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News: Performance / Tour

Jazz This Week: Rick Haydon Quartet, Terence Blanchard, Ragtime at Scott Joplin's House, Oikos Ensemble, and More

Jazz This Week: Rick Haydon Quartet, Terence Blanchard, Ragtime at Scott Joplin's House, Oikos Ensemble, and More

If you're looking to get out hear some live jazz in St. Louis, there's there's plenty of local music on tap over the weekend, with some new weekly gigs getting underway, plus some visiting players coming to town to play free concerts next week. Let's go to the highlights: Tonight, singer Joe Mancuso and his band ...

News: Interview

Interview: David Crosby

Interview: David Crosby

A month ago, I spent nearly two hours with David Crosby in New York at the duplex of his friend. The apartment was on a perilously high floor of the Time Warner condo apartments in New York and had a majestic view of Central Park. David was in town to appear with bandmates Stephen Stills and ...

News: Career

Importance of the Jobs Act to Record Labels

Importance of the Jobs Act to Record Labels

By Miguel de Braganca from Berklee College of Music's Music Business Journal. The largest providers of capital in the music business, the major record labels, have been devastated over the last decade by the disruption of their core competency: selling recorded music and investing profits into the development of new talent. Global music sales have been ...

News: Technology

2013 Winners of the SF MusicTech Summit Startup Showcase Challenge

2013 Winners of the SF MusicTech Summit Startup Showcase Challenge

The SF MusicTech Summit Startup Showcase Challenge provides startups the opportunity to demo their services at the Summit. Last week a new batch of interesting startups took the honors and shared their work. Definitely worth a look to see who's making moves often before they're making news Not all the startups who present at SF MusicTech ...

News: Performance / Tour

Dirty Dozen Brass Band to Play Sunday, June 23 at off Broadway

Dirty Dozen Brass Band to Play Sunday, June 23 at off Broadway

The Dirty Dozen Brass Band (pictured) is returning to St. Louis to play at 7:30 p.m., Sunday, June 23 at a new venue for them, the south side rock club Off Broadway. The best-known popularizers of the modern New Orleans brass band sound, DDBB made their most recent visit to St. Louis in May of last ...

News: Recording

Bud Powell: The RCA Sessions

Bud Powell: The RCA Sessions

In the fall of 1956, pianist Bud Powell was an emotional mess. His brother, pianist Richie Powell, had died in June in the same car crash that killed his wife Nancy (and the car's driver) and trumpeter Clifford Brown. Bud Powell was also suffering from schizophrenia and was on powerful meds following his release from a ...

News: Career

Creative Commons to Create Tools to Help You Track Uses (and Misuses) of Your Music

Creative Commons to Create Tools to Help You Track Uses (and Misuses) of Your Music

This week Creative Commons (CC) released their annual report and a paper addressing future priorities. One of their top priorities is to create tools that will allow those using Creative Commons licensing to see how their creations are being used by others. Such a tool, whether in the form of a “core platform or interactive framework," ...

News: Performance / Tour

Concert Paying Tribute to Ross Gentile Set for Sunday, September 8 at Siue

Concert Paying Tribute to Ross Gentile Set for Sunday, September 8 at Siue

A concert paying tribute to the late Ross Gentile is scheduled for 8:00 p.m., Sunday, September 8 in the Meridian Ballroom, located in the Morris University Center on the campus of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Gentile (pictured) hosted the “Standards In Jazz" program on WSIE for 15 years, at one point working on-air for the station ...

News: Award / Grant

Clark Terry to be Inducted into Jazz Hall of Fame on Tuesday, June 4

Clark Terry to be Inducted into Jazz Hall of Fame on Tuesday, June 4

Trumpeter and St. Louis native Clark Terry, drummer Art Blakey and vibraphonist Lionel Hampton will be honored tomorrow with induction into Jazz at Lincoln Center's Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame. The induction ceremony will take place at 1:00 p.m. Eastern time on Tuesday, June 4 at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, which is located within JALC's home, Frederick ...

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News: Recording

Gil Evans: Jamaica Jazz

Gil Evans: Jamaica Jazz

One of the least-known Gil Evans albums and among his most interesting is Jamaica Jazz. Produced by Creed Taylor when he was at ABC Paramount, Jamaica Jazz was recorded in November and December 1957—between Evans' Gil Evans and Ten (Prestige) and New Bottle, Old Wine (World Pacific). Evans wrote the arrangements for The Don Elliott Octet, ...


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