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Rising Young Keyboardist, Composer, and Producer Jesse Fischer to Make Obliqsound Debut with "Retro Future," Featuring Soul Cycle, His Tight-Knit Working Unit - Available October 30

August 29, 2012

Ambitious Project Ties Together Jazz, Electronic, Soul, Classical, Psychedelia, and World Music What did the future used to look like? The space-age exploration of the Mad Men era? The free love and flower power of the hippies? The technological utopia of the early Internet pioneers? The promise of today’s era of global interconnectedness? With each new ...

MAXJAZZ Releases New Solo CD by Pianist Dena Derose

August 29, 2012

The St. Louis based independent label MAXJAZZ has released a new CD by pianist Dena DeRose called Travelin' Light. The album (pictured) is DeRose's fourth for the label and her first recording as a solo pianist. It was recorded live at The Chromatic Attic in Antwerp, Belgium, and features DeRose's interpretations of some familiar tunes (and ...

Jane Fielding: Embers Glow

August 29, 2012

I'm convinced you can spend a lifetime listening to captivating albums by female jazz singers of the 1950s. There seems to be an endless supply. Today, the names of these vocalists are completely unknown or forgotten by most fans of the music. In many cases these women recorded one or two albums in New York or ...

Musomap: Google Maps Meets Twitter for Musicians

August 29, 2012

The ways that musicians seek out and find their creative collaborators have come a long way in the digital space. There now exist a number of sites that go well beyond Craigslist and focus specifically on connecting musicians, and each has its own unique value offering. One such site that made its way onto our radar ...

Who Are the 30 Richest Drummers in the World?

August 29, 2012

A few weeks back, we gave you a rundown of the world's top paid DJs displaying numbers highly reflective of the current EDM explosion in the United States and the subsequent demand for these artists (Tiesto being the top earner @ $22 million dollars in a year period). Drummers on the other hand, have been in ...

Jimmy Forrest: Sit Down and Relax

August 28, 2012

On the Prestige Records' thermometer, tenor saxophonist Jimmy Forrest sat roughly halfway between Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt. Forrest had Ammons' bulldog gospel attack but he also had Stitt's glossy slipperiness. Forrest, of course, had his own distinct swinging style that sounded like the blues mounted on a roller skates. He could be both intimate and ...

Jazzdoc: Gil Evans

August 27, 2012

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: A Marcus Miller Marathon

August 26, 2012

This week, we've got a whole lot of video featuring bassist Marcus Miller, who's coming to St. Louis to play Sunday, September 9 and Monday, September 10 at Jazz at the Bistro. Miller, now 53, has been an in-demand player, producer and composer on the national and international music ...

Belleville's Wine, Dine and Jazz Festival Announces Lineup

August 25, 2012

Belleville's Wine, Dine and Jazz Festival has announced the lineup of musicians for its 2012 event, which will be held Friday, October 19 and Saturday, October 20 in the square in downtown Belleville. On Friday, the festival will feature the Yard Dawgs Jazz Quartet, the Usual Suspects, and Musica Slesa. Saturday's roster includes guitarist Tom Byrne ...

Bandwidth Conference Kicks Off Next Week in Portland, Oregon

August 25, 2012

Next week in Portland, Oregon, the Bandwidth music and technology conference kicks off for its annual event discussing the evolving music space, bringing in top minds in the field from Sony Network Entertainment, Beatport, Warner Music Group, YouTube, and more (updated list of attending companies below). Closed discussion sessions revolve around how people discover, purchase, interact with, and ...