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Who Will Win the Home Music War?
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. The cassette player, compact disc, MP3 player, and today’s smartphones and tablets were all portable music evolutions. Newsflash: Humans are not always in motion. Sometimes — a great deal of the time — we are at home. And yet as a general population, we are all hackers and settlers-for-good-enough in ...
A Happy New Year Full of Jazz/Rock is Here -- Time to Party Like It's 1969!
(In case that headline is puzzling you... 1969 is the year Columbia released Miles Davis' In A Silent Way, and the year after the release of Filles de Kilimanjaro, when the Dark Prince got the party started and electricity started running through his veins.) Three weeks ago I received an email from Hungarian guitarist László ...
STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Winter/Spring 2014 Jazz Preview, Part 3
This week, it's an extra-large part three of StLJN's video preview of jazz musicians and bands coming to St. Louis in the first part of 2014. (In case you missed them, here's part one and part two.) Today's first clip features singer Marissa Mulder, who will make her St. Louis debut as one of the headliners ...
Billy May in 'Nightmare' (1956)
Normally you find a Weekend Wax Bits in this space. Today, something a little different: a link sent along by reader John Cooper. It's Nightmare, a film noir with Edward G. Robinson and Kevin McCarthy. The music is by bandleader-arranger Billy May, with an on-screen cameo by Meade Lux Lewis on piano and May on trumpet ...
Young Coleman Hawkins Speaks and Plays
After Coleman Hawkins left Fletcher Henderson in 1934, he spent nearly five years touring in Europe. Having established the saxophone as a serious jazz instrument, he provided significant inspiration among European musicians as jazz took a solid foothold on the continent and in the British Isles. Hawkins appeared with bands in England, Switzerland, France and Holland, ...
A Bill Evans Rehearsal
Rifftides reader Mike Harris (more about him later) alerts us to a little-known piece of video catching Bill Evans in rehearsal for a 1966 Danish television broadcast. The 21-minute sequence lets us see and hear Evans and his trio preparing pieces he frequently included in his playlists: “Very Early,” “Who Can I Turn To,” “If You ...
Jazz This Week: The Brothers Peterson, Good 4 the Soul, New Year's Eve Jazz in St. Louis, and More
With Santa Claus' labors complete and his flying reindeer out to pasture for another year, there are just a few days of live jazz and creative music left in 2013. Let's see what's coming up in and around St. Louis... Tonight, it's the final “Avant-Garde Arts Night" of the year at the Tavern of Fine Arts, ...
Early Stan Kenton on Film
Back in the 1940s, when radio, record company and movie studio efforts began to merge, shorts were viewed as a highly strategic way to promote bands in movie theaters before feature films came on. Here's a series of short films made with Stan Kenton... Jammin' in the Panoram (1942), with Howard Rumsey on bass... Reed ...
The Internet of Things Could Bring Music to Your Home Appliances
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. The personal tech revolution that encouraged many of us to look at screens for the past 15 years or so is shifting. As we enter the internet of things, apps will no longer be bound to computers and smartphones. As it turns out, putative enemies, futurists and Luddites are actually united: ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, December 27 - January 2
Year-end celebrations dominate jazz this week, but one is certainly bittersweet as the Artists Quarter closes out its St. Paul run, at least for now. But the AQ will exit on a chorus of high notes, with a weekend “Jam" of surprise guests and a sold-out New Year's Eve finale. Add in a four-night residency with ...
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