Monthly release information - where do you go?

[David Ayers]

Although I don't order from Crazy Jazz in the UK, I always look at his carefully compiled monthly list of UK distributed titles. Many jazz titles have no UK distribution, but it is nevertheless useful information about what is going on.

For classical I look at Europadisc which, as well as its web listing, has a PDF of monthly releases in the UK. Since most classical titles make it here, that is useful.

I wonder how you guys keep up?

Also, in terms of the economics of the business, I constantly marvel at the flow of marginal releases which it is hard to imagine that very many people will buy. I find it interesting to look at the overall pattern of releases. Take a look at December classical releases on the Europadisc site to see what I mean.

[Ligeti]

Thanks for these, I haven't used either site before.

How do i keep up? Amazon. They make recommendations, and they're often very good. Plus I get emails from them highlighting various releases.

And of course, forums such as this. But Europadisc looks like a site that coulod easily make me spend a lot more than I already do.

[mjazzg]

for new releases...

Downtown Music weekly mail

Squidco's new release email

Instant Jazz's new release email

Free Jazz Blog daily posts

emails from labels Not Two, Multi Kulti, Slam, Leo, Emanem ao

and the O board of course with special mention to the 'Modern and Avant releases' thread

can't help you with Classical though. Too busy reading all these mails

Edited November 15, 2014 by mjazzg

[JohnS]

I don't really keep up any more. Jazz Journal helps a little as does Amazon recommendations. Mainly though it's recommendations and alerts from you guys on this board.

I'd forgotten all about Crazy Jazz a it been many years since I bought from him. So thanks for the reminder David. His monthly list does look like it's worth checking out.

Edited November 15, 2014 by JohnS

[Scott Dolan]

http://www.allmusic.com/newreleases/all/20141118

Change genre in dropdown menu at top.

Edited November 15, 2014 by Scott Dolan

[Rooster_Ties]

https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Jazzmatazz/conversations/messages/215

[Scott Dolan]

???

That would have been real useful in January 2005.

[alankin]

I miss Jazzmatazz.

[JSngry]

So do I.

[Ligeti]

I miss Jazzmatazz.

I miss an updated PRINTED version of the All Music Guide to Jazz. I spent countless hours going through that book. It's all online, of course - but it's not the same. I don't think we'll ever see another printed version, sadly.

[Head Man]

I miss Jazzmatazz.

Me too..... whatever happened to the guy that put that out?

[mjazzg]

and I thought we were talking Guru

[xybert]

I have the websites of most of the artists and labels that i follow bookmarked and just cycle through them every now and again when i'm bored. If it's an artist that never updates their website (Joe Morris) i'll google them every now and again to see what they're up to.

Also this site, blogs... it's amazing how if something gets recommended and i know none of the names involved i will rarely give it a chance. I'm pretty bad that way really. You know, i consider myself to be reasonably up with the play, as long as it fits within this set circle... it's fine but i guess on a long enough timeline that is exactly how you wake up one day and find yourself out of touch with what's going on.

[Steve Reynolds]

I try NOT to keep up with all the new releases as I might buy too many.

[colinmce]

I've long tossed around the idea of a blog devoted to centralizing information about new jazz releases. I never quite got around to it because I assumed that no one would really care. Maybe that's not true? Ideally I would get input from artists and labels. While all labels have websites, I find that artists today are actually pretty terrible about promoting themselves. Very few have webpages and those that do almost never update them, even when they have recordings coming out.

[A Lark Ascending]

Jazzmatazz was wonderful!

These days I have sources from all over - alerts here, Jazzwise (the only reason I still order it), links on Amazon and an endless flurry of e-mails from various stores.

There are certain labels/download sites I use a lot that I check regularly.

Probably the most irritating thing over the last 10 years has been the mushrooming of those cheapo labels putting out things available elsewhere. When you look things up on Amazon or E-music you have to wade through endless versions of the same record to find the official release. Without wishing to revisit the 'Andorran' issue yet again, I do wish there was a way to organise this better. I used to scroll through the e-music new releases weekly but it is just tiresome now.