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News: Recording

Jazz Legacy Productions Presents "Journeys" by the Cyrus Chestnut Trio

September 11, 2010

Chestnut's Sophomore CD for the Label and Return to Piano Trio Format Features Dezron Douglas and Neal Smith Available September 28 When a young musician makes a sensational debut, it's a moment that's thrilling and yet also familiar; similar fireworks flash with the arrival of each successive prodigy. But when that musician achieves true insight, through ...

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News: Recording

The Marsalis Family, Music Redeems (CD Review)

September 11, 2010

All of the jazz-playing Marsalises together, on one stage? It rarely happens, but it's impressive when it does. My review of their new CD, documenting a live performance, was published this week in Las Vegas City Life. Click here to go to the paper's site, or read the full text below. The Marsalis Family, Music Redeems ...

News: Recording

One Track Mind: Darol Anger and Mike Marshall "Donna Lee" (1988)

September 11, 2010

By Pico I know exactly what our own Mark Saleski speaks of when he states that “music obsessives and regular folks alike know of the song/memory retrieval phenomenon—you hear a song and instantly remember where you were the first time you heard it." Moreover, a song can also be forever associated with an event in your ...

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News: Opinion

Unions and the Fame Myth

September 11, 2010

By Steve Provizer Seattle Negro Musicians Union-1925 Music is a collaborative art, but the sketchy history of unionism in American music seems to say that the spirit of collaboration has too often ended at the edge of a bandstand. Believe it or not, there actually is something called the American Federation of Musicians (AFM), under the ...

News: Interview

A Conversation About P2P Marketing with Frostclick

September 11, 2010

File-sharing is the antithesis of big business. In everything from form (decentralized structure, minimal operation and upkeep costs) to function (duh), P2P networks and torrent hubs are diametrically opposed to the large corporate structures that define the entertainment and broadcast industries, and its proponents are proud of that. But recently, the file-sharers have begun to act ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five with Albert Beger

by AAJ Staff
September 10, 2010

Meet Albert Beger:Albert Beger, the free-jazz pioneer and innovator, with his ninth album Peacemaker. Accompanied by his new electro-acoustic band, combining acoustic instruments and noise/glitches laptop works. Albert brings his music to a new level of creation and band dynamic. Following his critically acclaimed Big Mother, Peacemaker returns to a more personal, introspective observation ...

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Article: Live Review

Dmitri Kolesnik at Dizzy's Club Coca Cola

by AAJ Staff
September 9, 2010

Dmitri KolesnikDizzy's Club Coca ColaNew York, NYAugust 27, 2010Dmitri Kolesnik came to New York from his native St Petersburg in 1991, to study bass with Ron Carter. Now Kolesnik is a firm fixture on the jazz scene in New York. At Dizzy's Club Coca Cola, Kolesnik's band featured trumpeter Joe Magnarelli, ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Kali. Z. Fasteau

by AAJ Staff
September 9, 2010

Meet Kali. Z. Fasteau: Kali. Z. Fasteau is from a musical family, playing piano, cello, flute, and voice since early childhood in Paris and New York. Her piano teacher, for eight years, was Olga Heifetz. She started improvising at age 14. She received post-grad degrees studying the music of Asia, Africa, 20th Century ...

News: Recording

Recent Listening: Denny Zeitlin

September 9, 2010

The siege of deadlines has lifted. The assignments were good for the sagging exchequer but put the blogging account in arrears. In the days remaining before the staff goes on vacation, we'll pay attention to a few recent CDs. Denny Zeitlin, Precipice (Sunnyside). Following Mosaic's release last year of a box of his Columbia recordings of ...

News: Performance / Tour

Jazz This Week: Christian McBride and Peter Martin, Hamiet Bluiett, the Cunninghams, Garage a Trois, Ben Sidran, and More

September 9, 2010

The fall presenting season of jazz and creative music in St. Louis gets off to a fast start this week, with season openers from three different concert series; homecoming visits from some St. Louis natives; and two local musicians with international reputations playing on local stages. Let's go to the highlights: Tonight, Cabaret St. Louis opens ...