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Stan Getz: Five Rare Videos
Like a jewel thief, Stan Getz had a way of climbing inside a song without disturbing its wiring. Getz tended to play in the upper register of the tenor sax—the range that's most seductive rather than bossy—and used the lower register for to kick off surges and to create contrast. When the song's melody and Getz's ...
Steve Albini and Damon Albarn on Art, Business and the Internet
Two artists that can always be counted on to say something interesting recently held forth on tech, the internet and the art and business of music in separate interviews. Steve Albini takes a strong and surprisingly positive stance with little room for discussion. Damon Albarn reveals more ambivalence about tech and its effects on our lives. ...
Selling Music Audiences to Advertisers is the Future of Recorded Music Revenue
By Audience Development Executive Paul Goldstein of The Content Is King. [OpEd] Uncertainty rocking both the broadcast radio and record industries has opened an enormous opportunity for recording artists and record labels. Growth for the music industry will come from expanding the overall online radio audience and ad pie at the expense of broadcast radio. When ...
Amazon's Contract Reveals Plans to Radically Lower Streaming Music Royalties
By Rachel Bailey of the Sonicbids Blog. [OpEd] Jeff Bezos’s online mega-store, Amazon, is the Walmart of the internet. In the two decades since its launch, it has positioned itself as the low-price leader of the web and expanded to become a clearinghouse for all manner of media, gadgetry, and other ephemera. But what many of ...
Burt Collins: Time, Space and Blues
Sometime after March 1969, trumpeters Burt Collins and Joe Shepley went into the studio and recorded a masterpiece. I'm betting you've never heard the album—Time, Space & the Blues—because it has never been released digitally and is rare on vinyl. Pianist Mike Abene wrote many of the songs and all of the arrangements except one—Soft Landing, ...
Buzzangle Music Preparing to Pose Serious Challenge to Soundscan's "Fuzzy Math"
A lot of folks in the music industry are somewhat underwhelmed by SoundScan's approach to reporting sales especially indie shops and small labels who feel their contributions are underreported. You may have heard of BuzzAngle Music already due to recent reports of their Record Store Day sales data. I had the opportunity to talk with Jim ...
Digital Music Services and the Rise of EDM
By Grammy nominated electronic artist, songwriter, producer and DJ Ryan Farish. When I first started releasing my albums about a decade ago, I challenged myself to find my own voice, pursuing each new song with the hope and in the idea of discovering my own individual sound. I wanted to contribute something to music, and in ...
Mike Cuozzo: Lost Sax
The name Mike Cuozzo won't ring a bell with most jazz fans. The tenor saxophonist's discography is slim—just four known recording sessions, including two leadership dates, in 1955 and 1956, when he was 30 years old. And that was it. He left the jazz scene to become a building contractor in Caldwell, N.J., a move likely ...
Venzo Digital's Free iTunes Distro Adds Music Videos, Passes $2 Million in Artist Payouts
Venzo Digital focuses exclusively on providing free digital music distribution to iTunes taking a 20% revenue share. This week they announced the addition of music video uploads to iTunes in addition to music, ringtones and mobile apps. Venzo also debuted Intranet Voice, introducing voice navigation to their site, and payouts now reaching over $2 million to ...
The Future of Music Discovery is in the Numbers
By Kyle Billings from Berklee College of Music's Music Business Journal. Information is changing the music industry; not only in the ways we consume and discover music, but as well in the ways companies are arming themselves for competition. Streaming services see gold in the figures that fuel recommendation algorithms, and now content companies, driven too ...
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Isaiah Collier Plays Coltrane: Live at Jazz Alley in Seattle
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John Scofield: Meant To Be
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