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Don Wolff 1935 - 2015
Don Wolff, longtime local broadcaster, jazz advocate, and attorney, has died. He was 80 years old and had been undergoing treatment for both leukemia and cancer for several years. Instantly identifiable thanks to his signature on-air introduction, “I'm Don Wolff, and I love jazz," Wolff was best known for his radio broadcasts, which began in 1987 ...
StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Sylvie Courvoisier and Mark Feldman
This week, let's peruse some videos of pianist Sylvie Courvoisier and violinist Mark Feldman, who are coming to St. Louis to perform in a concert presented by New Music Circle on Friday, December 4 at The Stage at KDHX. The UK newspaper The Guardian in 2013 called them “both fine-tuned virtuosi whose projects sound like edgy ...
Streaming Won, But Where’s The Innovation?
Although music streaming, the most disruptive technologycurrently being used in the industry, is well on its way to becoming the dominant method through which listeners consume music, it has not yet even come close to unlocking its full potential, despite having been around for close to two decades Guest post by Radical.FM founder Thomas McAlevey For a ...
RIAA Introduces A Hi-Res Music Logo, Plus Some Confusion
In an effort to get serious about hi-res music, major label lobbying group, the RIAA, has introduced an official hi-res logo. However this new image, along with the RIAA's strange definition of what constitutes hi-res, may simply end up resulting in more confusion. Guest Post by Bobby Owsinski on Music 3.0 While the number of streaming ...
Jazz this week: Omaha Diner, Eliane Elias, Stanley Clarke, Susan Werner, and more
It's shaping up to be another busy week for jazz and creative music in St. Louis, with a handful of visiting headliners in town at various venues, a couple of homecoming shows featuring former St. Louisans, and a full schedule of performances from local players as well. Let's go to the highlights... Wednesday, November 18 The ...
Harry James Plays Neal Hefti
By my count, there were four big-band albums that paid tribute to the pen of composer-arranger Neal Hefti between 1957 and 1961: Steve Allen Plays Neal Hefti (1957), Basie Plays Hefti (1958), Frank Capp's Percussion in a Tribute to Neal Hefti (1960) and Harry James Plays Hefti (1961). Or put differently, Hefti composed and arranged for four ...
Muddy Ground Or Pastures Green? The Highs And Lows Of Online Engagement
Being forced to spend large quantities of time staring at a screen is one of the realities of being an independent artist in 2015, and while this can be frustrating, online engagement and effective use of social media still remain some of the best ways to share what's really important: your music. A trumpet player sits on a bench with perfect posture. ...
Rdio Deal Is Admission That Pandora Business Model Is Unsustainable, Marks Beginning Of The End For Free Music Streaming
Headlines that Pandora purchased a bankrupt Rdio signal consolidation. But it's also a sign that even Pandora, the largest and most successful streaming music service, knows that its current business model is unsustainable. Like Deezer's “delayed" IPO, Rdio's fire sale sell-off to Pandora signals that investors are cooling to freemium music streaming. But there's a deeper message: Pandora ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, November 20-26
Colder weather, darker days, holiday shopping—we are getting into Minnesota Winter mode. But we do not hibernate here— we go out and enjoy live music! And we have plenty of options between now and Thanksgiving, with an ever-increasing number of “holiday" gigs appearing on the jazz calendar. This weekend, enjoy some favorite vocalists, local as well ...
Mel Torme: Sings About Love
I was never a big Mel Tormé fan. So many of his recordings were heavy-handed and overly rendered, like drowning perfectly good pancakes in a lake of syrup. The problem is that Tormé was an incorrigible ham. Born with vocal gifts he maximized early, Tormé was reflexively intent on rubbing everyone's face in it. The hustler ...
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