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Garage a Trois to Play Tuesday, September 14 at the Old Rock House

July 7, 2010

The jazz/funk combo Garage A Trois (pictured) is 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 Eric Walton) and guitarist Charlie Hunter. The band's current lineup includes Moore and ...

Jazzwax List: 5 Live Sleepers

July 7, 2010

The 1940s and 1950s were golden decades for live concert recordings. Radio stations captured many live dates cleanly on transcription discs meant to be played later in different time zones. These eventually surfaced on LPs and CDs as interest in artists and jazz grew. In the LP era, concerts were routinely taped by record companies and ...

Bassnectar Remixes Massive Attack

July 7, 2010

“RISINGSON" GETS THE BASSNECTAR TREATMENT Bassnectar has released a remix of the classic Massive Attack track “Risingson." Says Bassnectar, “This remix has been unfinished for over 10 years. I first played it at Burning Man in 2000, and as many of my hybrid mashup creations, it has constantly evolved. As with any customized edit it has ...

Disco Biscuits: Late Summer Tour

July 7, 2010

TOUR STARTS AUGUST 25 IN DEWEY BEACH, DELAWARE The Disco Biscuits From DiscoBiscuits.com: We just finished plotting our late August/September run that will take us to some familiar places as well as some new ones. Presales for most of our newly-announced headline dates are live NOW at BiscoTix! We start in the Northeast with a beach ...

Prince: "The Internet's Completely Over."

July 7, 2010

According to the artist commonly known as Prince, in an interview with the UK's Daily Mirror--the publication that will be giving away his new album 20TEN in a cover mounted promotion this week: “The internet's completely over. I don't see why I should give my new music to iTunes or anyone else. They won't pay ...

Eight Recent Social and Technical Phenomena

July 7, 2010

Over at our sister blog Music Think Tank, there are two new posts up.  One is from Chris Taylor, a co-founder of MicControl, a music blogging network, on the 11 must-have iPhone apps for the musician on-the-go. The other, from Bruce Warila, is on the eight recent social and technical phenomena that are making your music ...

Sonicbids Continues Evolution with No Cost Gig Listings Courtesy of Musician's Friend

July 7, 2010

Sonicbids has added no cost gig opportunities for its members courtesy of a new partnership with catalog and online music gear retailer Musician's Friend. The listings will be introduced gradually over the next few months eventually reaching the thousands. A broader roll-out is planned for the Fall.  In the past, some have been critical of Sonicbid's ...

Dream Cymbal Sale at Donn Bennett Drum Studio

July 7, 2010

From Donn Bennett: Drummers! For the second year in a row, we are very excited to be hosting a Dream Cymbal Tasting here at Donn Bennett Drum Studio in Bellevue. For a full week, from Wednesday July 7th to Wednesday July 14th, we'll have over 100 cymbals and gongs on display and available for purchase. Dream ...

Louis Armstrong - "Basin Street Blues" (1959)

July 7, 2010

Farewell, Fred

July 7, 2010

A previous post harboring hope now has as a sobering finality to it... Fred Anderson is gone. Details are widely available regarding the particulars of his passing so I won't dwell on them here. Despite best laid plans, I wasn't able to immerse myself in Fred's recorded work to the degree that I had planned. That ...