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6 Signs Smartphones Will Replace PCS as Hardware Hubs
Someday, I will stop talking about my iPod prediction of 2001 – the one Gizmodo called “the best iPod prediction ever made.” Today is not that day. In that column, I predicted that not only would the iPod be a hit (despite criticism that it was way too expensive among other things), but that the iPod’s ...
Jazz This Week: Sachal Vasandani, Galactic, Kris Davis Quintet, Jan Shapiro, Bucky Pizzarelli and Denise Thimes, and More
It's a jam-packed week of jazz and creative music in St. Louis, with local debuts from two noteworthy touring musicians, the return of some familiar favorites, homecoming gigs for three local expats, and lots more. Let's go to the highlights... Tonight, singer Sachal Vasandani will make his St. Louis debut, beginning a four-night engagement at Jazz ...
The Buddy Defranco Wailers
I love clarinetist Buddy DeFranco's marvelous sense of purpose. Throughout his storied career dating back to the early '40s, Buddy has always treated jazz as a cocktail—vigorously shaking perfectionism and playfulness, and pouring forth a bop-infused sound that enraptures and dazzles. On Sunday, Buddy turns 90, so I thought I'd celebrate a little early. One of ...
College Students Pivot T-Shirt Biz into WOMP Music Discovery App
By Alex Silverman of Evolver.fm. A year in open development, music discovery site WOMP.in is the brainchild of Jason Wimp, Michal Krupa and Neil Mallinar — three college students still earning their undergraduate degrees from Indiana University, University of Illinois: Urbana Champaign, and John Hopkins respectively. WOMP, set for its official launch this March, emerged from ...
Donald Byrd (1932-2013)
Death is a devastating event for loved ones. The finality of loss is crushing and leaves family members feeling helpless, particularly when the deceased is notable and the media seeks information. Over the past week or so, rumors circulated about the passing of trumpeter Donald Byrd. Some blogs and radio disc jockeys decided that a Facebook ...
Innovative Jazz Trumpeter Donald Byrd Dies at 80
DOVER, DE: Jazz musician Donald Byrd, a leading hard-bop trumpeter of the 1950s who collaborated on dozens of albums with top artists of his time and later enjoyed commercial success with hit jazz-funk fusion records such as “Black Byrd," has died. He was 80. He died Feb. 4 in Delaware, according to Haley Funeral Directors in ...
Rue Lafayette Closes
Rue Lafayette, the Lafayette Square cafe and boutique that featured live jazz regularly on weekends, has closed. According to reports published today on STLtoday and the website of St. Louis magazine, the closing is a byproduct of divorce proceedings between proprietress Araceli Kopiloff and her co-owner and soon-to-be-ex-husband. The venue (pictured) had presented live jazz during ...
Tony Mottola: Tender Touch
When it rains all day after a heavy snow and fog settles in, there's only one thing to do: reach for a bit of what used to be called “easy listening." But in fairness, to call Tony Mottola easy listening is a bit unfair. The superlative guitarist recorded hundreds of albums as a soloist, accompanist and ...
Introducing Linda Lawson
Television split a lot of jazz personalities in the 1950s. Dozens of jazz musicians arranged and played in the orchestras of live TV shows in New York and Los Angeles. Some singers who could have been jazz or pop recording artist wound up being actors. One of those was Linda Lawson. Lawson made only two known ...
6 Steps for Successful Audio Mastering
Mixing is an art form that takes a lot of time and skill and even though we may spend a long time on any given mix it is a good plan to be able to have a strategy for commencing a mix down session. To some degree this is going to be influenced by the genre ...
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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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801 Live at 50: A Short-Term Experiment with a Long-Lasting...
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