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The Battle over Venue Sales Reports to Nielson Soundscan and Billboard
Earlier this month, Billboard and Nielson Soundscan issued a new set of guidelines for reporting music sales at venues and ticket/album bundles. Documented venue sales are combined with other sources to determine position on a many Soundscan and Billboard charts. Most controversial, was a new requirement that fans buying a CD at a venue must sign ...
Napster Co-Founder Sean Parker Says Now is the Time to Invest in Music
Sean Parker, the co-founder of Napster and Spotify investor, says that now is the time to invest in music. He's particularly interested in the record labels and publishing companies. “In the last 10 years we have presided over the greatest destruction in value in the history of the music industry," Parker said during e-G8 conference this ...
Capsule Reviews: Billy Hart, Albert Ayler, JD Allen
Billy Hart—Sixty Eight (Steeplechase, 2011) Drummer Billy Hart leads a fine group consisting of Jason Palmer on trumpet, Logan Richardson on alto saxophone, Michael Pinto on vibraphone, Dan Tepfer on piano and Chris Tordini on bass. They play fine mix of adventurous mid-60's centered hard bop and thoughtful ballads. The focus on ensemble play, with fine ...
The Most Important Cities in the Music Industry Today...
Where does the music industry live today, anyway? The simple response is 'everywhere,' because creation, innovation, and promotion can happen anywhere, anytime. But ultimately that answer is too simple, too digitally utopian. After all, great music demands great marketing, and careers require access to media outlets, contacts, communities, tours, and connections to scenes. Turns out that ...
The Jonathan Parker Group Holds Forth from Shanghai
Where I stand with hard bop is where I stand with a number of styles. It has to have that “some- thing" or there's no use even trying. Hard bop done right is not a music that some old lady would say of, “Oh my, that's nice!" At least not the old ladies that were old ...
Jason Parker Quartet - Five Leaves Left
The late British singer-songwriter Nick Drake is having something of a resurgence in jazz recently, kicked off by pianist Brad Mehldau's cover of “River Man" and now extending to this well executed album by trumpeter Jason Parker. Performing with Parker on this album are Josh Rawlings on piano, Evan Flory-Barnes on bass, D'Vonne Lewis on drums ...
Delfeayo Marsalis's New Version of Ellington's "Sweet Thunder"
Duke Ellington's post Newport-1955 work for Columbia to me is one of the cornerstones of his output. The suite in tribute to Shakespeare, Such Sweet Thunder, first recorded for the label during that period, I rank high on the list of my Ellington favorites. So when I found that trombonist Delfeayo Marsalis had created a new ...
3 Major Labels Say They'll Share Limewire Settlement, but New PR Nightmare Emerges
When Hypebot and others suggested that, based on previous statements, none of the $105 million settlement that LimeWire is paying to labels was unlikely to find its way to artists, the RIAA contacted us to say that they really weren't in control of who got the money. So we went to the four major labels and ...
PT. 2 Fab 5 Freddy: Jazz Upbringing @ The Roots of Hip Hop
In part one (scroll down or check the archives) of our lively conversation with Fab 5 Freddy, the graffiti artist who was one of the pioneers of what has become the global pop phenomenon known as hip hop we discussed the heavy jazz influence on young Fred’s Brooklyn upbringing, which included the significant influence of his ...
Eventbrite Grabs $50 Million More for Live Ticket and Marketing Platform
Even as Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino was touting synergies created by its merger with Ticketmaster at this morning's JP Morgan conference, investors were signalling that it's far from game over for the event ticketing sector. Ticketing upstart Eventbrite announced today it has secured $50 million in a Series E financing round led by Tiger Global. ...
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