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CueNotes: Making the Transition from Old School Liner Notes to the Digital Realm
Digital liner notes and related offerings such as “annotated song lyrics“ have long been considered one way to “bring back“ some of the experience of listening to old timey record albums. But the temptation to create a digital replica that amounts to shovelware rather than adapting such concepts to the internet is a strong one. CueNotes ...
New Research: Musicians Should Seek Traditional Radio Play While Pursuing Internet Opportunities
Though research studies often conflict, recent research related to music listening habits make it clear that traditional radio, including traditional radio being streamed on the web, remains a dominant source of streaming music and music discovery. Yet pure play internet radio's audience is growing and younger people are gradually shifting away from traditional AM/FM radio to ...
Top 5 Ways to Spread Your Music
Being new to the music industry is not always the easiest time in an artist's life, working hard to write songs, record and getting noticed. This doesn't always have to be a hard process and as long as you have the first two perfected the third will be easy. To help give you that extra advantage ...
Sarah Vaughan and Joe Louis in Chicago
Here’s a followup to the Sarah Vaughan birthday post of March 27. In his Crown Propeller’s Blog, Armin Büttner published a picture of the great singer in interesting company at the Crown Propeller Lounge in Chicago. The club thrived as one of the city’s most vital nightspots from the late 1940s through the 1950s. It specialized ...
Young Rascals: "Groovin' "
I grew up in Manhattan's Washington Heights and had the best of both worlds. My family lived in the city—which meant pizza shops, candy stores and movie theaters. But P.S. 187 was a short bike ride to Fort Tryon Park—home of the Cloisters [pictured above]. For those unfamiliar with Fort Tryon Park, it sits high above ...
Dear Musicians: Become Your Own Middleman
By Joshua S. Lundquist, musician and blogger at An Incredible Waste of Time. Finally over ten years after the music industry started freaking out about Napster and BitTorrent downloads of entire albums (a godsend for fans of old out-of-print music), there is starting to be a glimmer of hope for us artists. In this post I ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, April 5-11
Some of the excitement this weekend takes place across state lines as the annual Eau Claire Jazz Festival welcomes hometown hero Geoffrey Keezer and Brazilian trumpeter Claudio Roditi, but there's plenty of hot competition right here, with the multi-set 60th birthday party for avant-garde leader John Zorn at the Walker, Happy Apple on a rare weekend ...
Mosaic Records Celebrates the John Coltrane Quartet - "The Complete Sun Ship Session" Released for the First Time
Mosaic Records is set to release The Complete Sun Ship Session which includes newly discovered and previously unissued alternate takes from one of the final studio sessions by the John Coltrane Quartet. The three LP set will be released May 21 and is also being made available on a two CD set through Verve Records on ...
Vocalist Carol Duboc Offers Insight into Trials and Triumphs of Love with New Album, "Smile", on Gold Note Music, Inc.
Since her emergence onto the adult contemporary/urban jazz scene in the early 2000s, Carol Duboc has generously shared her wisdom and insight about love and romance in song-via both compelling original material and uniquely stylized covers of pop classics, as on her most recent recordings Songs For Lovers (2008) and Burt Bacharach Songbook (2009). On her ...
Will Calhoun - "Life in This World" Album Release at the Blue Note Featuring Marc Cary and Charnett Moffett - Friday, May 17 Through Sunday, May 19
Special Guests Donald Harrison and Nicholas Payton Drummer/percussionist Will Calhoun is set to perform at The Blue Note in New York from Friday, May 17 through Sunday, May 19, with sets at 8:00PM and 10:30PM. The performances will serve as an album release engagement for his new project, Life In This World (available May 14 on ...
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