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News: Performance / Tour

Dan Hicks to Perform Wednesday, March 13 at the Wildey Theatre

November 17, 2012

Singer-guitarist Dan Hicks (pictured) and His Hot Licks will be returning to the St. Louis area next year for a performance at 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, March 13 at the Wildey Theatre in Edwardsville. Hicks, who's been combining jazz, Western swing, folk, Gypsy music, blues and rock with wry humor since the late 1960s, played here most ...

News: Video / DVD

John King to Record Live DVD on Friday, December 21 at BB's Jazz, Blues and Soups

November 17, 2012

Bassist John King (pictured), known for his work with Good 4 The Soul, saxophonist Jim Stevens, and numerous other St. Louis musicians and groups, will launch his new solo project with the recording for DVD of a live performance at 7:00 p.m. Friday, December 21 at BB's Jazz, Blues and Soups. The gig, billed as “John ...

News: Recording

Dave Weckl Using Crowdfunding to Finance New Recording with Jay Oliver

November 17, 2012

Drummer Dave Weckl is teaming up again with his old friend, keyboardist and fellow St. Louis expat Jay Oliver, and using “crowd funding" to raise money for their new project. Friends since high school, Oliver and Weckl worked together on Weckl's early solo albums Master Plan, Heads Up, and Hard Wired and the Dave Weckl Band ...

News: Music Industry

Yamaha Extends Marketing Efforts with Launch of Indie Label

November 17, 2012

The Yamaha Corporation of America (YCA) has extended its deep relationship with musicians with the launch of an indie record label under the Yamaha Entertainment Group of America. Though comparable to such innovative corporate experiments as that of Red Bull Records and Hard Rock Records, these comparisons pale in the light of Yamaha's even longer history ...

News: Performance / Tour

The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Jazz This Weekend!

November 17, 2012

A compact version of The Lead Sheet this weekend as I am “on the road." But I'll be back in time to catch a lot of good music— and add an update for the rest of the week! Jazz Highlights This Weekend! One of the real gems of Twin Cities culture has long been the experimental ...

News: Performance / Tour

Jazz This Week: Joey Defrancesco, Dan Thomas, Harry Miller, Montez Coleman, Genesis Jazz Project, and More

November 15, 2012

This week's lineup of jazz and creative music performances in St. Louis is headed by organist Joey DeFrancesco (pictured), who this evening will open a four-night gig continuing through Saturday at Jazz at the Bistro. DeFrancesco, considered by many to be the reigning champ of the blues-drenched jazz organ style pioneered by the late Jimmy Smith, ...

News: Recording

Duke Ellington: Complete Columbia

November 15, 2012

I fully appreciate Duke Ellington's importance and contribution to jazz. But for the longest time I've never been overly nuts about his music. For years, I felt that a large percentage of his works were wound too tight, oppressively mannered and sticky-fancy in places. But that's largely ignorance talking, since I've never really given Ellington a ...

Article: First Impressions

Jimmy Herring: Subject to Change Without Notice

by AAJ Staff
November 14, 2012

With his first record since his stunning 2008 debut as a leader, Lifeboat (Abstract Logix), guitarist Jimmy Herring capitalizes on that album's strengths and ups the ante even further on Subject to Change Without Notice (Abstract Logix, 2012), featuring a core group of players with all the chemistry he needs, and some high-powered guest artists to ...

News: Recording

Shirley Scott Plays Horace Silver

November 14, 2012

Organist Shirley Scott recorded seven albums in 1961— most of them the usual organ-trio suspects for Prestige: Blues intermingled with standards plus a couple of dates with new husband and tenor saxophonist Stanley Turrentine. But in November, Scott deviated from the norm for one date—Shirley Scott Plays Horace Silver, with Henry Grimes on bass and Otis ...

News: Opinion

Context Culture: The Next Music Revolution

November 14, 2012

Guest post by Alex Hoffman (@alexbhoffman) of sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. Smartphones have changed nearly every aspect of our lives. They have become the personal assistant and digital companion that keeps us punctual, social, and sane. Still, these devices don't quite shine until we push them - manually launching apps and inputting information. ...