Ticket Masters: The Rise of the Concert Industry and How the Public Got Scalped

by All About Jazz Staff, July 13, 2025 “As we reach the halfway point of 2026, All About Jazz once again borrows a page from Major League Baseball’s All-Star break, replacing home runs with jazz albums. This year, 76 staffers submitted their picks, surpassing 2025’s participation by 21 contributors—an incredible turnout.” The full article, with…

The results have been tabulated and published for the 20th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Poll, which I am so happy to be part of. I do not rank albums, I only provide an unranked list, which is allowed in the submissions. This year I only submitted in the New Jazz Albums category. That said, all…

David Bowie ‘75’ Pop-Up Stores Open in New York and London  By Jem Aswad, Variety, October 25, 2021 In the five years since his death from cancer in January 2016, David Bowie’s estate has kept fans captivated with an extensive, tastefully curated series of reissues that have presented a vast amount of material in a…

Ticketing & Touts: Lyte Turns A Corner In 2019, Seeing Huge Growth by Francisco Rendon on Pollstar.com, June 13, 2019 With the Federal Trade Commission having just held its workshop on online ticketing June 11, all the talk of bots, scalpers and scams has no doubt left some fans wondering why they can’t simply return…

You Are The DJ: Custom-CD Web Sites Allow Music Lovers to Create Their Own Mixes By Tom Gogola, DIRECT Magzine, November, 1999  If true one-to-one marketing is based on treating a particular customer differently based on data collected during an interaction, then CustomDisc is a true market leader. The company doesn’t merely customize its product offerings,…

Radio Airdate: March 1, 2023, 8PM Eastern “Music Biz 101 & More is the only radio show in America that focuses on the business side of the music & entertainment worlds. Hosted by William Paterson University’s Dr. Stephen Marcone & Professor David Kirk Philp, the show airs live each Wednesday at 8pm on WPSC-FM, Brave…