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Jazz Around Town: Jazz Gigs for Your Next Seven Days in and Around Rochester

October 7, 2011

Friday, October 7, 2011 Dan Kodweis Trio @ Abbott's Downtown, 72 St. Paul St., 5:00 pm Johnny Matt Band with Jon Seiger @ Wegmans, Eastway, 5:30 pm Bobby Dibaudo Trio  @ Bistro 135, 6:30 pm Ted Nicolosi and Shared Genes @ Glengarry Inn at Eagle Vale, 6:30 pm Joe Santora Trio with Emily Kirchoff @ Michael's ...

Jazz This Week: Stanley Jordan, a "Family Concert" from Metta Quintet, and More

October 7, 2011

This week's menu of jazz and creative music in St. Louis features everything from big bands to a stellar jazz guitarist who's practically a band all by himself. Let's go to the highlights: Tonight, guitarist Stanley Jordan (pictured) returns to St. Louis to begin a four-night engagement with his trio at Jazz at the Bistro. Jordan ...

The Jazz Session #315: Dalton Ridenhour

October 7, 2011

What Jazz Musicians Expect from Jazz Journalists and Critics. Pt 4

October 6, 2011

This is Part Four in our ongoing series of dialogues with jazz musicians where we ask the burning question: WHEN YOU READ MUSIC JOURNALISM AND MUSIC CRITICISM WHAT QUALITIES ARE YOU LOOKING FOR IN THE WRITER AND THE WRITING? Our contributors for this post are the masterful trombonist Wycliffe Gordon and one of our most deeply ...

Gorillaz: Singles Collection

October 6, 2011

WORLD'S MOST SUCCESSFUL VIRTUAL BAND READIES 15-TRACK SINGLES SET Gorillaz have confirmed that after constant in-band fighting, several kidnappings, major mental breakdowns, jail sentences, bankruptcy and some really bad outfits, the world's most successful virtual band will release a new singles collection next month, celebrating Gorillaz' singles, videos and remixes from 2001 to 2011. The 15-track ...

A Guy Named Brian Camelio Wants a Cut of Your Fan Funded Project

October 6, 2011

On February 8, 2011, ex-Journey studio musician and record producer Brian Camelio was awarded U.S. Patent No. 7,885,887—"Methods and apparatuses for financing and marketing a creative work" which he assigned to his Fan Funded, LLC , the operater of a company called ArtistShare. Since then Camelio repeately contacted fan funder KickStarter “to discuss ArtistShare's patent and ...

3 Major Reasons to Drive Fans to Your Website Instead of Facebook and Social Media

October 6, 2011

(UPDATED) By Chris Vinson, the founder and CTO of musician website and marketing platform Bandzoogle. Do I really need a website for my music? With Facebook, Twitter, and all the musician-specific social networks out there, you might think that your own .COM is obsolete. But there are 3 very important reasons to drive fans to your ...

Something Else! Interview: Jazz Legend Chico Hamilton

October 6, 2011

Jazz legend Chico Hamilton celebrated turning 90 last month—how else?—but issuing another album. With Revelation, the NEA Jazz Master's 60th project, Hamilton continues to build on a remarkable recording career dating back to 1941. That's included stints drumming with Lionel Hampton, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Lester Young, Nat “King" Cole, T-Bone Walker, Gerry Mulligan—and, over a ...

Miles Davis Quintet - Live in Europe 1967: The Bootleg Series Vol. 1 (Columbia/Legacy, 2011)

October 6, 2011

When I was younger, I was deeply involved in the hobby of tape-trading, the exchanging bootleged concerts through the medium of the legendary Maxell XL-90 cassette tape. One of my most prized possessions at the time was 45 minutes of a concert from Paris recorded on November 6, 1967 by the Miles Davis Quintet with Davis ...

Connie Crothers and Bill Payne Engage in Lively New-Improv Clarinet-Piano Duets: "The Stone Set"

October 7, 2011

Pianist Connie Crothers is back with another nice offering: The Stone Set (New Artists 1044), a two-CD volume of duets with clarinetist Bill Payne. The first disk captures the two playing a set at NY's The Stone, 2009, probably the premier venue these days for what's important in new jazz and free improvisation. The second disk, ...