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News: Trends

Data Science and the Music Industry: What Social Media Has to Do with Record Sales

December 7, 2012

Guest post by Liv Buli and Victor Hu for sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. Buli and Hu work for Next Big Sound, a music analytics company. Twenty years ago, as a music fan, you would hear a song you enjoyed on the radio, head to the record store to buy the album and wait until the ...

News: Music Industry

Yamaha Entertainment Group Founder Chris Gero Discusses New Record Label

December 7, 2012

Yamaha recently launched a new record label under the auspices of the Yamaha Entertainment Group of America. The news itself was worth noting as an example of the current range of experimentation with music business models and approaches including corporations creating in-house labels. I took the opportunity to speak with Founder Chris Gero to find out ...

News: Award / Grant

2013 Jazz Grammy Nominees

December 7, 2012

31. Best Improvised Jazz Solo Cross Roads Ravi Coltrane, soloist Track from: Spirit Fiction [Blue Note] Hot House Gary Burton & Chick Corea, soloists Track from: Hot House [Concord Jazz] Alice In Wonderland Chick Corea, soloist Track from: Further Explorations ...

News: Obituary

Farewell Dave Brubeck

December 7, 2012

Iconic Pianist/Composer Is American Legend, Icon, Music Master, Worldwide Legend Dave Brubeck would have been 92 today. Instead, the world mourns the loss of his passing yesterday at the age of 91. A master of music, particularly that which we call jazz. He knew and composed much more music than that. He did so much in ...

News: Performance / Tour

Craig Pomranz to Perform December 7 and 8 at Kranzberg Arts Center

December 6, 2012

Cabaret singer and St. Louis native Craig Pomranz (pictured) is returning home this weekend to perform “The Break-Up Show" at 8:00 p.m. Friday, December 7 and Saturday, December 8 at the Kranzberg Arts Center. Pomranz, who's currently based in NYC, recently was nominated for Best Male Vocalist in the 2012 BroadwayWorld.com Awards. He performed in St. ...

News: Obituary

Dave Brubeck is Gone

December 6, 2012

Dave Brubeck died this morning. He would have celebrated his 92nd birthday tomorrow. Russell Gloyd, Brubeck’s manager and conductor of the pianist and composer’s extendedorchestral works, said that Brubeck suffered cardiac arrest. In fragile health for several years, he was being driven from his home in Wilton Connecticut to an appointment with his heart doctor in ...

News: Music Industry

More on Two New Jazz Venues

December 6, 2012

Following up on last week's post about the new Central West End jazz venue Troy's Jazz Gallery, we can tell you now that more information was added over the weekend to the club's website. Among the additions were an “About" page, a map that suggests patrons will have access to a gated parking lot across the ...

News: Obituary

Dave Brubeck: 1920-2012

December 6, 2012

Yesterday afternoon, my Leisure & Arts editor at the Wall Street Journal called with awful news: pianist-composer Dave Brubeck had died. He then asked if I could turn around an appreciation for Thursday's paper. No problem, I said. But after I filed the piece, the national news section wanted it, and the desk had to trim ...

News: Opinion

The Holy Grail of Music Listening: Social, Discovery, and Recommendations

December 6, 2012

Guest post by Sagee Ben-Zedeff (@sageeb) for sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. Ben-Zedeff is the founder and CEO of Serendip Media. Three months ago, Nielsen published one of my favorite reports of the year, Music 360. It's a rather comprehensive, in-depth study of consumer interaction with music in the US. The results this year didn't surprise me, ...

News: Music Industry

The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Jazz, December 7-13

December 6, 2012

I imagine radios, I-pods and live performers are pulling up “Take Five," “Blue Rondo a la Turk" and more to honor Dave Brubeck, who passed away this morning. Perhaps we will be hearing samplings of Brubeck and experiments with odd time signatures throughout the coming week. I know I will think of Dave no matter what ...