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Tax Talk

Don't have enough to worry about?  Just when you thought it was safe to go into the water, up floats the issue of taxes and the artist visa.First consideration:  Who pays the taxes?  Is it the foreigner, the sponsor or someone else?Most U.S. income received by a foreigner (while on an artist ...

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The 10 Worst Music Catalog Marketing Ideas Ever

The 10 Worst Music Catalog Marketing Ideas Ever

From The Orchard's Daily Rind blog via Proper Discord: 1.“We've noticed that a competitor's compilation is selling well, so we spent five minutes creating an almost identical one, and although we are offering no promotional plan or marketing support, we'd like you devise and fund a major retail marketing campaign for it." 2. “Wagner ...

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Kevin Eubanks to Perform Thursday, July 29 at Casino Queen

Kevin Eubanks to Perform Thursday, July 29 at Casino Queen

Before he took the job leading the band for NBC's Tonight Show 18 years ago, Kevin Eubanks (pictured) had established a very respectable career as a jazz guitarist. Now that Eubanks has left his long-running gig, he's got more time to devote to his own music and to tour, and his live dates this summer will ...

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Jazz This Week: Peter Martin Trio, Brian Owens, Mardra Thomas and More

Jazz This Week: Peter Martin Trio, Brian Owens, Mardra Thomas and More

Though it may not officially be summer until the solstice on June 21, summer weather already seems to moving into St. Louis, and local jazz presenters and venues are putting their summer schedules into effect, for the most part either curtailing their offerings until fall or emphasizing homegrown talent.However, there's still some music to ...

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Jazz Still a Passing Fad

Jazz Still a Passing Fad

Jazz musicians improvise for a living. In L.A., as in the rest of the country, where fewer and fewer arts patrons seek jazz as a music of first choice, players improvise ways to find work. Los Angeles has been important to jazz, and vice versa, since the musics beginnings. New Orleans pianist Jelly Roll Morton, who ...

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Can MySpace Music Survive the MySpace Decline?

Can MySpace Music Survive the MySpace Decline?

"MySpace Music profiles remain the simplest, fastest way to check out a new band", argues Ray Padget on Mashable. That's a matter of opinion, but there's no denying that MySpace is still a powerful player in the music space. So the big question may really be, can MySpace Music survive the wider MySpace decline? ...

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Live Nation: Here Come the Summer Ticket Promos

Live Nation: Here Come the Summer Ticket Promos

Faced with a sometimes sluggish concert season and growing complaints from fans over ticketing fees, Live Nation today announced “No Service Fee June" eliminating service fees on nearly 8 million tickets for 700 shows at all 50 Live Nation owned and operated amphitheaters. The announcement comes amidst increasing reports of drastic ticket discounting at many shows,. ...

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Sounding "Young"

Here's my answer to a young saxophonist who asked me to evaluate his playing at a competition where I was a guest on the judicial panel. (He didn't win, by the way.) “Concerning your playing, I have very few recommendations. You pretty much got every judge's approval at the semi-finals and we all had you hands ...

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What Happens when Everyone's a Music Maker?

What Happens when Everyone's a Music Maker?

Are we moving from an era of media consumption to one where were are all creators? Blogs enable us all to be writers. Cameras on mobile phones have turned us into photo journalists. Now new apps are bringing music creation to the masses. Dave Hayes explored this phenomenon and predicted an interesting future during his recent ...

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Too Much Kind of Blue? The Case for Giving Overexposed Masterworks a Rest

*Absolutely worth a read this holiday weekend. Hope everyone is doing well! Richard Williams recently wrote a book called The Blue Moment: Miles Davis Kind of Blue and the Remaking of Modern Music. I haven't yet read Mr. Williams study of the great jazz trumpeters best-known album, and to be perfectly honest, I doubt I'm going ...


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