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News: Performance / Tour

Zubatto Syndicate Live in Seattle July 21

July 13, 2011

ONE OF SEATTLE'S FRESHEST OTHERWORLDLY TALENTS ZUBATTO SYNDICATE FOLLOW THE RELEASE OF THEIR SELF-TITLED DEBUT AS PART OF EARSHOT JAZZ PRESENTS—JAZZ: THE 2nd CENTURY SERIES also co-featured TRIPTET THE BAND WHO FELL TO EARTH: ZUBATTO SYNDICATE SEATTLE COMPOSER/GUITARIST ANDREW BOSCARDIN'S ZUBATTO SYNDICATE REVAMPS THE BIG BAND TRADITION WITH THEIR DEBUT RELEASE AND LIVE PERFORMANCE THURSDAY, JULY ...

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News: Recording

Wasilewski, Kurkiewicz and Miskiewicz - Trio (2005)

July 10, 2011

By Mark Saleski Back in the mid-1980s, the arrival on the jazz scene of a trumpeter named Wynton Marsalis marked the start of the so-called “young lions" period. Marsalis, along with the like-minded Terence Blanchard, Roy Hargrove and several others, put a (slightly) fresh spin on jazz from the Miles Davis classic quartet years. Some thought ...

News: Recording

Recent Listening: Woods and Mays

July 11, 2011

Phil Woods, Bill Mays, Phil & Bill (Palmetto). A couple of years ago, Mays succeeded Bill Charlap as the pianist in Woods' quintet. He had melded nicely with the alto saxophonist in casual playing encounters over the years. Regular exposure to one another in the working band deepened their empathy, as this collection of nine duets ...

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News: Radio

STLJN Audio Archive: Lester Bowie Quintet Live in Padua, 1978

July 11, 2011

This week's Audio Archive entry comes via the blog Inconstant Sol, and features a commercially unissued live recording of trumpeter and St. Louis native Lester Bowie (pictured) performing with his quintet on April 4, 1978 at Teatro Tenda in Padua, Italy. The set is described by the blogger as “One of the best groups led by ...

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News: Recording

Bill Evans: Sesjun Radio Shows

July 11, 2011

The market for Bill Evans is bottomless. Part of the insatiable demand is nostalgia. Anyone who has been listening to jazz since the '60s or '70s remembers seeing Evans with enormous fondness, and the music transports you back to those evenings. The other part is an unyielding desire to hear great music, and virtually everything Evans ...

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News: Recording

Jeff Golub Band, Featuring Henry Butler - The Three Kings (2011)

July 11, 2011

Jeff Golub, a longtime sideman with Rod Stewart and Billy Squier, has compiled the expected all-star amalgam in this tribute to the blues stylings of The Three Kings—Albert, B.B. and Freddie. Yet it is his guitar work, canny and sharp-edged, that holds everything together. Golub's playing is comprehensive in scope—stinging and raw when it needs to ...

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News: Recording

David Torn - Prezens (2007)

July 11, 2011

By Mark Saleski There are guitarists with “chops," and there are guitarists with “feel." These are not mutually exclusive categories, though the longstanding argument often revolves around the idea that a player with the former seldom has much of the latter. It's a pointless argument, especially when there are examples that go so far out as ...

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News: Recording

Ari Hoenig - Lines of Opression (Naive/Ah-Ha, 2011)

July 11, 2011

Drummer Ari Hoenig has played in a number of jazz bands, especially on the Small's scene in New York City, as well as released a few albums as a leader. On this album he is accompanied by Tigran Hamayan on piano and beat box, Gilad Hekselman on guitar and Orlando Le Fleming and Chris Tordini on ...

News: Video / DVD

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: A Brief Appreciation and Farewell to Reggie and Mardra Thomas

July 10, 2011

The St. Louis jazz scene is losing two outstanding musicians this summer, as keyboardist Reggie Thomas and his wife, singer and actress Mardra Thomas, are moving to East Lansing, MI, where Reggie has accepted a job at Michigan State University. Working together and separately, both have delivered many fine ...

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News: TV / Film

HBO's "Treme" Kept Music a Centerpiece in Season 2

July 10, 2011

Season 2 of the HBO television series Treme just came to a close, and was renewed for a third season. While one might say that an ongoing theme in Season 1 was immediate recovery and adjustment for the city of New Orleans immediately following Hurricane Katrina, and Season 2 examined issues with violence and corruption a ...