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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, June 10-16
Unofficially, the Twin Cities Jazz Festival is underway following the first 'jazz at the library" gig a few days ago. Another library show takes place this weekend in downtown St Paul while other artists and venues warm up stages and audiences as we build not only summer heat but anticipation of that annual musical firestorm. And ...
Bud Shank: Shorty Rogers, 1954
If you're looking for an introduction to West Coast jazz or simply want the pure stuff, Bud Shank's recordings for the Pacific Jazz label in the 1950s are a great place to start. Bud had a sterling, aggressive sound on the alto saxophone, with the feel of a sports car pulling away from the curb. His ...
Jazz this week: New Orleans Suspects, U City Jazz Festival, Miles Davis at 90, and more
This week's lineup of jazz and creative music in St. Louis features a bit of New Orleans, a bit of Las Vegas, an appearance by an original member of a seminal jazz/fusion band, plus tributes to George Clinton and Miles Davis, and much more. Wednesday, June 8 Trumpeter Jim Manley and Wild, Cool and Swingin' will ...
John Park: If Winter Comes
Odds are most readers will be unfamiliar with John Park while a majority probably have never heard him play on albums. That's about to change, but first some background. Park was a lead alto saxophonist and occasional tenor saxophonist who is probably best known for joining Stan Kenton's Orchestra in 1973, just as Kenton was embarking ...
Business Entities And Taxes: A Musician’s Basic Guide
As a band or artist, it can often be smart to establish yourself as a loan-out company or some similar form of corporate entity, as doing so can both shield you from liability and allow for numerous tax write-offs. Guest Post by Justin M. Jacobson, Esq. on the TuneCore Blog [Editors Note: This guide is written by Justin ...
Why The Cornet? (Revisited And Revised With Video)
Because of circumstances too complicated and mundane to relate, there will be no Monday Recommendation today. Stuff happens. Maybe there will be a Tuesday Recommendation tomorrow. In the meantime, here is a Rifftides post that appeared nearly ten years ago. Possibly you had forgotten about it. The staff has removed outdated links and added video that ...
AMA, Record Store Day Partner For Americana Music Month
Americana music is hard to define until you visit Nashville. There, an audience not vested in corporate country, has embraced artists as diverse as Jason Isbell, Lumineers, Darlingside and Ben Folds collectively known as Americana. The Americana Music Association and Record Store Day have announced a partnership to create Americana Music Month, which will take place throughout June 2016. ...
Court Declares Remastered Old Songs Get Brand New Copyright
In a recent piece of bad copyright news, the courts have ruled that pre-1972 music should, in fact, receive a new copyright once it has been remastered, meaning copyright extensions can be piled on ad nauseam, without a track ever falling into the public domain. Guest Post by Mike Masnick on Techdirt Whoo boy. Did not ...
Weekend Extra #2: That Thelonious Monk Cover
I realize that in many time zones outside the US, the weekend is over. But what the heck; this is about Monk. You may have wondered about the circumstances of the cover photograph for Thelonious Monk’s 1968 album Underground. As you might imagine, when the recording came out, the cover received widespread attention. In a particularly ...
Music Education Monday: Jazz theory with Barry Harris
Today for Music Education Monday, here are some lessons in piano and jazz theory from the veteran pianist Barry Harris, via a series of short videos produced by the Jazz Academy program of Jazz at Lincoln Center in NYC. The first of these four clips was part of a previous post here with some other piano-related ...
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