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Music Health Alliance Saved Music Community $40M In Health Care Costs
In a recent announcement, the Nashville, TN non-profit Music Health Alliance revealed that they have successfully saved the music community more than $40 million in healthcare costs during the course of the past six years, helping over 9,700 clients. Nashville-based non-profit Music Health Alliance revealed that over the past six years, they’ve helped more than 9,700 ...
Alice Darr and Kevin Gavin
Guitarist Mundell Lowe was a wonderful arranger with impeccable taste and intimate elegance. This was true of his big-band writing and those for small groups. Recently I posted on his Columbia albums for Joe Mooney (1963), his TV Action Jazz albums (1959), the score for Satan in High Heels (1961), Jerri Winters Again (1962) and J.J. ...
Swinging style and bebopping finesse
Stephanie Nakasian has had many facets to her career. She was a banker in Chicago and Manhattan. Then she caught the jazz bug. She heard bebop pianist Hod O’Brien, started working with him a bit in 1980 and a year later quit her day job to become a full-time singer. She built her chops as a ...
There's jazz in his blood
Pianist Rony Khoury hails from the Dominican Republic, where his sheer talent at the keyboard has caught many an eye—and ear. With good reason. He visited Port Charlotte this week for a showcase performance- a brief stopover en route to Boston, where he's going to study at the Berklee College of Music. He won a half-scholarship ...
Indie Stores Report 2018 Vinyl Sales +10%, CDs -12.6%
The Coalition of Independent Music Stores polled it ts members on December 2018 sales compared to last year. Despite the rush to streaming, brick and mortar music stores appear to be holding with the help of healthy sales of vinyl, turntables and vinyl accessories. 2018 Indie store charts follow the survey results. “The results were, of ...
Futures Of Music Coalition Sets 2019 Policy Priorities
The Future Of Music Coalition (FMC) shared that it is prepping the launch of a new, mobile-optimized website with a focus on making it easier for musicians and fans to take action. The US based musician's advocacy group also shared it's priorities for 2019. From the FMC: Fairness in Music Licensing, Business, and Copyright. This will include ...
When Economic Theory Fails: A Critical Look At Waldfogel’s Digital Renaissance
In this piece, Neil Turkewitz digs deep into the recently released book by Joel Waldfogel entitled Digital Renaissance: What Data and Economics Tell Us About the Future of Popular Culture, a work which explores how the entertainment industry is fairing in the current explosive digital age with regard to the quality of content being produced. Guest ...
Gary Burton on Brad McCuen
Yesterday, I posted on Eddie “Lockjaw" Davis and Paul Gonsalves's 1968 album Love Calls. I noted that the recording along with two other RCA gems by Davis in the late 1960s were produced by Brad McCuen. Then I provided some bio information about McCuen and mentioned that he had produced eight of vibraphonist Gary Burton's superb ...
Email Service Providers For Musicians: An Overview
Given the value of email marketing for artists, being able to send mass emails to more than 100 of your fans at a time is essential. For such tasks, we enlist the help of Email Service Providers. Here we look at some of the most popular ESPs and what they can do for your marketing operation. ...
Lockjaw Meets Gonsalves, 1968
I love the three albums that tenor saxophonist Eddie “Lockjaw" Davis recorded for RCA in the mid-1960s. They maximized his badness perfectly, surrounding him with enormously talented artists and arrangers and songs that were perfectly suited to his take-charge sound. The first was Lock the Fox (1966), the second was The Fox & the Hounds (1967) ...
