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News: Recording

Corky Hale: The Swinging Harp

May 24, 2012

Around the time that Corky Hale became a first-call studio harpist in Holloywood in the mid-1950s, she recorded two superb small-group jazz albums: Herbie Harper and Corky Hale Plays George Gershwin and Vernon Duke. On both 1955 albums, Corky was featured playing the harp almost like a guitar—displaying a swinging technique, gorgeous chord phrasing and smart ...

News: Opinion

Can We Rebuild/Reboot the Jazz Audience?

May 24, 2012

In the always thoughtful NPR jazz blog A Blog Supreme editor Patrick Jarenwattonan poses the question “IF not jazz education, what will rebuild the jazz audience.” In the piece he cites a music educator who questions the tired old saw that suggests that if we just pour more money into jazz/music/arts education in general we will ...

News: Video / DVD

Canary in the Coal Mine - What the Video Business Can Learn from the Music Business

May 24, 2012

Netflix — the poster child for premium Internet video services — was birthed by iTunes and other online music services before it. Yes, movies and music are fundamentally different forms of media, but the online video guys can learn a lot from the transformation of the music business. What works and what doesn’t. Peter Csathy from ...

News: Recording

Nelson Riddle + Phil Silvers

May 23, 2012

Jazz historian Dan Morgenstern told me about this LP when I interviewed him for my Wall Street Journal piece on the history of Taps last week. We were talking about the influence of Taps and bugle calls on jazz and popular song. “I seem to recall a Phil Silvers album, where he's in his Sgt. Bilko ...

News: Performance / Tour

John Beasley, Darryl Jones, and Ndugu Chancler Form Funk Power Triumvirate 3 Brave Souls Scheduled for June 12th Release on BFM Jazz

May 22, 2012

Three generations of Miles Davis alumni having fun playing progressive roots music—keyboardist John Beasley, bassist Darryl Jones and master drummer Ndugu Chancler—join forces in a formidable new funk trio called 3 Brave Souls. Harnessing Beasley and Ndugu's hometown earthy undertones of New Orleans and Jones' Chicago street-funk 3 Brave Souls are knee-deep in the groove on ...

News: Recording

Music Discoveries of the Week

May 22, 2012

For the past two weeks, my overloaded schedule has kept me from reviewing CD and DVD discoveries in my Weekend Wax Bits roundup—which goes up early on Saturdays. So I figured why not present the reviews today—on a Tuesday: When vocalist Tessa Souter mentioned to Tetsuo Hara, owner of Venus Records, that she dug Steve Kuhn's ...

News: Technology

Using Pinterest for Artist Marketing

May 22, 2012

Pinterest has quickly become one of the fastest growing social media sites, now boasting over 11.7 million unique visitors per month and 17.8 million registered users. Pinterest's rapid growth is the result of a few key factors. First, their platform is visually appealing. Users select items of interest based primarily on imagery, so there is very ...

News: Performance / Tour

Ovation: Sell Live Recordings Right After the Show

May 22, 2012

Offering fans the opportunity to purchase live recordings right after a great show could be a powerful future revenue stream for musicians, and Migratory Music is offering the Ovation Tower as one solution. Their kiosk allows fans to purchase a recording of the show and download it as an MP3 or have a download link sent ...

News: Recording

25th Anniversary of Michael Jackson's Landmark Album Bad Celebrated with September 18 Release of New Bad 25 Packages

May 22, 2012

MICHAEL'S PERSONAL VHS COPY OF HIS JULY 16, 1988 PERFORMANCE AT WEMBLEY STADIUM UNEARTHED FOR THE RELEASE NEWLY DISCOVERED OUTTAKES AND DEMOS FROM BAD ALBUM RECORDING SESSIONS TO BE RELEASED Twenty-five years after the phrase “Who's Bad" became a generation's cultural catchphrase, Epic/Legacy Recordings, in collaboration with the Estate of Michael Jackson, will celebrate the legendary ...

News: Opinion

New Music Stats - Yearning for Audio Quality

May 22, 2012

Here are some sobering stats that I found on the Smart Money site and a great infographic that sums them up. The most frustrating thing for everyone in the music industry these days is the reality of digital music sales. As you can see in the graphic, digital sales have not replaced the revenue from the ...