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

[Travis Wilson]

Mike

it is not exactly like a radio program. It is a program you download 
that connects you to their site. You then have a choice of thousands of 
albums to choose from. If you are a subscriber, it costs you about $9 a 
month to listen to whatever you want to listen to. (ok, almost anything 
you want to listen to, it seems there are a few tracks that cost you 
extra just to listen, but about 99% of what they have is no extra charge 
if all you are doing is listening)

if you choose to download a song to your computer, that costs extra.

I mainly use it as I try and learn a new tune. I can go to Rhapsody and 
listen, without downloading, lots of versions of each song. As an 
example, I just checked Watermelon Man. There are over 100 versions one 
can listen to on Rhapsody. I have found the ability to listen to so many 
different versions both helpful and great fun.

I just did a bit of  of googling to find out about Royalties paid by 
Rhapsody. At one site ,they said :

"Generally, these services pay $0.01 (i.e. 1 cent) to the record label 
each time a recording is streamed.  Since this is licensing revenue, the 
label should split this amount with the featured artist."

I found this at:

http://www.musicbizacademy.com/articles/dl_newmedia.htm

they have a lot more information at that site about how these various 
companies, including Itunes pay royalties.

I do  know that some of your recordings are on there. ( have listened to 
several of the tracts from your albums. Love especially the Clark Terry 
one).  They currently  have available:
1. Live on the Road
2. Big Band Jazz Net
3. Trumpets
4. Creepin with Clark

if you are not getting any royalties, you might contact them. Maybe 
there is a great lawsuit here

Travis



Vaxtrpts at aol.com wrote:
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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