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All About Jazz, a driving force for jazz music since 1995, is thrilled to honor and celebrate industry trailblazers who actively promote jazz awareness, discovery, and culture through its prestigious Jazz Forward award program. Carefully selected by a team of industry visionaries, winners don’t just receive an award; their achievements are showcased in All About…

by All About Jazz Staff, July 15, 2024 As we hit the halfway mark of 2024, All About Jazz has adopted Major League Baseball’s All-Star break approach but with albums instead of homers. Our team gathered to pick their top three albums of the year so far, and Charles Lloyd’s The Sky Will Still Be…

by Jeremy Sirota, CEO of Merlin, July 2, 2024 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬: 𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 Lawrence Peryer, 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 & 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝘁 23 Media Ventures LLC, 𝘄𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗱𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺-𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴. My superpower is multidimensional problem-solving: the ability to see challenges from various angles by blending insights from creativity, business, and technology. At every point in my…

This 11-minute promotional interview was recorded on February 23, 2024 and released on March 8 across the Podcast Radio Network, a distribution partner of Spotlight On.

Jazz Releases Come Out Swinging Review by Brian Slattery in the New Haven Independent, August 9, 2023 One curio to pop back into the eternal present of recorded music is an album by The Lazenbys, recorded in May 1997 but rereleased just last week. ​“The Lazenbys were an experimental musician’s collective based in New Haven and…

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…

Music Festivals Hit Harder Times in Crowded Concert Market Anne Steele, Wall Street Journal, September 4, 2022.  Fans become choosier and costs rise for promoters due to Covid-19, inflation, labor shortages and supply issues Full piece here

Concert Season Is ‘Chaotic’ as Bottleneck of Shows Wreaks Havoc by Ashley Carman, Bloomberg Businessweek, August 25, 2022 “If someone were to ask my impressions of 2022, I’d say chaotic,” says Lawrence Peryer, chief commercial officer at Lyte, a ticketing platform. “It’s a lot of factors converging all at once. Not just the uncertainty of…

Springsteen Fans Raged Over Ticket Prices. Experts Say There’s No Easy Fix by Andy Greene & Ethan Millman in Rolling Stone, August 2, 2022 Eye-popping ticket prices have generated furious op-eds and social media posts in recent weeks. A group of experts weigh in on what’s wrong with the system alongside various solutions Click here…

Buying show tickets is still an imperfect and sometimes frustrating – not to mention expensive – experience. You’ll have certainly felt the pang of annoyance as tickets you want are snapped up by bots, and then sold on the secondary market for inflated prices. So what does a better ticketing system look like? We welcome…