COOL JAZZ RETURNS TO FEINSTEIN'S AT VITELLOS

Join George for a swinging night of West Coast Cool Jazz with his All-Star quartet, Pat Kelley, Alex Acuña and David Hughes. We will be featuring songs from the "STRAIGHT AHEAD" album.  Feinstein's At Vitellos has been redesigned and is now the coolest jazz room in town. tickets are $20 - 30, and are available at: http://bit.ly/GKQatVitellos

Doors open at 6:30, show is at 8:00 PM, see you there!

Its Spotify's World, You Just Stream It

Pulling the Curtain Back on Jazz Sales and Streaming

After 20 years of releasing jazz albums and getting airplay on jazz stations across the US, having my own Pandora station (George Kahn Radio) as well as getting tens of thousands of streams on Spotify, Amazon Music and Apple Music I still get little royalty checks, but I have watched the sales diminish over the years. Is it just me? Not according to the latest Nielsen/Soundscan statistics, released this week for mid-year 2019.

Back in 1999 Jazz Album sales were just under 3% of total album sales (pretty much tied with Classical music).  A recent annual report from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) states that in 2000 the total worldwide revenue from album sales was $23.3 Billion dollars. Now physical sales of jazz albums are  still 2.7% of total sales volume for albums, but the total revenue from album sales in 2018 was $4.7 Billion dollars - an 80% drop! (album sales dropped another 20% in just the last year 2018-2019).

According to the Neilsen study the combined US albums, digital sales, and streaming the total volume for jazz is now 1% of the total volume.
This is pretty dismal.

There are two issues here: 1) the drop in number of sales and 2) how much the artist is being paid for this "Consumption of Product" (which is the new definition of music on the internet.)
25% of jazz sales still take place with physical product (as opposed to Rap/Hip Hop where physical album sales are just 5% of the total). I guess this is good news, as the artist gets paid way better for physical sales and downloads. 60% of jazz "music consumption" takes place through streaming services.

I have read various articles about how little the different services pay the artist for streaming music. Note or Concord, etc.) Here are my recent numbers, as reported on CD Baby, my distributor:

ALBUM SALES: CDBABY DIRECT = $5.08 - $5.78/ALBUM

DIRECT DOWNLOAD: $.637/ SONG

And here are some recent payments from the streaming services: 

Jun 27, 2019	Jan 2019	Google Music Store	George Kahn	Straight Ahead	Can't Feel My Face	Yes	Stream	1.0	$0.00528706	$0.00528706
Jun 26, 2019	May 2019	iTunes - Apple Music – US	George Kahn	Straight Ahead	Rumour Has It	Yes	Stream	1.0	$0.00456638	$0.00456638
Jun 17, 2019	Apr 2019	Pandora Plus	George Kahn	Straight Ahead	Wonton Kelly	No	Stream	1.0	$0.00243278	$0.00243278
Jun 17, 2019	Apr 2019	Pandora Radio	George Kahn	Straight Ahead	Wonton Kelly	No	Stream	2.0	$0.00081826	$0.00163652
Jun 11, 2019	Mar 2019	Spotify	George Kahn	Straight Ahead	Red's Riff	No	Stream	1.0	$0.00447629	$0.00447629

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Here is a recent month total from Pandora:

TOTAL STREAMS/ AMOUNT EARNED ON PANDORA FOR APRIL 2019

Streams Total:

7995.0

Income total: $6.64510000

 = .000832 CENTS PER STREAM

(Yes, that is less than 1/10th of 1 cent per stream)

THE TAKE-AWAY: If you are an artist, you have to either focus on getting people to buy the product with great music AND creative packaging and marketing, or you have a figure out a viral-hit that will get millions of streams. And if you are a jazz "consumer", please buy or download the album, and go see live jazz often. Otherwise we'll just be left streaming "Kind of Blue" for the millionth time.

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THIS SUNDAY! George Kahn - Pat Kelley - Alex Acuña - Lyman Medeiros

and special guest vocalist Diana Zaslove Kahn!

One set only - 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Call to reserve seats

323-466-2210

or

Buy tickets online ($25 per person)

http://www.catalinajazzclub.com/

(psst: discount tickets also available for $15 on Goldstar.com

https://www.goldstar.com/events/hollywood-ca/jazz-at-catalina-bar-and-grill

By Popular Demansd - we are Back In Hollywood!

We are back from our No Cal tour, having killed in onoma nad Berkeley, CA, and now we are back In Hollywood. Come join us!

Path Ventures And Pianist George Kahn 2018 Jazz Night Fundraiser For The Homeless Raises Over $120,000

In the last 11 years PATH Ventures has built over 1,100 affordable housing units, and PATH (People Assisting The Homeless) has helped over 7,500 individuals 'make it home.'

On Thursday, October 18th, 2018 PATH Ventures celebrated their 11th year by hosting their 11th Annual Holiday Jazz Night, an unforgettable evening of dinner, music, and fun at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica, CA. The event featured Jazz Pianist and Composer, George Kahn with his all-star Jazz & Blues Revue. The 8-piece band features Courtney Lemmon, Gina Saputo and Crystal Starr on vocals, Robert Kyle on saxophone, Nolan Shaheed on trumpet, Gary Wicks on bass, Grammy-nominated MB Gordy on drums, and George Kahn as pianist/musical director.

With the help of a sold-out crowd, plus generous corporate sponsors including City National Bank, over $120,000 was donated to directly support affordable housing developments and support services in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, San Diego and San Jose. In the last 11 years PATH Ventures has built over 1,100 affordable housing units, and PATH (People Assisting The Homeless) has helped over 7,500 individuals “make it home”.

There are over 52,000 people living on the streets of Los Angeles County on any given night (based on the 2018 Los Angeles Homes Services Authority annual count). They are women with children, people struggling with serious health issues, war veterans, seniors, emancipated foster youth, and families who lost everything because of the recession or were displaced by rising rents. PATH Ventures’ housing models aim to prevent and end homelessness by integrating supportive services, community development and permanent housing for people in need.

When asked to explain why he does this annual event Kahn explained, “I am so honored to be a catalyst for this event, and I am so proud of my band for giving their time and energy and creating amazing music for the evening. I have friends that have spent time living on the street, and I know the feeling of being one paycheck away from being evicted. This is the least I can do to give back to the community that I have lived in for 40 years.”

For more information about PATH and PATH Ventures, please visit their website.

One of the Top 100 Jazz ALbums of 2018!

So excited to discover that I made it onto the JazzWeek Top 100 Jazz Albums of 2018 for my release "Straight Ahead"! Thank you to Groov Marketing, my radio guys, great job! And thanks to all of you that checked out the music To see the complete interactive chart, go to https://lnkd.in/geUiuWu