The launch

06/02/22 • 0 min

Jazz Office Hours with Cory Weeds

Here we go! Stay tuned for Jazz Office Hours.

Here we go! Stay tuned for Jazz Office Hours.

Next Episode

Albums, Expectations, Demos, Distribution | Cory & Will

Making a jazz album, from demo to distribution to performance, is a game of expectations. Whether artistic, financial, or personal, expectations keep you on track and help you remember why you're in the game.

Topics:

First question: How to release a jazz album (01:17),
What are realistic financial expectations for making an album? Taking entrepreneurial risk, investing up-front in production, and building a music career over time (11:44),
Cory takes an honest look at the growth of Rhythm Changes and of his radio show, Condition Blue (17:41),
Best-of-2022 highlight: establishing a level of care (24:44),
Next question: How to get gigs by sending demo recordings to booking agents (25:54),
Choosing the right live music venues for your band (29:45),
Making a personal connection with venue booking agents (36:16),
Storytime: the early-2000s distribution deals that established Cellar Music (39:47),
New Cellar Music releases by Sheila Jordan & Brian Charette on July 15, 2022 (48:06).

Links:

YouTube - All Things Must Pass (Tower Records documentary) - Cory said he enjoyed this movie about the famous record store business so much, he watched it three times.
Bloomberg - CD sales in Japan (2020) - CD sales have still been a huge part (over 70%) of the recorded music market in Japan, even as recently as 2020.

Jazz Office Hours with Cory Weeds - The launch

Transcript

Will Chernoff: 00:00

Hello and welcome to Jazz Office Hours. I'm your host and the producer of this show, Will Chernoff. Jazz Office Hours is a new jazz education podcast made by Canadians, where we answer your questions about the working world of music, and help you avoid all the mistakes we've made in our careers so far. Thanks for finding the show here, and stay tuned: we look forward to hearing from you in future episodes, and you can visit us at www.jazzofficehou