Date: Monday, June 23, 2014
Time: 7:30pm to 11pm
Venue: Clemente Soto Velez Center (107 Suffolk St, New York, NY 10002)
Tickets: $11 per set
Genre: jazz/improv
7:30PM – 8:30PM – FIVE
Steve Swell – trombone
Thomas Heberer – cornet
Yoni Kretzmer – tenor sax
Max Johnson – double bass
Chad Taylor – drums
Post by trichordist
Right now a byzantine system is in place that not only dates back more than 70 years but also differs depending on the distribution platform. Traditional radio stations, for instance, pay royalties to the composer of a song, but not to the artist or band performing it — known in industry parlance as a performance right — if they are different. Sirius XM only pays royalties for songs released after 1972. Pandora does pay government-mandated royalties to songwriters but has been aggressively lobbying regulators to lower the rate in recent years. Use of music in both professional and user-based content on YouTube and other websites and in TV shows or commercials is yet another category of music licensing, with the difference being that it is free-market-based and not subject to government oversight.
The voice: versatile, agile, profound with a plummy richness of sound. Tritha’s dusky tones and throbbing intensity, vibrating and moving emotional commitment, entrance her audience and leave the public spell bound. Listen: http://soundcloud.com/tritha_pro/tritha-rangamati-pagli-album
The musician: born in Kolkata, Tritha started training in North Indian classical music at the age of five, and never stopped. She is currently a student of Santanu Bandyopadhyay from the Bishnupur gharana.
Equally at home with Indian Classical music as with Bjork and Janis Joplin, Abida Parveen or Aretha Franklin, Tritha has forged her own unique, inclusive sound and has already gained critical and popular acclaim for her songs, several of which were used by the Magnum Agency, France, for their movies on Women changing India last year.
Text by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi
This post by YaliniDream is a must to read for people who have a misconception of how musicians and other working artists make their living. Quote: “Yet, I know too many generous accomplished independent working artists contributing to justice movements who have been performing, painting, filming, writing, composing, creating over decades, who struggle to make even $15,000 a year. I also know too many artists who remain tied to day jobs that mute their light because there is no way they could take care of their child or mother or self on what they would make from their art.”
It’s time that working musicians get together and tackle all their problem as a group. The time has come that all music activists come together and take over “real” leadership as a collective because at the end of the day we all want to drink our Brooklyn Lager in peace. And feeling good about ourselves and loved ones because we got our pay check today. Yes, all the talk is about fair pay!
Text by YaliniDream
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Kosi (photo by Dawoud Kringle)
Date: June 2, 2014
Venue: Silvana (NY)
Review by Dawoud Kringle
It was a warm spring night in Harlem when Silvana hosted the CD release party of songwriter and jazz vocal stylist Kosi‘s (a.k.a. Kosi Gyebi Sorensen) newest recording Pictures of Us. The show was webcasted through concertwindow.com (and got good reviews).
