Pacific Coast Jazz Services Page

At PCJ we believe the best way to get your music heard is to follow a formula. First, you need great production and sound. You hire the best, the most experienced to accompany you on your recording journey. Second, you need to press your CD in the most beautiful manner possible - we highly suggest the "digipak" format and skip those nasty old jewel cases - they only break in shipping and actually cost more in postage than they're worth. (We had a 10% breakage factor on one of ours!) To make a digipak truly beautiful, you must have a good designer. See below for our two favs and of course for a lot of things you'll need great photography. You need a dependable, high quality manufacturer and we are happy to recommend both Oasis and Discmakers for your manufacturing. For shorter runs we've also used other companies, specifically One Stop Media Shop.

For Musicians

In addition to being an independent label, we are pleased to help other artists market and distribute their music.

With hundreds of jazz records being produced each month, it's a tremendous challenge to get the proper exposure for your music. We can provide the personal insight and guidance you need to plan and execute the right strategies and opportunities for your new CD and your future in the music busienss.

Our services include management of all of your promotion, distribution, retail and advertising needs. What do you have to do? You would be responsible for your share of the cost of all advertising and totally responsible for the cost of your promotional needs including publicity and radio promotion. In addition to Big Daddy Music/EMD Audio working as our international distributor, we have formal arrangements with all the major digital download companies (through our arrangement with IODA), Nielsen Soundscan (where we make weekly gig reports), Muzak, and many others.

If you'd like a 1 hour consultation, please inquire. We can work that out. If you're new to the business, you need to hear some honest facts about the industry. We can help.

If you want to remain independent, and we hope you do, talk to us before you “sign” to a label. We're happy to talk to you about helping you with international distribution and you can do all the promotion stuff on your own. Then you’d have the international distribution that will help in all your other publicity and promotion efforts. We can make it simple and give you the biggest opportunities possible. Be sure to talk to us before you press your CD as there are certain things we need to do first that are part of your artwork that you send to manufacturing. And before you have your master made, don't forget to have your engineer include your ISRC codes!!! It is SO important.

For Labels

Pacific Coast Jazz is now proud to offer help to other inde labels looking for a distribution channel for their artists. We have a wonderful relationship with an international distributor reaching retail accounts here in the United States as well as the countries of Canada, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Benelux, Scandinavia and including Japan, Australia and Brazil. We hope to soon have distribution in Spain as well. PCJ will offer inde labels the opportunity to "pass thru" our distribution channel at similar rates as our own artists without our servicing options. Please refer to our PT page for current users of this service. If you have any questions about the pass thru arrangement, please email us direct here.

For Booking Agents and Buyers

If you're here because you're not a musician, but you're looking for a great band for your event: Pacific Coast Jazz represents several artists that may fit the needs for your special event or fundraiser. These include (but are not limited to) corporate luncheons, dinners, wine tasting events, (silent) auctions, benefits, festivals, and awards ceremonies. They all do weddings and small private parties, openings for new stores and coffee houses, and any other event you can think of. In this specific economic demographic, we appreciate all of the work that you put into making your organization a success. Whether through fundraising events, or business and philanthropic ventures, you are reaching the public in a unique way that we want to help support! Some of our artists donate their time to philanthropic events.

At Pacific Coast Jazz, we provide quality live jazz entertainment within your budget, which can only add to the success of your special event. Reach your prospective and loyal employees, clients, patrons, and donors through music!Let us help set the ambiance while you interact with your colleagues. Leave a lasting impression of your business while supporting live jazz in your community! For more information, please contact Donna Nichols. Her experience in this area will be very helpful to you if you've done this before or if you're new to it.

SOME OF THE GREAT FOLKS THAT WE WORK WITH ARE:

To view our prices for PCJ doing your publicity and promotion, click here.

To view our things for you to include in your CD art, click here.

To view our initial thoughts page, things we need to talk about, click here.

Pacific Coast Jazz has relationships with the following organizations, among others:

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Apple - iPod + iTunes
Barnes & Noble.com
MSN Music
Rhapsody
Ruckus
Tower Records
Yahoo Music