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Jazz This Week: Bill Charlap and Houston Person, Alarm Will Sound, Peter Martin, so Percussion, Willie Pickens, and More
This week's menu of jazz and creative music around St. Louis includes performances by three top pianists representing NYC, Chicago and St. Louis, plus local stops for two acclaimed touring new music ensembles, and much more. Let's go to the highlights... Tonight, pianist Bill Charlap (pictured) and guest tenor saxophonist Houston Person open an four-night engagement ...
Beryl Booker: 1946-54
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, there were more women in jazz than is customarily known or documented. We tend to think of jazz as men's music, with a smattering of women functioning primarily as novelty acts. Men also thought that way back then, making life doubly difficult for female artists. The view was perhaps ...
Five CD Discoveries of the Week
My workload last week prevented me from sharing with you my CD discoveries this past weekend. So here they are now... Those familiar with Bob Dorough know that his arranging skills are as shrewd as his songs, piano playing and vocals. On Eulalia (Merry Lane), we get to hear all of Dorough's talents. Dorough's vocal style ...
Dutch Jazz Archive Series
In the 1950s and '60s, when American jazz artists performed in Amsterdam, they often appeared at a hall called the Concertgebouw [pictured above]. The concerts were produced by Lou van Rees, the Netherlands' George Wein. Recordings of jazz performances there recently have begun to be released in the Netherlands, but the results are admittedly spotty, with ...
STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Standard Time with Houston Person
Today, let's look at some video clips featuring the tenor sax stylings of Houston Person, who's coming to St. Louis next week to perform with pianist Bill Charlap's trio Wednesday, February 5 through Saturday, February 8 at Jazz at the Bistro. Person, who will turn 80 in November, grew up in Florence, South Carolina and ...
Merlin Taps Otto for New Member Dashboard Just in Time for Midem
One historical problem facing musicians at all levels of the industry is the lack of transparency in much accounting of sales and royalties. OTTO, by Ottomate, is one solution being taken up by indie labels and distributors for such purposes. Indie label rights agency Merlin just introduced a customized dashboard to make it easier for members ...
Jazz This Week: Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, Jazz at Lincoln Center Quartet, and More
Here's a look at some of the most noteworthy jazz and creative music performances happening this week in and around St. Louis: Tonight, the Jazz at Holmes series of free concerts at Washington University presents “A Tribute to Jim Hall" with guitarists William Lenihan & Vincent Varvel; and it's the monthly “Experimental Arts Open Mic Night" with ...
Two New Perfect Albums
I'm sorry to cost you money, but trust me, these will be dollars well spent. Two albums crossed my desk recently that are close to perfect. One is a jazz orchestral album and another is a bossa nova release by way of Spain. I've listened to both from top to bottom multiple times and I can ...
So Gracenote and Next Big Sound Are Teaming up to Help Launch Even More Streaming Music Services?
Yesterday Gracenote announced a partnership with Next Big Sound to bring additional data and features to Gracenote's new Rhythm platform which launches in February. I spoke earlier in the week with Gracenote President Stephen White who discussed Rhythm and helped me to understand who would want such a thing given how many music services are currently ...
How to Get Millions of People to Download and Use Your Music App
As Co-founder and CEO of Khush, Prerna Gupta led the company to a huge success with mobile music apps such as LaDIDa and Songify before they were acquired by Smule. She then went on to lead product development and marketing at Smule with the understanding that products that sell themselves have marketing built into them. Recently ...
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