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News: Opinion

Musicians and the Public Image

May 4, 2012

By Chuck Anderson Is it just me or have you ever noticed that musicians are consistently portrayed by the advertising media as losers, homeless, broke, druggies, alcoholics or just plain simpletons? From my perspective, I am not only offended by this but enraged enough to try to raise consciousness about this entire subject. Are some musicians ...

News: Trends

Kyle Bylin: 3 Insights into Future of Geosocial Music

May 4, 2012

The geosocial revolution (see Foursquare and Facebook Places) promises to connect us to the places we visit and the people who frequent them, while helping us discover music in new ways, too. Over the past year, a number of startups have released location-based music apps—each aspiring to revolutionize the way we listen to music. Wahwah.fm, the ...

News: Technology

Curious Sense Games Offer New Music Industry Revenue Stream

May 4, 2012

Curious Sense is a music game startup that garnered recent press for the release of a Grateful Dead game. Rather than licensing music as a backdrop element, Curious Sense seeks to work with rights holders in creating a game environment built around back catalog music and related media. As is evident with The Epic Tour, which ...

News: Radio

JPortal Injects Indie D.I.Y. Bands into Live Radio

May 4, 2012

It's a problem that exists all around the world: Radio stations can only play one song at a time, and those songs tend to be the ones that a person or algorithm has already decided is worthy of airplay. We all know there's plenty of great new stuff sitting there, but it's not always easy to ...

News: Recording

Randy Hoexter Group - Fromage (2012)

May 4, 2012

When John Stetch led a piano trio through interpretations of television theme songs on a CD released a few years ago, I was intrigued, and ultimately, charmed, by this originative collection of covers. TV Trio, as this record is called, even wound up on my year-end “best of 2009″ list for mainstream and modern jazz, because ...

News: Recording

Monking Around with Carmen McRae

May 4, 2012

It's not that I am caught up on CD reviews. Far from it. But sometimes I have to stop and listen to something no one sent me. Something I picked up on my own. Last week, I came across a reference to Carmen McRae's Carmen Sings Monk, and ordered it. One of the greatest jazz interpreters ...

News: Performance / Tour

Bobby Watson to Perform Friday, May 11 and Saturday, May 12 at Robbie's House of Jazz

May 3, 2012

Saxophonist Bobby Watson (pictured), once part of the front line of drummer Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and now an elder statesman of the Kansas City jazz scene, is returning to St. Louis to perform at 8:30 p.m. Friday, May 11 and Saturday, May 12 at Robbie's House of Jazz. Watson last played St. Louis in December ...

News: Performance / Tour

Jazz This Week: Sara Gazarek, Alan Evans Trio, Javier Mendoza, and More

May 3, 2012

Though we're getting close to the end of the academic year as well as the nominal seasons of several of our local not-for-profit presenters, there's still a good amount of live jazz and creative music on tap over the next few days in St. Louis. This week's touring attractions include one of the best young female ...

News: Interview

Interview: Van Alexander (Part 2)

May 3, 2012

As noted yesterday, Van Alexander, 97, arranged Ella Fitzgerald's A-Tisket A-Tasket, recorded by Fitzgerald with Chick Webb's orchestra on May 2, 1938. Though the song may seem a bit of a novelty number now, the single was a runaway hit in late June 1938. By the then, the country was growing increasingly worried: Germany had invaded ...

News: Interview

Something Else! Interview: Allen Toussaint, Hall of Fame Singer-Songwriter and Producer

May 3, 2012

Allen Toussaint, fonky-fonky pianist, writer and producer of untold hit songs, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and first-chair favorite son, makes his annual appearance this week at the 2012 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival – a tradition, he says, “which I dearly, dearly love.” Then, he plans to resume a completely revitalized solo recording ...