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Jazz This Week: A Gaslight Square Tribute, Mel Bay Jazz Festival, Storm Large, Tatsuya Nakatani, and More
This week's calendar of live jazz and creative music in around St. Louis once again offers plenty of variety, from big bands to cabaret to free improv to a nostalgic look at an historic time for local music. Let's go to the highlights... Tonight, the Jazz at Holmes series at Washington University presents a tribute to ...
Getting Buzz for Your Band Before You Have Fans
By Dylan Welsh from the Sonicbids Blog. Every band has to start somewhere. Many groups playing the world’s largest stages today started in small clubs in and around their hometowns. But sometimes, it’s difficult to even get that far. When you're at the very beginning, with no fanbase or connections whatsoever, how do you cut through the ...
Pandora's Westergren Talks Serving Musicians, 'Calmer' Royalty Debate
Pandora founder Tim Westergen has always billed himself as a friend of the artist, citing his early days as a touring musician himself. But ad Pandora has grown, he and his hugely popular online radio juggernaut, have had to endure some sharp cristicsm from some in the artist and label community. That's led to a less ...
Three Things About Streaming Music the Industry Needs to Figure Out
By Mark Mulligan from Music Industry Blog. I spent a couple of days last week in Barcelona for the annual Future Music Forum, which is developing into an important date on the music conference circuit. Later this week I will post some of the highlights of my opening address but first I am going to spend ...
Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga: "Cheek to Cheek"
Over the past few weeks, I've spent quite a bit of time with Cheek to Cheek (Interscope), the much-ballyhooed Songbook album by Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga that's out today. For many jazz fans, I suspect it will be difficult for them to go beyond preconceived notions about Lady and even Tony. In recent days, I've ...
Sirius XM Eyes Expansion in Crowded Online Streaming Marketplace
Sirius XM is is eyeing expansion of its fledgling online streaming service as a way to fuel growth, according to a major backer of the satellite broadcast service. “We are watching what happens in streaming,” Liberty Meida chief Greg Maffei told the Goldman Sachs Communacopia conference last week. “Taking Sirius unique content beyond the car in the ...
Iranians Sentenced to Jail and Lashing for Dancing to Pharrell's "Happy"
Seven young Iranians who recorded a video of themselves dancing to Pharrell Williams' “Happy" have been sentenced to suspended jail terms and lashing. According to the Associated Press, Lawyer Farshid Rofugaran said his clients received suspended sentences of six months in jail and 91 lashes each after their video was deemed to be “indecent." One of the ...
Meredith D'Ambrosio on Jackie Cain
When Jackie Cain died last week, I immediately thought of jazz singer-pianist Meredith d'Ambrosio. Meredith also has an intimate, conversational vocal style and, like Jackie, has an ear for great little-known songs that match her personality perfectly. Meredith and I chat often, so I asked her for a few recollections on Jackie (and Roy). Here's what ...
STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Fall 2014 Jazz Preview, Part 4
Today, it's part four of StLJN's video preview of jazz and creative music performers who will be coming to St. Louis this fall. (In case you missed them, here's part 1, part 2, and part 3.) For this installment, we resume with more of what's coming up in November, starting with a video featuring keyboardist Marco ...
Kenny Wheeler is Gone
Kenny Wheeler, a Canadian who became a towering figure in British music and an icon of jazz musicians around the world, has succumbed to a long illness. He was in a London nursing home for several months and was moved recently to the hospital where he died. He was 84. Wheeler’s brilliance as a composer and ...
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Points of View: Celebrating Dave Holland
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Boney James: A Simple Man And A Lifetime Study
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Miles Okazaki's Monkathon: The Complete Thelonious...
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Bill Bruford And Pete Roth: A One-Of-A-Kind Juxtaposition
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Steve Coleman on Dave Holland
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Isaiah Collier Plays Coltrane: Live at Jazz Alley in Seattle
Reanimating Conversations Past
John Scofield: Meant To Be
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