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Beats Music to Launch January 21st [official]

January 13, 2014

Beats Music, the streaming music service founded by Interscope chief Jimmy Iovine, Dr. Dre, Luke Wood, Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails and Ian Rogers, will launch January 21st, according to an official announcement from the Beats Electronics subsidiary. Beats Music launches in a competitive sector as a premium service: there is no free tier like most of rivals, ...

News: Award / Grant

The New NEA Jazz Masters: Anthony Braxton

January 11, 2014

There has been disagreement for more than forty years about whether the saxophonist, composer and sometime pianist Anthony Braxton is a jazz musician. With many others, he long insisted that the music he wrote and played was not jazz, but in 1993 he told author Cole Gagne, “...even though I have been saying I’m not a ...

News: Career

What Indie Musicians Can Learn from Efforts to Rescue Radio

January 11, 2014

Doc Searls is known for his insights into business and the web dating back even further than “The Cluetrain Manifesto." His recent post, “How to rescue radio," includes a detailed series of suggestions for radio stations, networks and chains, for app developers, for equipment makers and for “everybody." The suggestions range from technical specifics to nuggets ...

News: Interview

Pandora Co-Founder Tim Westergren Opens up on Topics Like: Who's Really Screwing Artists?

January 11, 2014

Pandora Co-founders Tim Westergren and Tom Conrad recently sat down with PandoDaily's Sarah Lacy for a PandoMonthly Fireside Chat. The series is ongoing, featuring major figures in tech, and Lacy typically includes some difficult questions in the process of giving entrepreneurs a platform to open up. Tim Westergren's responses are currently being featured and he discusses ...

News: Award / Grant

The New NEA Jazz Masters: Keith Jarrett

January 12, 2014

Pianist Keith Jarrett is one of the four new NEA Jazz Masters who will accept their awards at Lincoln Center Monday evening. In its advance publicity, the National Endowment for the Arts says that Jarrett has a “talent for playing both abstractly and lyrically, sometimes during the same song.” True as that assessment is, it doesn’t ...

News: Video / DVD

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Winter/Spring 2014 Jazz Preview, Part 5

January 12, 2014

This week, it's the fifth and final installment of StLJN's winter/spring 2014 jazz preview, giving you a chance to check out live performance videos of the various touring jazz and creative music performers coming to St. Louis in the next few months. (If you missed the earlier posts, or want to take another look, here are ...

News: Interview

The New NEA Jazz Masters: Richard Davis

January 10, 2014

The 2014 NEA Jazz Masters will receive their awards in a ceremony at New York’s Lincoln Center Monday evening, January 13. The four recipients are pianist Keith Jarrett, saxophonist Anthony Braxton, bassist Richard Davis and—in the jazz advocacy category—publisher, recording executive and musician Jamey Aebersold. They will be the 32nd group in the jazz community to ...

News: Performance / Tour

Jazz This Week: The Bad Plus, Nathaniel Bartlett Plays Stockhausen, Lina Koutrakos, and More

January 10, 2014

As St. Louis continues to dig out from the big storm, it looks like this week's jazz and creative music performances around town should go on as scheduled. Should the weather turns nasty again, however, we encourage you to call ahead before heading out to your venue of choice, and this site will be updated with ...

News: Recording

'Count on the Coast': Basie, '58

January 10, 2014

In June and July 1958, the Count Basie Orchestra was booked into the Crescendo at 8572 Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood. The club (along with the Interlude) was owned by disc jockey Gene Norman, who had purchased the property in 1954 from singer Billy Eckstine when the space was named the Chanticlair. Norman renamed the club ...

News: Performance / Tour

The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, January 10-16

January 10, 2014

Downbeat'sFebruary 2014 issue includes their annual listing of “The World's Best Jazz Clubs." With the Artists Quarter closed, no Minnesota venue made the list this year. Yet there are still many venues boasting real jazz at least one or two nights per week, and a few newer venues with more regular attention to jazz and improvised ...