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Video: Lighthouse All-Stars, 1958
The Lighthouse All-Stars was the house band at the Lighthouse in Hermosa Beach, Calif., that was formed in the early 1950s by bassist Howard Rumsey, who managed the club. Many top musicians who relocated to Los Angeles in the early 1950s played in the band while “working off their card"—an expression that meant waiting the required ...
STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Spotlight on Pat Martino
This week, we spotlight the stylings of guitarist Pat Martino, who will be back in St. Louis next month to perform Wednesday, December 4 through Saturday, December 7 at Jazz at the Bistro. The Philadelphia native, now 69 years old, has played here numerous times over the years, most recently in December 2010 at the Bistro. ...
Soundcloud Adds Explore with Trending Music and Lean Back Discovery
Yesterday SoundCloud introduced Explore, a discovery feature that should help connect more listeners with artists using SoundCloud though a more prominent homepage position would be a nice touch. It's available on the web and on SoundCloud's Android app. No word yet on iOS availability but their iTunes listing promises “bigger updates" than their recent design refresh. ...
Musicians Are Finding Licensing Opportunities in Foreign Markets
By Eduardo Loret de Mola from Berklee College's Music Business Journal. The music licensing market is actively expanding its scope within the entertainment industry. Musicians' net earnings from traditional licensing deals are decreasing with each passing year. Nevertheless, there are still opportunities to be found if one is creative enough to spot them. The prospects for ...
Woody, Kennedy and Me
Fifty years ago today, only one jazz recording session took place in the U.S. More than six hours after news broke that President Kennedy had been assassinated in Dallas, Woody Herman decided there wasn't much point in worrying about what he couldn't control and moved forward with the second recording session for what would become Woody ...
The Echo Nest Expands Music Intelligence Platform to Digital Advertising
The music you listen to could now help drive the ads you hear online. With the launch of Music Audience Understanding, clients of The Echo Nest can deliver targeted advertising using musical preferences to predict demographic and psychographic information without revealing other personal information. Broadcast radio advertising still totals $15 billion a year; and Music Audience ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, November 22-28
Heading into the first round of “winter" holidays, the temperatures are heading down but the joy of jazz is definitely heading upward, starting with a lively weekend from fresh vocals to circus-like caricatures in paint and music, coasting into Thanksgiving with the welcome returns of a young native son making a name for himself on the ...
Jazz This Week: Regina Carter, a Trio of Big Bands, a Benefit for Tony Simmons, and More
This week's notable jazz and creative music performances in St. Louis include the return of the premier violinist in jazz; concerts by three different local big bands; and more. Let's go to the highlights... The violinist in question is, as you might suspect, Regina Carter, who opens a four-night engagement this evening continuing through Saturday at ...
Hal Gaylor: The Trio, '61
The history of modern jazz is stocked with sensational trios. These include the Nat King Cole Trio, the Red Norvo Trio, the Oscar Peterson Trio, the Thelonious Monk Trio, the Jimmy Giuffre 3, the Horace Silver Trio, the Ahmad Jamal Trio, the Wes Montgomery Trio and the Bill Evans Trio among many others. Now add one ...
Nancy Wilson: Jazz Scene USA '62
In 1962, Nancy Wilson was still being positioned by Capitol Records as a jazz-pop singer. In the years after she signed with the label in 1959, her first five albums were examples of this hybrid: Like in Love, with Willie Smith on alto sax, Something Wonderful (1960) with Ben Webster on tenor sax, The Swingin's Mutual ...
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Bill Bruford And Pete Roth: A One-Of-A-Kind Juxtaposition
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Miles Okazaki's Monkathon: The Complete Thelonious...
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Scott Kinsey: Thought Distortions and the Art of the Left...
Reanimating Conversations Past
John Scofield: Meant To Be
From the Inside
The Quiet Cruelty of the Music Business
Phil Schaap's Jazz Room
Franc Williams: Live From The West End
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Arcanum at Victoria Nasjonal Jazzscene, Oslo
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