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Leila Adu presses her luck with mysterious music video for "Fortuna" single

Source: 4961 Polemics
March 8, 2011

Leila Adu caps European leg of Ode to the Unknown Factory Worker Tour with debut of “Fortuna" ..."Leila Adu is a Revelation..."—Robert Wyatt, legendary founder of Soft Machine and Bjork collaborator “Leila Adu is a rebel-inspirer. And not in the way that calls for the raising of fists, or the hurling of sharp word-blades. Her defiance is decided... Anger isn't its mother. Wonder may be."—Purple Magazine London—Touching down in locales as varied as Los Angeles, London, Rome, Sicily and Berlin, ...

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A Cup of "Ko-Ko"

Source: Riffs on Jazz by John Anderson
March 7, 2011

"Ko-Ko“ was a songrecorded on this date in 1940 by the famous Blanton-Webster version of the DukeEllington Orchestra (bassist Jimmy Blanton and saxophonist Ben Webster werefeatured soloists). Ellington said that the song was meant to evoke CongoSquare in New Orleans (where Louis Armstrong Park is now), a place whereAfrican-Americans gathered on Sundays in the pre-jazz days of the nineteenthcentury to dance to drum music. The Duke originally intended it to be part ofhis musical history that eventually became the jazz ...

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Sat Eye Candy: Dire Straits

Source: JamBase
March 6, 2011

WE COULD DO WORSE FOR OUR SULTAN When Dire Straits went looking for a player to tour the more keyboard heavy Making Movies in 1980, whoever got the job had big shoes to fill—the E Street Band's Roy Bittan had played on the album. Enter Alan Clark, whose deep skill and compositional dexterity strongly influenced the group's subsequent catalog, particularly their worldwide blowout Brothers In Arms. In between his duties with the Straits—with whom he remained until the band's end ...

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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Mardi Gras Time with Glen David Andrews

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
March 6, 2011

It's parade Saturday of Mardi Gras week in St. Louis, which makes it a doubly appropriate time to check out some clips of New Orleans trombonist and vocalist Glen David Andrews, who will be in town next Wednesday, March 9 to play The Gramophone. A protege of New Orleans legend Anthony “Tuba Fats" Lacen, cousin of Troy “Trombone Shorty" Andrews, and brother of Rebirth Brass Band's Derrick Tabb, Andrews draws on jazz, gospel, ...

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George Howard on the Importance of Entrepreneurial Spirit

Source: We All Make Music
March 5, 2011

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D.I.Y. Bootcamp: Audiolife Virtual Storefronts [video]

Source: HypeBot
March 5, 2011

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D.I.Y. Bootcamp: ReverbNation's Michael Dorenberg [video]

Source: HypeBot
March 4, 2011

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Frishberg, Wellstood and Sullivan, Restored

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
March 4, 2011

The Rifftides staff discovered, by chance, that an essential element in a two-and-a-half-year-old entry about Dick Wellstood and two other pianists had suffered the slings and arrows of outrageous YouTube fortune. The video of Wellstood playing was removed by whoever posted it. We managed to find an even better one, so here is the reconstituted piece, including video. Call it a Rifftides encore or golden oldie. This first ran on August 8, 2008. Dick Wellstood has been on my mind. ...

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