This guy will tell youwhat you deserve. I see that the old downloader “culture”— always a sketchy-sounding crew, even in the early days when they were led by high tech vanguard types writing in Wired— […]
Category: music business
Look, just take whatever they want to give you
Something no one needs,yet strangely not free. What better way to welcome a new (he’s actually been doing this longer than me) colleague to my blogroll, and thank him for linking to my Playing Quieter […]
The club scene
Here’s a great piece on understanding the, well, near-dead state of live music in clubs (professionally, anyway), and what musicians can begin to do about the situation, by LA pianist Dave Goldberg. It opens: AS […]
…or, to just fail.
I would add: – Think of your work as being in competition with that of all artists, everywhere, at all levels of the business, past and present. – Imagine that your every creative move and […]
Buy CDs: part 1 – the so-called business
Here’s a little series about some things relating to the retail end of the music business, from the artist’s perspective. First, a snapshot of the terrain- this is a little graphic from Information is Beautiful, […]
Making any money in jazz
Dollar bill. This is something I wrote last week, but decided against posting, as it can be kind of a downer. I have actually officially banned from my presence discussion of how much being a […]
Cruise ship pianist!
Here’s something from Timothy McSweeney’s Internet Tendency (usually dedicated to hyper-well-written humor): a straightforward interview with a cruise ship pianist. Good straight info for anyone considering that line of work.
Kenny Washington overheard
Or the cyber-equivalent. Mark Feldman at the Bang! the drum school blog features a Facebook post by jazz drummer and scholar Kenny Washington, in response to a question about how to take one’s drumming “to […]
Putting some things in
This is me at my most masochistic. I’m back in updating my events band’s book again- it’s a long, tedious process- and thought I would continue to share the gory “thought” process with you. Previously […]
The abyss
In this third installment of my events/swing band repertoire series (hopefully it’s of some interest to the bandleaders/working drummers out there), we’ll be confronting some of the things I’ve kept around strictly out of commercial […]