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Moody-Inspired Fan Devotes Life to History of Jazz

February 10, 2011

“Jazz Is Freedom. You Think About That." -Thelonious Monk By Stan Lee Special to jazzstage.net That's what jazz brings to me. I have friends with whom I want to share this joy of artistry that started with me in 1986. That's the purpose of this project on jazz history. I started with the birth of jazz ...

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News: Recording

Sasha Masakowski - Wishes and Take Your City Eps

February 10, 2011

By Nick DeRiso Sasha Masakowski, at once fearless and charming, is featured on two new EPs, one as a leader with Musical Playground (the forthcoming next-gen jazz recording Wishes from Hypersoul Records) and another as part of the New Orleans indie rock/electronic band Bionica on Take Your City. Across these nine songs, we discover a vocalist ...

News: Music Industry

The Pros and Cons of the Privateer Model

February 10, 2011

A music business veteran named Chris Holmes has come up with an interesting business idea for helping the music industry. Called the Privateer Model, Holmes envisions a future where the myriad networks of tastemakers and influencers that spread music online are financially compensated for the role they play in music's spread. On its surface, the idea ...

News: Music Industry

Five Things Critics Do Not Like

February 10, 2011

Music critics and fans alike have started to bring up generation gaps when talking about the music industry's uncertain future: “Do kids still buy things? Do they still like albums? Do they listen to music on hi-fi systems? Do kids even know what hi-fi stands for?" These kinds of questions can be frustrating, because nobody has ...

News: Music Industry

It's Over! Activision Nixing Guitar Hero...

February 10, 2011

Funny how quickly games can end. First, Rock Band gets pawned off by Viacom for scraps. Now, Activision Blizzardis nixing Guitar Hero, based on a sagging revenue picture. “Due to continued declines in the music genre, the company will disband Activision Publishing's Guitar Hero business unit and discontinue development on its Guitar Hero game for 2011," ...

News: Music Industry

Alan McGee: Emi Proves P2P "Is Murdering the Music Business..."

February 10, 2011

EMI seems like the biggest enemy of EMI, though Creation Records founder and indie stalwart Alan McGee is making waves with a different take. “First things first: EMI is still a great British label," McGee penned a few days ago for NME. “It's justeconomics. Guy Hands bought it in 2007, at the height of the market, ...

News: Education

Supporting Jazz Education

February 10, 2011

The debate over “Is Jazz Dead" seems so tedious and dated that it isn't worth addressing any more. Let's agree, jazz is not likely to ever regain its 1930s status as American's “popular" music, any more than classical music will fill stadiums or dance halls. Rather, let's ask “how do we keep jazz vital, ever-evolving, and ...

News: Recording

Recent Listening: Russell Malone

February 9, 2011

Russell Malone, Triple Play (MaxJazz). The warmth, conversational phrasing and lack of hurry in Malone's guitar work find space and congeniality in the spare background of David Wong's bass and Montez Coleman's drums. In the absence of another chording instrument to collaborate or contend with, Malone is free to make harmonic choices without concern for clash ...

News: Performance / Tour

Todd Clouser to Play at Lola on Tuesday, February 22

February 9, 2011

Jazz-rock guitarist Todd Clouser (pictured) is coming to St. Louis to perform at 8:00 p.m. Tuesday, February 22 at Lola, 500 N 14th St downtown. Clouser, who's from Minneapolis but now is based in Baja, Mexico, is touring with his band in support of their new CD A Love Electric, just released by the indie label ...

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News: Recording

MAXJAZZ to Release Terell Stafford's This Side of Strayhorn on Tuesday, April 5

February 9, 2011

The independent St. Louis based record label MAXJAZZ has announced that they'll release trumpeter Terell Stafford's new recording This Side of Strayhorn (pictured) on Tuesday, April 5. The CD offers Stafford's interpretations of the music of Billy Strayhorn, the famed composer of jazz standards including “Take The A Train" and “Lush Life" who served for years ...