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Jazz This Week: Greater St. Louis Jazz Festival with Anat Cohen, Matt Wilson, Doc Severinsen, Monterey Jazz Festival 55th Anniversary Tour; and More
While this week's big event for jazz and creative music in St. Louis is the Greater St. Louis Jazz Festival, featuring a number of nationally known touring musicians, there also are plenty of noteworthy performances featuring local players coming up in the next few days. Let's go to the highlights... Tonight, singer Mary Dyson and pianist ...
Sahib Shihab and Bill Evans
Sahib Shihab isn't as well known today as most other storied baritone saxophonists like Gerry Mulligan, Pepper Adams, Serge Chaloff and Harry Carney. As I recall from my not-yet-transcribed interview with Sahib back in the '80s, when he was a visiting professor at Rutgers University, part of the reason for his obscurity was his lengthy expatriate ...
Bandzoogle Acquires Musician Website Platform NoteWay Media
Bandzoogle, the popular website platform for musicians, today announced that it has acquired the assets of NoteWay Media, a niche competitor that also provides a self-serve website platform for musicians, performers and entertainers. Details of the acquisition were not released. NoteWay hosted websites are being moved to Bandzoogle's servers over the next few weeks and NoteWay ...
Meet Maxim Micheliov
by AAJ Staff
I currently live in: Vilnius, LithuaniaI joined All About Jazz in: 2010What made you decide to contribute to All About Jazz? My professional background is in web marketing, and I connected with Michael Ricci through Chris Rich, who encouraged me to submit my first article “Howard Riley: Five Decades in Music." High ...
Do You Miss Erroll Garner?
Sometimes I get buried in deadline work and through neglect or “a kind of monumental inefficiency” (to borrow a favorite Paul Desmondism), I let a day or two go by without putting something new on Rifftides. Then, it gets to be ‘round midnight and it occurs to me that I have committed what my blog guru ...
STLJN Interview: Anat Cohen
The Greater St. Louis Jazz Festival began as primarily an educational event for local student jazz bands, and although the festival has been booking headlining talent for several years now, the professionals performing at the GSLJF still are involved in putting on workshops and adjudications for the students. As you'd expect, the questions they get from ...
Bobby Hackett: Capitol Sessions
As the suburbs expanded in the early 1950s and home-ownership soared, so did sales of phonographs. The iPods of their day, factory models could accommodate the new 33 1/3 speed needed for long-playing records. Columbia was first to introduce the LP in the late '40s but soon other labels chimed in. At first, the 12-inch LP ...
Soundexchange Distributes $117.5 Million in Q1 2013
Despite growing efforts by Clear Channel and others to licence music directly, digital music performing rights organization SoundExchange had announced a first-quarter 2013 distribution of $117.5 million. It's their largest first quarter payment ever and 10% above Q1 2012 distribution. Fourth quarter 2012 payments were $134.9 million - the largest quarterly distribution in SoundExchange history. SoundExchange ...
Pandora's Biggest Weakness, Potential Opportunity
By Kyle Bylin (@sidewinderfm), founder and editor of sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. Pandora has evolved during its tumultuous, decade long rise to ascendancy in the Internet radio sector, but the product is not perfect. Avid users lament about the repetitious nature of their custom stations and their tendency to pander toward certain artists. The alternative ...
Jim Rotondi: 'At the Bird's Eye'
Back in the '70s, soul-jazz albums featuring a tight trumpeter and saxophonist backed by a deep groove organist and persistent drummer. Prestige Records probably turned out more recording of that genre than most other lables—with organists like Don Patterson, Charles Earland, Richard “Groove" Holmes, Brother Jack McDuff and Leon Spencer Jr. The front line often featured ...
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Bill Bruford And Pete Roth: A One-Of-A-Kind Juxtaposition
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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
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Arcanum at Victoria Nasjonal Jazzscene, Oslo
Phil Schaap's Jazz Room
Franc Williams: Live From The West End
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