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Jazz Uncensored: Blame It on Their Youth

January 24, 2011

They looked pretty young up there on the Dakota Jazz Club stage, but to me this new generation of jazz musicians looks younger and younger. Or I am just getting older and older. Big names like Roy Haynes, Kenny Barron and Ramsey Lewis come to town with sidemen one or two (or more) generations removed, typically ...

Take Five With Jay Smith

by AAJ Staff
January 23, 2011

Meet Jay Smith:Jay Smith has performed with dozens of groups all over California, France, Italy, Germany, and Spain in a wide range of music, from bebop and gypsy jazz to Latin rock and funk. He has worked with groups and musicians as Kelulu, Mento Buru, The Fresno Philharmonic, David Baron Stevens, Andre Bush, Mike ...

John Williams or John Williams?

January 23, 2011

An old bit of confusion revived for a time this week when Mosaic Records announced a Stan Getz box set to be issued next spring. The electronic news release about the 1950s Getz quintet recordings for Norman Granz's Norgran label mentioned Getz, Bob Brookmeyer and “pianist Johnny Williams (who later became film composer John Williams)." After ...

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: A Stanley Clarke Sampler

January 23, 2011

Today, we shine our video spotlight on bassist Stanley Clarke, who will be back in St. Louis to play a duo gig with pianist Hiromi Uehara starting Wednesday, February 2 through Saturday, February 5 at Jazz at the Bistro. Clarke has been in St. Louis a couple of times ...

#Midem Digital Music Future Panel - Going Cloud or Getting Cloudy

January 23, 2011

Steve Mayall, the Managing Director, Music Ally moderated a MidemNet Saturday panel. The participants included: Thomas Hesse of Sony Music Entertainment, Christoph Lange, of German music streamer Simfy, Harry Maloney of Catch Media and Daren Tsui, the CEO & Co-Founder of mSpot. But will 2011 be remembered as the year of cloud music? The panelists all ...

Forrester's Mark Mulligan #midem - Music Needs S.P.A.R.C.

January 23, 2011

During a Saturday morning Midem presentation,  Forrester Research Mark Mulligan analyst called YouTube “music's killer app"; and sharing some new Forrester data showing that “for 12㬋 yr olds, music is the soundtrack to social interactions." (Watch this space for a link to the full study) The key to a music industry turnaround, according to Mulligan, is ...

# Midem Panel: Reinventing the Music Business

January 23, 2011

During the MidemNet panel hosted by marketer Virginie Berger of Don't Believe the Hype, Jeff Castalez of U.S. based indie Dangerbird declared, “Our company is not trying to make record deals.  We're making business deals.. Instead of expensive one to many marketing, we're now working to encourage advocacy." Later in the panel he shared, “We don't care ...

Happy Birthday, J.J. Johnson!

January 23, 2011

Dr. Billy Taylor's Memorial Service in NYC - Video

January 23, 2011

Any thought that the Harlem memorial service for Dr. Billy Taylor would be a somber, mournful affair was dispelled after the opening prayers at Riverside Church of New York. First, Reverend Calvin O. Butts (from the nearby Abyssinian Baptist Church) delivered the evening's gathering prayer; then, he said, “One of the ...

Corinne Bailey Rae - The Love EP (2011)

January 23, 2011

By Nick DeRiso Corinne Bailey Rae isn't the same singer, maybe isn't even the same person, that she was at the time of her celebrated 2007 debut. Three Grammy nominations, including one for best new artist, couldn't shield her from this world's knifing truths: Her husband, 31-year-old saxophonist Jason Rae, would be dead of an overdose ...