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News: Performance / Tour

Brad Mehldau to Perform with John Mayer

August 21, 2010

Brad Mehldau will be performing with John Mayer this Sunday, August 22, at the Hollywood Bowl. John Mayer Tweeted about the show: This Sunday night's show at the Hollywood Bowl will feature a mini-set of music with pianist Brad Mehldau. It'll take place between Owl City's and my normal set. The Bowl is such an historic ...

News: Interview

Deep Passion: Menno Daams - David Lukacs and Friends

August 22, 2010

It's been a wonderful day for swinging jazz—tender and hot—because I found these four performances on YouTube. The peerless (and under-heralded) trumpeter, arranger, composer Menno Daams has started his own YouTube channel ("menno779") and its videos include these four delightful performances by the “Daams-Lukacs Orchestra" of jazz classics—homages to Bix, to Louis, and Duke—that are evocations ...

News: Interview

Now Hear This: Hal Smith on Zutty Singleton

August 22, 2010

Zutty Singleton: Face Drives the Train A friend once remarked that playing in a band with Zutty Singleton “was like trying to stay ahead of a freight train that was bearing down on you." Indeed, when Singleton was inspired, the pulse of his drumming took on the power of a highballing freight! One of the best ...

News: Video / DVD

Sarkozy, the Roma and Django

August 22, 2010

The government of France generated a storm late last week when news broke of its expulsion of Gypsies to Romania and Bulgaria. President Nicolas Sarkozy defends the policy as part of his administration's drive for law and order. Critics say that the dismantling of Gypsy camps and the first waves of deportations of Roma people are ...

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News: Video / DVD

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Jamming with Garage a Trois

August 22, 2010

Today, let's check out some video footage of the band Garage A Trois, who are coming to St. Louis on Tuesday, September 14 to perform at the Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St. Garage A Trois was formed in 1999 by drummer Stanton Moore, single-named saxophonist Skerik (nee ...

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News: Music Industry

Free That Tenor Sax

August 22, 2010

For jazz fans, nothing could be more tantalizing than the excerpts made available by the National Jazz Museum in Harlem of newly discovered recordings from the 1930s and '40s. Nearly 1,000 discs containing performances by masters like Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Billie Holiday and the long-neglected Herschel Evans suddenly re-emerged when the son of the audio ...

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News: Video / DVD

Curlew - A Beautiful Western Saddle (1993, 2010 Reissue CD+DVD)

August 22, 2010

By Pico Before there was Sonic Youth, before there was Radiohead, Material, The Flaming Lips or the Animal Collective, there was Curlew. Founded by saxophonist/composer George Cartwright in 1979, Curlew soon became an incubator for just about every important name in the the New York downtown experimental music scene that thrived in the 80s and 90s. ...

News: Opinion

Jazz and the Healthy Neurotic: How Can It Be Any Good if It Ain't That Hard?

August 22, 2010

By Steve Provizer Hey! You with the dirty mind: I'm not talking about sex. I'm talking self-torture here-masochism, not sadism. In this jazz life, we are plagued by a foundational neurosis-to be revealed below-but let's start off with the happy thought that we have found-albeit unconsciously-healthy ways to try and de-fuse or re-articulate this neurosis. Here's ...

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News: Opinion

Abbey Lincoln-"Throw It Away"

August 22, 2010

By Steve Provizer I've been a real intellectual yente for the last several posts. I hope those posts have not been without emotional weight, but the death of Abbey Lincoln makes me want to write a piece where emotion leads and analysis creeps along far behind. In the late 1960's, I went to the old WGBH ...

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News: Opinion

The Cortex and the Booty-by Steve Provizer

August 22, 2010

This is Your Brain on Music The brass band I play with has been talking about the Asphalt Orchestra. In their videos, they seem to be having a great time, engaging the crowd, playing interesting, offbeat music (apart from New Orleans stuff, arrangements of Zappa, Bjork...). On the other hand, a band-mate saw them on the ...