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News: Performance / Tour

Webster University Releases Schedule of Fall Jazz Concerts

August 22, 2012

The music department at Webster University has released their schedule of Monday night jazz concerts for Fall 2012. The series gets started on Monday, September 10 with the Webster University Faculty Jazz Ensemble presenting a program called “Cool Struttin': Soulful Sounds from Blue Note Records." Then on Monday, September 24, guitarist Tom Byrne and his Pat ...

News: Interview

"Beka Gochiashvili" as Told by Bill Milkowski

August 22, 2012

By Bill Milkowski At a recent showcase in New York, long-time friends and collaborators Stanley Clarke and Lenny White introduced 16-year-old piano phenom Beka Gochiashvili to an unsuspecting crowd of jazz fans at the Blue Note. In simple terms, the kid completely blew me away. His time was flawless, his technique impeccable, his touch and intuitive ...

News: Video / DVD

Dinah Shore's Security Council

August 22, 2012

In one of the oddest televised summit concepts, pop singer Dinah Shore in 1961 summoned a quintet of entertainers with a range of ethnic backgrounds or “disabilities" to attend her Chevrolet U.N. In attendance for the NBC special: the blind George Shearing, the “mute" Harpo Marx, African-American Louis Armstrong, Italian-American Tony Bennett and Kay Starr, of ...

News: Music Industry

Despite a Huge Drop in Revenue, Riaa Execs Still See Large Payouts

August 21, 2012

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) recently submitted its latest tax filling to the IRS, which covers the fiscal year ending March 31, 2011. Strikingly noticeable is a huge drop in revenue for the anti-piracy organization. In two years time, membership dues from music labels have been reduced by 50% and have dropped to below ...

News: Technology

Technology: It Really Hasn't Changed Our Taste in Music...

August 21, 2012

The past decade has witnessed the most insane upheavals in music technology. Everything's changed, but how much has musical taste itself changed during that period? According to data we've looked at, the answer is not that much, even though the ways we access, discover, and share our music have been completely revolutionized. Of course, some things ...

News: Radio

STLJN Audio Archive: Quartette Tres Bien - Stepping Out

August 20, 2012

For this week's Audio Archive post, we revisit Stepping Out!, a 1966 release by the popular St. Louis group Quartette Trés Bien. A groove-oriented piano-trio-plus-percussionist, the QTB rose to fame during the Gaslight Square era, right around the same time that Ramsey Lewis and Young-Holt Unlimited were successfully purveying similar sounds up in Chicago. The band's ...

News: Video / DVD

Jazz Musicians as Pitchmen

August 20, 2012

Once upon a time, ad-agency art directors dug jazz and the country viewed jazz musicians as exceptional artists. So, to make products seem exciting, Mad Men enlisted musicians to swing the merits of their clients' goods. Or in the case above from the '90s, a Louis look-alike to make its point. Here are a hawker's dozen, ...

News: Video / DVD

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: David Sanborn and Brian Culbertson's "The Dream" Tour 2012

August 19, 2012

This week, we focus our video spotlight on saxophonist and St. Louis native David Sanborn and multi-instrumentalist Brian Culbertson, who have been touring together this summer. Sanborn and Culbertson's “The Dream" Tour - the name of which references both the 25th anniversary of the release of Sanborn's song of ...

News: Recording

Frank Zappa is About to Land on Streaming Services...

August 19, 2012

This means nothing to Gaga and Perry fans, but everything to a sector struggling to win over the artist community. Now, the late Frank Zappa is preparing to land on streaming services like Spotify, Rdio, and Rhapsody, according to details shared with Digital Music News over the weekend. Zappa, who died in 1993, has a fairly ...

News: Recording

Letizia Gambi: Italian Songstress Blends Neapolitan Songbook and Jazz on Auspicious Debut

August 18, 2012

Her gorgeous voice on the opening refrain to “Secret Tears" ("Una Furtiva Lagrima," an aria from the Italian opera L'elisir d'amore by Gaetano Donizetti), the leadoff track from Introducing Letizia Gambi, heralds the arrival of a poised and polished young songstress from Naples making her stateside splash. With visionary drummer-producer Lenny White at the helm, Gambi ...