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Spotlighting Obscure Tunes with Toe-Tapping Swing
Pianist Johnny Varro seems most at home in obscure jazz material—not only 50 or more years old, but in some cases, obscure even when it was first performed. Such was the case with more than half of the compositions he presented Monday night, November 11, with the Florida edition of his Swing 7 band at the ...
The Shearing Sound That Wasn't
In 1948, George Shearing and Buddy DeFranco were kicking around the idea of forming a quintet. With Shearing's block chords and Buddy's bop clarinet combined with their speed, they figured they'd knock out audiences. They performed together with bassist John Levy and drummer Denzil Best at the Clique Club, which would become Birdland a year later. ...
STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: A Trip to "Swing Xing" with Bucky Pizzarelli, Frank Vignola and Vinny Raniolo
If you enjoy jazz guitar played in a traditional style, today's post might be right up your alley, as we feature not one, not two, but three guitarists - Bucky Pizzarelli, Frank Vignola and Vinny Raniolo - who will be performing together in a show called “Swing Xing: Three Generations of Jazz Guitar" next Saturday, November ...
Weekend Extra: Shelly Manne and Friends
From 1960 to 1972 in Hollywood, drummer Shelly Manne operated Shelly’s Manne Hole, one of the great jazz clubs in the world. It was headquarters for his quintet known as Shelly Manne And His Men, which over the years included many of the era’s premier players, among them Charlie Mariano, Bill Holman, Richie Kamuca, Conte Candoli, ...
How to Connect with Influencers when You Have Zero Music Industry Contacts
By Courtney Harding on Sonicbids Blog A few weeks ago, the New York Times ran a profile of theAudience, a firm that connects big brands to social media influencers. Gone are the days when a big ad spend or tons of radio promotion was required to break a band – now, a kid with a big Tumblr following can move the needle just as ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, November 7-13
As we settle into standard time, shorter days, cooler nights, and the beginning of the holiday media blast, it's comforting to have our favorite jazz venues running at full tilt. This weekend includes the final three nights of the Zeitgeist New Music Cabaret at Studio Z, a favorite voice of jazz in a rare vocal night ...
6 Ways to Reach Your Kickstarter Goal
By Hugh McIntyre on Sonicbids Blog We’ve all heard of Kickstarter and some of the amazing success stories that have come from its fundraising platform – LeVar Burton raising $2 million in two days to bring Reading Rainbow back, for example – but how is it done? There are tens of thousands of projects on the ...
The RIAA Responds: How David Pakman Shortchanged Role of Record Label
By Steven Marks (Chief, Digital Business & General Counsel, RIAA) on RIAA's Music Notes Blog I respect David and his accomplishments in the music space, but his blog “The Artist’s Share” misses the mark. The piece wrongly assumed that labels pay royalties to artists and simply keep the rest. This is not the case. Let’s take ...
When and Why Should You Invest in Radio Promotion?
By Rob Wilcox, Senior Manager of Alt. Radio Promotion at The Syndicate. This article originally appeared on TheDailyRind.com So you’re in a band, or perhaps you’re a manager of an up-and-coming artist — or perhaps you run a record label and have a release you want to create additional exposure for. What do you do to create ...
Spotify Royalties Now Exceed iTunes Payments in More Markets
Music publisher Kobalt has released new stats which show that its writers’ European earnings from Spotify have overtaken those from iTunes. Royalties collected from Spotify’s streaming service in Q1 2014 were 13% higher than those from the iTunes download store in the EU. These numbers says as much about the decline in digital music sales as they ...
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