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Pandora Shares Impressive January Audience Stats
Pandora just shared monthly metrics for January 2013. Listener hours for the month hit an impressive 1.39 billion, an increase of 47% from 952 million during the same period last year. Pandora's share of total U.S. radio listening is now at 8.03%, an increase from 5.55% at last year. Active listeners were 65.6 million at the ...
Apple is Building a Social Music Network
Guest post by Matt Kiser (@Matt_Kiser) for sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. There's a lot of talk about how Apple is building a whiz-bang, streaming Internet radio app to kill Pandora. In 2013, Internet radio seems really shortsighted for Apple. It can't possibly be the only thing they're up to in the music ...
Next Big Sound's Victor Hu on Youtube Replacing Radio and Labels Ignoring Likes
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. We stopped by Next Big Sound's New York office for a chat with its data scientist Victor Hu, formerly a mathematician for the U.S. Department of Defense and “stats whiz“ for the New York Yankees, to see how the company gauges music popularity for clients including Billboard, which relies on ...
With Fierce and Elegant Conviction: Lynne Arriale in the Twin Cities
So what do Hoagy Carmichael, Abduallah Ibrahim, Monk, Sting and Blondie have in common? Lynne Arriale. At any given performance, on any recent recording, the pianist's set list can cover all of the above, along with a good sampling of her own compositions. This may not seem all that unusual in this era of modern jazz ...
Jeff Sultanof on Robert Farnon, Part 2
Robert Farnon composed several film scores, of which the best known is the music for Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951). The trombonist, composer and arranger J.J. Johnson told me that a theme from the film, “Lady Barbara” was one of his favorites. Johnson eventually recorded it with Farnon. We hear a bit of the theme in this ...
Jazz This Week: The Wee Trio; Mardra and Reggie Thomas; CD Release Event for Swagler, Slaughter, Jost and Morrison; and More
With the annual Mardi Gras parade this Saturday, Valentine's Day just around the corner, and the usual mix of other perormances happening around town, there's an eclectic selection of jazz and creative music on St. Louis stages this weekend. Let's go to the highlights... Tonight, saxophonist Jason Swagler, guitarist Eric Slaughter, bassist Nick Jost and drummer ...
Bill Evans: Molde, Norway
Just weeks before his death on September 15, 1980, pianist Bill Evans performed at the Molde Jazz Festival in Norway. Accompanying him in early August were Marc Johnson on bass and Joe LaBarbera on drums. It appears someone generously posted a crystal clear clip of the set a month ago at YouTube—with the trio playing Re: ...
Top 10 Ways to Unclutter Your Band Website
When doing website reviews at Bandzoogle, a common issue we come across are bands trying to put too much content and too many features on their websites. Because there are so many tools, features, and widgets available to musicians, some feel like they should use all of them. But when it comes to your website, simple ...
Ashley Alexander Big Band
In August 1988, trombonist and educator Ashley Alexander went for a walk in the woods at a jazz camp in Saskatchewan, Canada and never returned. When camp officials searched for him, they found Alexander's body nearby. The 52-year-old music professor at Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut, Calif. reportedly had a history of heart trouble. While ...
Why Music Won't Be Saved by Social Media
By Wes Davenport (@wesdavenport) from his music marketing blog. In a for AT&T, Brian Solis drops a bomb: “Hostess baked over 400,000 likes on Facebook and yet the iconic American brand is now shut down." Social media gurus/ninjas/mavens hail the power of social media to radically change a business. They write e-books, produce blog posts, and ...
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Bill Bruford And Pete Roth: A One-Of-A-Kind Juxtaposition
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Miles Okazaki's Monkathon: The Complete Thelonious...
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Scott Kinsey: Thought Distortions and the Art of the Left...
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The Quiet Cruelty of the Music Business
Phil Schaap's Jazz Room
Franc Williams: Live From The West End
Live Review
Arcanum at Victoria Nasjonal Jazzscene, Oslo
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801 Live at 50: A Short-Term Experiment with a Long-Lasting...
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