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The Benefits - And Risks - Of a Residency

July 9, 2011

[Editor's Note: The following is the first in a series of articles by Ryan Sweeney about getting a residency for your band] A residency is a phenomenal opportunity to give fans something unique. Though they come in all shapes and sizes—three or four shows on consecutive nights, one show a week for several weeks; promoter pays ...

Harrison Bankhead Sextet - Morning Sun Harvest Moon (Engine Records, 2011)

July 9, 2011

Long a mainstay on the Chicago jazz scene as a sought after sideman, bassist Harrison Bankhead assumes the leadership role on this album which includes Ed Wilkerson on tenor saxophone and clarinets, Mars Williams on saxophones, James Sanders on violin and Avreeayl Ra and Ernie Adams on percussion. The music has a wide ranging experimental flow ...

Vinyl Sales Already up 41% on the Year...

July 9, 2011

Children of the Blue Supermarket: Dan Raphael's Poetry Melds with Rich Halley's Jazz

July 9, 2011

Poetry-Jazz collaborations can vary wildly from the “Why?" to the “Wow!" The poetry of course should be worth hearing. But equally, the recitation should have a dynamism of pitch-speech performance excitement. Then of course the jazz needs to relate to all that and in the end be jazz that's worth hearing alongside the poetic meanings evoked. ...

Stan Getz - The Complete Columbia Albums Collection

July 9, 2011

Know what's really cool to a music lover? When record labels that own a big chunk of an important artist's output release it as thoroughly, as nicely and as affordably as Sony is doing in its “The Complete" reissue series available on the newly-launched online retailer Pop Market. Pop Market at popmarket.com is a resource for ...

Son of a Preacher Man

July 9, 2011

In the late 1960s British singing sensation Dusty Springfield (1939-99) signed to Atlantic Records, home of one of her soul idols, Aretha Franklin, in the hopes of reinvigorating her career and boosting her artistic credibility. She wanted to make a true soul album with some of the folks who made some of the finest American soul ...

Interview: Donald Fagen

July 8, 2011

Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, co-founders of Steely Dan,  wrote the soundtrack for anyone who attended college in the 1970s. Their music was adored by dorm-bound jazz heads who wanted modern music but didn't want to give up the sound of horns and an acoustic piano. For today's Wall Street Journal (go here), I interviewed Mr. ...

Cornet Chop Suey to Record Live CD on Tuesday, July 19 at the Sheldon Concert Hall

July 8, 2011

The traditional jazz and swing band Cornet Chop Suey (pictured) will record their next CD in a live session at 7:00 p.m., Tuesday, July 19 at the Sheldon Concert Hall. They've already got a title—Mr. Lucky, from the Henry Mancini composition—and they should be quite familiar with the surroundings, as their most recent CD prior to ...

All That Tap XX Set for Saturday, July 30 at the Touhill

July 8, 2011

As noted here before, jazz music and tap dancing have been connected throughout the history of both art forms, and tap dancing has been an interest of a number of notable jazz musicians, including drummers such as Buddy Rich (who started in show business as a child tap dancer), Max Roach and Louis Bellson. St. Louis ...

Business Journal Says Jazz St. Louis to Launch Major Fundraising Drive for New Building, Endowment

July 8, 2011

In a story in this week's edition (July 1- 7), the St. Louis Business Journal reports that Jazz St. Louis plans to launch a major fundraising effort to create an endowment and build a new headquarters and performance facility. The report by E.B. Solomont of the Business Journal staff says that with a price tag estimated ...