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News: Recording

Bill Evans in Oslo

August 29, 2010

Bill Evans Trio: The Oslo Concerts (2006) presents two Bill Evans dates, one filmed at the Oslo Munch Museum in 1966 and the other at the Molde Jazz Festival in 1980. Evans is one of the least dynamic of performers, so filming him playing is almost a waste of film. But the music is a different ...

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News: Recording

The Friday Morning Listen: John Mellencamp - No Better Than This (2010)

August 28, 2010

By Mark Saleski I had intended for this essay to start out something like this: OK, I'll come right out and say it. I used to hate John Mellencamp. Back then he was known as John Cougar. All of my friends had their copies of American Fool, and I had to put up with that freaking ...

News: Technology

The Mantis Sessions, Part One

August 28, 2010

[Editor's Note: The Mantis Sessions is a three part series that will chronicle contributor Sean McKeown's first-time experience with Indaba and its online DAW, Mantis. This first part is meant to give you a look at Sean's background and feelings on the digital world's impact on music] I'm not a tech guy. Though I can marvel ...

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News: Recording

Review Dave Douglas - Spark of Being: Expand

August 28, 2010

from the Washington City Paper New jazz records that are adventurous, genre-hopping, and conversational By Geoffrey Himes Douglas has recorded a tribute album to Joni Mitchell and has worked with cello, accordion, and tabla. Keystone, his current band, features tenor saxophonist Marcus Strickland, bassist Brad Jones, drummer Gene Lake, electric keyboardist Adam Benjamin, and turntablist DJ ...

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News: Music Industry

Celebrities Don't Dig Jazz

August 28, 2010

Tuesday afternoon I had a meeting at the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship at the Harvard's Beth Israel complex and I spent that night at a hotel nearby. Fenway Park was three blocks away. The Tampa Bay Rays are my team because their AAA club is the Durham Bulls, who might be better than some bottom feeding MLB ...

News: Performance / Tour

Ted Brown and Joel Press Live (June 30, 2010)

August 29, 2010

The great encounters between jazz musicians playing the same instrument are rarely “cutting contests" as seen in the movies. More often, they are thoughtful, musing conversations. The dialogues that took place between tenor saxophonists Ted Brown and Joel Press in an informal session at Sofia's in New York City on June 30, 2010, resonate. It didn't ...

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News: Festival

Simply Red, George Benson, Natalie Cole Headline 1st Curacao North Sea Jazz Festival, Sept 3-4.

August 29, 2010

The North Sea Jazz Festival, the world's largest indoor jazz festival, has for 35 years brought the biggest, broadest range of artists to the Netherlands. But, on the 3rd & 4th of September 2010 the festival's ripples fan out to the Caribbean to inaugurate the Curacao North Sea Jazz Festival on the hospitable and vibrant Dutch ...

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News: Recording

The Johnny Coles Discography

August 29, 2010

For reasons that cannot be fully explained or quantified, some of the most personal soloists in jazz remain out of the spotlight despite their accomplishments. There is no better example in modern jazz than the trumpeter Johnny Coles (1926-1997), an insiders' favorite barely known to the general public. A native of Philadelphia, a contemporary of Jimmy ...

News: Video / DVD

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: The Many Moods of McBride

August 29, 2010

This week, we once again turn our video spotlight on bassist Christian McBride, who will be back in St. Louis to perform a duo concert with pianist Peter Martin on Saturday, September 11 at the Sheldon Concert Hall. McBride has been a fairly frequent visitor here in recent years, ...

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News: Interview

Lou Donaldson in the WSJ

August 29, 2010

I typically do not post on Saturdays, but I wanted to let you know that my profile of Lou Donaldson appears today in the “Greater New York" section of the Wall Street Journal. If you have access to WSJ.com, you'll find my article here. The first three paragraphs... Few musicians today can claim to have changed ...