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News: Radio

STLJN Audio Archive: Clark Terry and Bob Brookmeyer - The Power of Positive Swinging

October 17, 2011

For this week's Audio Archive post, we once again visit the extensive catalog of trumpeter and St. Louis native Clark Terry for The Power of Positive Swinging, a 1965 album that teams him with Kansas City native Bob Brookmeyer. Originally was issued on the Mainstream label and preserved online via the music sharing blog Musica des ...

News: Music Industry

Jazzwax List: Detective Jazz III

October 17, 2011

It was a cold and rainy night—the kind made for staying in with a glass of rye and a bad book. Outside, cars drove by slow and sloppy. Inside, the pink neon sign from the bar across the alley kissed the wall over and over, steady and insistent. Then came the knock at my email box. ...

News: Recording

Ben Goldberg Quintet - The Door, the Hat, the Chair, the Fact (2006)

October 17, 2011

By Mark Saleski Too bad that the clarinet was the instrument guys were embarrassed to be stuck with in band. None of those kids ever got to hear what musicians like Steve Lacy (yes, I know, soprano sax. Close enough), Don Byron or Ben Goldberg could do with it. Goldberg, a member of the group Tin ...

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News: Recording

Julius Hemphill - Dogon A.D. (Arista/Freedom 1972, 1977; International Phonograph, 2011)

October 17, 2011

The Dogon tribe of Mali made an amazing discovery: they somehow knew without the aid of a telescope that the Dog Star Sirius had a small companion star, invisible to the human eye, a fact that wasn't verified by astronomers until the 1970's. Much like that mystery is this extraordinary album by saxophonist and composer Julius ...

News: Technology

Sell Stuff, Straight from Your Youtube Channel...

October 17, 2011

YouTube is arguably the biggest and baddest platform for music consumption. So why not leverage that power-position further into ecommerce? Glad you asked. YouTube is now sharing details on Merch Store, a build-out that will allow artists to layer downloads, merchandise, tickets, and other items into their channels. The formal announcement happens Thursday in New York. ...

News: Music Industry

Be Honest: Are You Scarfing Down McDonald's on the Road?

October 17, 2011

The road is so full of desperate food runs it's laughable, and so many end at places like McDonald's. Sound familiar? Well, there's now an app to solve that problem—that is, if you view Chicken McNuggets and a McFlurry as a problem. Which these guys definitely do. “As a touring band, you see those golden arches ...

News: Video / DVD

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Jeff Lorber's Fusion, Revisited

October 16, 2011

For today's video showcase, let's check out some clips of keyboardist Jeff Lorber, who will be in St. Louis to perform next Wednesday, October 19 through Saturday, October 22 at Jazz at the Bistro. Though Lorber has played St. Louis before—most recently in 2008 at The Pageant as part ...

News: Performance / Tour

Shows I'll Never Forget: Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Nov. 18, 2003

October 16, 2011

By Tom Johnson, at the Marquee Theater in Tempe, Arizona We finished dinner a little before six and headed over to the Marquee theater, which was really only a few minutes away. Since Bela Fleck & the Flecktones came on at 7 p.m.—a very early start time—we figured we'd just wait at the venue. Might as ...

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News: Recording

Side A - A New Margin (Clean Feed, 2011)

October 16, 2011

One needs a continuous RSS feed all its own to keep up with the number of projects saxophonist, clarinetist and composer Ken Vandermark is involved in these days. This is a comparatively new project, a collaborative one featuring Vandermark with Havard Wiik on piano and Chad Taylor on drums. It is interesting to hear Vandermark playing ...

News: Recording

Kris Wanders - Mani Neumeier Quintet - Taken by Surprise (Not Two, 2011) ****

October 15, 2011

By Paul Acquaro The Kris Wanders and Mani Neumeier Quintet's Taken by Surprise is an excursion into free but highly melodic improvisation, and Wanders and Brett Evans' tandem tenor saxophones on the the impassioned “Oxymoron" is an inspiring opener. The quintet is rounded out by Rory Brown on bass, Yusuke Akai on guitar and Neumeier on ...