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Jazz This Week: Joshua Redman Trio, Nevermore Jazz Ball, Eli Keszler and Rashad Becker, Marco Benevento, and More
There's a jam-packed schedule of jazz and creative music over the next few days in St. Louis, with a variety of musical styles and sensibilities on offer. Let's go to the highlights... Tonight, saxophonist Joshua Redman and his long-running trio will open a four-night stand continuing through Saturday at Jazz at the Bistro. Redman last played ...
Review: John Pizzarelli at Jazz at the Bistro
Calling John Pizzarelli a throwback to the days when jazz still was considered popular entertainment might sound like a veiled compliment, but it's not. For one thing, it takes a great deal of skill to not only play the guitar as well as he does, but also to sing, tell funny stories, and keep a crowd's ...
Video: Maynard Ferguson, '64
The long out-of-print Complete Roulette Recordings of the Maynard Ferguson Orchestra (Mosaic) is easily my favorite big-band boxed set, followed by the Complete Roulette Studio Recordings of Count Basie and the Complete Roulette Live Recordings of Count Basie (both Mosaic and both out of print). Listening to the Maynard Ferguson box yesterday, I nosed around on ...
If You Schmooze, You Lose: 5 Things to Avoid at SF Music Tech
We've all been there - you walk into a conference where hundreds of people are gathered for a common cause or interest, and without fail, there are those people who know they can do “it" better than everyone else in attendance. Whatever “it" is, they've got the monopoly on the best ideas and they're going to let you know ...
The Musician's Guide to Snapchat
By Keidra Chaney on Sonicbids.com For a working musician, the thought of yet another social media platform may seem exhausting, especially considering that Facebook and Twitter are already pretty time-consuming. While video- and photo-sharing networks like Vine or Snapchat may seem nonessential for musicians, don’t overlook them. Photo messaging platform Snapchat, founded in 2011, is a particularly hot platform for younger-skewing music audiences and genres like EDM. Unlike photo ...
It's Time for a Streaming Pricing Reset
By Mark Mulligan of MiDA on his Music Industry blog. There is a growing realization that that streaming revenue is not growing quickly enough to offset the impact of declining download sales. It is an eerily familiar echo of the recurring narrative of the noughties that download sales were not growing quickly enough to offset the ...
10 Reasons Why Every Artist Should Be on Spotify
By Kami Kanke, founder of Bands Under the Radar music podcast, blog and record label. This post originally appeared on BandsUnderTheRadar.com There’s a lot of buzz these days around music streaming subscription services and how they will impact the music business. It seems like every other week some famous artist is ranting about how much they hate Spotify, ...
The One Thing I Disagree with Most E-Mail Marketers About
By Andrew Jones, Canada-based Artist Manager & Artist Development Advisor. This post originally appeared on Andrew's personal blog, CheckeredOwl.com Everyone should know at this point that e-mail better be a part of your online marketing strategy. While social media sites can suddenly change their terms of service, re-evaluate their algorithms or lose they user base, e-mail is always there. Not ...
The Vinyl Revival [infographic]
Vinyl is making an impressive comeback in the digital download era of music consumption. Laura Creed, of Superfi has done quite a bit of research into the resurgence of vinyl, it's popularity, and what it could mean for today's music industry. The proof is in the infographic - today's average consumer is choosing digital, but the ...
The Start of Something Big
Like you, I often find myself fixated on a single song. Some songs are like that. For me, Steve Allen's This Could Be the Start of Something Big knocks me out, no matter who records it. The punchy, uplifting song has a swinging, “let's put on a show" feel, and I can't get enough of it. ...
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