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Jazz This Week: Made in St. Louis
While there are no major touring jazz or creative music headliners scheduled to be here for the next few days, St. Louis musicians will be filling a variety of local venues with all sorts of sounds. And so, as a way of demonstrating the wide variety of activity on our local scene, this week's picks consists ...
Artie Shaw: Rhythm Makers
If you want to know what America was like at different points in time, listen to the music. While sheet music and recordings are hardly perfect reflections of our culture—demographic and regional tastes are never unified nor do they shift in lockstep—music can offer compelling clues. After all, music's primary purpose is to appeal to listeners—challenging ...
Saxophonist/Composer/Educator Tia Fuller to Perform at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola in Support of Critically Acclaimed Third Album, Angelic Warrior February 21 - 24, 7:30 and 9:30PM
Album Features John Patitucci, Terri Lyne Carrington, Dianne Reeves, Shamie Royston, Mimi Jones, and Rudy Royston Saxophonist/Composer/Educator Tia Fuller is scheduled to perform at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola in New York City from Thursday, February 21 through Sunday, February 24. The performance will be in support of her recently released Mack Avenue Records album, Angelic Warrior. With ...
Pianist/Composer Luke Celenza to Release Debut Album, Back and Forth, Featuring 12 Original Compositions Bridging the Gap Between Jazz and Pop
“I hear in Luke Celenza a young gifted jazz musician who has the right inquisitive attitude and true potential to become one of the key players in the scene. He brings to the table a fresh sound and an uncommon restrained maturity in his music which I am sure will keep on delighting us for many ...
Composer/Saxophonist Joshua Kwassman Spins the Tale of Friendship on Songs of the Brother Spirit - His Debut Album of All Original Extended Compositions, Available March 12 on Truth Revolution Records
Featuring Guitarist Gilad Hekselman The journey from adolescence to adulthood can be a harrowing one. For composer and saxophonist Joshua Kwassman, that was true in a very literal sense, as a three-day bike trip, in August 2010, with an idolized childhood friend collapsed into chaos and shattered his youthful illusions. While that trek itself found Kwassman ...
Pianist Aaron Diehl to Make Mack Avenue Records and Studio Debut with Captivating New Album, the Bespoke Man's Narrative, Available March 19
In fashion circles, the adjective “bespoke” denotes custom-made suits and shirts and signifies the person who designs and constructs them. On The Bespoke Man’s Narrative, his brilliant Mack Avenue Records debut, pianist Aaron Diehl extrapolates this notion to matters of musical invention. “The idea for the metaphor was that the composition and concept were specifically for ...
Acclaimed Drummer/Composer Antonio Sanchez Marks New Chapter in His Musical Life on Latest Album, New Life, Available February 26 on CAM Jazz
Project Puts Prime Focus on Sanchez' Compelling New Compositions Featuring Donny McCaslin, David Binney, Matt Brewer, John Escreet and Thana Alexa Drummer Antonio Sanchez has played alongside some of the greatest composers in modern jazz – including Chick Corea, Danilo Pérez, Gary Burton, and Pat Metheny, who has called on Sanchez to anchor virtually every project ...
Whitaker Music Festival Announces 2013 Schedule of Free Summer Concerts
The Whitaker Music Festival has announced their 2013 schedule of free concerts to be presented on Wednesdays this summer at the Missouri Botanical Garden. Although over the years the series has expanded from its origins as “Jazz in June" to include various other musical genres, this year's schedule does feature several acts that will be of ...
Dave Brubeck: 'Southern Scene'
On September 10, 1959, about a month after Dave Brubeck completed Time Out and a month before the craze began over Take Five (the single wasn't released until September 21 while the album didn't hit stores until December 14), the Brubeck quartet began to record Southern Scene. By then, most people who watched TV news were ...
Comparing Music Services by Audience, Social Media Followers and Search Engine Dominance
By Marcus Taylor, Director of VentureHarbour. This isn't just another speculative poll on which music streaming / discovery platform is winning the arms race. Oh no! I thought it might be fun to collect a bunch of data from tools used by the digital marketing community to highlight which platform has built and maintained the largest ...
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