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Additional Security Measures in Place for Robert Plant Show

April 20, 2011

Ottawa—Additional security measures will be in place for Robert Plant & the Band of Joy's festival-opening performance on June 23. In order to insure the safety and well being of the performers the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival must insist on forbidding the following items from festival grounds: No cans, bottles or refillable containers of any kind ...

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News: Interview

Aaron Diehl

April 20, 2011

In a section of a Hank Jones master class DVD that was a 2008 Doug's Pick, Jones critiqued budding jazz pianists. One of them was a 21-year-old Julliard graduate named Aaron Diehl. For Jones, Diehl played “I Cover The Waterfront" and Art Tatum's arrangement of Massenet's “Elegy." Apart from a slight reservation about Diehl's use of ...

News: Special Offers

The Sheldon Offering Discounted Tickets for Tony Desare and Bucky Pizzarelli

April 20, 2011

The Sheldon Concert Hall and Metrotix are offering a special discount price on tickets to the performance by singer/pianist Tony DeSare (pictured) and guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli at the Sheldon on Saturday, April 30. The advertised ticket price is $45 for orchestra seats, $40 for the balcony, but online buyers can purchase tickets for just $25 each ...

News: Performance / Tour

Ivory Perry Park to Present Free Summer Concert Series

April 20, 2011

Once again this summer, Union Avenue Christian Church and the city of St. Louis will present a series of free concerts at Ivory Perry Park, 800 Belt (at Cabanne) in west St. Louis. While past series have offered jazz headliners including Hamiet Bluiett and Denise Thimes, this year's musical menu is less jazz-centric. The reggae group ...

News: Performance / Tour

Pollstar: Bela Fleck and the Flecktones to Play the Sheldon Next March

April 20, 2011

The online touring information service Pollstar has just added a listing showing a performance by Bela Fleck and the Flecktones on Thursday, March 29, 2012 at the Sheldon Concert Hall. Fleck played the Sheldon in April 2009 with his Africa Project, and he and the Flecktones last performed together in St. Louis in February 2007 at ...

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News: Recording

Albert King on Stax

April 20, 2011

When I was a teenager in the 1970s living with my parents an hour north of New York in Westchester County, I had friends who worked in the record departments of stores that anchored local malls. They knew I loved music and that on my trips to New York I often brought back hip jazz records ...

News: Video / DVD

Eyewitness: Thumbs Carllile

April 20, 2011

Last week, JazzWax reader Uwe Zänisch in Berlin sent along a note about guitarist Kenneth “Thumbs" Carllile (1931-1987), a country picker with a superb technique. Rather than spoil the story, let me have Uwe pick it up: “Some days ago I was at YouTube and found a very interesting clip featuring an unusual guitarist in a ...

News: Performance / Tour

Last Weekend in DC... Delights of the Garden

April 20, 2011

Last weekend was a great one to be in DC! Friday evening at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History's Baird Auditorium, it was Bay Area percussionist John Santos (see his earlier Independent Ear Q&A feature on his recent folkloric exploration “La Esperanza”) speaking the truth about Afro-Caribbean music and it’s multi- hued expressions as filtered through ...

News: Performance / Tour

Chico Mann: Spring Tour, Live at the Loft Video

April 20, 2011

Chico Mann is about to hit the road for a string of dates across North America that will focus on a more dance floor vibe than in the past. For for a taste of what fans will get on this tour, check out Chico Mann on a new episode of Live At The Loft. Episode 02—Chico ...

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News: Recording

Mathias Eick "Skala"

April 20, 2011

Mathias Eick Skala Mathias Eick: trumpet, vibraphone, electric guitar, double bass Tore Brunborg: tenor saxophone Andreas Ulvo: piano Morten Qvenild: keyboards Audun Erlien: electric bass Torstein Lofthus: drums Gard Nilssen: drums Sidsel Walstad: harp Release Date: ...