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Interview: Wanda Jackson (PT. 3)

October 5, 2012

Wanda Jackson is still on the road performing. She'll be at the Highline Ballroom in New York on October 12. I caught her at a one-room blues bar on the outskirts of Memphis when I was down there. She was escorted to the stage by her husband Wendell Goodman and she proceeded to rock the house. ...

News: Performance / Tour

Jazz This Week: Billy Childs Quartet, Tatsuya Nakatani, Mephista, Arturo Sandoval, and More

October 4, 2012

It's another busy week for jazz and creative music in St. Louis, with a couple of notable concerts of adventurous improvised music, plus an all-star quartet of modern mainstream players, a top Latin-jazz trumpeter, and more. Let's go to the highlights... Tonight, pianist Billy Childs' quartet begins a four-night engagement, continuing through Saturday, at Jazz at ...

News: Interview

Interview: Wanda Jackson (PT. 2)

October 4, 2012

What was it like to sit in the Jungle Room at Graceland with Wanda Jackson? Pretty neat. If you've visited Graceland, you know that this room—with its grass-green carpeting and Hawaiian theme—is off limits on tours. Small by today's McMansion standards—the Housewives of Any City, USA, have have larger and more elaborate homes—Graceland remains larger than ...

News: Performance / Tour

Nu-Art Series Getting "Tenor Madness" Starting Saturday, October 13

October 3, 2012

The Nu-Art Series has announced two fall concerts to be presented under the theme “The Tenor Madness Project," that, fittingly, will feature two of St. Louis top veteran tenor saxophonists. Willie Akins (pictured) will get it started at 3:00 p.m., Saturday, October 13, followed by fellow tenor man Freddie Washington at 3:00 p.m. Saturday, November 17. ...

News: Recording

Pianist-Composer Randy Klein Releases Second Two Duos Project "What's Next?" Featuring Bassist Boris Kozlov and Guitarist Alex Skolnick.

October 3, 2012

For the second in his series of Two Duos recordings, pianist-composer, Randy Klein engages in musical conversation on What's Next?, featuring electric bass guitarist virtuoso Boris Kozlov and guitarist Alex Skolnick. What's Next?, is the followup to his 2010 acclaimed CD, Sunday Morning, which showcased Klein in duets with trombonist, Chris Washburne and Russian saxophonist, Oleg ...

News: Interview

Interview: Wanda Jackson (PT. 1)

October 3, 2012

Rockabilly is nothing more than jazz, blues and country all mixed around. You can hear the jazz and blues influence in the Western swing artists of the late '40s and early '50s. And like blues players, many original rockabilly artists came from poverty, trying to use music as a way out of their family's plight. As ...

News: Music Industry

Full Text of Universal Music Chairman Lucian Grainge Letter to Staff on EMI Purchase

October 3, 2012

With the deal to purchase EMI complete, Universal Music Chairman Lucian Grainge wrote an email to his staff. In it he promised to invest in artists and “invigorate" the combined companies and the entire recorded music industry: Today is about music. It is about Universal Music's historic acquisition of EMI Recorded Music. First and foremost, this ...

News: Video / DVD

JazzClip: Tjader and Jackson

October 2, 2012

Let's travel back to the mid-1970s. As we settle in at our tables, expectations rise as we await performances by two vibraphonist giants—Cal Tjader and Milt Jackson—who will perform separately with their respective groups. Cal Tjader's band includes Clare Fischer on Fender Rhodes and Poncho Sanchez on percussion. Milt Jackson is backed by pianist Art Hillery, ...

News: Music Industry

Top Musicians Threaten Strike over EMI Sale to UMG

October 2, 2012

With all the reporting and coverage of the completed $1.9 billion acquisition of EMI by Universal Music Group, one very important voice has been (unsurprisingly) left out of the conversation entirely: the artists themselves. Some of the world's greatest musicians are now considering withholding any new albums as an act of protest, unhappy they are being ...

News: Opinion

Modernizing the Merchandise Madness

October 2, 2012

(UPDATED) Dave Kusek is a senior consultant in technology and marketing and General Manager of Digital Cowboys Consulting. Kusek is the former CEO of Berkleemusic.com and co-author of The Future of Music. For artists struggling to make a living in the digital age, a strong merch strategy can be the difference between living life as a starving artist ...