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| Kansas City Jazz Label Chooses CD Baby With a brand new release by label co-founder, Alaadeen, titled “New Africa Suite”, making its commercial release in July 2005, 'ASR RECORDS management felt that the label needed to find a viable solution for secure online CD sales and major digital distribution. Especially since the new CD had been generating its own “buzz” and has already been met with qualified critical praise by professional jazz critics and fellow artists like Bobby Watson. Live sales have also been good and “New Africa Suite” has started to hit numerous jazz reporting station radio program playlists. “We simply found an urgent need to find a solution and collectively decided to go with CD Baby mostly due to their reputation for e-commerce reliability, proven loyalty to artists and sales accounting credibility. Our roster has grown significantly since the label was founded over 10 years ago, we needed to have this vital area resolved for our artists' consideration, ” stated co-founder and CEO, Victoria “Fanny” Dunfee. In addition to Alaadeen's, “New Africa Suite” being available at CD Baby, label mate Chris Burnett's critically praised debut, “Time Flies” is also now in the CD Baby store. Today, 'ASR RECORDS has a string of more than a dozen new releases from many of the prolific roster artists that are now in the release schedule pipeline as well. All of the 'ASR RECORDS Artists plan on going with CD Baby... Upcoming release highlights to date include: Erica Lindsay has four new CDs completed; Sumi Tonooka has both, a trio and quartet project completed; Chris Burnett has completed writing and arranging all of the original music for three brand new CDs for his “Quartet Music” series of releases ready to go into the studio; the improvisational group, Trace Elements has three new live dates scheduled for release; and, the list goes on. “Empowerment of the artist is what we are about, and CD Baby provides a vital empowerment resource to independent musicians. All of this great service, accounting of sales, and commitment to each client comes at a very reasonable price. I feel good about this releationship and have only one minor consideration that we could eventually have all of the 'ASR RECORDS titles linked together in the same location on the CD Baby store website somehow, but our web team can figure out how to do that type of thing on our end, ” adds co-founder, Alaadeen. write your comments about the article :: © 2005 Jazz News :: home page |