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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Jazz, October 21-27
After a week without jazz, I am in recovery. Fortunately there's plenty of opportunities to help me get back on track. Highlights Young drummer and Twin Cities native Matt Slocum has been making as much of an impression on the national jazz scene as a composer as he has with his trapset. One listen to his ...
The Show I Didn't Miss Last Week: The Wallace Roney Sextet
I love my annual treks to northern California but it always seems to coincide with something special, jazz speaking, back home in the Twin Cities. In the past week, I missed the too-infrequent appearance of Patricia Barber (at the Dakota). I heard positive comments about the show. I missed the first performance of the quartet Good ...
Pete Rugolo (1915-2011)
Pete Rugolo, a jazz-classical maverick in the late-1940s andarchitect of a brassy, West Coast orchestral sound that helped establish Stan Kenton and the music of television and the movies in the 1950s and 1960s, died on October 16 in Sherman Oaks, Calif. He was 95. [Photo by William P. Gottlieb] Starting in 1944 with his first ...
Soundoff.FM - Fun Way to Discover and Promote Music
SoundOff.fm launched to the general public late last month as a music discovery game and indie artist promotion site that allows musicians to upload song samples for participants to choose in battles between two songs. It's a very simple concept that they seem to be executing well yet they're also gradually adding features that fit with ...
Danny Bennett on Managing Tony Bennett and the #1 Album Duets II [part 2]
With the recent release of Duets II, Tony Bennett is not only making headlines but has also achieved his first no. 1 album on the Billboard 200. He has done so by staying true to himself and charting a path created with his son and manager Danny Bennett. Yesterday I wrote about Danny Bennett's approach to ...
Ornette Coleman - Something Else!!! (Contomporary, 1958, OJC 2011)
Listening with today's ears it is sometimes hard to understand how controversial alto saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman's music was during the first few years of his career. It's a testament to his perseverance and vision that was once radical has by now been so thoroughly absorbed into the jazz mainstream that it hardly raises an ...
Connie Crothers, Band of Fire: Live at the Stone with Roy Campbell
This is the third of a trilogy of recordings Connie Crothers made during her tenure at the famed NYC club The Stone in 2010. We've discussed the other two in earlier posts (see below). For this set Connie engages her long-lived regular group of Richard Tabnick on alto, Roger Mancuso on drums, and Ken Filiano on ...
Jazz: Just Hard to Find at "Jazz Clubs?"
A few years ago, Minnesota Monthly irked more than a few jazz fans by proclaiming that jazz was too hard to find and too hard to understand. Or words to that effect. Apparently the editors at MM have found a way to resolve that dilemma, by finding jazz at an area theater and nonjazz at the ...
Report: What the Second Decade of Digital Music Will Look Like [slides]
Global marketing and communications giant J. Walter Thompson works to keep major brands like Bayer, Ford, HSBC, Johnson & Johnson, Shell and Unilever ahead of the curve. In a new study, they concluded that in 2011 “we got a clearer glimpse of what the second decade of digital music will look like—and it's quite different from ...
Jeff Sultanof on Pete Rugolo
Shortly after Pete Rugolo died this week, Jeff Sultanof offered to contribute a piece putting Rugolo's work in perspective. I was delighted to accept and flattered that he considered Rifftides the proper place for his essay. Jeff is a native of New York City, where he lives and works. He is a composer, orchestrator, editor, educator ...
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