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News Alert: Major Labels Discover Common Sense Thwarts Music Piracy Almost Every Time
After reading the news that Universal and Sony Music plan to use “instant singles" as an effort to curve music piracy several times, I feel like the major labels have discovered common sense. Sadly, not even for the right reasons. The article clearly states that they believe this move will show ministers that they're “playing their ...
"Business of Jazz" Newsletter 2nd Edition Now Available!
A Global and Unified Voice For Jazz Read the “Business of Jazz" Newsletter, 2nd Edition now The Jazz Forward Coalition (JFC) was formed by a consortium of industry leaders who seek to raise jazz's profile by enhancing its vitality and cultural relevance. JFC will utilize existing and emerging technologies in order to sustain growth and expose ...
Sony, Universal Plan "Instant" Singles to Beat Pirates
In a reversal of a decades old marketing strategy, Sony and Universal will begin putting new singles for sale as downloads on the same day that they are released to radio. The new policy, which the labels hope will encourage younger users to pay for a new song rather than grab it free, is being implemented ...
Is That Jazz?
The Seattle Composers' Salon is pleased to announce the third-annual IS THAT JAZZ? music festival taking place the last two weekends in January (Fri-21, Sat-22, Fri-28, Sat-29) in Seattle, Washington. The festival will feature four inspired evenings with eight compelling performances at an exquisite space for listening to music, the Chapel Performance Space. IS THAT JAZZ? ...
Why Labels Abandoned A&R...
The following is a guest post by Ritch Esra of the Music Business Registry. Esra attempts to answer the question: whatever happened to traditional A&R? “My take is that the traditional A&R process as we've known it is dying for a few reasons; (1) The major labels are hiring fewer and fewer A&R executives because the ...
All the President's Jazz 2010
For the second year in a row, I have been sending CD compilations of jazz music (12 total) to Reggie Love, President Obama's personal aide, to put on the president's iPod. (How much of it has made it onto the iPod playlist I don't know.) As I stated a year ago when I posted the 2009 ...
What Sex and Great Music Really Have in Common
Scientists say that our brain reacts to great music similar to way it reacts to sex. In both of these situations, the experience of pleasure that we have is mediated by the release of the brain's reward chemical, dopamine. This finding is based on the results of experiments done by analyst Valorie Salimpoor of McGill University in Montreal, ...
New Life for the Jazz Bakery
There is good news for jazz listeners in Southern California. The Jazz Bakery can stop roaming. That modern-day rarity, a major jazz club in Los Angeles, the Bakery lost its lease in 2009 and has been presenting concerts in a variety of halls, moving from one spot to another. Now it can reestablish itself in Culver ...
As MySpace Falls, Where Will Fans and Musicians Go?
Updated. It hasn't been an easy year for MySpace. It's numbers have been down for months, earlier this week the company let go of 47% of its staff and parent NewsCorp is publicly trying to offload it. But at least until recently, a core portion of it's user base—musicians and the fans that support them—have remained, all ...
Report: Spotify Much Closer to U.S. Launch with Support of Two Major Labels
We know you've heard this all before, but Spotify really does appear to be getting much closer to a U.S. launch. The music streamer is nearing a US deal with Sony Entertainment and has gained the support of at least one other major label group, two music industry sources have told the NY Post. “Spotify is ...
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