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News: Music Industry

The Great Ticket Scandal Exposes Questionable Practices of Secondary Ticket Sellers

February 28, 2012

The debate over secondary ticket sales, scalping and related issues is a hot topic in England thanks the upcoming 2012 Summer Olympics in London and an investigative documentary that aired last week titled The Great Ticket Scandal. Aired on England's Channel 4, the documentary featured journalistic investigators that got jobs at secondary ticket sellers Viagogo and ...

News: Crowdfunding Campaign

Kickstarter Will Fund More Projects in 2012 Than National Endowment for the Arts

February 28, 2012

Fan funding platform Kickstarter is on track to distribute more than $150 million to creative projects in 2012. That's more than this year's $146 million budget for The National Endowment of the Arts (NEA), the primary source of government arts funding in the U.S. Kickstarter's lifetime funding now stands at $150 million, but is accelrating rapidly ...

News: Obituary

Jazz Face: Red Holloway, 1927-2012

February 28, 2012

One of the still-active veterans of bebop, saxophonist Red Holloway died on February 25th at age 84. And he went down swinging—he had been touring through September 2011 with the Lionel Hampton All-Stars and, although he had postponed some dates this winter, had some upcoming on his 2012 calendar. Red was best known for his work ...

News: Radio

STLJN Audio Archive: Oliver Lake - Ntu: The Point from Which Creation Begins

February 27, 2012

As Black History Month winds down for this year, it seems an appropriate time to revisit an historic session involving musicians from St. Louis' original Black Artists Group of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Recorded in 1971 here in St. Louis, saxophonist Oliver Lake's album Ntu: The Point From Which Creation Begins was issued in ...

News: Recording

Insider's Picks: R&B Harmony

February 27, 2012

In the late 1940s, jazz and R&B wound up like the Parent Trap twins. Two different music forms separated when fans “divorced" and went their separate ways—some preferring to sit and listen intently to jazz while others went with a big-beat sound more suitable for dancing. In the years that followed, jazz and R&B developed two separate ...

News: Video / DVD

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: A Claudia Quintet Sampler

February 26, 2012

Today, let's take a look at some video clips featuring the Claudia Quintet, who will be making their St. Louis debut in a concert sponsored by New Music Circle at 7:30 p.m. next Friday, March 2 at the 560 Music Center. Formed by drummer John Hollenbeck in the late ...

News: Event

Eighth Annual Seattle-Kobe Female Jazz Vocalist Audition - March 19, 2012

February 26, 2012

The Pacific Jazz Institute at Dimitriou's Jazz Alley presents for one night only the Eighth Annual Sister City Female Jazz Vocalist Audition. Doors open at 5:30 pm, auditions start at 6:30 pm and the evening will end around 9:30pm. The 8th Annual Sister City Female Vocalist Jazz Audition at Jazz Alley is right around the corner ...

News: Recording

Lyle Lovett - Release Me (2012)

February 26, 2012

If you know anything about Lyle Lovett, the tongue-firmly-in-cheek title of his forthcoming release—his last for Curb Records, the only label he's ever recorded for—will come as no surprise. Neither will the fact that, by pure force of intellect, personality and humor, the Texas singer-songwriter is able to mold what can only charitably be called an ...

News: Performance / Tour

Jack Wright to Perform Thursday, March 8 at Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center

February 25, 2012

Saxophonist Jack Wright is returning to St. Louis to perform at 8:00 p.m. Thursday, March 8 at Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center. The free-improvising reedman (and occasional pianist) has played here a number of times since the mid-1990s, both at LNAC and at various venues under the auspices of New Music Circle, but this will be his ...

News: Education

Roger Ingram to Present Master Class Saturday, March 3 at UMSL

February 25, 2012

Trumpet player Roger Ingram will be in St. Louis to present a trumpet clinic and master class at 1:00 p.m., Saturday, March 3 at the Villa Annex on the South campus of the University of Missouri—St. Louis (UMSL). Ingram is a noted jazz educator and clinician whose performing resume includes tours and recordings with the big ...