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Recent Listening: Marcus Strickland
Marcus Strickland, Triumph of the Heavy (SMK). In the liner notes, saxophonist Strickland writes, “Playing for a live audience heightens the adrenaline; you don't have the luxury of correcting mistakes. It puts you on a high wire." The second of the album's two CDs, a club recording, captures his trio's risk-taking and underlines the influence of ...
Pete Rugolo, 1915-2011
Pete Rugolo has died in Los Angeles at the age of 95. Rugolo's composing and arranging, particularly for the Stan Kenton Orchestra,had much to do in the 1940s and '50s with the creation of what came to be called progressive jazz. As a discoverer of talent and as a producer, he was responsible for recording a ...
Jazz This Week: Jeff Lorber, Project/Object, Lowdown Brass Band, TKT Scholarship Benefit, and More
Beyond the usual challenges of performing, the jazz and creative musicians playing in St. Louis over the next week have a tough task: drawing a crowd of attentive listeners while the Cardinals are competing in the World Series. But while this admittedly is a baseball-crazy town, one would hope it's also big enough and diverse enough ...
Rebirth Brass Band Returning to the Gramophone on Sunday, October 30
New Orleans' Rebirth Brass Band (pictured) is coming back to town to play at 5:00 p.m. Sunday, October 30 at The Gramophone, sharing a bill with St. Louis' own Funky Butt Brass Band. The RBB's last visit to the Gateway City was in July of this year for a concert at Bandwagon Hall in South County ...
Billy Valentine to Join Denise Thimes for Benefit Concert on Thursday, November 3 at the Sheldon
Singer Denise Thimes will present her seventh annual concert benefiting the Mildred Thimes Foundation for pancreatic cancer research at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 3 at the Sheldon Concert Hall. Thimes' special guest for evening will be singer Billy Valentine (pictured), who's perhaps best known for singing the theme and providing funky vocal effects for the ...
Exploring Dafnis Prieto, 2011 Macarthur Fellow: Prieto as Bandleader
Dafnis Prieto recently was honored as a 2011 MacArthur Fellow, being recognized for excellence in his artistic pursuits. From his studies in Cuba to his professional work in New York, Prieto has always been a musician committed to outstanding artistry and pushing the limits of his creative energy. This cutting edge attitude has led to a ...
Bill Evans: Autumn in New York
By my count, pianist Bill Evans recorded Autumn in New York twice. The one that most jazz fans are familiar with features Evans playing a rushed solo version in 1963, a recording that wasn't released until 1989, nine years after his death. Evans didn't care for these solo sessions, finding the results half-baked and below his ...
New Book Chronicles the Life and Times of NEA Jazz Master David Baker
BLOOMINGTON, Ind.—David Baker has received just about every honor imaginable in his 60-year career as a jazz musician and educator. The Distinguished Professor at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music has recorded extensively, been acclaimed for his playing, writing and arranging, and done more than just about anyone to establish and shape college-level teaching of ...
How to Conquer Your Musical Niche
The internet has done a lot of wonderful things for musicians. By somewhat leveling the playing field on a global scale, musicians can now market their music and expand their brands further than ever before, quicker than ever before. Day after day we are inspired by the success stories of others who came out of nowhere, ...
Only 3-4 Digital Music Services Will Survive Next 12 Months, Says Digital Exec
Let the culling begin. There is only “room for three or four" digital music services, and we'll see a number of them close in the next twelve months," according to Deezer UK's Managing Director Mark Foster. Since launching in the UK in September, Deezer claims 1.4 million premium subscribers, in large part thanks to a bundling ...
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