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Muzeek Developing Intuitive Gig Booking Platform
Muzeek is a new gig booking platform that hopes to go beyond simply being a handy booking tool and towards something a bit more powerful. In addition to taking care of agreements, bookkeeping and payments, Muzeek hopes to build a self-reinforcing community to ensure good behavior from acts, promoters and venues. Beyond that they see Muzeek ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, May 17-23
Officially, this is Art-a-Whirl weekend in Northeast Minneapolis, but you might as well call it Jazz-a-Whirl in the Twin Cities. Now that spring seems to have settled in for good (meaning, til summer arrives in a few weeks), there's no excuse to not get out and enjoy sunshine, flowers, and some cool gigs: A jazzy birthday ...
George Shearing at Home
In January 1983, George Shearing and bassist Don Thompson began a six week engagement at Michael's Pub on East 55th St. in New York. Thompson and Shearing had been working as a duo since June '82 and had developed a strong and trusting musical bond. During this period in early '83, Shearing and Thompson often rehearsed ...
Charlie Harrington Now Allegra Drums Artist
Award-Winning Acclaimed Artist, Charlie Harrington, has signed withAllegra Drums. He is an in demand session musician with a well-established reputation as a first call drummer. Charlie joins, among others, country drumming veteran Ric McClure, James Brown funk drummer Erik Hargrove, Spyro Gyra alumn Tom Walsh, as well as jazz drumming and Motown great Mel Brown, in ...
Artistshare Partners With Legendary Blue Note Records
BLUE NOTE RECORDS TO PARTNER WITH ARTISTSHARE TO CREATE BLUE NOTE/ARTISTSHARE A GROUNDBREAKING HYBRID CROWDFUNDING/RECORD LABEL MODEL DEDICATED TO NURTURING NEW JAZZ TALENT The legendary jazz label Blue Note Records, historic home to such greats as Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Art Blakey and Herbie Hancock, and current home to artists such as Wayne Shorter, ...
What is SoLoMo Marketing? And Why It's Time to Start Doing It
By Brandon Chiat, co-founder, Marquee a live music discovery and rewards application. There's a new buzzword being thrown around by marketing teams. SoLoMo, which stands for Social-Local-Mobile, refers to the integration of social, location-based, and mobile marketing tools into new customer acquisition platforms. Most everyone is familiar with the common SoLoMo platforms like Foursquare and Groupon. What ...
Metadata Confusion Costing the Industry More than Money, Delegates Told at NARM "Music Biz" Summit
Misspellings, multiple identities for a single artist, and multiple release dates are costing the music industry a lot of money and causing great confusion among customers, according to a day-long summit on metadata held at the NARM “Music Biz" gathering at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles. As the music industry becomes more dependent ...
Billy Verplanck: A Joyous Life
The late trombonist-arranger Billy VerPlanck isn't particularly well known to jazz fans today—but he should be. Throughout his career, from the late 1940s to 2009, Billy had a delicate, swinging touch when writing for bands—more harmonic interplay and seduction than sheer bombast and section muscle. VerPlanck's real first name was John; he named himself Billy after ...
Direct-to-Fan Holds Much Promise, Many Problems
By Kyle Bylin (@sidewinderfm), founder and editor of sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. The notion of artists selling music directly to their fans holds a powerful allure. Why pay to distribute your music to iTunes and Amazon if you can set up your own online storefront? You keep a higher percentage of the sales revenue ...
AOL Music and Spinner Shut Down, All Staff Laid Off
AOL Music, Spinner and related properties are being closed and all employees in the division immediately laid off. While no official announcement has been made yet, Spinner editor Dan Reilly and other employees confirmed media reports. “Well, we all just got laid off. AOL Music is finished", tweeted Reilly on Friday afternoon. And later: “Sitting in ...
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