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News: Performance / Tour

Jazz Around Town: Seven Days of Jazz in and Around Rochester

October 5, 2010

Bringing you seven days of jazz every week. Get out and listen to some and support the music. Special Note: Two chances to get out and support some great music programs for the kids this weekend—School of the Arts on Saturday and Music After Skool at Loop Ministries on Sunday! Thursday, September 23, 2010 Robert Chevrier ...

News: Recording

CD: Irene Kral

October 5, 2010

Irene Kral, Second Chance (Jazzed Media). Kral's stock in trade was perfection—of intonation, time, feeling, diction and lyric interpretation. She sang with little movement, no show biz mannerisms, nothing resembling schtick. She was so good at 25 that in 1957 Maynard Ferguson hired her on the spot after hearing one song. Alan Broadbent became Kral's piano ...

News: Video / DVD

DVD: Johnny Mercer

October 5, 2010

Johnny Mercer, This Time The Dream's On Me (Warner Bros). Producer-director Bruce Ricker does a masterly job of integrating new and old material into a thorough biography of the great lyricist. The story of Mercer's life and artistry melds film clips and recordings of Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong and Mercer ...

News: Book / Magazine

Book: Nat Hentoff

October 5, 2010

Nat Hentoff, At The Jazz Band Ball: Sixty Years On The Jazz Scene (U of California Press). Hentoff is our leading avatar of the proposition that jazz is a living expression of the principles embedded in the US constitution, of which he is also a scholar. He does not deal in technical analysis of music. He ...

News: Performance / Tour

Trio Tres Bien to Begin St. Louis Jazz and Blues Vespers 2010-11 Season on Sunday, October 17

October 5, 2010

The St. Louis Jazz and Blues Vespers series will begin its 2010-11 season with a free concert featuring Trio Trés Bien (pictured) at 6:00 p.m. on Sunday, October 17 at Second Baptist Church, 9030 Clayton Rd. (at McKnight). Featuring pianist Jeter Thompson and his brothers Harold Thompson on bass and Howard Thompson on drums, Trio Trés ...

News: Performance / Tour

Moe. Side Projects

October 5, 2010

DISGRACE, EMPIRE SOUND, AMICO-DAVIS DUO, AND STONE REVIVAL BAND ROUND OUT MOE. SIDE PROJECTS Disgrace is the new side project from Rob Derhak, Chuck Garvey, and Al Schnier of moe. The band will hit the road after the Bear Creek Music Festival. Check the websites of the venues for ticketing information. More dates will be announced ...

News: Recording

Rod Stewart: Vegas Residency

October 5, 2010

CLASSIC ROCKER AND MOM BELOVED STANDARDS DUDE HITS SIN CITY Rod Stewart announced that he will play eight performances at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, November 6-21. These performances follow a record-breaking summer tour with 33 sold out shows including dates in the UK, Ireland, Europe and as far reaching as Moscow, Dubai ...

News: Recording

Robert Wyatt Reissues

October 5, 2010

AMAZING CATALOGUE RETURNS TO PRINT Domino Records is set to reissue the landmark records of Robert Wyatt—one of the most distinguished, visionary, influential and singular catalogues in contemporary music. These reissues will be the first time many of these albums have ever been available on vinyl in the United States, and most of the titles have ...

News: Rights

Bloated Copyright Laws Will Make Sure America's Rich Musical Heritage is Forgotten Forever

October 5, 2010

This guest post is by Voyno at The New Rockstar Philosophy. The Library Congress has just released a report about the problems it's facing with the digital music world, writes Ars Technica. In the report, officially titled The State of Recorded Sound Preservation in the United States: A National Legacy at Risk in the Digital Age, ...

News: Opinion

Arcade Fire: "Major Labels Just Lost Their Way."

October 5, 2010

In early August, Arcade Fire was profiled in The New Yorker by Sasha Frere-Jones. Some argued that the piece was against major labels, because Arcade Fire existed mostly outside their walls. Others though that it dispelled the myth of the DIY artist, as the group wasn't truly doing it by themselves; they had assistance and licensed ...