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Jazz Singles on Bandcamp [2 Common Mistakes]
When you think about releasing music on Bandcamp, do you think mainly about selling full albums? I bet you do... People often associate singles with Spotify and the big streaming platforms, rather than on more direct online stores. But that strategy of releasing...
Interview with Øyvind Skjerven Larsen of Oslo Jazz Festival
Perhaps one of the biggest challenges as an independent jazz musician is finding the time to pitch for gigs whilst still practicing, rehearsing, writing and doing all the other jobs you're expected to take care of... But until you have someone doing this for you,...
Facebook: Personal Page vs Artist Page
Love it or hate it, Facebook has more than 2.6 BILLION users and we can only hope that some of those are jazz fans too. Forget meaningless stats such as 'likes' and 'followers' - your challenge is to get your music in front of those potential fans, make them...
Interview with Pianist, Composer & Arranger Shai Maestro
Widely regarded as one of the most talented musicians of his generation, Israeli pianist Shai Maestro has, in a relatively short amount of time, built a reputation as a strong musical personality and an in-demand bandleader and sideman. As part of our jazz interviews...
Q&A with the booking agent Jakob Flarer of Saudades Tourneen
For today’s interview we asked a few questions to Jakob Flarer from the Austrian booking agency Saudades Tourneen whose motto is this: Creative, experimental, improvised, avantgarde, progressive, contemporary music is THE MUSIC WE LOVE In “normal” times, Saudades...
jazzahead! 2021 (Interview with Sybille Kornitschky)
If, like us, you were preparing for Jazzahead! last year, we know how disappointing it was to hear it was being postponed to 2021. As one concert after another was cancelled with the onset of the pandemic, we waited anxiously for the inevitable news from jazzahead!...
DistroKid, CD Baby & TuneCore – Which Digital Distributor Is Right For You?
As every jazz musician who's self-released music knows, picking a digital music distributor to get your tunes into online stores like Spotify and Apple is a seemingly simple task which somehow ends up turning into a time-consuming and confusing decision. In this...
Interview with Patrik Lindgren of the Swedish Lira Magazine
If you're familiar with Jazzfuel already, you'll know that we try to talk to as many other 'industry' people as possible to extract great advice, strategies and insight that you can use as an independent musician. Of course, releasing music and getting international...
The Releasing / Gigging Cycle
There's a strongly held belief amongst some musicians that there's no real point releasing music if you can't tour it. To be fair, that's what musicians have been doing for many years. But unless you're a headline act, do you really promote your music by being 'on the...