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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: The Return of Lou Donaldson

October 6, 2013

Once upon a time, just about every major city in the USA had at least a couple of guys who played in a similar style, if not with the same amount of skill, as alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson, who's coming back to St. Louis next week to perform Wednesday, October 9 through Saturday, October 12 at ...

Stan Getz, Munich 1990

October 6, 2013

Who Was Doc Pomus?

October 4, 2013

Few white pop-rock songwriters of the 1950s and '60s started out as miserably as Jerome Felder. Polio-stricken at age 7, Felder was placed in body casts and then an iron lung before he wound up in leg braces and crutches. Stuck in bed for years, Felder spent a lot of time listening to the radio, which ...

Berklee Online Adds First Bachelors Degrees in Music Production and Music Business

October 4, 2013

Berklee Online has long offered online courses in music, business and production. They even recently partnered with Southern New Hampshire University to offer an online music biz MBA. Now they're offering their first undergraduate degrees online, a Bachelor of Professional Studies with two areas of focus, Music Business and Music Production. Berklee Online's current online offerings ...

Why Musicians Make Little While Music Services and Distributors Make Billions [Jeff Price]

October 4, 2013

By Jeff Price, the founder of TuneCore and now founder/CEO of Audiam. In today's new music industry of peer-to-peer file sharing, download stores, and on-demand streams, it's hard enough for an artist to make money by selling their music. So what happens when the world's largest music distributors and stores carry all the songs in world ...

Got an Old iPhone? Create a Wireless Music System!

October 4, 2013

By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. Attention, Mac people who just bought or are about to receive a new iPhone. If your old iPhone is still fairly new, you don't have any kids yammering for an iPod Touch (that you want to give them), and you have no other reason to keep it, you should probably ...

The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, October 4-10

October 4, 2013

Fall is not only in the air, it's in the trees, on the street, along the river and up at the lake. Along with our newly arrived cloak of autumn color and cooler nights, we have a colorful variety of jazz artists in our midst, from talented locals to starbright visitors. It's hard to top a ...

Jazz This Week: The Bad Plus Plays Stravinsky, Marty Ehrlich's Rites Quartet, the Brubeck Brothers, Laurence Hobgood and Ernie Watts, and More

October 3, 2013

The good news is that it's another busy week for jazz and creative music in St. Louis, including some very attractive free events. The bad news is that, absent time travel, cloning or some other fictional technology that doesn't exist, it's probably impossible for one person to hear it all. Nevertheless, to help you decide which ...

Documentary: Swing

October 3, 2013

Oscar Castro-Neves, 73

October 2, 2013

News comes of the death of Oscar Castro-Neves, one of the leading guitarists to emerge from Brazil’s bossa nova movement. As samba music moved north in the 1960s and became a powerful element in US popular music and jazz, Castro-Neves was an important player, coach, producer and catalyst. After hearing him at Seattle’s Jazz Alley with ...