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News: Recording

Recent Listening: Whitted, Manricks, Saluzzi, O'Brien

July 18, 2010

Here is the new batch of short reviews —micro-reviews, perhaps—in which the Rifftides staff acknowledges some of the CDs that have attracted our attention lately. It would be impossible to hear all of every album that shows up. Even sampling a majority of them is a challenge. Evidence: these are some, only some, of the fairly ...

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News: Video / DVD

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: RNR with Rick Braun and Richard Elliot

July 18, 2010

This week, let's check out a sampling of clips featuring trumpeter Rick Braun and saxophonist Richard Elliot, who are coming to St. Louis on Friday, July 30 to perform at the Pageant.Braun and Elliot are longtime friends and collaborators who had enjoyed successful solo careers before ...

News: Technology

Extrapolating the Apple-Android Showdown: Who's Right?

July 18, 2010

Google confirmed in an earnings call Thursday that its Android Market now numbers 70,000 apps and counting. That's somewhat close to the same amount that Android statistics tracking site AndroLib touts, with one key difference: According to AndroLib, the total number of downloads for Android-based apps has pushed past the one-billion mark. Just to put that ...

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News: Recording

1,000 Jazz Albums You Should Hear Before You Die (671-680)

July 18, 2010

For those of you who have been following along with the list, you know that we add twenty albums each week. We are going to tweak things a bit for the remainder of the list, adding anywhere from 5 to ten albums at a time, but posting the lists a bit more frequently. Additionally, we will ...

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News: Festival

Brubeck's Newport Magic

July 18, 2010

Every time Dave Brubeck plays the Newport Jazz Festival, he breaks his own record. The pianist, who will turn 90 this December 6, has performed at Newport more than any other jazz artist in the festival's storied, sometimes roller coaster history. He was there for the first festival in 1954--and has been back more than 30 ...

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News: Performance / Tour

New Black Eagle Jazz Band Performing at South Shore Conservatory on Saturday, July 17

July 18, 2010

New Orleans-style jazz is on the menu tonight at the popular band, the New Black Eagle Jazz Band takes to the stage at the Jane Carr Amphitheatre in Hingham, Massachusetts on Saturday, July 17, at 7:00 p.m. The show is part of the Evenings under the Stars series sponsored by the South Shore Conservatory. The band ...

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News: Interview

Mike Durham's Brilliant Idea (Another One!)

July 17, 2010

Mike Durham is not only a fine trumpet player and soulful man. He's also the embodiment of musical generosity--with his wife Patti (herself inimitable) he has given the world twenty Whitley Bay International Jazz Festivals. The 2010 one was announced as the final one, and I think all the musicians and listeners had their joy tinged ...

News: Interview

"Pay Attention!" Celebrating Jake Hanna (August 8, 2010)

July 17, 2010

The greatest artists have a way of making us comfortable. We see them, unannounced, come on the stage, and we relax and get ready to be delighted. “This is going to be wonderful!" we think, before the first note has been played. Hank Jones and Milt Hinton and Ruby Braff and Vic Dickenson and another dozen ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Jimmy Cliff Unplugged at NPR Tiny Desk Concert, to Break Loose at Woodland Park Zoo Concert

July 17, 2010

Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae legend with a big stage presence, is all gentleness as he appeared eleven minutes unplugged on the Tiny Desk Concert at the National Public Radio (NPR) Music office in Washington, DC.Cliff, who brought reggae music to millions worldwide, revered for his legendary songs on the soundtrack to the 1972 hit ...

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News: Interview

Interview: Paul Bacon (Part 4)

July 17, 2010

I should have told you this from the start but Paul Bacon has had a second career that has been even bigger than his first. Paul is perhaps best known today not as an LP-cover art director but as the inventor of book jacket design as we know it. Starting in the late 1950s, he has ...