Music Enthusiast Television and Play Like Me Music Enter Into Digital Distribution Agreement

March 18, 2009 - PRLog -- Music Enthusiast Television (www.musicenthusiast.tv) announces that it has entered into a digital distribution agreement with Play Like Me Music (www.playlikeme.com), an innovative producer of jazz piano instructional videos and books. Music Enthusiast will work with Play Like me to make available digital versions of their DVD video products over the Internet as well as develop new interactive video content.   Play Like Me features the jazz piano instructional methods of Bill Susman, award winning composer, arranger and recording artist.

Through Music Enthusiast Television, Play Like Me's videos will be available as fully secure downloadable videos.  Music Enthusiast will also produce an ongoing jazz piano video series featuring Bill Susman as part of their streaming video services.  Music Enthusiast will initially offer Bill Susman's popular Holiday Favorites collection as well as his Piano Jazz Chord Method.  Holiday Favorites features Bill's step-by-step video lessons on how to play great jazz arrangements of 12 of the most popular Christmas songs of all time.  He will also work with Music Enthusiast to develop and produce more video instructional programming for Music Enthusiast's streaming and download Internet sites.  Bill's Play Like Me DVDs and books will also continue to be available from Jamie Aebersold Jazz (www.jazzbooks.com).

“Bill Susman is an outstanding and innovative jazz teacher.  We are very exciting about working with Bill and being able to bring his video teaching methods to our audience,” said Randy Whiting, CEO or Music Enthusiast Television.  He further stated “Bill's approach to learning jazz is perfect for on-line video audiences -- he is able to break complex music topics into concise and easy to learn concepts .”

According to Susman, “Music Enthusiast presents a fantastic opportunity not only for me to reach new markets but also to be able to better interact with aspiring jazz pianists around the world.  Working with Music Enthusiast, I'll be able to create new innovative approaches for using on-line video to help students develop and improve their jazz playing styles and techniques.”

About Music Enthusiast TV

Music Enthusiast Television, founded in 2008 with operations in Los Angeles and San Jose, CA., is the video Internet destination for music enthusiasts – people who have a passion for making music. Music Enthusiast produces and delivers streaming video programming on all aspects of playing music from how-to tips and selecting musical equipment to interviews with professionals on how music is produced and recorded.  Additionally, they offer a growing library of downloadable versions of music instructional and performance videos from leading DVD publishers.  With their comprehensive digital rights management and media eCommerce platform, Music Enthusiast provides video publishers a way to safely sell and distribute their DVD videos over the Internet.  

For further information, please visit www.musicenthusiast.tv

About Bill Susman and Play Like Me Music

Bill Susman is a multifaceted artist with a career that spans jazz education and performance to film and modern classical composition.  The innovative and evocative music of William Susman can be heard on CDs, in the concert hall and on film.
He has produced 4 highly popular jazz instructional DVDs as well as the CD “Christmas Cool” with the Bill Susman Trio -- a series of jazz arrangements of great Christmas holiday songs.  In addition to numerous modern classical works, he has also produced and recorded award-winning sound tracks for the documentary films, “The Fate of the Lhapa,” “Oil on Ice,” and “Native New Yorker.”  

For more information on Bill Susman, please visit www.susmanmusic.com

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