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After forty-plus years on the New York jazz scene, trumpeter Randy Sandke has made himself a new home base in Southwest Florida. He moved to Venice a few months ago and has settled into the fertile area jazz scene. While he has had some gigs as a sideman, Sunday, January 6 brought his first area concert ...
Sal Salvador: Colors in Sound
Sal Salvador is best known as Stan Kenton's guitarist from 1953 to 1955, at which point he left the band to work as a freelance small-group leader and studio musician. In the late 1950s, with the advent of stereo, Decca signed him for a pair of big-band albums that took advantage of the new format's sound ...
Naxos Acquires Indie Label ARC Music
After 42 years as an independent World Music label, ARC Music Productions International is now part of Naxos Music Group, following its acquisition by Naxos Rights Europe. Under the terms of the new agreement, Naxos Music Group, which has been distributing the ARC label digitally worldwide and physically in several key markets for some time already, ...
5 Music Industry Predictions 2019: Fan Clubs, Apple Music, Chart Decline and More
With the music business in a constant state of tumultuous evolution, 2019 is shaping up to be a wild year for the industry. Here we look at five major developments we're likely to see unfolding in the coming months. Guest post from Haulix Daily Everyone knows the saying, “new year, new you,” but does that mantra ...
Prediction: Spotify To Incubate 'No Records Label Group'
Chris Castle envisions a 2019 Spotify that adopts a “No Records" model in lieu of a traditional label, allowing them to bask in the glory of having major artists signed without actually having to release any of their music. Guest post by Chris Castle of Music Technology Policy Streaming services like Spotify are faced with a ...
2018 On-Demand Music Streams +42%, Paid Streams +50% In Q4 [BuzzAngle Music]
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On-demand audio streams set a record high of 534.6 billion in the US in 2018, up 42% over the previous year, according to the BuzzAngle Music Industry Year End Report. But the best news for artists and labels came thanks to 50% growth in streams by paid subscribers. Those 157.4 billion higher paying subscription streams now ...
Gisele, Burt and Miles
In The Wall Street Journal this week, I interviewed supermodel Gisele Bundchen for my “House Call" column in the Mansion section on her childhood in Brazi (go here). She talked about growing up with five sisters remai best friends today. Her parents did something right. Gisele was discovered by a model scout in a Brazilian mall ...
10 Music Industry Predictions For 2019
While predicting the future is no easy task, a careful look at the best can least give us a sense of where the industry might be headed in the coming year, whether its the next development in the ongoing streaming war, the future of live music, or something else altogether. Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of ...
How Music Streamers Could Empower Fans On The Road Toward Sustainability
While Spotify's recent stock market roller coaster has failed to offer much benefit to artists, Chris Castle here looks at how some interesting moves by streamer Tencent could be adopted by other streaming companies to put fans on a path to greater artist sustainability. Guest post by Chris Castle of Music Tech Solution After the one-time ...
Shirley Horn: Bern, 1990
Happy New Year to all of my JazzWax readers around the globe and to my Facebook friends and 10.7K Twitter followers! As a New Year's Day treat, I'm sharing a link that pianist Leslie Pintchik sent along featuring the splendor that was Shirley Horn. In the video, she sings and plays at the International Jazz Festival ...
