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Whitney Houston: A Final Look

by Lloyd N. Peterson Jr.
March 11, 2012

Whitney Houston and Michael Jackson will be forever linked as they brought the world together and made a nation cry. They were God's gift to us mere mortals and in a very brief period of time, they made us believe. They were able to capture through music, what leaders desperately try. And though tragedy would clearly ...

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Willard Jenkins Ponders the Audience-Friendly Factor...

March 11, 2012

Robert Glasper backstage at Oberlin College the other night greeting one of his fans, the writer's daughter Iyesha Jenkins. One element of our dialogue on the black audience for creative music, as well as our conversation with Nicholas Payton (scroll down for that dialogue) and his ongoing promotion of the omnibus term “BAM" relates to the ...

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Great Jazz Deserves To Be Heard And Seen At It's Best

by Toby Gleason
March 4, 2012

Why I'm filing a mass take-down notice on YouTubeFor several decades, my father committed himself to championing the popular emergence of jazz, and engendering proper respect for the musicians who devoted their careers and lives to the music that had long been dismissed to the sidelines of main stream American culture. Ralph J. Gleason ...

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Ralph J. Gleason's Jazz Casual

by Toby Gleason
March 4, 2012

(This article was first published at All About Jazz in May 1999) Various ArtistsJazz CasualRhino / WEA1999In 1959, Ralph Gleason had made his reputation as one of the leading Jazz critics of his generation; writing out of his Berkeley home for the San Francisco Chronicle ...

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Extending the Power of "Free" to Live Performances

March 3, 2012

The practice of offering free access to your recorded music has now become commonplace. The free single, or even free album download, has been around for what seems like eons, and although bands offering free live shows has always been accepted, the embracing of this endeavor could not be more timely than now. Venues offering pay-to-play ...

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The True Language Of Jazz

by David Arivett
March 1, 2012

Recently, there has been an upsurge in sales and interest in jazz recordings from the past--especially the 1970s. In a recent Jazz Times magazine article, “1970 Is Happening (Again)," Lee Mergner points out that “at the time rock and funk were, depending on your perspective, destroying or invigorating jazz." Trumpeter Miles Davis, pianists Herbie Hancock and ...

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5 Social Media Fails by Musicians

February 24, 2012

Artists have a myriad of possibilities when it comes to social networking. The way these are utilized is often woefully misguided and as a result artists become their own worst enemy. Musicians so often fail to realize the fact that potential fans are not interested in what your music means to you, they are only interested ...

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Ethan Kaplan: Culture is a Product

February 23, 2012

Guest post by former Warner Bros. Records digital exec Ethan Kaplan of Live Nation Labs. He blogs at Black Rim Glasses. A year ago I walked out of the Warner Bros. Records building, put a box in my car and drove home. I left with a collection of memories, but also a sense of unfinished business ...

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Topspsin CEO Ian Rogers: "Direct to Fan is Not a Rich Band's Game"

February 22, 2012

Guest post by Ian Rogers of Topspin. On a panel at SF MusicTech on last week, I made reference to a fact we first published back in 2010: while the split between digital and physical sold on Topspin by number of units is 50/50, it's 75/25 physical/digital by total dollars. This demonstrates a lesson I first ...

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There's Just One Territory for Releasing Music Now: The World

February 11, 2012

I came across this on Bravewords.com this morning: Starting at roughly 8:00am EST on Thursday, February 2nd, VAN HALEN's new album A Different Kind Of Truth will reportedly be available via the Australian iTunes store (12:00 midnight on February 3rd Sydney time). Go to www.apple.com/au/itunes for more information. A Different Kind Of Truth, will be released ...