[TPIN] Was Tutti's trumpets - now CD sales and downloading.

[Vaxtrpts at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/1/2007 12:28:09 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
travisw at pdq.net writes:

just  thought I would mention, you can listen to Tutti's Trumpets (and 
the  trombone one) on Rhapsody. Rhapsody is great for me. I am constantly  
listening to different versions of tunes without paying for them. (ok,  
it costs $9 a month). If you want to download it to your computer that  
costs a bit extra, generally about a buck or less a  song.

Travis



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It  would be interesting to know how this service pays royalties to the 
artists and  the copyright holders.
I know it is not exactly "free," but at only $9 per month, they can't  really 
be paying all the artists that they are playing cuts from.  Is it  like a 
radio station?  
Like most recorded people, I see our income base slipping away all the  time. 
 For those of us who are musicians, I would hope that we do  everything we 
can to purchase "legal" recordings to support our fellow  musicians.  
My main objection to all this downloading stuff, even if it is paid for, is  
that the purchasers are missing out on the liner notes and artwork.  I  always 
tell students at my clinics, to read the liner notes right away to learn  
about the music, the musicians, and how the recording was done.  These are  
important parts of their "jazz education."  There is an enormous amount of  jazz 
history contained in those liner notes.
It seems more and more, like the main place to sell CD's, is at our  
performances.  Especially for jazz music, the stores just don't carry very  much.   
Boy, I just thought of something.  I would be "missing the boat" if I  didn't 
give a little plug for the CD sales shop of my non-profit "Friends of Big  
Band Jazz."  You can go to:  _www.bigbandjazz.net_ (http://www.bigbandjazz.net)  
 to find over 100  hard to find big band and other types of CD's.  (There are 
plenty of sound  bites to help you choose.)  The nice thing is that $5.00 
from every CD  sold goes into our scholarship fund to send young people to summer 
jazz  camps.  (We have given out over $25,000 in scholarships so far.)  
Mike Vax