Circuit City’s Liquidation To Harm Jazz Musicians

If you are still able to listen the the news, you must have heard that Circuit City, will be closing all of its stores, and thus leaving 34000 employees jobless - this due to the very tough economic times.
The Seattle Weekly’s blog Reverb posted an article with the following

Julie Porter, a publicist at the Concord Music Group, home of artists such as Spyro Gyra, Gerald Albright, Najee, and Boney James, notes in an email to the Weekly that Circuit City “was definitely a key partner and at one time could be as high as 25% of market share for some of our smooth jazz records.” Though that number had been declining recently, she says.

Its a bit like ripples on the water, with the effects growing wider and wider and wider… these artists are going to need to be innovative as to there marketing techniques.

Via Jazz, The Music of Unemployment

(OMG - I have just noticed the more than weird connection between the name of the source of this story and its topic.)