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Heralded as one of the biggest independent rock bands in history, Dispatch hit a major career milestone when they played an outdoor concert in Boston that drew over 110,000 people and were dubbed by Rolling Stone as the hosts of the largest independent music event ever. Three years later, the band continued to impress fans and critics alike with three consecutive shows at New York City’s Madison Square Garden in ties to their philanthropic work in Zimbabwe, becoming the first independent band to sell out the historic venue. In 2011, the band officially reunited to release new material, including a six-song EP and their first full-length studio album since 2000, Circles Around the Sun. They have since embarked on multiple sold out arena tours across the globe

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Post-Dispatch Reports Plans for David Sanborn Jazz Festival in St. Louis

Post-Dispatch Reports Plans for David Sanborn Jazz Festival in St. Louis

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman

This just in:The St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Kevin Johnson has reported that plans are underway for a new jazz festival in St. Louis. The event would bear the name of, and be headlined by, saxophonist and St. Louis native David Sanborn (pictured) and would take place in September 2013 in the Grand Center neighborhood. The story reports that the proposed David Sanborn Jazz Festival could run from one to three days, including both free outdoor shows and ticketed indoor concerts. The ...

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Event

Jazz Concert on Friday, August 26 to Benefit Family of Police Dispatcher

Jazz Concert on Friday, August 26 to Benefit Family of Police Dispatcher

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman

Trumpeter Jim Manley's Wild, Cool and Swingin' Orchestra (pictured) and singers Dean Christopher and Valerie Tichacek will perform in a benefit concert at 8:00 p.m., Friday, August 26 at the Parkway United Church of Christ, 2841 N. Ballas Rd. Proceeds from the performance will benefit the children of Lisa O'Brien, a police dispatcher in Town and Country who died suddenly last month at age 31 of complications from a respiratory illness. O'Brien is survived by her husband, a five-year-old son ...

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Interview

A Dispatch from Steve Lantner.

A Dispatch from Steve Lantner.

Source: Brilliant Corners, a Boston Jazz Blog

Mr Lantner works an acoustic piano like a trumpeter working different mutes. Of all the exemplary pianists who are regulars at the Outpost, Steve is the only one to really open the thing up, literally. He removes all removeable covers so the thing can really resonate getting into its sonic quintessence. He doesn't want a single potential sonic nuance to be hemmed in by cabinetry. And the best part is he always puts it impeccably back together exactly the way ...

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Interview

Vijay Iyer Featured in Post-Dispatch

Vijay Iyer Featured in Post-Dispatch

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman


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Recording

Notable Dispatches from the Edge of Jazz and Beyond

Notable Dispatches from the Edge of Jazz and Beyond

Source: Michael Ricci

1. VIJAY IYER TRIO Historicity (ACT) Those who admire a lot of jazz want historical synthesis like a child of divorced parents wants a family reunion. Why cant there be a new jazz trio that does it all one thats flexible, intuitive and strategic, not lugubrious, arid or jammy-boring, and a repository of postwar piano-trio lessons, from Ahmad Jamal to free jazz and beyond? And why cant it go hard into repertory, covering M.I.A., Leonard Bernstein, Julius Hemphill, Stevie Wonder ...

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Performance / Tour

Neville Brothers, Dr. John Reviewed in Post-Dispatch

Neville Brothers, Dr. John Reviewed in Post-Dispatch

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman

On a Sunday evening when the Grammy Awards took center stage in Los Angeles, a pair of legendary New Orleans acts, the Neville Brothers and Dr. John, were the center of attention in St. Louis, turning in memorable performances at the Sheldon Concert Hall. After receiving a Grammy award hours earlier for Best Contemporary Blues Album, Dr. John took the stage first at “Mardi Gras Mambo," the Friends of the Sheldon winter benefit concert. Dr. John's musical roots go back ...

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Performance / Tour

Harry Connick Jr. Holiday Show Reviewed in Post-Dispatch

Harry Connick Jr. Holiday Show Reviewed in Post-Dispatch

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman


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Festival

Guitar Festival Reviewed in Post-Dispatch

Guitar Festival Reviewed in Post-Dispatch

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman


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SLSO Guitar Festival Previewed in Post-Dispatch

SLSO Guitar Festival Previewed in Post-Dispatch

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman

The Sunday edition of the Post-Dispatch has an article by classical music critic Sarah Bryan Miller previewing the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra's Guitar Festival, which will take place this week at the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, The Pageant, and Powell Symphony Hall. The five concerts will include performances of music by Pat Metheny, Frank Zappa, Jimi Hendrix and Edgard Varese, as well as “Hallucination City," a Glenn Branca piece scored for 100 electric guitars, and orchestral fare including two ...

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Music Industry

Dispatches from the End of the Jazz Wars

Dispatches from the End of the Jazz Wars

Source: All About Jazz

By Darcy James Argue We've heard it all before: Classical music is dead. Punk is dead. Hip hop is dead. Jazz is dead. Whatever the musical genre, you can be sure that someone somewhere is saying it's dead. Apparently, musical death is, like death in superhero comics, both ubiquitous and impermanent. That's not to say that a marginal art form like jazz doesn't face special challenges in this brave new post-music-industry era. Online sales of classical music have been surprisingly ...

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