Fuller Street Music

Fuller Street Music and the lessons of the online music business...

2011-08-23T09:35:00.001-07:00

The online music business is still evolving.

So the Fuller Street Music label is the home of a number of artists from Andy McWain (piano, eletric piano, composer), to Trine featuring Jim Robitaille, Rick Britto, and drummer Chris Poudrier, bassist Albey Balgochian and veteran drummer Laurence Cook, vocalist Sofia Koutsovitis, guitarist Kevin Frenette, and composer/guitarist Kareem Roustom, and others. It's been an interesting road from original art multi-panel digipacks, to full-color CD cardboard sleeves, to digital download-only releases.

The interesting progression from our first recording in 2003 to the present is the amazing shift in the music industry away from traditional CDs, record stores, and that former entertainment and music business model. For the whole industry the move to online music business is nearly complete, and compact discs are used mostly to get airplay, and to sell at live performances. Once radio stations have ported over completely, then the change will be permanent.

One issue is that the iTunes music store, and others, are selling music as mp3s at a lower resolution than these recordings were originally recorded, mastered, or released at. This is a huge problem! In some ways the music buying public has been buying sub-standard product for years. I wonder if Apple will ever correct this after the infrastructure can handle full audio quality streams, downloads, and purchases.

Live jazz - duo, trio, quartet, and more!

2011-05-18T12:52:00.000-07:00

To hire live jazz musicians for performances throughout Massachusetts and Rhode Island (Cape Cod, to Boston, to Newport, RI, and beyond)... (and throughout New England) please EMAIL: andymcwain@gmail.com - Contact us for LIVE eclectic jazz and improvised music styles for a wide range of functions from concerts, galleries, clubs, restaurants, wedding cocktail hours, private parties/functions, corporate events, and more...CONTACT: 617-899-8436 for availablity (please include date, location, and other details..) THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST IN FULLER STREET MUSIC

LIVE JAZZ PERFORMANCES in New England...

2010-05-08T10:31:00.000-07:00

To hire live jazz musicians for performances throughout Massachusetts and Rhode Island (Cape Cod, to Boston, to Newport, RI, and beyond)... (and throughout New England) please EMAIL: livejazz@fullerstreetmusic.com - Contact us for LIVE eclectic jazz and improvised music styles for a wide range of functions from concerts, galleries, clubs, restaurants, wedding cocktail hours, private parties/functions, corporate events, and more...CONTACT: 617-899-8436 for availablity (please include date, location, and other details..) THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST IN FULLER STREET MUSIC.

LIVE JAZZ PERFORMANCES in New England...

2008-05-26T20:31:00.001-07:00

To hire live jazz musicians for performances throughout Massachusetts and Rhode Island (Cape Cod, to Boston, to Newport, RI, and beyond)... (and throughout New England) please EMAIL: livejazz@fullerstreetmusic.com - Contact us for LIVE eclectic jazz and improvised music styles for a wide range of functions from concerts, galleries, clubs, restaurants, wedding cocktail hours, private parties/functions, corporate events, and more...CONTACT: livejazz@fullerstreetmusic.com for availablity (please include date, location, and other details..) THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST IN FULLER STREET MUSIC.

Andy McWain Ensemble: Resemblance

2008-01-29T08:40:00.000-08:00

The latest project by the Andy McWain Ensemble: RESEMBLANCE (fuller street music, fsm 3146) has been released as mp3's on cdBaby, and Apple iTunes, and soon on a number of other digital download sites. This project features music from two separate recording sessions: one with Assif Tsahar (tenor sax/bass cl), Albey Balgochian (elec upright bass), and Chris Poudrier (dr/perc) with Andy McWain on acoustic piano; and another session with Sofia Koutsovitis (voc), Rick Britto (sax). Jeremy Udden (sax), David Landoni (acoustic bass), and Chris Poudrier (dr/perc) with Andy McWain on elec piano...) VERY Soon! Recorded, Mixed and mastered at three studios around Massachusetts, this will be a digital distribution/digital download-only project.

New TRINE CD in November 2007!

2007-11-12T10:57:00.000-08:00

TRINE: Politics (fsm 3980-2) featuring Jim Robitaille, guitar; Rick Britto, saxophone, and Chris Poudrier, drums was released in November (street date: 11/20/07). It is available at live performances by TRINE and online through Jimrobitaille.com. Other DIRECT online sources will be added as soon as they are available.

Label Overview

2007-02-25T13:54:00.001-08:00

FULLER STREET MUSIC:

*Kevin Frenette 4: CONNECTIONS (fsm 1781)
[featuring Kevin Frenette, guitar; Andy McWain, piano; Todd Keating, bass; Tatsuya Nakatani, drums]

*McWain/Balgochian/Cook: VIGIL (fsm 2166)
[featuring Andy McWain, piano; Albey Balgochian, bass; Laurence Cook, drums]

*Kareem Roustom/El-Zafeer Ensemble: ALMITRA'S QUESTION (fsm 8057)
[featuring Kareem Roustom, guitar; Hanna Khoury, violin; Danny Dunlap, bass; Catherine Alexander, percussion; Souhail Kaspar, percussion; Karim Nagi Mohammed, percussion; Fernando Huergo, bass; Ronit Kirchman, violin]

*Andy McWain Quartet: STARFISH (fsm 8854)
[featuring Andy McWain, piano; Assif Tsahar, tenor sax/bass clarinet; Noah Jarrett, bass; Chris Poudrier, drums]

FULLER STREET MUSIC, P.O. Box 79106, North Dartmouth, MA 02747-0990, USA;

New: Kevin Frenette CD coming out in March 2007!

2007-02-25T06:10:00.000-08:00

KEVIN FRENETTE 4: Connections (Fuller Street Music xxxx-2), 2007

Kevin Frenette, guitar
Andy McWain, piano
Todd Keating, bass
Tatsuya Nakatani, drums

Recorded August 2006 at 7A West Studios, Charlestwon, MA (Michael Caglianone, engineer).

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BIO: Kevin Frenette has performed and/or recorded with such artists as Tatsuya Nakatani, Andy McWain, Jonathan LaMaster, Andrew Hickman, Eric Platz, Todd Keating, Erik VanDam and Gabe Cabral. He holds a BA in Theory/Composition from UMass-Dartmouth and has performed throughout the Northeast US. Kevin currently works with the quartet SRUTI (with Keating, VanDam and Cabral), and has recently debuted a new ensemble with Keating, LaMaster, Hickman and Platz. Kevin is also a freelance recording engineer.

Fuller Street Music --- New Indie label blog

2007-02-25T06:08:00.000-08:00

Fuller Street Music has been putting out discs since 2002-03, but now it seems that the indie label format and a 'blog-site' go together so well..