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Dave Pell on Boots Brown
Yesterday I posted about Shorty Rogers and his rock-and-roll recordings for RCA as Boots Brown and His Blockbusters. Those recordings included the cream of the West Coast jazz scene, including tenor saxophonist Dave Pell. Today, I gave Dave a buzz to find out why Rogers—and everyone else—bothered and shunned credit. First, a word about Dave, who ...
The Definitive Survival Guide for Band and Musician Photo Shoots
By Russ Robinson ofTampa Band Photos. a commercial music photographer. He does shoots all over the US, and offers photo advice for musicians on his blog and Twitter. For many people, being in front of a camera yields roughly the same amount of enjoyment as getting a root canal. It can be an awkward, stressful thing ...
Building a Music Collection in the Digital Age
By Aarti Kelapure of Evolver.fm. Recently, my editor lamented the challenge of collecting music when we find and listen to it from so many different sources. Without a one-size-fits-all solution, we end up forgetting some of the music we've stumbled upon across services. Other times, we come across something we don't have time to listen to, ...
Shorty Rogers: Rock Sessions
Shorty Rogers led a double life in the 1950s. By day, he was one of West Coast jazz's founding fathers—standing out as a dynamic bandleader and prolific big-band and small-group arranger. On his off hours, he had an alter-ego—Boots Brown, an early rock-and-roller who recorded about a dozen jump-boogie singles. Why Rogers bothered and went incognito ...
Jazz Face: Jeanne Arland Peterson, 1921-2013
If Minnesotans only know one area jazz musician by name, it's most like Jeanne Arland Peterson. Maybe they remember her as the organist for the Minnesota Twins 40 years ago. Or remember her voice and piano skills over two decades on WCCO radio. More recently, she was often heard with three (and later four) generations of ...
STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Six from Sonny Rollins
Since his continuing health issues forced the great saxophonist Sonny Rollins to cancel his concert originally scheduled for tonight at the Touhill Performing Arts Center, it seems fitting to use today's video showcase to pay tribute to the man who's been called “the world's greatest living tenor saxophonist," “the heavyweight champion of the tenor sax," and ...
Jazz This Week: Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Bonerama, "88 Squared," and More
For a lot of St. Louis jazz fans, there's a hole in this weekend approximately the size and shape of tenor saxophone giant Sonny Rollins, who, up until a couple of weeks ago, had been scheduled to play this Saturday night at the Touhill Performing Arts Center. Unfortunately, Rollins' continuing health issues forced him to cancel ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, June 21-27
It seems May's cool weather brought June's showers, but with the Solstice comes the hot vibes of the Twin Cities Jazz Festival, opening Thursday in St. Paul at Mears Park. And there's plenty of steam leading up to the festival. Big Gigs This Week Friday, June 21. Welcome summer with the soft breeze that always surrounds ...
Top 7 Reasons Every Musician Should Blog from Ariel Hyatt's New Book "Cyber PR for Musicians"
Early this year music marketer and educator Ariel Hyatt successfully completed an ambitious crowdfunding campaign whose goals included the creation of three new books and a social media course. While funders are already enjoying the fruits of Hyatt's labor, she is today releasing the first book to the general public titled “Cyber PR For Musicians." It's ...
Sam Most, Johnny Smith...Gone
Risking the appearance of Rifftides becoming an obituary service, I must note the deaths in the past week of two supreme artists of the bebop era, flutist Sam Most and guitarist Johnny Smith. Each of them blazed trails on his instrument and was a major influence on generations of players who followed him. Sam Most From ...
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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...
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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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Monktober continues with covers from Abbey Lincoln, Art...
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