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Ross Gentile, Former WSIE DJ, Dead at 60
Ross Gentile, known to St. Louis jazz fans for more than 15 years as the host of “Standards In Jazz" on WSIE (88.7 FM), has died. He was 60. Gentile, a longtime resident of Glen Carbon, IL, reportedly had been in poor health for some time, and according to friends and published accounts, had been undergoing ...
STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Catching up with Kurt Elling
This week, let's take the opportunity to renew our musical acquaintanceship with singer Kurt Elling, who's returning to St. Louis next week to perform Wednesday, February 27 through Saturday, March 2 at Jazz at the Bistro. Elling, considered by many critics and fans to be the top male jazz singer working today, has been a regular ...
Available Now: Guitarist Kevin Eubanks Showcases Breadth of Artistic Influences on New Mack Avenue Records Release, "The Messenger"
With his second Mack Avenue Records release, The Messenger, acclaimed guitarist Kevin Eubanks continues to explore his own unique musical vision. This vision offers the listener an opportunity to share a musical journey that truly exemplifies where Eubanks is at this stage of his illustrious career; one that, for over three decades, has seen him incorporate ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, February 22-28
Two of the world's premiere guitarists happen to be in the Twin Cities at the same time.... At the same price. Free. Both Mike Stern and Bill Frisell turn up on college campuses this weekend, making this perhaps the best “free" jazz weekend of the year outside of the Twin Cities Jazz Festival. But it is ...
Dennis Owsley Seeking Recent Recordings for Updated Jazz History of St. Louis
Dennis Owsley, host of the Jazz Unlimited program airing at 9:00 p.m. Sunday nights on KWMU (90.7), is preparing to celebrate his 30th year of continuous jazz broadcasting on the station, and to do so, he needs a bit of help from local St. Louis musicians. Owsley, who also wrote the book City of Gabriels: The ...
James Hunter: "Minute by Minute"
James Hunter's new album Minute by Minute (Fantasy) is tremendously exciting. If you love R&B riffs and hooks and a raw soulful voice, this one has it all. As I write at WSJ.com today (go here), Hunter has faced his share of hardship. His soul survivor instincts owe much to his grandmother's R&B collection, particularly records ...
How Pitchfork Visualizes Music on the Internet
Welcome to part two of our condensed, super-digestible interview with RJ Bentler, vice president of video programming for the influential music tastemaker Pitchfork. The first part of this interview covers the interactive promise of internet-on-the-television. This second (and final) segment concerns Pitchfork’s plans for putting its original video programming directly on the television — an area ...
Scott Hamilton at the PDX Festival
When Scott Hamilton came to prominence in the 1970s he was a jazz wunderkind unlike any other saxophonist of his generation. He was twenty-two years old when he arrived in New York from Providence, Rhode Island in 1976. Most of his saxophone contemporaries wanted to be John Coltrane, blazing trails through the post-bebop era. Hamilton wanted ...
Andre Delano to Perform with Good 4 the Soul on Sunday, March 3 at BB's Jazz, Blues and Soups
Saxophonist Andre Delano, the East St. Louis native who's had significant success as a touring musician and recording artist, is returning home to perform at 6:00 p.m. Sunday, March 3 at BB's Jazz Blues and Soups. He'll be backed for the gig by Good 4 The Soul, which includes fellow East St. Louisans Adaron “Pops" Jackson ...
ShowScoop Launches Live Show Rating App
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. For most of us, live music is something that happens a handful of times per year — a summer festival, a friend's band, maybe a couple of big stadium tours, and/or some local up-and-comers. Other music fans go to shows all the time. This could be because they're in a ...
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