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News: Award / Grant

Grammy Nominated Vocalist Denise Donatelli Releases New Recording "Soul Shadows" on Savant Records. Musical Direction by Geoffrey Keezer

August 18, 2012

Los Angeles-based vocalist Denise Donatelli won a Grammy nomination with her second Savant CD, When Lights Are Low (Savant SCD 2109). An East Coast native and a recipient of classical piano training, she turned to singing jazz, wound up relocating to the West Coast and has pursued her performance and recording career ever since. Possessing a ...

News: Performance / Tour

Jazz This Week: Jeff Coffin and the Mutet Performance and Workshop, Tim Cunningham, Thomas Person, and More

August 17, 2012

As is usual for the latter half of August, the menu of jazz and creative music for this weekend in St. Louis is light on touring performers and relatively heavy on local musicians. It'll be a few weeks before our town's various not-for-profit presenters and university music programs start their fall schedules and fatten up the ...

News: Recording

Lenny White Introduces Piano Prodigy Beka Gochiashvili

August 17, 2012

Self-titled debut, scheduled for September release, features special guests Stanley Clarke, John Patitucci, Gil Goldstein, Victor Bailey and Wallace Roney “The best debut of a young musician since Tony Williams with Miles Davis" —Stanley Clarke Once in a generation a talent like Beka Gochiashvili comes along. An extraordinarily gifted prodigy from Tbilisi, Georgia, the 16-year-old pianist ...

News: Recording

Maynard Ferguson: Newport Suite

August 17, 2012

Slide Hampton's composition and arrangement of Newport was first performed at the Newport Jazz Festival in July 1959 by Maynard Ferguson's orchestra. Later in the year the song was recorded in more modified form by Hampton on The Slide Hampton Octet and His Horn of Plenty (Strand). Then Ferguson recorded Newport in March 1960 for his ...

News: Recording

Nielsen Music 360 Report: Radio = Discovery, Youtube = Listening, Friends = Buying

August 17, 2012

Nielsen's Music 360 Report, based on a survey focused on music consumption, discovery and related topics, struck a chord with the press this week. In particular, the finding that radio is the top music discovery tool and that YouTube functions for many young people as a music streaming service is news to some and confirmation to ...

News: Interview

Machine Gun

August 17, 2012

In May, 1968, the German saxophonist Peter Brötzmann brought together seven emerging European experimental musicians for what is now considered to be one of the most critical recording sessions in the history of improvised music. The “Machine Gun Sessions” featured several improvisers whose soon-to-be-celebrated careers were just beginning: the British saxophonist Evan Parker, the Dutch reedsman ...

News: Music Industry

Former Owner of Halls Ferry Inn Jazz Cafe Gets Probation in Arson Case

August 16, 2012

According to a story that went online this afternoon at STLtoday.com, the former owner of the Halls Ferry Inn Jazz Cafe has been sentenced to probation after admitting he set fire to the business last February and pleading guilty to an arson charge. The story, bylined “From Staff Reports," said that “Lozell Stiles, 40, of the ...

News: Interview

Marvin Stamm on Uncle Albert

August 16, 2012

Jazz fans are quicker than most to slap around other forms of music. Some fans are convinced that rock destroyed jazz (not so) while others insist that jazz sold out for commercial reasons (not so, either). New music comes with each generation, and that's how it played out in the mid-1950s and into the '60s. [Photo ...

News: Music Industry

Breaking: Tunecore Releases CEO Jeff Price

August 16, 2012

TuneCore has pushed out both CEO Jeff Price and fellow co-founder Peter Wells from the company, first revealed publicly by an open letter sent out by Price himself. Details remain scarce, but it appears to stem from conflicts between the two and TuneCore's Board of Directors. The open letter from Price (below) suggests this was not ...

News: Technology

An Inside Look Into MTV's Next Big Thing: Artists.MTV

August 16, 2012

Not since the heyday of MySpace has there been one single go-to destination where music fans can get reliable information about musicians on every front. With so much content out there, and with many musicians' websites simply not providing an immersive enough experience, fans rely on search engines to find things that are dispersed all over ...