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Frank Wess and Johnny Coles
Taste is what separates great jazz musicians from average ones. Those who have taste consistently choose notes, tempos, timbres and voicings that seduce and satisfy attentive listeners. Taste also requires a conscious effort on the part of the artist to make smart decisions about songs. Tenor saxophonist Frank Wess has always had superb taste, and perhaps ...
Great Latin Jazz Albums from 2012
Without a doubt, 2012 was an exciting year for the Latin Jazz world, bringing a wealth of new music to our ears at an astounding rate. We got new big band masterpieces from folks like Bobby Sanabria and Papo Vazquez, amazing tributes to Milton Nascimento, Ivan Lins, and The Beatles, not to mention some heavy hitting ...
Leveling Up: Is the Music Industry Ripe for Gamification?
Guest post by Richard Pulvino (@rpulvino) for sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. I've become addicted to thinking about gamification thanks to a class I took about the topic via Coursera, an online education platform. It's impossible not to. The course gamed my mind to think about game elements all of the time. I started ...
STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Spotlight on Gregory Porter
This week, let's get acquainted with singer Gregory Porter, who will be making his St. Louis debut with performances starting next Thursday, January 4 through Sunday, January 7 at Jazz at the Bistro. Porter's 2010 debut album Water created something of a sensation in the jazz world and beyond, and the response to Be Good, the ...
Jazz This Week: Marcus Baylor, Larry Johnson CD Release, Good 4 the Soul, New Year's Eve Jazz, and More
As we head into the final days of 2012, you've still got opportunities to catch some live jazz and creative music around St. Louis before the year is done. Here are a few suggestions for this weekend and New Year's Eve: Tonight, drummer Marcus Baylor, the native St. Louisan and former longtime member of Yellowjackets who's ...
Fontella Bass 1940-2012
Singer Fontella Bass, the St. Louisan who had a huge soul and pop hit in 1965 with “Rescue Me" but also sang jazz while married to trumpeter Lester Bowie, died Wednesday night in St. Louis of complications from heart failure. She was 72. “Rescue Me," which Bass co-wrote as well as sang, sold more than a ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Jazz, December 28 - January 3
As we celebrate a new year, it's time to reflect on the many blessings of music from 2012 - and there were many. I even managed a blog (see December 26th) about what I consider the key signs that jazz is alive and well in the Twin Cities. Some of those signs, and more, are visible ...
How 1948 Changed Everything
In today's Wall Street Journal (go here), I write about the American Federation of Musicians' little-known second recording ban of 1948 and how the 12-month job action unintentionally and dramatically altered jazz and other music styles for the next 50 years. The first AFM recording ban from 1942 to 1944 was an attempt by the union ...
iTunes as a Music Discovery Service
By Tyler Hayes, who runs the music discovery site Nxt Big Thing. iTunes is both a mainstream juggernaut, destroying the competition in market and mind-share, and a great discovery tool, arguably just as good as any local indie record store. Often the store gets overlooked simply as a music store where people, who know what they ...
Jazz in 2012: Alive and Well, Locally and Beyond
Sunday's Strib carried its annual Twin Cities Critics Tally - a set of critics' “best ofs" celebrating the best of local musicians, local songs, live acts and recordings. And as usual, jazz is barely visible, with only Chris Bates' Red Five debut album, New Hope, carrying the banner for America's much ignored native art form. Not ...
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Bill Bruford And Pete Roth: A One-Of-A-Kind Juxtaposition
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Miles Okazaki's Monkathon: The Complete Thelonious...
Interview
Scott Kinsey: Thought Distortions and the Art of the Left...
Groove Orbit
801 Live at 50: A Short-Term Experiment with a Long-Lasting...
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
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