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News: Career

Michael Simon to Head Harry Fox Agency

October 18, 2012

Michael S. Simon has been promoted to President and CEO for rights management, royalty and licensing company, The Harry Fox Agency. Simon has been with HFA for more than 11 years, serving in a variety of roles, including Senior Vice President of Business Affairs, General Counsel and Chief Strategic Officer. Prior to joining HFA, Simon was ...

News: Trends

File-Sharers Buy 30% More Music Than Non-Sharers [Study]

October 18, 2012

While intuitively it makes sense to believe that music pirates are largely out to hoard large collections of free content, a comprehensive new study reveals that file-sharers in the United States tend to purchase more music than non-file-sharers. The findings come from a new report entitled “Copy Culture in the USA and Germany," conducted by The ...

News: Performance / Tour

Oikos Ensemble's "Follow That Star: A Jazz Nativity" to be Performed on Saturday, December 8 and Sunday, December 9

October 17, 2012

Though it's still a couple of weeks before Halloween, early harbingers of the Christmas season already are in the air, including the first announcement of a holiday-themed performance to hit StLJN's inbox this fall: The Oikos Ensemble, featuring saxophonist Rev. Cliff Aerie (pictured) and his daughter, vocalist Arianna Aerie, will be returning to St. Louis again ...

News: Recording

Bill Jennings: 'Enough Said'

October 17, 2012

Like many musicians who weren't pure jazz players but had to earn a living in the 1950s, guitarist Bill Jennings spent much of his all-too brief career in R&B bands. When he did drift into jazz, it was often with groove crossover artists like organist “Brother" Jack McDuff and tenor saxophonist Willis “Gator" Jackson. Guitarists like ...

News: Trends

"Data is the New Hustle" - Is the Music Business Getting Any Fairer?

October 17, 2012

During last Tuesday's SF MusicTech Summit, I had the privilege of moderating a panel alongside several top minds within music and technology, where a short, yet powerful quote was said that resonated deeply with myself and several members of the audience. “Data is the new hustle," pronounced BitTorrent's Executive Director of Marketing Matt Mason. The traditional ...

News: Festival

Live Streaming Boosts Music Festival Boom

October 17, 2012

American music festivals are in a strong growth phase and that includes free live streaming broadcasts of festival performances. With festivals selling out there's a larger audience interested in checking in on favorite acts or special events. As these audiences grow the potential for advertising revenue from live streaming grows as well. 2012 has been a ...

News: Recording

Clifton Anderson: Carrying On

October 16, 2012

Trombonist Clifton Anderson's uncle is Sonny Rollins. Which is neither here nor there, since Clifton never brings it up. But the connection is important because it helps explain Clifton's drive and determination to make a jazz statement. He knows there's history at stake, even though making a mark isn't particularly easy these days. Jazz gigs are ...

News: Music Industry

8 Questions All Music Startups Must Answer

October 16, 2012

As part of SF MusicTech week, NARM and DigitalMusic.org held their Music Startup Academy from the Rdio offices in downtown San Francisco last week. The room was filled with entrepreneurs and developers looking to educate themselves on what it really takes to develop a digital music product. For many (including myself), it was a crash course ...

News: Opinion

Music Fans in the Internet Age: Same Behaviors, Ampliﬁed

October 16, 2012

Over the past few years, different variations of the same question have repeatedly bubbled up on the music blogs: has the internet killed music fandom? If music fans are indeed a dying breed, the industry and art form of music face a problem of apocalyptic proportions. After all, fans keep the amps humming, the records spinning, ...

News: Recording

JazzClip: Lennie Tristano (1965)

October 15, 2012

On the evening of October 31, 1965, pianist Lennie Tristano performed solo at the Tivoli Gardens Concert Hall in Copenhagen. The event was captured for Danish television using multiple camera angles. Several additional Tristano concert performances were recorded on the same tour of Scandinavia and Europe. And that was it. In 1968 Tristano performed publicly for ...