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CD Baby Slashes Rates for Direct Digital Sales
CD Baby has lowered the rates it charges artists for download sales from it's online retail store from 25% to 9%. Several top digital music distributors and retailers are have lowered fees in recent weeks. iTunes and Amazon each charge artists and labels 30%. CD Baby says their new rates are the lowest of any digital ...
OraStream for Artists: Set up Your Own Streaming Music Store and Mobile App
OraStream is a new music sales platform that features high quality streaming music and offers indie artists the chance to sell or stream their music on the site, to create a streaming music widget and to build and sell native mobile music apps for iOS and Android. They already have some well-known users such as Creedence ...
Jazz at Holmes Series Returns This Thursday, January 24 with Brian Vaccaro Trio
The Jazz at Holmes series of free concerts at Washington University will begin their winter/spring 2013 schedule of shows with a performance by guitarist Brian Vaccaro's organ trio at 8:00 p.m. this Thursday, January 24. Vaccaro (pictured) and his group will play some of their jazz/funk interpretations of music by The Beatles. Usually by this time ...
Troy's Jazz Gallery Owner Says Club Will Showcase St. Louis Musicians
If there's any truth to the old saying that “the third time's a charm," Troy Williams is hoping it applies to running a jazz club. Williams, whose past ventures into presenting live music included Troy's on the Park near Lafayette Square and Filter in the Central West End, recently re-entered the business with the opening of ...
Ronnie Burrage Coming to St. Louis Next Month for Performances, Workshop
Drummer and U City native Ronnie Burrage is coming back home to St. Louis at the end of next month for a busy weekend of activities that will include three performances and a workshop: On Thursday, February 28, Burrage will perform a free concert for the Jazz at Holmes series at Washington University, leading a trio ...
Kenny Barron: Body and Soul
Jimi Mentis in Athens has done it again. He sent along a link to this fabulous video, featuring pianist Kenny Barron at the 2010 Mariciac Jazz Festival in Marciac, France. Joining him are David Sanchez (tenor sax), Darryl Hall (bass) and Johnathan Blake (drums). Here's Body and Soul, Well You Needn't, a Duke Ellington-Billy Strayhorn medley ...
Midem Announces Visionary Monday
A major credit card company, a Chinese cultural icon, a car manufacturer and a consumer electronics giant will on be on hand to participate in Midem's plenary conference programme, Visionary Monday on January 28. Sponsored by Accenture and Nokia, Visionary Monday is devoted to the theme “Disruptive Creativity: Illuminate Your Business in a Competitive Marketplace." Chinese ...
"Jazz from the Archives" is on Notice
Over the past several years, I have occasionally alerted Rifftides readers to Jazz From the Archives radio programs created and hosted by Bill Kirchner. Exploring the work of important jazz artists, Bill brings to the shows his skills as a writer and producer and his insights as a big-league saxophonist, arranger and composer with intimate knowledge ...
Stu Williamson: Two Januarys
It was gratifying last week to hear that New York's Verse Music was remastering and re-issuing the entire Bethlehem catalog. The 1950s label not only consistently released superb albums on both coasts but also pioneered the early use of glossy color-saturated covers that tapped into consumer moods. This trend was the innovation of Creed Taylor, who ...
STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: A Dave Holland Sampler
This week, let's look at some videos featuring bassist Dave Holland, who will be back in St. Louis with his long-running quintet to perform Wednesday, January 30 through Saturday, February 2 at Jazz at the Bistro. Generally acknowledged as one of the top jazz bassists of the past 50 years, Holland came to the USA from ...
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