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Live Concert Business is a Broken Model
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Michael Ricci
It's hard to think of Tim Leiweke, chief executive of AEG, which owns the L.A. Kings hockey team, as an underdog.
He's orchestrated concerts for the likes of Bon Jovi, Black Eyed Peas and Celine Dion. His company, Anschutz Entertainment Group, owns some of the world's biggest venues, including Staples Center, Target Center and The O2, a 20,000 seat arena in London, just to name a few. Leiweke also pulled the strings to develop the new $2.5 billion L.A. Live ...
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Fred Hersch = Lebron James?
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Inverted Garden by Eric Benson
Fred at the piano is like LeBron James on the basketball court. He's perfection. – Jason Moran
David Hajdu's recent New York Times Magazine profile of pianist Fred Hersch is an odd amalgam of hyperbolic praise (above), made-up trends ("A new movement in jazz has surfaced over the past few years—a wave of highly expressive music more concerned with emotion than with craft or virtuosity"), and out-of-the-blue pot-shots ("Fred's ego is enormous.") That said, there's a pretty moving ...
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ARC for the Week of February 1, 2010
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Two for the Show Media
ARC for the week of February 1, 2010: Music industry news and label headlines from the Artists Recording Collective (ARC). SUMI TONOOKA/ERICA LINDSAY - ARC is pleased to announce that Initiation, the dynamic new Artists Recording Collective CD by pianist Sumi Tonooka (pronounced To-NO-ka) and tenor saxophonist Erica Lindsay, entered the JazzWeek Charts at #39 and continues to garner both, significant terrestrial radio airplay and positive review commentary from jazz critics and music fans alike.
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Trumpeter Anthony Wiggins Hospitalized
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Local trumpeter and jazz educator Anthony Wiggins is in the hospital after suffering a brain aneurysm last week. According to Phil Dunlap of Jazz St. Louis, where Wiggins is one of the instructors in the JazzU program for student musicians in middle school and high school, “He was airlifted to SLU hospital last week (Wednesday evening/Thursday morning) due to a brain aneurysm. They didn't have to do brain surgery but there was a procedure he had to undergo and he ...
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Jazz This Week: Dianne Reeves and Peter Martin, Lou Donaldson, Flow, St. Louis Musicians for Haiti, and More
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
It's looking like a very good weekend of live music in St. Louis, with a number of events of interest to fans of jazz and creative music. Let's go to the highlights, presented in chronological order:Things get started tonight with the veteran saxophonist Lou Donaldson (pictured), who's back in town to perform at Jazz at the Bistro through Saturday. For more on Donaldson, see this video post from a couple of weeks ago, and this recent podcast interview ...
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Notes from the Net: More on WSQ and M'boom; Metheny's Orchestrion Released; Plus News, Reviews, Interviews, and More
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Here's the latest compilation of assorted news briefs and links related to jazz, improvisation, and creative music in St. Louis, including news of musicians originally from the Gateway City, recent visitors, and coming attractions, plus assorted other items of interest:* In the latest Miles Davis-related news, Lucid Jazz Lounge in Seattle just put on a multi-show tribute to Miles and the different eras of his career featuring trumpeters Owuor Arunga, Scott Morning, Ahamefule J. Oluo and Jason Parker. ...
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Duncan Sheik to Compose 'American Psycho' Musical
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Michael Ricci
Drenched in equal parts blood and hit '80s pop tunes, Bret Easton Ellis' novel “American Psycho" chronicled the fissured state of mind of Patrick Bateman, a homicidal New York yuppie who harbored a taste for designer suits and blunt instruments. The 1991 novel's runaway success spawned a movie starring Christian Bale, which opened in 2000. A musical theater adaptation has been in the works for a while and now appears to be on the fast track, with Duncan Sheik signed ...
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