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We'll Take the High Road
No one seems happy about the fact that consciousness-altering substances have been at the center of American popular music for the past 100 years or so-and have probably played a role in 'classical' music as well-no doubt our scholarly respondents will fill in the details.The Silent Majority (still a great expression-thanks, Spiro) doesn't care ...
Can't Call It 'Culturally Unique'?
Let me tell you about a recent problem encountered by a client. A very reputable U.S. venue booked an Argentine band that fuses Jewish Klezmer music with tango. We thought the case was a slam dunk for the “Fiesta Hanukkah" concert. But that was before immigration checked out the petition and came up with ...
Does Spotify Already Have 30,000 Users in U.S.?
And WMG The Reason It Has Not Launched Here? Spotify already has 30,000 users in the U.S. according to chatter from the Stockholm (Spoitfy's home) tech scene and first reported TechCrunch. So why not just launch the damn thing in the U.S. officially? Not so fast, says Spotify, the report is “completely factually incorrect". But Glenn ...
Findings of the Institute
In 2008, the Rex Stewart/Jabbo Smith Meme and Trope Institute undertook a multiple year study of the increasingly distant proxemics, gestural and spatial relationship between the jazz performing cohort (expanding) and the jazz audience (contracting). This is a prcis of our findings. The Institute initially proceeded under the supposition that the jazz performer-audience relationship could be ...
The Outpost Influences of Julee and Junko.
I haven't engaged in a thorough binge of pandering to women in a while so I'm way overdue. I've also been neglecting frumpy little Boston lately. The good old Outpost is a wealth of material so let me make what I may of this convergence as I embark on yet another lazy post by exploiting meaningful ...
Why Your Right to Sell Promo CDs Matters
This guest post is by Fred von Lohmann, the Senior Staff Attorney of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. On Monday, a federal court of appeals in Seattle will consider whether it is legal to resell “promo CDs." You've seen them, the CDs mailed out for free by record labels to industry insiders, reviewers, and radio stations, each ...
Value-Added Music Gets a Logo
Music industry trade group NARM has created a promotional icon and messaging program dubbed “music + more“ to support the sale of physical, digital and mobile music that contains value-added or enhanced content. An October 2009 Deluxe Products Survey showed that 60% of respondents believe that consumers are “more likely" to purchase deluxe product over the ...
Jazz for Society's Darkest Side
POISSY, FRANCE On a recent afternoon, an incongruous sound was seeping into the central courtyard of the Maison Centrale de Poissy, the highest security prison in the Paris region. Some of the most dangerous convicts in the country were being treated to an explosive improvisation by the Gregksy Trio, a Paris-based experimental electro-jazz band, as part ...
Europe, Taxes and All That Jazz
Reading about the impending demise of the JazzBaltica festival, and noting the European allusion in Matt's recent posting, it struck me how unexamined is this business of European jazz subsidy-and how seemingly anomalous. What's actually behind their willingness to lay out tax spondulics? The meager explanation we've been fed all along is that Europeans are simply ...
Top Ten Reasons Why "Best of" Lists Suck
The “Best Of" List Industry continues to grind out the sausages. Downbeat Magazine's recent listing of the 25 Favorite Big Band Albums is not the worst example, but it did snap this camel's back. Call it vain, call it ironic, but in an attempt to undermine this international conspiracy, I offer my own top ten list: ...
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