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News: Video / DVD

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Six Favorites from the Jazz Crusaders

June 5, 2011

Today, let's check out some clips of the Jazz Crusaders, who will be in St. Louis next Saturday, June 11 to play a concert at the Touhill Performing Arts Center under the auspices of Jazz St. Louis. The four original Crusaders - pianist Joe Sample, saxophonist Wilton Felder, trombonist ...

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News: Recording

Dave Grusin "Mulholland Falls"

June 5, 2011

While Dave Grusin has crafted many a musically memorable soundtrack, highlights of which probably include The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter (1968), The Yakuza (1974), Three Days of the Condor (1975), On Golden Pond (1981) and Tootsie (1982), he is probably a more remarkable and more remarkably unheralded sound colorist, expertly matching music so seamlessly to ...

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News: Festival

If It's Tuesday, This Must Be My Picks for Day Five of the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival

June 5, 2011

Tuesday at the XRIJF includes some familiar returning names and some new to me...just another night at the festival. This evening will be one that I float through and perhaps make changes midstream (for me, that can also be just another night at the festival). I'm keeping my main picks to 3, but it is not ...

News: Obituary

Ray Bryant, 1931-2011

June 5, 2011

Ray Bryant died on Thursday in a New York hospital following a long illness. He was 79. A pillar of modern mainstream piano, Bryant was often categorized as a blues pianist. He was certainly that, a great one, but his stylistic breadth,powerful swing and harmonic flexibility put him in demand not only by blues singers and ...

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News: Recording

Gonzalo Rubalcaba -- Fe' ... Faith (2011)

June 5, 2011

By Nick DeRiso Intense and beautiful, Cuban pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba's new Fe' ... Faith, is this meditative wonder. Like the earth making its inevitable yearly circle, Rubalcaba returns time after time to themes and thoughts—but never approaches things exactly the same twice. Across 15 solo piano pieces, he eventually smashes through barriers between jazz, classical and ...

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News: Book / Magazine

How to Get a Booking Agent to Book Your Band

June 4, 2011

Finding venues to perform and scheduling performances can be tedious. On Music Think Tank, Dave Cool has a simple answer to people looking for a professional booking agent. He states that, "By far the best way to get a professional booking agent is for bands to book themselves until the point where they are selling out ...

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News: Recording

Helen Sung - (Re)Conception (Steeplechase, 2011)

June 4, 2011

Pianist and composer Helen Sung is one of the new vanguard of young musicians re-making the mainstream jazz firmament in her own way by re- interpreting standards and adding her own original repertoire to the mix. On this album, she performs in a trio setting, accompanied by the extraordinary rhythm section of Peter Washington on bass ...

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News: Recording

Daniel Levin, New Jazz Cellist, and His Adventurous Chamber Outing "Organic Modernism"

June 4, 2011

Organic Modernism (Clean Feed 212). I think I get it. It's a modernism that flows naturally out of the non-pretentious music-making of this chamber quartet, namely Daniel Levin, leader and cello, Nate Wooley, trumpet, Matt Moran on vibes, and Peter Bitenc on doublebass. This is music that may have a walking bass underneath it now and ...

News: Recording

Apple iCloud Advances Major Labels $100-$150 Million, Indies Get $0 (Zero, Zip, Nothing)

June 4, 2011

Apple is advancing the major labels $100—$150 million to allow the launch of its iCoud music locker next week, according to reports. Google had apparently offered the same big labels $100 million to let it launch a robust cloud music service, but got bogged down over efforts to fight piracy. What are independent labels being offered ...

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News: Music Industry

Bill Graham Photo Exhibit in SF

June 4, 2011

FREE PHOTO EXHIBIT UNTIL MID JULY AT LUSH LIFE GALLERY, JAZZ HERITAGE CENTER IN SAN FRANCISCO The Bill Graham Memorial Foundation is very proud to announce the upcoming photo exhibit Presenting: Bill Graham—a journey through the astonishing life and times of Bill Graham, rock 'n' roll's greatest impresario. The free exhibit at the Lush Life Gallery ...