Results for "AAJ Staff"

Down-Home Funk and Hard Bop on Native Soul's "Soul Step"

July 29, 2011

A soulful way is what the Native Soul quartet brings to the table. Their second release Soul Step (Talking Drum 2010) gives the listener a generous 70 minutes of originals and standards that cover a kind of updated approach to the funk (in the Horace Silver sense) and late hard bop current as part of the ...

Jazz This Week: Good 4 the Soul, Lowdown Brass Band, Bonerama, All That Tap XX, and More

July 30, 2011

While the summer weather here in St. Louis continues to define the word “sweltering," this week also brings a variety of jazz and creative music suitable for beating the heat. Let's see what's coming up... Tonight, the summer edition of the Jazz at Holmes Series at Washington University wraps up with a free concert from The ...

The Jazz Session #296: Joe Fiedler

July 30, 2011

Music Marketing on Stumbleupon = Surfing the Web?

July 29, 2011

Though StumbleUpon is a major source of web traffic referrals it doesn't get the deluge of headline stories that other major social networks that refer lots of web traffic tend to get from music, tech and marketing blogs. Perhaps that's because the basic concept of StumbleUpon, discovering things on the web based on recommendations presented in ...

Earbits Leverages Online Radio to Promote Local Concerts

July 29, 2011

Earbits, a commercial-free music streaming service masked as a music-marketing platform, has found a unique way to convert Internet radio listeners to potential concert attendees. Recognizing that the live element is where most artists enjoy the bulk of their income, Earbits wisely focuses on getting fans to shows instead of pushing digital downloads. Available as a ...

Study: Global Digital Music Revenues to Almost Triple by 2015

July 29, 2011

Global digital music revenues will more than double from $7.4 billion in 2010 to 20.1 billion by 2015, according to the new Digital Music Market Outlook by Companies And Markets. That's a compound annual growth rate of 22.1% over the period. Subscriptions will be the fastest growing segment, growing at a 60.8% CAGR to 2015. In ...

Bandmix Improves Musicians Classifieds

July 29, 2011

Bandmix is a fairly simple classifieds service featuring musicians seeking other musicians with which to play. While other features are offered, including an active forum section, the musicians listings seem to be the key focus. There are plenty of listings and searches by location and by instruments revealed quite a bit of diversity so that ups ...

Lee Konitz, with Frank Wunsch - Insight (2011)

July 29, 2011

An interesting recording from a period in which Lee Konitz wasn't always all that interesting. The saxophonist appears on these dates, recorded between 1989-94, alone and with German pianist Frank Wunsch. Konitz completists will remember his 1990 Nabel recording S'Nice with Munsch's trio, a graceful if not all that interesting aside. Here, however, we find Konitz ...

Billy Bang Quintet Featuring Frank Lowe - Above and Beyond (2007)

July 29, 2011

By Mark Saleski It can be a tough thing to witness an aging musician head toward (or past) the point of no return. For me, the worst example was Miles. Sure he played that concert with Quincy at Montreux but the power behind the man with the horn just wasn't there. There are counterexamples out there. ...

Archie Shepp - For Losers/Kwanza (Impulse! 2011)

July 29, 2011

Archie Shepp started his career as a new thing firebrand, an acolyte of John Coltrane and a fierce advocate for civil rights. By the time these sessions were recorded in the late 60's and early 70's, Shepp had changed—developing a funky style of R&B tinged jazz that wasn't exactly fusion, but definitely showed an awareness of ...