 | ||||
FEBRUARY 16
ARTHUR HANLON
"No Borders" (Universal Latino)
ONE ESKIMO
ONE ESKIMO
"Kandi" (Shangri-La Music)
JACK PRYBYLSKI w/ Four 80 East
"Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?" (Innervision)
CALEB QUAYE AND THE FACULTY
"Out Of The Blue" (Potter's Wheel)
PETER WHITE
"Good Day" (Peak/Concord)
FEBRUARY 22
BRIAN BROMBERG
"Mr. Miller" (Artistry/Mack Avenue)
WILL DONATO
"Funkability" (Innervision)
"Funkability" (Innervision)
ANDY SCOTT
"Learning To Fly" (Goatboy Productions)
MARCH 8
JEFF BECK
"Never Alone" (Atco/Rhino)
"Never Alone" (Atco/Rhino)
MATT MARSHAK
"Great Soul" (Nuance)
STEVE OLIVER
"Fun In The Sun" (SOM Entertainment)
MICHAEL J THOMAS
"City Beat" (Harbor Breeze)
KIRK WHALUM
"The Thrill Is Gone" (Rendezvous/Mack Ave)
MARCH 15
GREG ADAMS
"What's It Gonna Be?" (Ripa)
PROFESSOR RJ ROSS
"Ventura Highway" (Lantana)
Labels, Promoters and Artists:
Please send your "Going For Adds" calendars to us at radio@groovejazzmusic.com.
Industry
Groove Jazz Music
Going For Adds
GROOVE JAZZ MUSIC ARTISTS
| ||||
New Releases
GROOVE JAZZ MUSIC LABELS
MARCH 30
STEVE OLIVER "Global Kiss" (SOM Entertainment)
JACK PRYBYLSKI "Out Of The Box" (Innervision)
APRIL 6
BALLIGOMINGO "Under An Endless Sky" (Chrysalis Music Group)
Advertise on Groove Jazz Music.
Click Here for more information.
GROOVE JAZZ MUSIC EDITORIAL
The sky has fallen on the business of music—at least the business most of us recognize from the playbooks we’ve been using for years…but what about the music itself? Is it worse? Is it better? Are we even paying attention? Did we ever consider the quality of the artist? Or were we too busy cutting musical cookies that could be neatly packaged in a homogenous commercial radio box that, today, doesn’t get delivered to many zip codes?
For the past 25 years, contemporary jazz—in particular the smooth version of it—enjoyed a prominent place on the commercial radio dial in most major markets in the U.S.—something arguably more popular niche music like reggae, jam, and heavy metal never had and still don’t.
Ironically, in its efforts to appeal to the broadest audience and sell the most advertising by programming a non-offensive middle-of-the-road sound, commercial smooth jazz radio has assisted in its own downfall by siphoning off the actual fans of the music and artists who can now find what they want to hear on the internet, their ipods, blogs, non-commercial stations and specialty shows.
This fan migration to other outlets will continue to evolve as streaming services like MOG and Spotify gain traction and music apps for mobile devices proliferate. Just because the audience for contemporary jazz is older than that of indie rock, rap or pop, doesn’t mean it can’t be reached in this new media age. On the contrary, our audience is reaching out to us. There are more people listening to internet radio than ever before. Anecdotally, we see this by the number of passionate internet radio programmers that are garnering substantial audiences on our Groove Jazz Internet Radio panel. Statistically, we point to a 2010 study by audience measurement service Bridge Ratings that concluded the following:
• 77 million Americans will listen to Internet radio streams (on both computers and mobile devices) by January 1, 2015.
• Based on interviews which measured satisfaction and fatigue levels,the study is projecting that by that date the percentage listening to AM/FM simulcast streams will fall to 81% while those listening to Internet-only radio streams will increase to 72%.
• The percentage of streaming listeners for AM/FM simulcasts and Internet-only will reach parity by the end of 2016 (77%).
More interestingly, our audience is currently embracing social media at a greater clip than any other demographic. Consider the latest Facebook user data courtesy of InsideFacebook.com:
• Overall, 45% of Facebook’s 45.3 million active users in the US is now 26 years old or older. Nearly a quarter of all Facebook users are over 35 today
• Facebook is growing in every age/gender demographic. Fastest growing segment: Women over 55, up 175.3% in the last 120 days.
• Facebook has been growing particularly rapidly amongst people over 45 in the US: over 165% amongst both men and women 45-54 over the last 4 months.
While the transition our business is experiencing may be difficult for artists, promoters, labels, managers and agents, there’s no doubt that our audience is still there and we can still get to them; but we just need to become proficient in different methods of doing so. This means learning how to use the internet to promote shows and artists and making a concerted effort to develop email lists and build social networks that inform and appeal to real fans who want to pay for music and shows.
This change doesn’t mean terrestrial radio is going away. There are still many viable independently programmed commercial and non-commercial stations like those on our Groove Jazz Music panel that are serving their target demos and paying the bills. But the ones that are succeeding are the ones focusing on delivering great music and new music to listeners who actually care about contemporary jazz. Programming aural wallpaper to woo advertisers just won’t work anymore.
It’s been one year since we launched Groove Jazz Music with the goal of acknowledging a variety of radio outlets that play contemporary jazz and including as many different programming voices and philosophies as possible.
We strongly believe that the only way this genre and those who work in it will succeed is to promote great music that engages our audience. Change, particularly abrupt and disruptive change, can be scary and paralyzing and leave us wishing the old days would return.
But if we stop lamenting and start embracing the new world we live in, we’ll find that opportunities are there to reshape our business into one the encompasses both commercial and artistic viability.
Now is the time to go back to artists creating great music, not music that “fits the format.” Throw the old boxes away…or better yet recycle them and use the materials to build something new and bigger and more exciting than ever.
