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STLJN Audio Archive: Black Artists Group - Ofamfa: Children of the Sun
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
For this week's Audio Archive post, we delve into the history St. Louis' Black Artists Group and revisit Ofamfa: Children of the Sun, BAG's first-ever LP release issued in 1971 on their own Universal Justice imprint. Preserved online thanks to the music sharing blog Nothing Is II, Ofamfa largely features the poetry of BAG co-founder Bruce “Ajulé" Rutlin with musical accompaniment from an ensemble of musicians including such now-familiar names as saxophonist Oliver Lake, drummer Charles “Bobo" Shaw and trumpeter ...
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Jamie Ousley's Worldwide Performance On WLRN's South Fla. Arts Beat, 4/27/12
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Ed Bell
South Florida Arts Beat Friday, April 27th, 2012 With JAMIE OUSLEY This grand musician is a professor of Jazz bass at Florida International University. He was recently named “Best South Florida Jazz Musician of 2011" by Boca Life Magazine and his previous CD, “Back Home", was named “Best South Florida Jazz Release of 2010" by The Palm Beach Post. His latest recording, “A Sea Of Voices", is a marvelous new Jazz release featuring diverse ...
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This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: A Conversation With Benny Carter Biographer Ed Berger
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Don Mopsick
This week Riverwalk Jazz recalls the 9-decade career of saxophonist, trumpeter, composer, and arranger Benny Carter with music and memories from the maestro himself and an interview with Ed Berger, Associate Director of the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University. Berger was Carter’s road manager and one of the authors of the definitive biography, Benny Carter: A Life in American Music. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be ...
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Tribute To Bass Legend Milt Hinton This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week, Riverwalk Jazz presents a legacy broadcast featuring the iconic bassist Milt Hinton in a 1991 performance with The Jim Cullum Jazz Band, live at The Landing in San Antoniio. Milt was 81. Milt Hinton used to say, “A person has to have lived to play great jazz…Unless you’ve lived, what could you say on your instrument?” Milt Hinton had plenty to say in his thousands of recordings, with his lively storytelling, and in some 60,000 black and white ...
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SoundExchange Gets 90% of It's Revenue from SiriusXM and Pandora
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HypeBot
SoundExchange collected 90% of it's 2011 revenue from only two sources: SiriusXM and Pandora, according to new analysis from Live365 general counsel Angus MacDonald. The dominance of just two income sources is particularly poignant at a time when SiriusXM is leading an effort to by-pass SoundExchange entirely and pay rightsholders directly. Based on court filings from SirisXM, MacDonald estimates their royalty payments to SoundExchange at $200 million in 2011. Based on SEC filings, Pandora's payments to SoundExchange totaled $136.3 million ...
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STLJN Audio Archive: The Leon Thomas Album
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
For this week's installment of the StLJN Audio Archive, we revisit The Leon Thomas Album, originally issued by the late singer and East St. Louisan Leon Thomas in 1970 on the now-defunct Flying Dutchman label. In contrast to Thomas' sparse debut recording. Spirits Known and Unknown, which positioned him as part of the music's avant-garde, his second album as a leader features a full band arranged by saxophonist and St. Louis native Oliver Nelson and including a number of well-known ...
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Dick Hyman's Life In Music This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
In a recent edition of “A Blog Supreme" on NPR Jazz, Dick Hyman was referred to as “A Living, Breathing Encyclopedia Of Jazz." This week, Riverwalk Jazz celebrates the music of Dick Hyman. Hyman discusses the musical influences that shaped his career, and he joins The Jim Cullum Jazz Band on pieces by his favorite composers, including George Gershwin, James P. Johnson and Bix Beiderbecke. Dick recalls his long collaboration with the late trumpeter Ruby Braff in a duet with ...
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Anatomy of a Recording Session... "Standard Domain"
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The Independent Ear by Willard Jenkins
Last December, as saxophonist-educator Paul Carr and his wife Karmen Carr were busily locking down the forthcoming 3rd annual edition of their late winter Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival, Paul invited this writer to a recording session for his summer 2012 release Standard Domain. Having worked with Paul and Karmen to develop the Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival, which arose from the ashes of the late East Coast Jazz Festival, I was also eager to catch at least part of the recording session because ...
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