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News: Performance / Tour

Jazz Around Town: Baby, It's Still Cold Outside....

March 3, 2011

But I hear tell there's some hot jazz around town to warm you up. I hope I can stop this winter motif soon. There's some new sounds at Bop Shop Atrium this week and smooting it out with Four80East at Exodus to Jazz. A wide variety abounds... Here are the listings for live jazz in and ...

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News: Video / DVD

Webb City

March 3, 2011

I'm still tucking in the frayed ends of daily life after extended duty in the trenches of extracurricular writing. Soon, there will be a new batch of Doug's Picks as the blogging routine returns to normal, whatever that is. I am told that the first rule of survival in the weblog game is to keep the ...

News: Performance / Tour

Jazz This Week: Chris Potter Underground, Craig Hultgren, Jazz St. Louis' Benefit Gala, Mardi Gras Music, and More

March 3, 2011

It's Mardi Gras week, and here in St. Louis there's a variety of jazz and creative music coming up on local stages (though not at the city's official Mardi Gras celebration; a bit more about that later.) Let's go the highlights... The most highly anticipated performer of the week likely is saxophonist Chris Potter (pictured), who ...

News: Performance / Tour

Lineage - For My People the Margaret Walker Song Cycle Starring Broadway Singer Aurelia Williams and Composer Randy Klein.

March 3, 2011

A Forbes Center presentation in partnership with Furious Flower Poetry Center April 2, 2011, Saturday @ 8 p.m, Concert Hall Lineage is a new musical work that incorporates the poetry of Margaret Walker, the instrumentals of composer Randy Klein, the vocal talents of the JMU Chorale and Broadway artist Aurelia Williams, as well as a photographic ...

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News: Recording

Thelonious Monk: Let's Cool One

March 3, 2011

One of my favorite Thelonious Monk sessions took place on May 30, 1952, his last for Blue Note Records. There's a slippery urgency to the pianist's playing on this date, and the sidemen are both bluesy and martini dry. Joining Monk was Kenny Dorham (trumpet), Lou Donaldson (alto sax), Lucky Thompson (tenor sax), Nelson Boyd (bass) ...

News: Recording

The Dorf - Le Record (Leo Records) ***a1/2

March 3, 2011

By Joe Higham What an easy CD to review. This is one of those albums that is easily digested and has a wide appeal, in fact 'Dorf' means 'Village,' so maybe something for the whole family? Here we find brass bands, prog-rock (aka—rock in opposition), jazz, (a little) free, and plenty of punch (helped by an ...

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News: Recording

Emmylou Harris: Hard Bargain

March 3, 2011

FOLLOW UP TO 2008'S ALL I INTENDED TO BE OUT APRIL 26 ON NONESUCH RECORDS Hard Bargain, the new album from musical icon Emmylou Harris, will be released April 26 on Nonesuch Records. The album follows Harris's acclaimed 2008 release, All I Intended to Be, which received widespread acclaim. Hard Bargain, which comprises 11 new songs ...

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News: Interview

Interview with My Major Company CEO PR Albertini on Fan-Funding and Record Labels

March 3, 2011

Recently I spoke with Paul-Rene Albertini, the CEO a new internet-based, fan-funded record label called My Major Company. In this interview, Albertini and I talk about various aspects of fan-funding and how it's posed to shift the current music landscape. Kyle Bylin: Well, thank you for chatting with me today. What led you to start MMC? ...

News: Music Industry

Music Exec Watches Personal Music Budget Decline

March 3, 2011

Ethan Kaplan, former SVP of Emerging Technology at Warner Music Group, has published an insightful essay on his blog about the death of the music business and his shrinking personal budget for music. In it, he makes the point that the humans will die before the business of music does, as for as long as people ...

News: Technology

Rhapsody to Offer 60-Day Free Trial - Will It Work?

March 3, 2011

Through March, Rhapsody is offering a 60-day free trialof its on-demand music service. This huge promotion comes by way of MTV Networks. Until last April, MTV was a part owner of Rhapsody. They, however, went independent and as part of the spin-out, MTV agreed to provide Rhapsody with $33 million in free advertising. MTV will be ...