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Murfie Stores Your CD's for Streaming Everywhere
By Tyler Hayes, who runs the music discovery site Nxt Big Thing. Interestingly there's a company that will take your old CDs, store them at their place and give you streaming access to the music. What makes this proposition so tempting is the same thing that makes it so crazy, no one wants their CD collection ...
Ted Cohen on Music Tech and the Music Industry [interview]
By Larry LeBlanc for Celebrity Access. Ted Cohen's nickname should be The Hammer. One of the most popular speakers on the music industry's bustling conference circuit, Cohen—managing partner of TAG Strategic, and one of the pre-eminent experts in digital entertainment—can out talk, outwit, and pummel into the ground anyone dumb enough to oppose or disagree with ...
OraStream Streams the Highest Quality Music Your Device Can Handle
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. Against all odds, 2013 is shaping up to be the year when people started caring about sound quality - not only as regards their choice of headphones, but also in terms of the music files themselves. Why “against all odds?" Because every other attempt to do this (DVD-A, SuperAudio CD, ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, January 18-24
Baby, it's cold outside, but we have our jazz to keep us warm! And on the move, given the number of venues offering temptations this week. The weekend starts off with another local CD release party; one of the greatest jazz singers of all time stops in Minneapolis Sunday night; and as always, there's one gig ...
Soundexchange Announces Record $135 Million 4th Quarter Payments, $462 Million in 2012
SoundExchange announced today that it had paid out $462 million to recording artists and labels in 2012 including $134.9 million in the fourth quarter - the largest quarterly distribution in SoundExchange history. The total year-end royalty payments represented a 58% from the prior year and the Q4 distribution of 22,000 payments was a nearly 10% increase ...
Sony Classical Announces Re-Launch of Okeh Label as Primary Jazz Imprint
SONY CLASSICAL ANNOUNCES RE-LAUNCH OF OKeh LABEL AS PRIMARY JAZZ IMPRINT Label to Put Focus on New and Established Artists Embodying “Global Expressions in Jazz” Upcoming Releases by Bill Frisell, David Sanborn and Bob James, John Medeski, and Dhafer Youssef, Among Others Sony Classical is proud to announce the re-launch of the historic OKeh label. With ...
When Harry James Met Nancy Ames
Scouring the web in search of something unrelated, I came across a clip from a 1967 Ed Sullivan show that brought to mind—as if a reminder were needed—Harry James’s stunning musicianship. The trumpeter teamed up with Nancy Ames in a performance of one of Ethel Merman’s signature songs from Cole Porter’s Anything Goes. A couple of ...
George Gruntz Remembered
The death of George Gruntz last Thursday brought responses from dozens of the musicians who played in his Concert Jazz Band over the past 40 years. The Swiss pianist, composer and arranger hired an international who’s-who of players for his annual tours in Europe, the United States and South America, among other places around the globe. ...
Jazz This Week: The Bad Plus, Caboladies, Brett Walberg, a Tribute to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and More
It looks to be a full weekend of jazz and creative music in St. Louis, with one of the top trios in jazz making a return visit to our fair city; an up-and-coming saxophonist making his local debut; an intriguing program of electronic music and video; a couple of local concert series presenting their first offerings ...
Big Jay McNeely: 'Life Story'
The history of R&B and rock and roll would be incomplete without mentioning Big Jay McNeely—father of the honking tenor-sax sound. Incredulously, Big Jay still has not been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. If he were British or white, I suppose that would have happened a long time ago given who has ...
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