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News: Performance / Tour

Jazz in Progress/Monk in Motion Concert Series

January 24, 2012

New Year, New Voices in Jazz: Monk in Motion's Top Finalists Perform in NYC this Winter The BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center is proud to present the talented winners of this year's Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition in piano. We are especially proud to partner with Thelonious Monk Jazz Institute once again as they celebrate their ...

News: Performance / Tour

Joan Osborne: 2012 Tour, New Album

January 24, 2012

JOAN OSBORNE ANNOUNCES FIRST LEG OF NORTH AMERICAN TOUR Joan Osborne kicks off her national tour with two New York City Winery performances March 27 and March 28 that will feature her hits and new songs from her brand new album, Bring It On Home, due March 27 on Saguaro Road Records). The first leg of ...

News: Trends

Global Digital Music Sales up 8% in 2011 to $5.2 Billion

January 24, 2012

Highlights Of IFPA Digital Music Report 2012: Digital music revenues to record companies grew by 8 per cent globally in 2011 to an estimated US$5.2 billion. This compares to growth of 5 per cent in 2010 and represents the first time the year-on-year growth rate has increased since IFPI started measuring digital revenues in 2004 IFPI ...

News: Obituary

John Levy, 1912-2012

January 23, 2012

Word came this morning from Devra Hall Levy that her husband John, a major advocate for and representative of jazz musicians, is gone. Levy died in his sleep on Friday at home in Altadena, California. He was 99. Ahmad Jamal recently described Levy as “one of the foremost supportive bassists" of the postwar period. In that ...

News: Radio

STLJN Audio Archive: Grant Green - Visions

January 23, 2012

Fortunately for fans of jazz guitar, much of Grant Green's output for the Blue Note label in the 1960s and 1970s remains in print today. One exception, though, seems to be Visions, a 1971 session that featured the St. Louis native's versions of some then-current pop hits along with a couple of originals and one classical ...

News: Performance / Tour

Peter Martin, Vivian Sessoms to Perform Saturday, March 10 at the Sheldon

January 23, 2012

Pianist Peter Martin will resume his eponymous series at the Sheldon Concert Hall with a performance featuring guest vocalist Vivian Sessoms (pictured) at 8:00 p.m., Saturday, March 10. Bassist Bob Hurst and drummer Ulysses Owens will join Martin and Sessoms for the show. Sessoms is a native New Yorker who's been performing professionally since she was ...

News: Obituary

John Levy (1912-2012)

January 23, 2012

John Levy, a jazz bassist and original member of the Stuff Smith Trio and George Shearing Quintet whose deal-making skills, insider's knowledge and warm personality enabled him to become jazz and pop's first successful black personal manager, died on January 20. He was 99. Starting in the early 1950s, John managed George Shearing not just as an ...

News: Performance / Tour

Jazz Drummer Ralph Peterson at Scullers Jazz Club in Boston on Tuesday, January 24

January 23, 2012

Jazz drummer and composer Ralph Peterson is performing in concert at Scullers Jazz Club in Boston on Tuesday, January 24, 2012, at 8:00 p.m. Tickets to the show are $25 and can be ordered online or purchased at the door. You can see a full schedule of upcoming jazz at Scullers, located at the Doubletree Suites ...

News: Performance / Tour

Susan Tedeschi Says Sprawling Tedeschi Trucks Band Owes Much to Joe Cocker's 'Mad Dogs and Englishmen'

January 23, 2012

There is, of course, an obvious comparison for the newly formed Tedeschi Trucks Band—yeah, we made it too—in the 1970s-era husband-and-wife tours led by Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett. Susan Tedeschi, however, says their group's main inspiration goes further back. All the way back to the traveling caravan of grease-popping soul and eye-popping excess that was Joe ...

News: TV / Film

Peter Gabriel to Celebrate Anniversary of So with Badly Needed Reworking of 1987 Concert Film

January 23, 2012

Peter Gabriel's 1986 project So has long been critically and commercially beloved. The accompanying Martin Scorsese-directed concert film, “Peter Gabriel: POV"? Not so much. Look for reissues of both in the coming months, as Gabriel puts the finishing touches on a special 25th anniversary edition of the original album and a long-needed reworking of the 1987 ...