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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom by August Wilson Opening at Huntington Theatre Company in Boston on Friday, March 9

March 9, 2012

Huntington Theatre Company is presenting August Wilson's award-winning play, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom at the Boston University Theatre, from March 9 through April 8, 2012. The play is part of Wilson's Century Cycle, and was Wilson's first Broadway hit. In the play, legendary 1920s blues singer Ma Rainey and her musicians gather in a run-down Chicago ...

News: Performance / Tour

Jazz Pianist Ramsey Lewis Playing at Scullers Jazz Club on March 8-9

March 9, 2012

Jazz pianist, composer and legend Ramsey Lewis brings his Sun Goddess Tour to Scullers Jazz Club in Boston on Thursday, March 8 and Friday, March 2012. Joining Ramsey on the tour is Henry Johnson, Tim Grant, Joshua Ramos and Charles Heath. Show times are 8:00 and 10:00 p.m. both nights. Tickets are $38 and can be ...

News: Performance / Tour

Vijay Iyer: The Surprise of Sound

March 9, 2012

The recent two-night Vijay Iyer mini-festival, dubbed “The Sound of Surprise," covered what Walker Art Center curator Philip Bither described as a “curious diversity" of the wide-ranging projects of the creative pianist. Iyer, whose work of the past fifteen+ years has garnered critical praise, Grammy nominations, and certainly, the “sounds of surprise," embodies that “curious diversity" ...

News: Performance / Tour

Jazz This Week: Peter Martin and Inner Circle, Jack Wright, Rick Haydon, Jazz St. Louis' Annual Gala, Delfeayo Marsalis, and More

March 8, 2012

There's lots going on this week with jazz and creative music in St. Louis, and due to impending deadlines, not much time to tell you about it. So, without further preamble, let's go to the highlights.... Tonight, the free improvising saxophonist Jack Wright returns to St. Louis for the first time in four years for a ...

News: Interview

Interview: Robert Glasper (PT. 2)

March 8, 2012

Jazz fans tend to be highly partial. We insist that one trumpeter is better than all others or that one drummer is faster, stronger or more rhythmic than everyone else. We take music personally and like to fight for our particular tastes and choices. This king-of-the-hill view also tends to spill over into the kinds of ...

News: Career

10 Tips for Emerging Indie Musicians: Planning for Survival and Success

March 8, 2012

Buzz: Plan is the first digital release in the series Buzz—A survival guide for emerging indie musicians in the San Francisco Bay Area. This free ebook is a creation of Stefan Aronsen of SF Intercom. Though it does have some specific SF-related content, the majority is focused on the needs of indie musicians everywhere and includes ...

News: Trends

Believe It or Not: Music Buying Audience is Growing and the CD is Far from Dead [study]

March 8, 2012

NPD's new “Annual Music Study" shows that after years of losing consumers who simply stopped buying music, the total number of music buyers increased for the second consecutive year, growing 2% in 2011 to 78 million. The number of paid download buyers increased 14% in 2011 to 45 million customers. Digital buyers also spent more at ...

News: Performance / Tour

Nu-Art Series Announces Oliver Lake Exhibit, Eddie Henderson Concert

March 7, 2012

The Nu-Art Series has announced two events this month as part of their ongoing efforts to spotlight connections between jazz and visual arts. A new exhibit featuring paintings by saxophonist Oliver Lake (pictured, above left) and collages by S. Scott Davis III, who's a cousin of bassist Charles Mingus, will open with a reception at 5:30 ...

News: Recording

The Duke Robillard Jazz Trio Releases "Wobble Walkin"on Blue Duchess Records

March 7, 2012

Since he arrived on the scene in the late '60s as founder of the groundbreaking Roomful of Blues, and subsequently in a thriving solo career that began more than three decades ago, Duke Robillard has consistently exhibited boundless curiosity and undeniable panache, continually reinforcing his reputation as one of the planet's most innovative roots musicians. Robillard's ...

News: Interview

Interview: Robert Glasper (PT. 1)

March 7, 2012

Jazz isn't dying—it's changing. And what's emerging is ruthlessly exciting and eclectic. This nascent jazz form, like many that preceded it, is a collage of styles—mixing acoustic improvisation with hip-hop themes, turntable sampling and black-jazz forms from earlier decades. At the front of this movement is pianist Robert Glasper. As I wrote in the Wall Street ...