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Muhal Meets the Warriors Part 3/4
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 ...
Every Month is Jazz Month; Every Day is Jazz Day
April is Designated as Jazz Appreciation Month in the USA I guess it's good to have a Jazz Appreciation Month designated. Symbolic gestures are generally confusing to me. The point may be one thing, but what actual purpose is ultimately served when all is tallied up eludes me. Too often it's sound and fury, signifying nothing. ...
Music Supervisors Explain How They Find Indie Music for Movies and TV
After posting about indie music in advertising, I was asked about the process of bringing one's music to the attention of music supervisors and others who can get your music on tv, in films and in commercials. I had already been gathering a series of interviews with music supervisors so it seemed timely to feature some ...
The Echo Nest's Music Discovery Empire
The Echo Nest might be one of the few companies to have figured out how to cash in on the music business. Only it has little to do with selling music. Instead, it gives developers the tools to create the next brilliant music discovery app. Jim Lucchese, Echo Nest's chief executive, believes on-demand apps are the ...
The Dead Kenny Gs to Perform Saturday, May 26 at 2720 Cherokee
The “experimental punk jazz trio" The Dead Kenny Gs (pictured) are coming to St. Louis to perform at 9:00 p.m. Saturday, May 26 at 2720 Cherokee. According to their official bio, saxophonist and keyboardist Skerik, bassist/baritone saxophonist Brad Houser, and drummer and percussionist Mike Dillon are “committed to musical subversion of the highest order." The New ...
Duets: Sacha, Mireille and Dionne
I'm on the road again this week, but I haven't forgotten you. Here's the first in a series of fabulous daily videos. Today, '60s French singing sensation Sacha Distel teams with Mireille Mathieu on the theme from A Man and A Woman in 1966. Mathieu was a powerful pop singer who emerged in the '60s in ...
STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Inside the Nu-Art Series Video Vault
This week, we're taking a break from previewing upcoming concerts to take a brief trip into the video vault of the Nu-Art Series, the long-running, St. Louis-based jazz presenting organization run by trumpeter, arts administrator and consultant George Sams. Headquartered in recent years at the Metropolitan Gallery, 2936 Locust ...
Mainstream Fanatic: Songza Takes Music Playlists to the Masses
Every year, dozens of startups attempt the impossible: to make their product mainstream. In the music sector, this proves to be a particularly challenging task, because startups are often founded by fanatics who are unlike the casual listeners they're targeting with their product. The team at Songza, a music streaming service, faces this hurdle. The company ...
Sonny Igoe, 1923-2012
Sonny Igoe, who played drums with a succession of prominent leaders, died this week at the age of 88. In 1939 when Igoe was 16, he won the first Gene Krupadrum competition. After four years in the United States Marine Corps in World War Two, he worked briefly in a band of former Marines, then began ...
Internet Radio is Broken if It Needs to Charge Bands to Make Money
Pandora and other webcasters who fought for lower royalty rates a few years ago rejoiced when they achieved rates they thought would allow them to achieve profitability, back in 2009. Yet questions still surround the ability of webcasters such as the now-public Pandora to turn a profit, given that their payments to copyright holders increase at ...
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