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Joel Press and Michael Kanan (June 29, 2010)
I had first heard the saxophonist Joel Press on a CD called HOW'S THE HORN TREATING YOU? some years ago. I was delighted by his imagination, his ease, his sense of self--he knows and has lived through an entire jazz tradition from Lester and Hawkins to free jazz and beyond, but he sounds utterly like himself. ...
Mary Halvorson at the Whitney's Christian Marclay: Festival
Starting this afternoon, guitarist Mary Halvorson will be performing numerous times over the next two weeks at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York as part of the ongoing exhibition, Christian Marclay: Festival. Ms. Halvorson, who Howard Mandel called “NYC's least-predictable improviser" in his pick for today's concerts in his CityArts column, will be ...
Other Places: Manfred Eicher and ECM
Manfred Eicher has been successful with his ECM label not by constantly taking the pulse of the public and the record industry but by recording music he likes. That is an oversimplification, but not much of one. In the British newspaper The Guardian, Richard Williams has a piece about Eicher and his 40 years at the ...
Jazz This Week: Legacy Jazz Quintet, Maurice Carnes, Mardra Thomas, and More
It's the dog days of summer, and as often happens this time of year, once again this weekend the St. Louis area is bereft of touring jazz performers. That makes it a good time to sample some of the proverbial home cookin,' so here's a brief look at some of the next few days' highlights:
Jazz St.Louis Offering Discounts on Tickets for Legacy Jazz Quintet, Keyon Harrold
Jazz St. Louis is offering two-for-the-price-of-one discounts on tickets for performances at Jazz at the Bistro this weekend and next. The regular price for tickets for this weekend's sets by the Legacy Jazz Quintet is $15, or $10 for students, while next weekend's shows featuring trumpeter Keyon Harrold are priced at $20 and $10. ...
Latin Jazz Conversations: Chris Washburne (Part 1)
The beginning of a person's musical life certainly can differ from their ultimate career path, a fact that makes the individual interesting and unique. Initial forays into music come from the influence of a person's community, and the popular forces of the area tend to steer their early musical explorations. With the support of the community, ...
The Jazz Session #184: Bryan Murray of Bryan and the Haggards
When one thinks of free jazz, one of the first names that springs to mind is that of Merle Haggard. And so, it's perfectly natural that saxophonist Bryan Murray would have assembled a band to play free versions of Haggard's songs. The result is the very engaging Pretend It's The End Of The World (Hot Cup, ...
Mad Men and the Wall St. Journal
When I was a college intern at The New York Times in the late 1970s, I worked for the editors of the Op-Ed and editorial pages. One of the editorial board editors was architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable, who had already won a Pulitzer Prize. [Pictured: Jon Hamm as Mad Men's Don Draper] Each day I'd ...
Beach Boys Considering 50th Anniversary Reunion
WOULDN'T IT BE NICE Former Beach Boys singer/guitarist Al Jardine has told Rolling Stone that the legendary group will reunite for a concert next year to celebrate their 50th anniversary. Says Jardine, “We're definitely doing at least one show--you heard it first. It's a big deal. I don't know where it will be yet, but it'll ...
Hollywood Bowl Reggae Night: Jimmy Cliff; Sly and Robbie
REGGAE UNDER THE STARS RETURNS TO HOLLYWOOD BOWL JULY 25 Reggae Night IX returns to the Hollywood Bowl on July 25 for reggae under the stars with roots legend Jimmy Cliff and his hits “Wild World" and “Many Rivers To Cross," plus the irrepressible rhythms of Sly & Robbie, and upcoming reggae sensation Tarrus Riley. Click ...
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