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2010'S Top Unsigned Acts - Well, OK, Some of Them, Anyway
By Nick DeRiso Let's get this admission out of the way: Picking the best of 2010's unsigned treasures is like trying to determine your favorite grain of sand. There are far too many, really, to make any reasonable guess—and the whole time you're walking around with a bucket in an attempt to actually decide, you keep ...
One Track Mind: Kellylee Evans, "I Loves You Porgy" (2010)
By Nick DeRiso Taking on Nina Simone, a singer of dusky persuasiveness, might be foolhardy enough. Remaking this song, a Top 20 pop hit off Simone's celebrated 1958 debut Little Girl Blue seemed like the worst idea of all. But Canadian singer Kellylee Evans finds a new light, even if it's only a small sliver, within ...
Jazz This Week: New Year's Eve in St. Louis
As noted in this space last week, most touring jazz performers are off the road this time of year, and many of St. Louis' not-for-profit venues that present jazz are on hiatus until the new year as well. Most notably, Jazz at the Bistro, the city's most prominent spot for live jazz, will be dark again ...
Bud Shank: Windmills of Your Mind
In the mid-'60s, Bud Shank recorded a string of albums in Los Angeles for World Pacific Jazz that were West Coast attempts to capitalize on rock, pop and the new movie music. These recordings included Michelle, A Spoonful of Jazz, California Dreamin,' Light My Fire, Music from Today's Movies, Magical Mystery and Let It Be. One ...
Promoters Promise Cheaper Tickets in 2011
PROMOTERS TO SELL MORE MERCHANDISE TO MAKE UP FOR LOST REVENUE Pollstar is reporting that concert promoters are planning to make shows more affordable in 2011, after high ticket prices caused low attendance throughout the past year. Promoters say they will push the sale of t-shirts and other merchandise to make up for the lost revenue. ...
If by Yes (Haden and Honda): Salt on Sea Glass
GUESTS INCLUDE DAVID BYRNE AND NELS CLINE Salt on Sea Glass is the debut album from If By Yes, a collaborative project helmed by two of the most original talents in pop music. Petra Haden, the vocalist behind the groundbreaking vocal projects Imaginaryland and Petra Haden Sings The Who Sell Out, is known for her inventive ...
Leaked Video of Google's New Android Music App
There have been rumors of a new Android music app from Google for weeks. Now a leaked 50 sec. video gives a detailed demo of the new features of Android's default music app. The new app is both more colorful and comparable to the Apple iPhone iPod music player than the current Android app. It may ...
KWJZ Shuts Downs
KWJZ 98.9fm, Seattle's smooth jazz station for the past 17 years, abruptly changed format yesterday becoming Click 98.9, another station that plays Adult-Contemporary/Classic Alternative music (think Coldplay and Red Hot Chili Peppers). In an email to listeners, Program Director Carol Handley said: For 19 years 98.9 KWJZ has been presenting a mix of Smooth Jazz [...] ...
First Night Boston Celebrates New Year's Eve with Great Jazz Throughout the City
The 35th celebration of First Night Boston, North America's largest and oldest New Year's arts festival, has a generous sprinkling of jazz performances throughout the evening, according to spokeswoman Joyce Linehan. Among the featured performers: The Lionel Loueke Trio at Berklee Performance Center Praised by his mentor Herbie Hancock as “a musical painter," jazz guitarist Lionel ...
Best of the Best: The Officiala" SomethingElse! Top 10 for 2010
By Something Else Reviews Over the last few weeks, this merry band of music lovers has offered its varied take on the Year That Was. Now, we winnow it all down. First to go were the personal obsessions (Mark: Mary Halvorson; Pico: Greg Ward's Fitted Shards), and other worthy entries that somehow didn't gather critical mass ...
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Bill Bruford And Pete Roth: A One-Of-A-Kind Juxtaposition
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Scott Kinsey: Thought Distortions and the Art of the Left...
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801 Live at 50: A Short-Term Experiment with a Long-Lasting...
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The Quiet Cruelty of the Music Business
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Arcanum at Victoria Nasjonal Jazzscene, Oslo
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Enrico Rava: The Secret Corners of a Master
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Six new releases from Michael Pagan Big Band, Ron Vincent,...
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