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News: Obituary

Jazz Face: Dave Brubeck, 1920-2012

December 6, 2012

I think my first Dave Brubeck record, purchased in my teens, was Jazz Impressions of New York. It was his classic quartet with Paul Desmond, but was not to be one of his most popular recordings. No matter. It's the music that got me hooked on Brubeck, and to a large degree, the music that really ...

News: Contest

Jim Wilke's Northwest Christmas

December 5, 2012

If you are yearning for Christmas music, it isn’t hard to find. Walk into a supermarket, park at a service station pump or step into an elevator. Whether the stuff piped into commercial establishments suits your taste is beside the point; they give you no choice. This weekend, Jim Wilke won’t give you a choice, either, ...

News: Music Industry

Dear Kyle, Music Discovery is Neither a Lie nor a Path to Failure

December 5, 2012

By Paul Lamere, the Director of Developer Platform at The Echo Nest. He blogs at Music Machinery. This week, the usually excellent Hypebot published a post by Kyle Bylin called Music Discovery: The Path to Digital Failure. In this post, Kyle takes issue with a recent Billboard article about how music discovery is one of the ...

News: Music Industry

The Evolution of Headphones [Infographic]

December 5, 2012

The beautiful thing about music is that it can be either a social or an intimately personal experience, depending on how you choose to enjoy it. Music brings people together and can easily transcend any language barrier, but it can also bring us closer to ourselves and provide us with a soundtrack to our daily lives. ...

News: Music Industry

Donald Fagen: 'Sunken Condos'

December 4, 2012

For many fans of Steely Dan, Donald Fagen's snake-skin voice is the sound of college, the start of intellectual life and newly won independence from parents' clutches. Today, he's Neptune of a sub-rosa region where jazz, R&B and rock intersect. In this funk-rock world, horns come and go, a harmonica wails, a rock guitar weeps, a ...

News: Opinion

MOG's Fallen King: Hyman Gets the Boot

December 4, 2012

David Hyman had a dream that came true. He spearheaded a Spotify competitor that delivered near-audiophile quality music to your phone. So good was MOG, that in July of 2012 it was bought by headphone innovator, Beats for reported $14 Million, which included relocating Hyman and his family to Malibu is serious first-class style. But, less ...

News: Performance / Tour

Annenberg Center Presents Funky Fusion Band Red Baraat

December 4, 2012

Philadelphia, PA: The pioneering Brooklyn dhol ‘n’ brass party band Red Baraat bring their spirit and funk to this one-night-only show as part of the Annenberg Center’s Asian Roots Series. Combining the sounds of traditional Indian bhangra with New Orleans jazz and Brooklyn attitude, the members of Red Baraat take the stage “putting some New York ...

News: Recording

Charles Mingus: Workshop Concerts

December 3, 2012

By 1960, bassist, composer and leader Charles Mingus wasn't a jazz musician in the traditional sense. He was an activist, and if the new Charles Mingus: The Jazz Workshop Concerts 1964-65 (Mosaic) box is any indication, his music was two years ahead of Huey Newton's Black Panthers and the Black Power movement in general—both of which ...

News: Video / DVD

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Welcome Back, Potter

December 2, 2012

This week, our video spotlight shines on saxophonist Chris Potter, who will be returning to St. Louis to play Wednesday, December 12 through Saturday, December 15 at Jazz at the Bistro. Potter, one of the most in-demand saxophonists around these days, was here most recently in March 2011, performing ...

News: Opinion

Music Discovery: The Path to Digital Failure

December 1, 2012

Guest post by Kyle Bylin of sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. Billboard has doubled down on a particularly dangerous idea. In the trade publication's annual FutureSound white paper, it proclaims that music discovery is “The Key To Digital Fortune." This is, at best, egregious hyperbole, and, at worst, complete mystification. Senior correspondent Alex Pham, who ...