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Culture Coin: Creative Currency Competes in Business Unusual National Challenge
Alternative currencies can take many forms from Bitcoin to the credits given within gamified social networks to local exchange systems. One such system for exchanging arts-related labor and skills for similar skills or resources is the Culture Coin, a project of HowlRound currently competing in the Business Unusual National Challenge. Culture Coin is described (via @shadesofsolveig) ...
Eydie Gorme (1928-2013)
The late Eydie Gorme was the first female pop vocalist to understand television's subliminal seductive powers. Just as Judy Garland had played coy with the movie camera to win a nation's heart, Gorme understood that her path to success ran through the after-dinner sofa set. She was impossibly talented—swinging a big clear, brassy voice that in ...
Know Your True Fans: The Echo Nest's Advice to Music Services Works for Musicians Too
Yesterday The Echo Nest released a White Paper detailing their ability to apply predictive models to user behavior on streaming music services in order to identify users of free ad-supported services that are likely to be of highest value for a particular service. While such a report might seem a bit distant from the concerns of ...
Interview: Bev Kelly (Part 2)
Few singers curl up on a song's lap like Bev Kelly. In the '50s she worked clubs and recorded several albums with pianist Pat Moran. She also recorded her first solo album in 1957. But just as she had attracted the attention of personal manager John Levy, Bev had a choice to make—her career or her ...
Top Ad Agency Edelman Tells Brands How to Engage the Ever-Evolving Music Fan
As music consumption continues to evolve, money from big brands has become increasingly important. Sponsorships, licensing, ongoing initiatives like Converse's Fader Fort and more, all help power the modern music industry's engine. Just ask Jay Z who nabbed $5 million from Samsung for 1 million copies of his latest album. But are brands benefiting from their ...
Interview: Bev Kelly (Part 1)
With the proliferation of travel in the 1950s, Chicago became a hotbed for jazz-pop singers and singing groups. The city was a national railroad hub, and passengers arriving from the East, West and South needed places to stay. As the number of hotels in Chicago grew, so did the number of hotel lounges and clubs and ...
STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Remembering George Duke
Today, we keep our usual St. Louis-centric format on pause for one more week to pay tribute to keyboardist George Duke, who died this past Monday, August 5 at age 67. Though Duke, a native Californian, had no direct personal connection to our town, he played many gigs here over the years, the last being two ...
Sandoval, Gillespie and the Medal
Now that the White House has announced President Obama’s Medal of Freedom winners for 2013, the sniping begins over his choices. Here is my snipe. Whatever Arturo Sandoval’s merits as a musician, they are put in perspective by his biography in the White House announcement, which notes that the trumpeter and pianist was a protégé of ...
12 Tips for Promoting Your Music on Twitter
By Chris Robley of CD Baby's The DIY Musician. You're busy. You've got songs to write, gigs to book, shows to play, rehearsals to run, and much more. While it's important to be active on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter, you need to make the most of your time on those networks without getting sucked into ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, August 9-15
Jazz across generations characterizes the live music calendar this week, from the CD release of one of the most popular bands of the 90s to a rare performance by one of the world's legendary percussionists in the company of much younger talents, from a late night gig with local and visiting star improvisers to a local ...
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John Scofield: Meant To Be
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The Quiet Cruelty of the Music Business
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Arcanum at Victoria Nasjonal Jazzscene, Oslo
Phil Schaap's Jazz Room
Franc Williams: Live From The West End
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