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News: Technology

MobBase Adds Free HTML5 App Creator for Bands, is This Tunecore for Apps?

May 12, 2012

Hype aside, apps really can be a fine way for artists to “connect with their fans," as overused as that expression might be. MobBase debuted another interesting entry in the budding market for helping bands build apps — a trend that at the very least gives them a new way to promote themselves to their fans, ...

News: Event

Benjamin Cawthra, Author of Book on Jazz and Photography, to Speak Sunday, June 3 at the Missouri History Museum

May 11, 2012

Author, jazz historian and former St. Louisan Benjamin Cawthra is coming back to his old hometown for an event promoting his book Blue Notes in Black and White: Photography and Jazz. Cawthra will speak and sign copies of the book (pictured) starting at 3:00 p.m. Sunday, June 3 in the Des Lee Auditorium at the Missouri ...

News: Opinion

Music Industry Fail: This Time It's Personal.

May 11, 2012

The big mistake that the industry continues to make is that too many are thinking of music in terms of social engagement, when it is actually a deeply personal experience. The huge success of Amanda Palmers Kickstarter campaign, which has so far raised over half a million dollars, exemplifies this point. People are willing to shell ...

News: Recording

Ella Fitzgerald and Bill Doggett

May 10, 2012

By the fall of 1961, Ella Fitzgerald's recordings were sounding a bit processed and predictable. Throughout the late 1950s and into the very early '60s, the singer's studio sessions were becoming cookie-cutter—a Los Angeles studio and arrangements by Hollywood stalwarts Nelson Riddle, Billy May and Frank De Vol. But then in January 1962, Fitzgerald recorded one ...

News: Music Industry

Gumroad's 19 Year Old Founder Raises $8.1 Million for Music Ecommerce

May 9, 2012

Gumroad wants to empower musicians, in fact everyone, to “sell" as easily as they “share"; and so far its 19 year old founder has raised $8.1 million to make his goal a reality. After angel funding og $1.1 million in February, Sahil Lavingia - already an ex-member of the Pinterest team - just landed another $7 ...

News: Performance / Tour

Jazz This Week: Dafnis Prieto, Bobby Watson, New Music Circle Showcase, Denise Thimes with Tom Braxton, and More

May 9, 2012

There are several noteworthy jazz and creative music shows happening this weekend in St. Louis, and for once, the schedule lays out so that it's possible to hear all the touring musicians coming through town, provided you've got the stamina and the necessary funds to go out five nights this week. Let's go to the highlights... ...

News: Recording

Jimmy Wisner: Time and Space

May 9, 2012

One of the hot new trends by record companies is going back into label vaults to find superb albums that have been completely forgotten or overlooked. Real Gone Music has been doing a terrific job at mining vinyl—particularly with country, folk and pop recordings from the late '60s and early '70s. Another company busy combing the ...

News: Career

Not All Musicians Are Entrepreneurs, but Successful and Professional Ones Are

May 9, 2012

Most of my days are spent working on the business and communications end of the music and technology industries. Because of my immersion in these areas I tend to read and absorb many ideas, concepts, and philosophies. They are all mainly related to doing business in a global ecosystem based around innovation and constant iteration as ...

News: Performance / Tour

Sheldon Concert Hall Gets Grant for Peter Martin Commission; Jazz St. Louis Announces Gift Supporting Jazzu Program

May 8, 2012

Two of St. Louis' non-for-profit jazz presenters recently got some good news involving money. Jazz St. Louis today announced that they'll receive $30,000 from the Arthur and Helen Baer Foundation to support the JazzU education program in 2012-13. JazzU offers free weekly jazz ensemble instruction to 55 middle- and high-school students from all over the St. ...

News: Music Industry

Jazz Soul Seven: Curtis Mayfield

May 8, 2012

Singer-songwriter and guitarist Curtis Mayfield (1942-1999) isn't nearly as well known today as he should be. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Mayfield, like Sly Stone, leveraged the assertive music and messages of James Brown—whose Say It Loud (I'm Black and I'm Proud in 1968 launched a socially conscious soul music revolution. After leaving the ...