Tomorrow Is Hear

The slow transition to Tomorrow Is Hear is underway. I'm trying out a few sample banners as I reach out to specific artists to see about hiring them to do some custom work for the new site (currently, Sophie Bass via Yazz Ahmed album art, and in the coming days, I'll put up some temp art by the Hubro Music designers and one specific artist who did work for Skirl Records).
I know it's been a while since this was active, but that is finally changing. I'll have a formal post about it on the main site in a couple weeks or maybe sooner.
Cheers.

Let's try this again. If I can post, then I've got this page back.

Tuesday night (3/10/20), the city of KY is gonna be a tour stop for Julian Lage & Dave King. They'll be performing at Apiary Fine Catering & Events, a gorgeous venue at the edge of downtown (Jefferson, b/t 2nd & 3rd). It's a last-minute show courtesy of the Origins Jazz Series, who is currently in their third season bringing some of the best musicians on the modern jazz scene to town.

The modern jazz scene is more diverse and expansive than it’s ever been. Music is as likely to stomp as it is to swing, bounce instead of bop. The stereotypes of a late night Miles Davis cool or a chaotic Ornette Coleman explosion just don’t hold true anymore. Case in point are Julian Lage and Dave King. Lage has a particular style of folk jazz that would fit in as easily with Railbird Fest as it would the Monterey Jazz Fest. His album Gladwell is music for hanging out on the porch on a sunny afternoon and watching the birds flutter about. His recent duo album with Wilco’s Nels Cline is series of hopscotch rhythms that carry a melody along like leaves down a rapidly flowing stream. Dave King is best known for his membership in The Bad Plus, a trio who caused a minor revolution in jazz at the start of the century adapting classic rock and grunge songs for jazz performance, bringing a pop music sensibility to complex music. But the Minnesota native also has rock and alt-country projects that show his creative needs don’t reside in just one form of expression. They are touring in support of their new album “Love Hurts.” It’s gonna be a great show.

And even if you’re feeling ambivalent about the music, just the opportunity to hear some engaging sounds in a venue like The Apiary is reason enough to come out for this Tuesday night gig. I’ve walked past that place on Jefferson (between 2nd & 3rd) so many times, and tried to find an opportunity to crash the place and just look around. It’s like this little oasis right in the middle of the city. Thrilled that all I have to do to get in there now is just buy a ticket.

Here’s some links relevant to the show, including how to buy tickets and the show details, as well as some links to organization, musician and venue sites. Tickets are $20, $25 at the door.

Musician site: https://www.daveking.net/julian-lage

The Apiary site: https://the-apiary.com/

Origins Jazz site (to learn more about the show & buy tickets): https://www.originsjazz.org/series/2020/3/10/julian-lage-and-dave-king

Question to musicians and labels: Over the last year, have any of you received a payment from eMusic? I'm not asking for any specifics of any kind. Just a simple yes/no question for those who are still retailing their music on the eMusic site.

For context: Back in 2018, and (I think) again in 2019, there were some distributors (Naxos was one) and labels who publicly announced they were removing their catalog from eMusic for repeated non-payment. It's uncertain whether this is an on-going thing. There is a contingent of eMusic customers that would like some peace-of-mind that their purchases on eMusic do, in fact, result in payment to the artist/label.

Some good information in here. Also provides some insight into how different the requirements can be from blogger to blogger, and site to site. For instance, several of the writers/sites suggest following up often on a review request, whereas I state quite explicitly on my Review Request page NOT to follow up.

Speaking of that, if you're not familiar with it (and you should be), here's where I spell out how to approach my site for a write-up. It'll give you a nice rundown of things you should also probably be doing for most bloggers. https://www.birdistheworm.com/about/

(I'll probably be updating that thing in about a month, so you might want to check back in later)

The Jazz Journalists Survey (2020 Edition) Jazz journalists from around the world give their insight into how they're discovering & writing about jazz and how you can better 'sell' your next album.

Sorry about the new delay, folks. I've had a sick kitty, and my whole world comes to a standstill. The Album of the Year, and the 2019 in Review column series is forthcoming, as is a bunch of Round-up columns featuring 2019 music.

As a gift for your patience, omfg, this new Jasper Hoiby album getting released in March is AMAZING...

Planet B, by Jasper Høiby 10 track album

Best of 2019 #02: Aaron Novik - "The Fallow Curves of the Planospheres" (on Avant LaGuardia).

Best of 2019 #02: Aaron Novik – “The Fallow Curves of the Planospheres”   This is less an album and more a sonic event. Aaron Novik brought together five different ensembles and countless inspirations to capture the essence of his travels in France, Italy, Rotter…

Best of 2019 #03: Matana Roberts - "Coin Coin Chapter 3: Memphis" (on Constellation Records)

Best of 2019 #03: Matana Roberts – “Coin Coin Chapter 4: Memphis”   The meeting point of history and mythology is as much collision as it is convergence, and there’s no better musical representation of this dichotomy than the “panoramic sound quilting” of Ma…

Best of 2019 #04: Haftor Medbøe - "Will of the People" (on Copperfly)

Best of 2019 #04: Haftor Medboe – “Will of the People”   In 2019, the recorded output of Haftor Medbøe was incomparable. Different ensembles and different sounds and different environments kept listeners on their toes and their expectations in ch…