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News: Recording

Liebman/ Parker/ Bianco - Relevance (Red Toucan)

July 7, 2010

By practically any educated estimation, Dave Liebman and Evan Parker are saxophone icons. Each man has advanced the post-Coltrane lexicon on the instrument in deeply personal and divergent directions. Liebman's preference is jazz-based. Parker retains analogous roots, but his reed explorations have also encompassed European free and electro-acoustic improvisation as well as modern classical forms. Those ...

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News: Recording

Kenny Burrell - Be Yourself (High Note)

July 7, 2010

Advancing age has a disquieting habit of eroding jazz relevancy. Stars of the hard bop era alive today have to wrestle with bodies of work that can easily become millstones attached to their creativity. The old specter of diminishing returns isn't some harmless haint. Still performing and recording in his 78th year, guitarist Kenny Burrell knows ...

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News: Recording

Manu Katche - Third Round (2010)

July 7, 2010

By PicoWorld class drummer Manu Katché continues to pursue a second musical career as a bandleader with his third ECM release (and fourth overall) on Third Round. His second ECM Playground was warmly greeted here when it first appeared three years ago, and his label debut was quite good, too, so we were eager ...

News: Music Industry

How to Tour a Foreign Act in the United States (Part One)

July 7, 2010

This post was written by Eric Herman, the co-founder and president of Modiba, a social-activist international music company based in New York City (pictured above). It is a record label/production, management, publishing and consulting resource for international artists. Modiba Publishing is North America's only consolidated catalog of international music of all varieties and from all regions ...

News: Technology

Tastebuds Connects Single People with Shared Musical Taste

July 7, 2010

As everyone knows, the most important thing for building a healthy and long-lasting relationship is having shared taste in music. Well, maybe it's not the most important thing, but it's certainly a good starting point. That is precisely the thinking behind Tastebuds.fm, a recently launched website that matched single people based on their musical taste. By ...

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News: Music Industry

Art Tatum Trio, Chicago

July 6, 2010

A good deal of energetic call-and-response was stirred up on this site by my posting what was proposed as an authentic Art Tatum signature. Reader Gary Pajer has generously shared with us his father's postcard from the London House in Chicago, signed by the three members of a notable trio: Gary's father didn't remember an exact ...

News: Video / DVD

Correspondence: On "Take Five" (Illustrated)

July 6, 2010

Rifftides reader John Fielding writes from Australia: I am currently reading and enjoying your book about Paul Desmond. I am a lifelong DB and PD follower after seeing them play in Brisbane, Australia, in 1960. Congratulations on a great contribution to jazz history and the stories and colors of the era of the 50's. Amazing that ...

News: Performance / Tour

World Percussion Theatre Concert to be Presented Tuesday, July 20 at the Sheldon

July 6, 2010

Drummer and educator Terry Artis' Show-Me Sound production company will present “World Percussion Theatre," a concert “celebrating the diversity of the drum" at 7:00 p.m. , Tuesday, July 20 at the Sheldon Concert HallThe program will feature the Show-Me Sound F.O.C.U.S. Drumline (pictured) along with groups representing percussion traditions from four continents: the St. ...

News: Education

Jazz St. Louis Announces New Education Faculty and Programs, 2010 All-Stars

July 6, 2010

Jazz St. Louis director of education Phil Dunlap recently made a couple of blog posts with some announcements about JSL's education programs for the 2010-11 season. Here's what's news:* Nearly 80 students from Missouri and Illinois auditioned during June to be part of the Jazz St. Louis All-Stars and JazzU programs; that's an increase ...

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News: Book / Magazine

Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne

July 6, 2010

Though still in progress with James Gavin's thick new volume on the life & times of the recently departed ancestor Lena Horne, several in-progress observations give high marks to the writer's thorough, detailed efforts. Gavin, who penned the equally-rewarding Chet Baker bio The Long Night of Chet Baker, details La Horne's vivid and often troubling life, ...