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Jazz this week: Melissa Aldana Quartet, Ben Wendel's "The Seasons," Galactic, and more
This week's calendar of live jazz and creative music in St. Louis features performances from two stellar saxophonists, one of New Orleans' favorite funk bands, and more. Let's go to the highlights... Wednesday, March 14 Saxophonist Melissa Aldana returns with her quartet for the first of four nights of performances at Jazz at the Bistro. Aldana, ...
Streaming Music Presages The End Of Ownership... Of Everything [George Howard]
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Music is often the proverbial canary in a coal mine, says George Howard. Here, he explores how the rise of streaming led to a full fledged shift to a cloud-based media, making the idea of actual ownership is becoming increasingly antiquated. Guest post by George Howard , this first appeared on Forbes Many moons ago — just around the ...
Why Musicians Need To Care About Making Money
In the music industry, there is a false, recurring idea that music can and should be separate from money, and that once an artist starts to see financial returns from their music, it loses its purity. Here we explore why artists should care about making money off of their music. Guest post by Patrick McGuire from the ...
East Coast v. West Coast
Back in the early 1950s, New York and Los Angeles had mildly different jazz styles. The West Coast sound tended to be more melodic and contrapuntal. The East Coast's sound was denser and more bluesy. By mid-decade, as the LP became an increasingly profitable format, major New York-based labels such as RCA, Decca, MGM and Bethlehem ...
Washington State Laughs In The Face Of FCC Attempt To Prevent States From Protecting Net Neutrality
Although the FCC recently repealed net neutrality on a national level, states are taking matters into the own hands, and while incumbent ISPs and the FCC are doing their best to prevent this, states like Washington don't seem particularly perturbed. Guest post by Karl Bode of Techdirt from the Unicorns-at-the-FCC dept In the wake of the FCC's net ...
Music Distribution In The Age Of Smartphones
Sound recording is younger than you might think- it was only invented around 130 years ago. Over this time, it has evolved from physical to magnetic, then digital, ultimately losing the need for a physical medium. Today, the majority of sound recordings, no matter if they are speeches, noises or online slots to fit music genres, ...
Indies Demand Spotify Stock Profit Share, Sony Responds
While the major labels have promised to pay their artists a share of any proceeds from the sale of their stock in Spotify, the independent music community is demanding that a corresponding share be passed on the many labels the major label owned companies distribute. All three major label groups have committed to sharing revenues from ...
47 Million U.S. Adults Have A Smart Speaker At Home
I'm one of many who believe that smart speakers will accelerate the adoption of music streaming, bringing it full into the mainstream. Getting an Alexa-enabled Sonos One doubled the amount of music played in my house simply by making playing whatever tracks or albums I'm in the mood for absurdly easy. So, in my view,, news ...
The Free Soul of Ornette
Abstraction came late to jazz. New York's abstract expressionism art movement emerged in the late 1940s and flourished throughout the 1950s. By contrast, free jazz didn't coalesce until the late 1950s, though there were inklings of the style in the music of Lee Konitz in the late 1940s and early '50s. Not until alto saxophonist Ornette ...
50% Of UK Music Consumption 2017 Was Streaming, 4M Vinyl Records Sold
Stats released by UK label association BPI, based on Official Charts Company data, showed a strong year for recorded music, with consumption across all formats in 2017, growing at its fastest rate in decades. A total of 135.1 million albums or their equivalent were either streamed, purchased on physical format, and/or downloaded over the past 12 ...
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