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News: Obituary

Teddy Charles: (1928-2012)

April 19, 2012

Teddy Charles, a hard-swinging four-mallet vibraphonist, composer, pianist and player-producer who in the late 1940s and early '50s transformed the steel-plated instrument into a cooler, jazz-classical protagonist, died on April 16, He was 84. Trained at the Juilliard School of Music, Teddy was able to reach effortlessly into modern classical music theory and deploy modal ...

News: Interview

Muhal Meets the Warriors Part 4/4

April 19, 2012

Leading up to the April 28th premiere at Montgomery County Community College of a new piece written by Muhal Richard Abrams for Bobby Zankel's Warriors of the Wonderful Sound, music writer Shaun Brady (JazzTimes, Philadelphia City Paper, Philadelphia Inquirer) will be contributing a series of blog posts about the project. This is the second installment of Brady's four-part ...

News: Performance / Tour

Sheldon, Metrotix Offering Online Presale of Tickets for Madeleine Peyroux

April 18, 2012

The Sheldon Concert Hall and Metrotix are offering online buyers first chance to purchase single tickets for the St. Louis debut of singer Madeleine Peyroux at the Sheldon on Sunday, May 20. Tickets for the concert are $45 orchestra, $40 balcony, and the pre-sale begins at 10:00 a.m. this Friday, April 20, one day before the ...

News: Opinion

Modern Jazz at the Apollo Theater

April 18, 2012

Modern Jazz at the Apollo: 1950s-1960s When the Apollo Theatre opened the doors for its inaugural show on Friday, January 26, 1934, the trendsetting variety bill included the great jazzman Benny Carter and his orchestra. The big band, or so-called Swing Era was in full flower and these swinging 17-piece behemoths, sparkplugs of the happy feet ...

News: Career

Dave Kusek Exits Berklee College of Music to Return to Music Tech

April 18, 2012

After 14 years, Dave Kusek is stepping down as VP at Berklee College Of Music to pursue business consulting and angel investing in digital music and media. Kusek, who co-authored the iconic “Future Of Music - A Manifesto For The Digital Music Revolution", founded and led Berklee's hugely successful Berkleemusic online school. In 2012, Berkleemusic will ...

News: Event

Lyor Cohen, Jon Irwin, Just Blaze and More Join New Music Seminar 2012

April 18, 2012

New Music Seminar 2012, taking place in NYC June 17 - 19, previously announced an impressive list of speakers including Bob Pittman and Sean Parker. They've now expanded their of “announced players" to include a broad range from Lyor Cohen, CEO of Recorded Music of Warner Music Group, to Jon Irwin, CEO of Rhapsody and Just ...

News: Recording

Cuban Piano Virtuoso Gonzalo Rubalcaba Shines on Ambitious 2-CD Set, XXI Century

April 17, 2012

In a career that has spanned 25 years and nearly 30 releases, including a string of acclaimed recordings for the prestigious Blue Note label, Cuban piano virtuoso Gonzalo Rubalcaba has awed critics and fans alike with his prodigious technique and depth of soul as a composer. On XXI Century, his second recording on his 5Passion imprint, ...

News: Recording

Composer-Pianist Manuel Valera Conjures Deep Roots on Sixth Outing as a Leader, New Cuban Express

April 17, 2012

After flirting with Latin rhythms within a modern post-bop context on his five previous releases, the brilliant Cuban-born pianist and composer Manuel Valera has put together the album of a lifetime. As a followup to 2009's trio recording, Currents, a savvy collection of jazz standards and originals, Valera has dipped into his own Afro-Cuban roots on ...

News: Recording

Hank Mobley: Newark, 1953

April 17, 2012

Everyone in jazz had to start somewhere. In the case of tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley, that start came in Newark, N.J. Though Mobley had recorded in April 1953 with Max Roach's sextet and quartet for Debut (a short-lived label founded by Roach, Charles Mingus and Mingus's then wife, Celia), Mobley wasn't recorded again until September 28, ...

News: TV / Film

Music Supervisors on Finding Indie Music for Movies and TV Shows [part 3]

April 17, 2012

This is the third in a series of posts quoting music supervisors on how they find or discover music to license for movies and tv shows. Music Supervisors Explain How They Find Indie Music For Movies And TV [Part 1] drew on multiple sources while both Music Supervisors On How They Find Indie Music For Movies ...