Results for "AAJ Staff"

Will the Once Immortal Warner Sell to Their Mortal Enemy?

March 14, 2011

Napster founder Sean Parker is bidding on the music giant. Tech-blogs have used the word “irony." But they may have it backwards. They think that this would be a victory for Parker, when it will more likely be his undoing. There is no doubt in my mind that Warner would sell to Napster founder, Sean Parker's ...

John Primer - Call Me John Primer (Wolf, 2010)

March 14, 2011

Guitarist and songwriter John Primer is a solid meat and potatoes bluesman who moved north from Mississippi to Chicago and gradually moved from apprentice musician in the clubs to a leader in his own right. This album is a selection of songs from his Wolf label recordings, a nice mix of live and studio songs that ...

The Power to Destroy Your Music Startup, Overnight...

March 14, 2011

Who really has the power to kill your music startup? It used to be the major label, but that's so 2006. “Index Ventures will put a lot of money into music," said Vince Bannon of Getty Images at Canadian Music Week. “But they won't touch anything involving the major labels or licensing." In other words, they ...

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Paying Tribute to Ray Brown

March 13, 2011

This week, let's take a look at some videos previewing the tribute to bassist Ray Brown that will play at Jazz at the Bistro starting next Wednesday, March 16 through Saturday, March 19. The band is led by bassist Christian McBride, who was a protege of Brown's, and includes ...

Sat Eye Candy: Steely Dan

March 13, 2011

WHAT DID THAT DILDO SAY? This week Steely Dan announced their 2011 tour plans, beginning July 2nd in Seattle and ending with a two-night bang in Boston in late September (find full tour dates here). There was a LONG stretch where the idea of live Steely Dan seemed a fiction, a folk tale from the bombed ...

New Orleans Invades Austin at SXSW

March 13, 2011

I am a big fan of the HBO show Treme, and the party that they are going to be throwing at South By Southwest in Austin this year to kick off their second season looks like a lot of fun. The event, starting at noon on Thursday, March 17th, will celebrate the April 24th Season Premiere ...

Rick DiMuzio Quintet Performing at Arsenal Center for the Arts on Monday, March 14

March 13, 2011

Yaron Herman Trio - Follow the White Rabbit (Act, 2011)

March 13, 2011

The amount of young jazz talent flowing for Israel to Europe and America in the past few years has been amazing, and you can add pianist and composer Yaron Herman's name to that growing list of superb cross-cultural composers and improvisers. On this album, he performs in a trio setting with Chris Tordini on bass and ...

Joe Morello - R.I.P.

March 13, 2011

Drummer Joe Morello, one of jazz's under-sung heroes, has died. Best known as the rhythmic timekeeper of multiple times in Dave Brubeck's famed quartet, when the quartet made some of its best-known recordings, Morello had lately become an in-demand clinician, teacher and bandleader whose former students numbered Danny Gottlieb, Max Weinberg, Gary Feldman and Jerry Granelli. ...

Enrico Rava Quartet: S/T (ECM 1122)

March 13, 2011

Enrico Rava Quartet Enrico Rava trumpet Roswell Rudd trombone Jean-Francois Jenny-Clark bass Aldo Romano drums Recorded March 1978 at Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg Engineer: Martin Wieland Produced by Manfred Eicher Enrico Rava, one of the trumpet's unsung heroes, unearthed a gem in this self-titled quartet ...