Results for "AAJ Staff"

How Do Musicians Really Earn Their Living? [case Studies]

March 27, 2012

The Future of Music Coalition has released data from its Artist Revenue Streamsresearch project, where financial case studies drawing from 4-12 years of accounting data provide information about how musicians are making a living today. These five case studies provide a financial profile of different types of full-time musicians. Each case study graphs and explains the ...

STLJN Audio Archive: Eddie Fisher - The Promise

March 26, 2012

Today's Audio Archive post revisits a rare session from guitarist Eddie Fisher, the guitarist and East St. Louis native who's best known for the jazz/funk albums The Next One Hundred Years and The Third Cup. Fisher, who died in 2007, never really achieved major stardom, but has become something a cult figure over the past ten ...

Count Basie: Rock and Soul

March 26, 2012

The 1960s was a decade of reverse transition for Count Basie. When his Roulette contract ended in 1962, Basie signed with Reprise and began recording a series of swinging albums with Frank Sinatra. By decade's end, Basie was moving back into his commercial comfort zone, recording straight ahead swingers. But in between, there was plenty of experimentation—some successful ...

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: The Return of the Original Flecktones

March 25, 2012

Today, let's take a look at some recent videos featuring Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, who will be back in St. Louis next week to perform Thursday, March 29 at the Sheldon Concert Hall. Although they've played in St. Louis numerous times in the past, this is the first ...

G7 Entertainment's Andre Gaccetta on the Music Brand Connection [video]

March 25, 2012

Creative Copyright Math and the $8 Billion iPod [video]

March 24, 2012

"[The first MP3 player] was a big Christmas hit, because what little hoodlum wouldn't want a million and a half bucks-worth of stolen goods in his pocket?" The RIAA, IFPI, major labels and many others have always thrown around astronomical numbers “proving" the damage that filesharing and unauthorized copying has had on the music, film and ...

Documentary: Jimmy Smith

March 23, 2012

In the fall of 1965, organist Jimmy Smith traveled to Europe to play a series of dates with guitarist Quentin Warren and drummer Billy Hart. In November, the trio was in Germany, along with Dizzy Gillespie, James Moody and others, and then in Helsinki, Finland, before returning to New York. Along for the ride was a ...

5 Ways Your Manager Can Screw up Your Career

March 23, 2012

1) They update your social networks as if they're you Your fans are not dumb, they know your music probably better than you do, and they can also tell when it is you tweeting or if someone else is doing it. It is fine for others to post general information, gig dates, TV appearances etc. But ...

I'm a Jazz Bandleader. and This is a Breakdown of Every Dollar I Make...

March 23, 2012

This accomplished jazz musician also composes, plays as a sideman in other jazz ensembles, and makes two-thirds of his income from touring. Almost every other dollar comes from grants and label advances, with tiny contributions coming from record sales, publishing, and other sources. This isn't every jazz bandleader and composer, but it is a profile of ...

The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Jazz, March 23-29

March 23, 2012

We all have spring fever! Or maybe by now it is just summerfever? Whatever is going on with our climate, we can't complain about the jazzclimate in the Twin Cities. This week is no exception. Highlights This Week March 23: About a year ago I first encountered a group of studentmusicians from UW-Eau Claire working as ...