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Jazz St. Louis Announces $10 Million Capital Campaign for New Jazz Center
St. Louis, MO: From Scott Joplin’s playing of Ragtime in 1895 to Miles Davis playing Be-Bop in 1944 and to the dozens of other jazz greats who hail from the Gateway City, St. Louis has played an important and pivotal role in the history of jazz. Today, Jazz St. Louis—one of the best known and longest ...
How to Promote Your Band with Your Own Postage Stamps
While it's easy for famous dead people to get on stamps, what about the living? Especially those with unique marketing needs that require them to find ways to connect directly in a meaningful manner with their fans. That's why I think putting your band's pics on postage stamps and sending, at the least, a unique postcard ...
Free Updated Music Metadata Style Guide 2.0 from Music Biz
Music metadata is a boring topic, but a very important one. Today The Music Business Association (Music Biz) published version 2.0 of its Music Metadata Style Guide, which provides common naming conventions and data entry standards for music companies to use when listing, ingesting, and managing digital music. By following these standards, artists, labels and digital ...
Music Industry Mulls Single Global Release Day
Music industry trade groups the RIAA and IFPI are pushing for the adoption of a single global release day for music, according to reports surfacing this week. Currently new music is released on Tuesday, the UK on Monday, and Australia and Germany debut releases on Friday. No word yet if WIN, AIM, A2IM and other independent music ...
Blue Music Group Pulls Music from Spotify Citing "Pitiful" Rates
Niche jazz and classical label Blue Music Group has withdrawn its music from Spotify citing low royalty payments. Blue Music specializes in music from Scandinavian, one of Spotify's strongest markets. "Having the catalog available at Spotify's pitiful rates - and we're talking about fractions of cents per streamed song - kills all chances to produce new fruitful ...
20 Of the Worst Band Names Ever
Naming a new band can be tricky. After all, it needs to convey so much in just a few words, and you're stuck with it forever. Twitter account @pisspoorbands curates an ever growing list of horrible band names both real and imagined. Here. in no particular order, are 20 of the worst: Craig and His List Menstrual Pancake ...
Trigger Alpert: 'Trigger Happy!'
Bassist Herman “Trigger" Alpert had an illustrious career. A muscular time-keeper with a refined sense of swing, he began recording in February 1940 in Frankie Trumbauer's orchestra while touring with Alvino Rey's band. That's where Glenn Miller heard him play and, by the fall of '40, Alpert was a member of the Glenn Miller Orchestra. When ...
Love and Reverence for a Jazz Tradition
The 60thanniversary edition of the Newport Jazz Festival turned into a weekend of love and reverence toward its founding producer, George Wein. He started the event in 1954 with backers Elaine and Louis Lorillard, a high society couple who wanted to liven up the summer social season. More than a dozen jazz festival producers from venues ...
Resident Advisor Launches Fan-to-Fan Ticket Exchange, EDM "Community" Sites Ignore News
Resident Advisor, a leading electronic music news, events listing and ticketing website, announced on Tuesday the launch of a fan-to-fan ticket exchange so that fans can resale tickets at face value. Such an exchange undercuts scalpers and allows those who have to miss an event a chance to recoup. It's part of a larger effort to ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, August 8-14
Come the first part of August and it seems summer —which never really got here—is already winding down: Back to School sales, cooler evenings, fading lillies, and that final scramble to spend time at the cabin. Jazz, on the other hand, seems to be heating up, with gigs throughout the metro, even a new venue, visiting ...
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