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Doc: The Jazz Queens

September 10, 2015

Niche Music: The Next Streaming Frontier

September 10, 2015

While streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music offer a seemingly unlimited buffet of music from which listeners can pick and choose, it may be more variety than most listeners need, or than they're willing to pay $9.99 a month for. Should music streaming instead take a hint from companies like Netflix and break into smaller ...

Jazz this week: Monty Alexander, Antonio Figura, the Miles Davis statue unveiled, Dave Dickey Big Band, and more

September 9, 2015

While jazz fans from all over the world will be taking note of the long-awaited unveiling of the Miles Davis statue Saturday in Alton, IL, there also will be plenty of other interesting jazz and creative music events happening all around the St. Louis area. Let's go to the highlights... Wednesday, September 9 In his first ...

Steely Dan: Deacon Blues

September 9, 2015

Among the most arch and enigmatic composers of the post-Vietnam War era are Donald Fagen and Walter Becker. Together, they are Steely Dan, and their songs depict hard-luck stories of eccentrics, weirdos and outcasts. What makes their characters and predicaments sympathetic is the jazz-influenced music that lends sophistication and drama to the tales. It's a mood ...

Pandora Turns 10 Today, Celebrates With Costly Ad Free Listening

September 9, 2015

Pandora turns 10 years old today. That is an eternity in streaming music and they're celebrating with a day of ad free listening that will cost the company more than $1 million in royalties and more than that in lost ad revenue. Pandora turns 10 today September 9th and will celebrate by going ad free for 24 hours.  They're calling ...

Riding The Vinyl Boom, Technics Returns With New Turntable

September 8, 2015

The vinyl record boom has been good for artists and great for independent records stores. But it has also spawned startups to serve vinyl lovers and  a resurgence in turntable manufacturing. Technics, once one of the leading names in turntables, announced that they are re-entering the turntable market.  Technics parent Panasonic showed off a prototype of ...

Jazz loses one of its great advocates

September 8, 2015

Jazz lost one of its finest ambassadors this holiday weekend. Broadcaster “Tom the Jazzman" Mallison died overnight in a head-on collision as he was driving home to Greenville after his weekly Sunday night radio show on North Carolina's Eastern Public Radio. He had been a steady volunteer broadcaster on the station in New Bern for more ...

Cover: Concert by the Sea

September 7, 2015

When Erroll Garner's Concert by the Sea was released in August 1956, the 12-inch Columbia album featured a striking cover. Photographed from above, the image captured a young white model wearing tight-fitting dark slacks, light-blue sneakers, a cream shirt and an open red jacket. Her head was thrown back slightly to the side, her arms raised ...

Music Education Monday: Saxophone workshops with Dave Liebman and Bill Evans

September 7, 2015

With the unveiling of the Miles Davis statue in Alton set for this Saturday, today's Music Education Monday offers an opportunity to hear from a couple of his former sidemen, the saxophonists Dave Liebman and Bill Evans. In addition to playing with Davis at the turn of the 1970s, Liebman also had a notable stint early ...

The Willis Conover Archive Is Online

September 5, 2015

p>The music program at the University of North Texas has graduated hundreds of jazz artists who went on to successful careers as professionals. Woody Herman populated virtually an entire edition of his Thundering Herd of the 1970s with North Texas graduates, and they keep coming. Jimmy Giuffre, Herb Ellis, Billy Harper, Marvin Stamm, Bob Belden, Norah ...