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Year-end letter 2024 coming & break

At my Vancouver jazz blog Rhythm Changes, I made an annual letter of sorts to talk with subscribers about how the year went. AABA will return on Jan. 2, 2025....

You deserve to test out of an entire music busi...

If you can answer all 10 of these questions: Your friend wrote lyrics to an existing instrumental jazz tune. They want to release this track on an album — vinyl...

Little gigs that are just big enough

In January 2014, I dropped out of music university with not much to go on; I wanted to play full-time and see what happened while I had all the freedom...

The reverse boutique label deal

Traditionally, small labels do something like this: Pay up-front for the making of CDs and/or vinyl and coordinate the process, instead of the artist doing that; this process could also...

Queen's Park is out now

The latest project of mine (release date: Nov. 8, 2024), digital-only. Please enjoy!

This seems like a bad idea for concert promotion

I won’t give specific examples today, but I see many concert promoters offering 50% off tickets to their email audience (or sometimes, brazenly, on social media as well) quite close to the show...