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The Mainstream Music Establishment Wants You to Think You're Not Good Enough
This year the mainstream music establishment was preoccupied with letting the indie/DIY community know they were “Not Good Enough." In fact, some gatekeeping factions of even the DIY/Indie community seemed to reinforce this theme (more on this later). Who's A Grammy Darling? The rumblings started in February at The Grammys when Esperanza Spalding won Best New ...
Why Labels Hate the Idea of Simplifying Copyrights...
Copyright simplification could have monumental implications for the music industry, not just for startups, but also for preservationists, producers, artists, and fans. The only problem is that some of the most powerful companies in this space absolutely hate the idea. The latest example involves copyrights surrounding recordings, which enter this byzantine and confusing terrain if the ...
In Praise of British Jazz
For too long, British jazz artists of the 1950s have been viewed unfairly as dandified lightweights by American jazz fans. There always has been plenty of love for George Shearing, Marian McPartland, Victor Feldman and a handful of other English jazz musicians. But when it comes to the dozens of other British artists who never put ...
Matthew Shipp Counts His Blessings for 2011
Matthew Shipp's ten highlights of the year 1.The reception of my cd ”Art of the Improviser”. 2. Gigging with my trio with Michael Bisio and Whit Dickey,not only great players, but incredible people to share road life with. 3. Recording my upcoming 2012 CD Elastic Aspects with my trio of Bisio and Dickey. 4. Continuing to ...
Signs of Jazz Life in the Local Universe, 2011 (Part 1)
The Variety section of Friday's Star Tribune was filled with “best of" lists -night life, quotes, albums, live acts, songs. The only mention of anything jazz-related was in the article, “No. 1 Sign the Local Music Scene Was Alive and Well in 2011," which provided responses from 9 panelists of the Twin Cities Critics Tally and, ...
Where's Nicholas Payton Coming From?
Trumpeter, and erstwhile vocalist/one-man-band, raconteur/social commentator (at least based on his latest release Bitches on the IN + OUT label, which would appear to be the latest advance in his Sonic Trance odyssey) Nicholas Payton has been raising a literal firestorm of conjecture and debate with his recent series of blog posts, Twitter and Facebook rejoinders. ...
The Music Business Looks Forward: 5 Social Media Predictions for 2012
Guest post by Shore Fire Media, a boutique public relations, online marketing, and digital strategy firm specializing in music and entertainment. In the last year, the music industry shifted from cautiously experimenting with social media, to recognizing it as a necessary part of every marketing strategy, from the smallest bands to the biggest brands. It's an exciting ...
Part 9: What Musicians Expect from Music Journalists and Critics
This is pt. 9 in our series of observations from musicians, responding to this burning question: When you read music journalism or criticism, what qualities are you looking for in the writer and the writing? CHRIS WASHBURNE, trombonist-composer-educator (Columbia University) I do read music journalism/criticism regularly. I am reading to learn. I want a writer that ...
Occupy Jazz! Occupy Wall Street!
by Ras Moshe
Things have got to change! That is the cry being heard in the five boroughs of New York City, across the United States and, increasingly, in European cities too.All sorts of people from all sorts of social classes are at the protests--because the realization has dawned that eventually everyone will be impacted by the ...
Why Sonny Rollins Matters
Last Sunday, Sonny Rollins was at the White House to receive the 2011 Kennedy Center Honors from President Obama and then at the annual Kennedy Center gala, which will be broadcast on Dec. 27 on CBS. Sonny must be on a first-name basis with front-gate guards by now, since he was just at the White House ...
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