Home » Search Center » Results: AAJ Staff
Results for "AAJ Staff"
Jazz This Week: Dave Holland Quintet, Jeremy Davenport, "Funky Dog Gumbo Ball," Bosman Twins, and More
This week's picks in live jazz and creative music around St. Louis include a multi-night gig featuring one of the top small groups in modern jazz, the return of a local “favorite son" to headline at one of our town's most prestigious concert venues, and much more. Let's go to the highlights.... Tonight, bassist Dave Holland ...
Snarky Puppy Returning for Performance on Thursday, May 9 at the Demo
The Texas-based funk/jazz/world music band Snarky Puppy is coming back to St. Louis to perform at 8:00 p.m. Thursday, May 9 at The Demo. (The Demo is the new venue at 4144 Manchester in the Grove neighborhood, next to Atomic Cowboy, that's being programmed jointly by the music bookers from Lola and the Firebird. At this ...
Al Haig Plays Jerome Kern
Pianist Al Haig is most often thought of as a bebop boilermaker—laboring shoulder to shoulder with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie in the '40s with terrifying dexterity and rock-solid feel for the new music. But Haig also had a tender, romantic side in his later recordings, and his solo work is still hair-raising. One of his ...
Rdio Launches Free Music Streaming in 17 Countries
Freemium continues to be a popular weapon in the music streaming wars, and today Rdio launched free streams for 6 months in 15 of the 17 countries in which it's available. The markets include the United States (where it's been free since Oct 2011), United Kingdom, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Netherlands, New Zealand, ...
Les McCann: Stuttgart 2004
Les McCann is one of the fathers of soul-jazz. The pianist and vocalist pioneered a sound in the late '60s and '70s with saxophonist Eddie Harris that provided a wamer, more soulful alternative to jazz-fusion. Albums like Swiss Movement (1969) and Layers (1973) remain landmarks. Courtesy of Jimi Mentis in Athens, here's McCann in Stuttgart in ...
STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Six from the Wee Trio
Our video spotlight shines this week on The Wee Trio, who will return to St. Louis to play Friday, February 8 and Saturday, February 9 at Jazz at the Bistro. The gigs will serve as live recording sessions for their next album, as well as a visit home for bassist Dan Loomis, who grew up in ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, January 25-31
A week of all-star jazz begins with a birthday party at the Artists Quarter for owner Kenny Horst, continues into the week with a welcome return of the legendary Dave Holland Quintet, and a homecoming for one of the brightest lights in the vocal music sky, the eclectic/electric José James. That should be enough to warm ...
New Mike Masnick Report Focuses on Europe
Full Midem 2013 coverage by Stuart Dredge of Music Ally. In January 2012, Techdirt founder Mike Masnick published a report called The Sky Is Rising, a survey of the global entertainment industry that took a notably positive approach to growth in the last decade. Now Masnick and co-author Michael Ho have published a new report drilling ...
Boyd Lee Dunlop: Solo Piano
Every blue moon, someone like Boyd Lee Dunlop comes along who blows jazz fans' minds. In December 2011, Dunlop, a jazz pianist, was discovered in a Buffalo, N.Y., nursing home. He was profiled on NPR and in newspapers, including The New York Times (go here), and he recorded an album—Boyd's Blues. Then everything came crashing down. ...
Why Did Dropbox Buy Audiogalaxy?
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. Most companies making strides in the cloud are big. Apple (iCloud) and Google (Drive) are front-runners in the general cloud storage space. If you count the music cloud, Amazon's also a factor, especially with its newfound abilities to autorip all the CDs you've ever bought there and sell music to ...
Trending
Interview
Bill Bruford And Pete Roth: A One-Of-A-Kind Juxtaposition
Interview
Miles Okazaki's Monkathon: The Complete Thelonious...
Interview
Scott Kinsey: Thought Distortions and the Art of the Left...
From the Inside
The Quiet Cruelty of the Music Business
Live Review
Arcanum at Victoria Nasjonal Jazzscene, Oslo
Phil Schaap's Jazz Room
Franc Williams: Live From The West End
Groove Orbit
801 Live at 50: A Short-Term Experiment with a Long-Lasting...
VOTE!
