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IODA Announces New Dashboard #midem

January 22, 2011

Jumping ahead of the rush of announcements to come, U.S. based digital music distributor IODA today announced at Midem the launch of the redesigned global Rightsholder Dashboard, the main interface between it label and artist clients and the company. “The new Dashboard sets a new benchmark for digital content management platforms,"according to Mike Drake, VP of ...

News: Performance / Tour

Chicago Live Jazz Music (January 21 - January 28, 2011) Schedule

January 22, 2011

Here is what's happening with the live music Chicago Jazz Scene for the dates January 21st thru January 28th, 2011(Tommy Muellner & Colleen McNabb “Good Old Days @ The Drake Coq D'Or Lounge"; photo by Bill Klewitz)... Andy's Jazz Club 11 East Hubbard St. Chicago, IL 60611 312.642.6805 ANDY'S WEEKENDS FRIDAY & SATURDAY HEADLINERS! $10 Admission ...

News: Recording

One Track Mind: Mavis Staples, "Last Train" (2010)

January 22, 2011

By Nick DeRiso Over the course of a remarkable career, both with her family band the Staple Singers and as a solo artist, gospel-soul icon Mavis Staples has bravely explored the frustrations, sorrows and then joys of the African-American freedom fight. But, lest we forget, she can still rock it. “Last Train," from Staples' most recent ...

News: Recording

Nathaniel Smith - Nathaniel Smith Quartet (2010)

January 22, 2011

By Pico Missoula, Montana's own Nathaniel Smith career as a jazz drummer and composer took him from a mountain valley in the Rockies eastward to Appleton, Wisconsin's Lawrence University (where Smith got to perform with the visiting Dave Holland and Maria Schneider), briefly west to San Francisco to study with percussionist Michael Spiro, and finally to ...

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News: Recording

Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder (Blue Note, 1964)

January 22, 2011

Like a hothouse orchid, trumpeter Lee Morgan reveled in the competitive Philadelphia jazz scene of the 1940's and 50's developing a prodigious talent that saw him hitting the road professionally at a mere eighteen years of age. Morgan's career had some down points and an undeniably tragic end, but when he was on and in sympathetic ...

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News: Performance / Tour

The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Jazz, January 21-27

January 22, 2011

The coldest weekend yet... but the music will be plenty hot, with the irreverent Nellie McKay at the Dakota, ever-young Billy Peterson celebrating #60 at the Artists Quarter, the unique sounds of East Side at the Bloomington Center for the Arts—all setting the stage for even more heat with the Roy Hargrove Quintet and Latin All-Stars ...

News: Performance / Tour

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

January 20, 2011

You see a pattern? Yes, this is Rochester...it's January... I should not be surprised should I? But I'm feeling it in my bones (literally, my old knees and their scar tissue are just about fed up with it). There's a bit of jazz being played here and there around Rochester. Here's what I was able to ...

News: Performance / Tour

Jazz This Week: Charlie Hunter, Bonerama, Bloom Project, Dave Black, and More

January 20, 2011

This week's schedule of jazz and creative music in St. Louis offers a grab-bag of styles, from a funky, soul-jazz-inspired guitar trio to straight-ahead standards to free improv. Let's go to the highlights.... The big name in town this week is guitarist Charlie Hunter, who plays with his trio tonight through Saturday at Jazz at the ...

News: Performance / Tour

Sean Nowell and Kung-Fu Masters w/Ari Hoenig @ The 55 Bar - 1/27/11

January 20, 2011

Thursday, January 27th, 2011 KUNG-FU MASTERS with ARI HOENIG @ THE 55 BAR 10pm-1am 55 Christopher St btw/6th and 7th Ave West Village New York 55bar.com Featuring: Sean Nowell—Tenor Sax/Fx/Compositions Randy Runyon—Guitar Art Hirahara—Keys Evan Marien—Electric Bass Ari Hoenig—Drums Mixed ...

News: Radio

The Jazz Session #233: Lynne Arriale

January 20, 2011

Pianist Lynne Arriale's new CD, Convergence (Motema, 2011), is her second album to feature a horn player, this time saxophonist Bill McHenry. In this interview, Arriale talks about her decision to expand her band; how she searches within herself as part of her compositional process; and why she enjoys teaching as a means of human connection. ...