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Sher Music's 40th Anniversary Sale runs from August 15th to September 1st
Thank you for making Sher Music Co., the most widely respected publisher of Jazz and Latin books in the world! Can you believe we are celebrating our 40th anniversary of Sher Music Co. this year?! As a thank you to our customers we are offering all of our digital books at an all-time discounted price. Please ...
Move with the Times: Ideal AI Tools For Musicians
While AI's expansion into the music industry is an intimidating and off-putting idea for those songwriters afraid that a computer will take their job, the reality is that as this new era of technology dawns, there are number of ways in which the music can, and should, benefit from new AI tech. Guest post by Berta ...
Duduka Da Fonseca: Tom Jobim
Duduka Da Fonseca plays drums with a stirring, sensuality. It's like listening to crushed ice melt at the beach. His last album in 2018 was a loving tribute to Brazilian samba-funk pianist Dom Salvador, who I believe is still playing regularly at New York's River Café at age 81. Duduka's latest album is Samba Jazz & ...
FTC Announces $5B Facebook Fine, Revamped Privacy Controls
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has officially announced the terms of its $5 billion settlement with Facebook. The social giant has also promised improved privacy oversight within the company. It is the largest fine imposed on any company for violating consumers’ privacy and almost 20 times greater than the largest privacy or data security penalty ever ...
Music Physical Product Issues Signals Upheaval Ahead
Although the sale of physical music is still a large part of the revenue pulled in by major labels, their whole-hearted embrace of streaming has caused them to neglect traditional retail sales, with some fairly disastrous results. Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 The U.S. recorded music industry has now totally bought into streaming, ...
Come Together: Why The Music Industry Must Break Down Data Silos
In this article, Jeppe Faurfelt breaks down the different data silos which industry artists should be keeping track of, why the distinction between them is so important, and why everyone on an artist's team should have access to all of them. Guest post by Jeppe Faurfelt, Co-Founder & CCO at Linkfire Recently, I had the opportunity ...
Cannonball Adderley: EmArcy #1
Born in Tampa, Fla., and raised in Tallahassee, alto saxophonist Cannonball Adderley studied music at Florida A&M before becoming the band director at Dillard High School in Fort Lauderdale. In 1955, Adderley moved to New York to explore studying at graduate-level music schools. He was joined by his brother, trumpeter and cornetist Nat Adderley, who had ...
Fabulous Dorsey Brothers in Hi-Fi
When trombonist and bandleader Tommy Dorsey died in November 1956 at his 23-room mansion in Greenwich, Ct., his financial affairs were a mess. Married to his third wife, Janie New, Dorsey passed away several days shy of a court appearance to reply to New's divorce suit. According to the autopsy, Dorsey, 51, had thrown up while ...
Etsy Acquires Musical Instrument Marketplace Reverb For $275 Million
Reverb has a sign a deal to be acquired by Etsy for $275 million. The cash deal for the new and used musical instrument marketplace is expected to be finalized in the third or early fourth quarter of the year. “Reverb will remain a standalone business," says Reverb founder and CEO David Kalt, “but with the ...
Linda, Slim and David
This week in The Wall Street Journal, I interviewed retired singer Linda Ronstadt for my “House Call" column in the Mansion section (go here). We talked about growing up in Arizona, singing around her family house, Linda's fondness for Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney, and her new diagnosis (it's not Parkinson's). Here's Linda singing Tracks of ...
