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31 Digital Music Execs Sound off on How P2P Battle Led to Music Industry Demise

July 12, 2012

A fascinating new report from Associate Professor Michael A. Carrier at Rutgers University School of Law, entitled “Copyright and Innovation: The Untold Story", interviews 31 CEOs, company founders and VPs who have worked in digital music over the past 10 years. It illustrates the digital music landscape in the aftermath Napster's shutdown, demonstrating how the battle ...

News: Recording

Fred Tompkins Releases New Album Flute Settings

July 11, 2012

St. Louis based composer and flautist Fred Tompkins has released a new album, Flute Settings. Local musicians joining Tompkins in performing on the album include keyboard player Jim Hegarty, drummer Charlie Dent, saxophonist and clarinetist Dave Cheli, and steel pan player Boyd F Becker-Nunley. Flute Settings features five of Tompkins' original compositions, one piece each by ...

News: Performance / Tour

Dan White Sextet to Perform Wednesday, July 18 at Robbie's House of Jazz

July 11, 2012

The Dan White Sextet, an up-and-coming jazz group based in Columbus, OH, will make their St. Louis debut with a gig at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 18 at Robbie's House of Jazz. Comprised of five current or former Ohio State students, plus one member who's still matriculating at Juilliard, the group put out their first album, ...

News: Interview

Interview: Ed Shaughnessy (PT. 2)

July 11, 2012

Few kickoffs by a drummer are as signature as Ed Shaughnessy's start to Johnny's Theme, the Paul Anka song that the Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson used each night. As a kid growing up, I associated the sound of Ed's drums at the start of the theme as the official end of a child's day and ...

News: Interview

Interview: Ed Shaughnessy (PT. 1)

July 10, 2012

Drummer Ed Shaughenssy has pretty much seen it all. He played with Charlie Parker and many other beboppers in the late 1940s and early '50s. He was in Charlie Ventura's band at the famed Pasadena Concert in 1949. In the '50s, he recorded with Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Tony Bennett, Chris Connor, Teddy Charles, ...

News: Interview

Creating a New Audience Development Paradigm

July 10, 2012

Amidst all the various perceived “ills” prescribed to jazz by its enthusiasts – young musicians failing to “advance” the music stylistically; the younger generations of musicians arriving on the jazz scene simply pale next to the founders and the masters; lack of enough venues fostering jazz performance opportunities; the dwindling jazz radio universe; the holistic, big ...

News: Opinion

Curation: The Evolution of the Global Brain

July 9, 2012

Guest post by Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. “Those who can, do. Those who can't, review. Those who can't review, tweet. Those who can't tweet retweet." That quote is zinging around the internet this week. People are attributing it to Esquire, although I'm not finding it there. I first saw it, ironically, on Facebook. It's also ...

News: Video / DVD

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: A Look at Outside St. Louis

July 8, 2012

It's been too hot here for the last week and a half in St. Louis to spend much time outside physically, so today we've got some videos for you that go outside in a musical sense. This sampling of live performance clips from area musicians whose work might be called experimental, free-form, or avant-garde includes: Electronic ...

News: Performance / Tour

Alan Evans Trio Returning to Old Rock House on Tuesday, September 4

July 6, 2012

Having made their St. Louis debut in May at the Old Rock House, drummer Alan Evans' trio will return to the ORH at 9:00 p.m., Tuesday, September 4. Evans (pictured) is best known for his work with the funk/jazz group Soulive, but has been touring with his trio in support of their first album Drop Hop, ...

News: Music Industry

Ticketleap Relaunches with Mobile Box Office and Easy Seating Chart Creation

July 6, 2012

With the recent direct ticketing success of Louis CK ticketing is back on the news agenda. But ticketing has been an incredibly active area of development on the web all along. TicketLeap's recent relaunch is an example of both ongoing development in the ticketing industry and improvements in ticketing services. Beyond a site redesign, TicketLeap has ...