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News: Performance / Tour

Felix Peikli Quartet Performs at Regattabar Courtyard Series on Monday, August 1

August 1, 2011

Norway's jazz clarinet master Felix Peikli and his quarter perform at the Regattabar Courtyard Series on Monday, August 1, 2011 from 6:00׮:00 p.m. in the Courtyard at the Charles Hotel in Harvard Square, Cambridge. The event is free and open to the public. The concert is part of the Berklee Summer Concert Series. To view a ...

News: Recording

Rich Halley Quartet - Requiem for a Pit Viper (2011)

August 1, 2011

Last year we introduced a really good avanteer to this site in Rich Halley, a lively and imaginative saxophonist and composer who would probably be more of a household name if he were in Chicago or New York instead of Portland, Oregon. Or played in a world-renowned venue like the Village Vanguard instead of Potter Valley, ...

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News: Recording

Dar Williams - The Beauty of the Rain (2003)

August 1, 2011

By Mark Saleski One day back in 1996, I was on my way to work and heard this terrific song ... about a kid playing in the backyard? Refusing to wear a shirt? Huh?! It's a girl? What the hell?! This turned out to be “When I Was A Boy" from Dar Williams' The Honestly Room. ...

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News: Recording

Jackie McLean - One Step Beyond (Blue Note, 1963)

August 1, 2011

During the mid-to-late 1960's, alto saxophonist and composer Jackie McLean cut a number of recordings with a rotating cast of fellow instrumentalists that had one foot squarely in the bebop and hard-bop camp, and and the other foot searching and probing for what lay with the freedom expressed by the likes of Ornette Coleman and Cecil ...

News: Music Industry

Why Vinyl Pressing Plants Keep Raising Red Flags...

August 1, 2011

The simple version is that growing demand for vinyl will result in more capacity to handle that demand. Certainly makes sense over the long-term, though right now, it's just not that simple. For starters, there are a lot of sticky production and expansion issues surrounding the recent surge in vinyl, including a deepsuspicion among pressing plants ...

News: Trends

It's Everywhere: Vinyl Sales Jump 55% in Britain...

July 31, 2011

This is a cross-Atlantic phenomenon, and now we have more numbers to prove it. According to latest stats from the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA), sales of vinyl LPs surged 55 percent in the first half of this year, to 168,296 units. Leading the charge was Radiohead, whose King of Limbs shifted 20,771 copies. But the story ...

News: Video / DVD

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: The Sanborn Chronicles, Part 2

July 31, 2011

Today, we have the second of two posts featuring saxophonist and former St. Louisan David Sanborn, who's celebrating his 66th birthday today. Sanborn will be back in town to play a concert with keyboardist George Duke and bassist Marcus Miller next Sunday, August 7 at the Touhill Performing Arts ...

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News: Recording

Asylum Street Spankers - Mercurial (2004)

July 31, 2011

By Tom Johnson Spinning up Mercurial was like jumping in a time machine set for somewhere around 60-75 years ago. The Asylum Street Spankers bravely blazed their own trail far outside of mainstream music, offering pre-Charlie Parker swing jazz and jump-blues that once kept the flappers cavorting across dancefloors all night long. And they were churning ...

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News: Recording

Marquis Hill - New Gospel (2011)

July 31, 2011

Taking in the first solo steps by a budding jazz talent is usually an excursion into a fresh new discovery. Most of time, these performances are polished and if there's originals, they can be surprisingly well developed. Maybe this shouldn't be all that surprising, because before a jazz musician makes that big step into leading a ...

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News: Interview

Observations from Holland: Ntjam Rosie, Tineke Postma

July 31, 2011

The North Sea Jazz Festival in the Netherlands is said to be the biggest indoor fest in the world. I have no argument. It's a tremendous event with quality music from start to finish. Like so many jazz festivals, you'll find rock and pop and soul music as well. Names like Price and Snoop Dogg and ...