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News: Technology

So What Should MySpace Do Now?

October 12, 2011

Last week Specific Media CEO Tim Vanderhook and Justin Timberlake discussed MySpace at Advertising Week. Their pitch was to marketers and they described themselves as the “Hulu of Music" in keeping with their ongoing effort to reposition themselves as a music community rather than a social network. Given that this is a reiteration of their summer ...

News: Recording

Popa Chubby - Back to New York City (2011)

October 12, 2011

This is a script-flipped blues rock, with a plugged-in emphasis on the rock part. Back to New York City, in many ways, is as loud as it is brash—a thundering restatement of Popa Chubby's outsized persona and even outer-sized personality. But peel away the scalding licks, and the stomping rhythms, and the braying vocals, and you ...

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News: Recording

Darius Jones Trio - Big Gurl (Smell My Dream) (2011)

October 12, 2011

Darius Jones might be the fastest rising star in the whack jazz world or at least, the fastest rising alto saxophonist within that realm.Man'ish Boy (A Raw And Beautiful Thing)) and a great, primal punk jazz album last year with Little Women, Jones solidified his position among the current crop of improvised music heavies earlier this ...

News: Performance / Tour

Kicking Off Annenberg Center's 40th Anniversary Season

October 12, 2011

The Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts presents a night jam-packed with jazz, as prodigious tenor saxophonist, Joshua Redman and internationally-acclaimed jazz pianist, Brad Mehldau join forces for one unforgettable duo performance, October 14, at 7:30 p.m. (see the video here) Melding their two adventurous, yet distinctive artistic voices, the duo cuts the extraneous and features ...

News: Performance / Tour

The Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts Celebrates Its 40th Year This Season with Special Concerts and Post-Performance Toasts

October 12, 2011

This season brings the 40 year anniversary of the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on the Penn campus, and there's a chance for every type of creative spirit to celebrate their favorite Annenberg memories in whatever style they love best. This month grooves by with the jazz saxophonist/pianist duo of Joshua Redman and Brad Mehldau ...

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News: Recording

Dead Cat Bounce's "Chance Episodes:" Four Horns, Rhythm, and Matthew Steckler's Artistic Vision

October 12, 2011

Matt Steckler, driving force behind the ensemble Dead Cat Bounce, joins three other reed soloists and an actively charged rhythm section in a program of Steckler compositions. Chance Episodes (Cuneiform Rune 323) is the concretion of the session, so to speak, and is some kind of concretion at that! It's the dynamic of a tightly interactive ...

News: Music Industry

The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Jazz, October 14-20

October 12, 2011

I'll miss most of the music in town this week. My loss! Some cool things are happening. Highlights Can't think of a better horn to put in front of Peter Schimke, Billy Peterson and Kenny Horst than saxman Brandon Wozniak. He's been tearing up one ensemble after another since relocating to the Twin Cities about five ...

News: Performance / Tour

Twin Cities Jazz Week in Review, October 7-13

October 12, 2011

No, I do not get out every night, and some weeks I don't get out much at all—especially when I am in that frenzy before leaving town. So for me, it was a short jazz week in town, but a very satisfying one. I missed a lot—Red Planet at the Artists Quarter over the weekend, some ...

News: Performance / Tour

Jazz at Holmes to Present Free Concert by Ralph Towner on Thursday, October 27

October 11, 2011

Washington University's Jazz at Holmes series today announced that they will present a free solo concert by guitarist Ralph Towner (pictured) at 8:00 p.m. Thursday, October 27 in Holmes Lounge in Ridgley Hall on the Wash U campus. The concert by Towner replaces the previously announced performance by guitarist Scott Jones. Towner is known mainly as ...

News: Interview

Interview: Sol Schlinger (Part 1)

October 11, 2011

Mention the “East Coast sax section" to fans of '50s jazz, and you'll be talking about one of the most in-demand and prolific studio saxophone units of the era. It comprised of Phil Woods and Gene Quill on alto saxophones, Zoot Sims and Al Cohn on tenor saxophones, and Sol Schlinger on baritone saxophone. Often times, ...