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Garage a Trois: Colorado Dates in December

November 22, 2011

GARAGE A TROIS ANNOUNCE COLORADO DATES Garage A Trois, a post rock/freak jazz entity comprised of Seattle-based saxophonics master Skerik, Brooklyn sound-sculptor/keysman Marco Benevento, Texas-born punk rock vibraphone hero Mike Dillon and New Orleans funky drummer/beat scientist Stanton Moore, have announced five shows in Colorado this December. The run starts in Telluride, stops in Breckenridge, Ft. ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Bruce Springsteen: New Album and World Tour in 2012

November 22, 2011

SPRINGSTEEN AND THE E STREET BAND TO TOUR BEHIND NEW ALBUM IN 2012 Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band have announced plans for a new album and world tour in 2012. Check out the statement below from BruceSpringsteen.net: “Well, things are starting to heat up down on E Street. A lot of you have been ...

News: Event

Billboard's Futuresound: Showcasing Music Startups, Debating the New Licensing Landscape

November 22, 2011

The difficulties both new and established music startups have licensing music was a dominant theme at Billboard FutureSound last week in both panels and keynotes. The only people not obsessed with problems licensing music were those that had established services that don't require such licensing including four of the five music startups featured in FutureSound's Visionary ...

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News: Award / Grant

Esperanza Spalding Wins Jazz Artist of the Year at Boston Music Awards

November 22, 2011

Jazz bassist, singer and composer Esperanza Spalding won the Jazz Artist of the Year award at the annual Boston Music Awards ceremony held at the Liberty Hotel on Sunday, November 20, 2011. The Boston Herald has a for a full list of winners in all of the categories. A graduate of Berklee College of Music, Spalding ...

News: Recording

Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings - Collectors' Edition Box Set (2011)

November 22, 2011

A fun opportunity to catch up with Bill Wyman's old-school R&B and blues revue arrives in the form of this sweeping five-disc retrospective focusing on the former Rolling Stones bassist's subsequent Rhythm Kings band. You're to be forgiven, even as the biggest fan of his old group, for not knowing much about what became of Wyman. ...

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News: Recording

Music Listening: Samuel Blaser, Atomic, R.E.M.

November 22, 2011

Samuel Blaser—Consort in Motion (Kind of Blue, 2011) This is a chamber jazz album filled with hushed tones and thoughtfully designed improvisations between Samuel Blaser on trombone, Russ Lossing on piano, Thmoas Morgan on bass and Paul Motian on drums. The interaction between between Blaser's delicately smeared and articulated trombone and Motian's minimalist percussion creates a ...

News: Obituary

Russ Garcia (1916-2011)

November 21, 2011

Russ Garcia, an early West Coast jazz-classical theorist, composer, arranger and teacher whose trombone-centric big band scores in the 1950s could swing with pixie delight and jack-hammer power, died on Nov. 19. He was 95. I interviewed Russ in 2008 about his life as well as his assertion that he had been mistakenly overlooked by the ...

News: Recording

Tony Malaby - Novela (Clean Feed, 2011) *****

November 21, 2011

By Paul Acquaro Novela by Tony Malaby is a real treat. It tantalizes the senses with its complex yet accessible horn arrangements, burns with a restrained energy that propels the soloists and builds so imperceptibly that by time we are half way into the first piece, “Floating Head," and the piano's slightly disjointed but flowing phrases ...

News: Recording

Yotam, with Roy Hargrove, Claudio Roditi and Paquito D'Rivera - Brasil (2011)

November 21, 2011

A lesser talent than Israeli guitarist-composer Yotam might have gotten lost in this project. It's not just that Brasil, issued last week by Jazz Legacy Production, features notable stateside jazz stars like Roy Hargrove, Claudio Roditi and Paquito D'Rivera, or even that he's updating familiar compositions by the likes of Antonio Carlos Jobim, or that he ...

News: Video / DVD

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Ramsey Lewis, then and Now

November 20, 2011

Today, let's look at some performance videos from throughout the long career of pianist Ramsey Lewis, who will be in St. Louis with his Electric Band to perform Wednesday, November 30 through Saturday, December 3 at Jazz at the Bistro. Lewis, 76, is a Chicago native who first gained ...