Music Industry News

More on the St. Louis Jazz Cafe

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
January 28, 2009

Following up on a story from last month, there was an interesting comment this past week on the December 26 post about the St. Louis Jazz Cafe, a new music venue scheduled to open in March at 1501 Locust downtown.Responding to the original Post-Dispatch story as well as an earlier commenter here at StLJN, “Anonymous" wrote:“I have it from a source close to the owners of The St Louis Jazz Cafe, that 1) The mention of streaming ...

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Rocky Week Ahead for Music Stocks

Source: HypeBot
January 27, 2009

Wall Street analysts are predicting a very rocky week in the markets with an unusual number of economic reports scheduled for release. With virtually all indexes offering only bad news, stock traders are readying for a wild ride.

That's bad news for the battered music sector and its publicly traded companies, many of whom are trading at or near all time lows. WMG stock has fallen 23% in the last month to near a low of $2.13. The Orchard is ...

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Conte Candoli: Best from the West

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
January 27, 2009

Some of the finest West Coast jazz combo playing of late 1954 appears on Best From the West: Modern Sounds from California (Vols. 1 and 2). These albums were issued by Blue Note as a pair of 10-inch LPs. Frankly, there isn't a drop of filler here, and the playing and compositions, many of which are by Shorty Rogers, swing with a special richness and aggression. As Leonard Feather writes in the original album's liner notes, “this is a wailing ...

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Other Places: A Bud Shank Profile

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
January 27, 2009

The current offering on Steve Cerra's Jazz Profiles web log is part one of an extensive examination of the career and music of alto saxophonist Bud Shank. It incorporates most of the contents of the booklet I wrote for the Mosaic Records boxed set The Pacific Jazz Bud Shank Studio Sessions (1956-1961), long out of print. As he always does, Steve includes personal recollections and lots of photographs. Here is a short excerpt from the Mosaic notes, Shank talking about ...

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Veteran Drummer Bill Bruford Retires from Public Performance

Source: All About Jazz
January 26, 2009

After 41 years spent first in the art rock arena with everyone from Yes and King Crimson to Genesis, in addition to his own inestimable forays into fusion with his critically and popularly praised '70s group Bruford, then turning to things more jazzy from the '80 onwards with various incarnations of his much- heralded Earthworks group and his equally acclaimed improvising duet with pianist Michiel Borstlap, veteran drummer Bill Bruford has announced he's hanging up his sticks and and retiring ...

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Obama's Secret Record Collection

Source: All About Jazz
January 25, 2009

Rolling Stone has already told you what’s on Barack Obama’s iPod — but he’s got another wicked record collection literally under him. The official White House Record Library is stored in the mansion’s basement and includes several hundred landmark LPs (many of which appears on Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, in fact). So what’s this collection about, how did it start and what’s it in?

When Barack Obama moved into the White House on January 20th, he ...

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Rocking Cincinnatis R&B Cradle

Source: Michael Ricci
January 25, 2009

King Records employees in the labels shipping department in the 1950s, early on were proof King adopted an integration policy, and some management positions were occupied by African-Americans.

Among the artists on the King roster were the Stanley Brothers, top; James Brown, center, who cut Papas Got a New Bag for the label; and the saxophonist Earl Bostic, above right, with Kings owner, Syd Nathan.

King started as a so-called hillbilly label in 1943; moved into race music the onetime ...

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The Band on Bruce: The Springsteen They Know

Source: All About Jazz
January 25, 2009

A candid look at the legend from his “greatest friends" - the E Street Band. The E Street Band are the people who know Bruce Springsteen best, and in his own words, “They are my greatest friendships, my deepest friendships irreplaceable things."

Springsteen started the band in 1972, gave it its official name two years later and recorded some of his most iconic albums Born to Run, Darkness on the Edge of Town, The River, Born in the U.S.A. with ...

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