INTERVIEW/PROFILE: Jazz Musician of the Day: Miles Davis

All About Jazz is celebrating Miles Davis' birthday today! Throughout a professional career lasting 50 years, Miles Davis played the trumpet in a lyrical, introspective, and melodic style, often employing a stemless harmon mute to make his sound more personal and intimate. But if his approach to his instrument was constant, his approach to jazz was dazzlingly protean. To examine his career is to examine the history of jazz from the mid-'40s to the early '90s... Read more...

TRENDS: Average Concert Ticket Prices: 1981-2005...

This was a central exhibit in a ten-year, exhaustive class action lawsuit against former Live Nation parent Clear Channel. It focused on the markets of Denver and Los Angeles, and attempted to prove that monopoly control was unfairly driving ticket prices into the stratosphere. It was ultimately rejected and tossed by a federal judge for a number of reasons...

OPINION: Are Music Fans Craving Exclusivity?

Unless you've been hiding under a rock, you'll most likely be familiar with Amanda Palmer's impressive KickStarter campaign (she's raised over $750,000 through the crowd-funding platform). At risk of being 'one more to add to the list', I want to focus on what we can learn from her and what the success of her campaign suggests to me about how music fans are showing cravings for exclusivity...

VIDEO/DVD: Why Most Music Startups Fail - Hypebot Sessions @ Narm

Earlier this month, Hypebot hosted a series of panels during NARM's Music Biz 2012 in L.A. One, hosted by Kyle Bylin, examined of why most music startups fail and but others succeed. A Why Most Music Startups Fail There is no shortage of startups working to transform how we discover, market and monetize music, but most of them will fail. Are licensing issues defeating them, or are these technologists trying to fix problems that most consumers don't really have...

VIDEO/DVD: STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Happy Birthday, Miles Davis!

Today is the 86th anniversary of the birth of Miles Davis, the most famous and historically significant jazz musician to come from the St. Louis area. In tribute, today we've got six extended-length performance videos of Davis for your listening and viewing enjoyment over the holiday weekend. Representing four different decades of the trumpeter's career, some of these videos have been excerpted here before, but this is the first time they're being presented on StLJN in their entirety, adding up to nearly six hours of live sounds from Miles...