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 […]
Category: music business
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 […]
Keeping the band happy.
More notes from revamping my book (my events band’s performing repertoire, that is). Here I thought I would share some of the tunes I use to keep the band from going nuts over the more […]
Updating my book
In preparation for a benefit gig this evening, I’m adding some new tunes my group’s book, and more importantly clearing some of the ample dead wood. In case you’re curious about the “thought” process that […]
NY Times: Freelance Musicians Hear Mournful Coda as the Jobs Dry Up
This is via the blog Jazztruth by pianist George Colligan- a NY Times story about the collapse of the freelance market for classical musicians in New York; much of it also applies to jazz musicians, […]