Results for "AAJ Staff"

Ask the Readers: Should We Write About Music?

October 9, 2010

Recently, it was pointed out to me in the comments section that for all our coverage about the industry of music and the technology that's changing it, Hypebot doesn't write about any music. For minute, I paused and thought rather seriously about the potential of writing about music on the blog and how it might be ...

Downloading Music is Forgettable, Buying It Wasn't

October 12, 2010

For most of my life, buying music included a pilgrimage. The closest place that sold CDs took an hour drive to get there. I still have a few memories of the trips I would undertake on Tuesdays just to get my hands on a new album. While I never got to experience the thrill of waiting ...

Soundcloud Users Can Now Distribute Music Instantly Through Tunecore

October 9, 2010

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: A Russell Malone Sampler

October 10, 2010

With a new CD coming out next month, and four night of performances scheduled Wednesday, October 20 through Saturday October 23 at Jazz at the Bistro, it seems like a good time to make guitarist Russell Malone the subject of our weekly video feature. Though there's no footage extant ...

Sat Eye Candy: John Lennon

October 10, 2010

REMEMBERING A TRUE ORIGINAL AND WORLD CHANGER John Lennon would have turned 70-years-old today if he hadn't been violently snatched away in December 1980. There's no way to encapsulate such a complex, fascinating and often entertaining person in a few words, and there's multiple encyclopedias full of Lennon lore already out there. Instead, we offer this ...

Sephane Grappelli - "Blue Moon" (1990)

October 10, 2010

Nik Bartsch's Ronin - Llyria (2010)

October 10, 2010

By Pico It's ritual groove music time again. The Swiss pianist and bandleader Nik Bärtsch has broken musical ground with his Ronin outfit, pioneering jazz that's melodically sparse and rhythmically robust. Not dance music but very funky, not piano bar jazz but very soothing, Bärtsch and his crew create paradoxes that resolve themselves artfully. I first ...

Books: Coltrane on Coltrane

October 10, 2010

Coltrane on Coltrane: The John Coltrane Interviews by Chris DeVito This fascinating book gathers together all known and available interviews with the great jazz saxophonist John Coltrane. The volume is arranged chronologically, beginning with a few newspaper articles during his career as a sideman with the likes of Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis, and then moving ...

Afloat Again -- On Monk's Birthday

October 11, 2010

It could have been worse—toxic red sludge, for instance. The technician just left after performing CPR on the internet connection, which was out of commission for 48 hours. The Rifftides staff will resume posting soon. Now, ears open wide and notebook in hand, we're off to The Seasons for the next concerts of the Fall Festival. ...

The Jazz Session #207: Don Sebesky (CTI Records)

October 12, 2010

Grammy and Tony award winner Don Sebesky wrote and arranged music for many of the classic CTI recordings. You can hear his work on a new boxed set, CTI: The Cool Revolution (Sony Masterworks, 2010). In this interview, Sebesky talks about how CTI got started and how it developed its signature sound; his experience working with ...