 5 at The Stage at KDHX, the concert sponsored by New Music Circle will be his first St. Louis appearance since the 1990s. After first gaining wide attention in the 1960s as a founding member of the Art Ensemble of Chicago and ...

Voices of Doo-Wop

November 30, 2014

Russell Simmons Discusses New Era of Music Industry

November 30, 2014

In a recent interview with Grammy U and All Def Digital, Def Jams' Russell Simmons spoke about the recent shift in the music industry - a shift he believes has taken the industry away from a royalty based formula. Simmons discussed All Def Digital, his new project with Steve Rifkind in partnership with Universal Music Group and Samsung. He highlighted the platform's matchmaking capabilities for ...

The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, November 28-December 4

November 30, 2014

Star-bright visitors help usher in a month of holiday delights this week, while some local heavyweights kick off the weekend. Don't let Black Friday chaos keep you from enjoying some outstanding music! Big Gigs This Week Friday, November 28. Off the map for a while this fall, the Graydon Peterson Quartet roars back at Jazz Central ...

More Than Royalties - It's Time We Bring the Open Web to Music

November 28, 2014

By Jesse von Doom on Medium.com We talk endlessly about royalties, which is really a way of talking about centralization — giving power to a service or organization and asking them to sort out the model that pays people. Centralization will always lead to a system that can be gamed. Anything less than every participant acting altruistically means ...

Jazz This Week: Jeremy Davenport Returns to the Bistro, Cactus Truck, and More

November 28, 2014

A few quick suggestions for some post-Turkey Day jazz and creative music in and around St. Louis... Tonight, trumpeter, singer and U City native Jeremy Davenport returns from his current home in New Orleans to play his annual post-Thanksgiving weekend gig at Jazz at the Bistro. Though he's been leader of the house band in the ...

Fon's Martin Varsavsky to Keynote Midem 2015

November 28, 2014

Martin Varsavsky, Founder & CEO of community WiFi network Fon has been named a keynote speaker at next year's Midem conference, where he will offer his views on the future of convergence and new collaborations between the creative industries and digital technology. The world's largest international music conference, Midem has moved from its traditional January slot to ...