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All That Tap XXI Scheduled for Saturday, July 28 at the Touhill

June 28, 2012

The connections between jazz music and tap dancing will be on display once again during All That Tap XXI, the grand finale of the week-long St. Louis Tap Festival that will take place at 7:00 p.m., Saturday, July 28 at the Touhill Performing Arts Center. Pianist Carolbeth True's trio (pictured) will provide the music for a ...

News: Recording

Sonny Stitt: Soul Shack

June 28, 2012

Sonny Stitt made dozens of records in the 1960s. Many were very good, and some were spotty—as is to be expected when an artist is that prolific. But there also were knockouts—albums on which Stitt was perfectly paced and at the very top of his game on alto and tenor saxophones. One such outing where Stitt ...

News: Music Industry

Comedian Louis CK Offers Music Industry 'How To'

June 28, 2012

Guest post by Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. Lots of people are talking about whether electronic artists push one button or more than one button when they play live. Everyone else seems to be bickering about whether the kids today are immoral because they play videogames and stream music instead of dropping acid and seeing the ...

News: Performance / Tour

East End Arts Presents Alex Sipiagin Quintet in Concert: Saturday, August 4 at Full Moon Arts Center, East Moriches, NY

June 27, 2012

East End Arts is thrilled to present the Alex Sipiagin Quintet in concert on Saturday, August 4, 2012, in collaboration with Full Moon Arts Center. The intimately-set performance will take place at Full Moon Arts Center in East Moriches, with a special opportunity to meet the artists prior to the concert during a private cocktail party ...

News: Education

Peter Erskine Releases Bargain Playalong App for Entire Rhythm Section.

June 27, 2012

The album “Joy Luck," featuring my New Trio with Vardan Ovsepian on keyboards and Damian Erskine (my nephew) on electric bass, gets its title inspiration from Amy Tan's epochal novel “Joy Luck Club." This play-along “Joy Luck" compilation gets its inspiration from there being a need for a modern jazz-based trio “music minus one" offering that ...

News: Recording

René Urtréger: Plays Bud Powell

June 27, 2012

Yesterday I posted on Claude Williamson and two albums he recorded for Capitol in 1954 and '55, making mention of his interpretations of several Bud Powell compositions. Today we swing way east to Paris, where René Urtréger recorded his own tributes to Powell seven months later in February 1955. The tracks appear on Urtréger's 10-inch album ...

News: Recording

Claude Williamson: Kenton Presents

June 27, 2012

In the very early 1950s, Los Angeles was awash in jazz pianists who could play with ferocious speed and delicate grace. The names that spring to mind include Russ Freeman, Marty Paich, Hampton Hawes, Dodo Marmarosa, Carl Perkins, Pete Jolly, Lorraine Geller, Victor Feldman, Sonny Clark and Jimmy Rowles. But perhaps the most overlooked member of ...

News: Performance / Tour

The Revolving Door of Local Jazz Venues

June 27, 2012

Last night I enjoyed my first visit to the new Ice House, a restaurant/bar/club in south Minneapolis housed in, yes, an old Ice House. JT Bates is booking cutting edge jazz every Monday night, on the order of his gig at the old Clown Lounge but in a much larger and definitely more upscale setting. James ...

News: Recording

Jürgen Friedrich Releases "Monosuite" for String Orchestra and Improvisers on Pirouet Records

June 26, 2012

Jürgen Friedrich composer, conductor Hayden Chisholm alto saxophone Achim Kaufmann pianoJohn Hébert bassJohn Hollenbeck drums Sequenza String Orchestra 1st violin: Gerdur Gunnarsdóttir, Constanze Sannemüller, Elias Schödel, Adrian Bleyer, Kira Kohlmann, Christine Rox 2nd violin: Irmgard Zavelberg, Mirjam Steymans, Alwin Moser, Naomi Binder, Adi Czeige viola: Marla Hansen, Pauline Moser, Yodfat Miron, Andrea Sanz-Vela, Valentin Alexandru cello: Ulrike Zavelberg, Teemu Myöhänen, ...

News: Performance / Tour

Mesa Bluemoon Recording Artists "Out to Lunch" Launch "No One Left Behind"- North American Tour

June 26, 2012

Pushing the depths of the underground jazz scene, cutting edge New York City-based Out to Lunch will be releasing its third album, No One Left Behind, on one of the finest indie record labels, Mesa Recordings. Launching the record on the hallowed stage of the Blue Note, August 3, 2012, and touring it extensively through North ...