Bruford gone from Spotify/Apple

Hard to say ... I've read his Autobiography twice now, and still can not find a nice way to write about it, without feeling ... well ... attuned to the wrong point, or view.

Bill has the right to do as he sees fit, and if he is selling enough, he would not need Spotify or Apple ... which was the case for the Beatles with Apple ... guess who came over with huge offers? Spotify, is probably going to get in trouble sooner or later, for not handling folks properly ... by sharing money not based on its use, but based on Variety and other record company products to divide the money, which means that the lesser, and more independent artists are not going to get their fair share and more than likely they are selling more than a good third of the record company's folks ... but then, the record company is not stupid ... it will have a robot requesting a song 2 times per hour ... so a Bill Bruford request is not going to be there as many times, thus, he would likely not get a whole lot.

Bill states in his book that he is wanting to retire and simply enjoy life and smell the roses, and not have to deal with the whole dishonest side of that business that been a thorn on his side, that has taken away a lot of his energy to create such lively and different works every where he went.  That part is not appreciated at all ... and when you hear Rachel Flowers make sure that the little details that are not shown on the KC mixes and remixes at all, you can only smile and say ... wow ... that was cool ... but we didn't bother!

My thoughts, are the he might just close it all down, and no CD will ever be available again as long as he is alive. I find it crazy and silly, but the hope is that he has found something better to carry his work ... and we need to have a music Spotify JUST FOR JAZZ instead of it being buried in the middle of so many bands, that don't even do serious music.

But I think some folks will think I'm elitist ... it's the same thing for classical music ... Spotify and Apple are killing it, because the kids don't listen to the other stuff ... and the media makes it look like Beethoven now is just another minor composer in the 1920's that wrote a song for some black singer that no one knows or has heard!

Ohhhh, btw, breaking up a symphony into 5 songs ... instead of its 5 movements ... that ought to tell you how intelligent some of those services are ... it's not about the music ... it's about how much they can rip you off!