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News: Recording

Neil Young - Prairie Wind (2005)

September 8, 2011

By Mark Saleski No harm meant by this remark: I'd rather listen to John Mayer than Elliott Smith. So there, I've said it. Not to illustrate that I've got no indie cred. That I apparently have no taste in music. Not even to piss off the legions of Smith fans. No, that is not the point. ...

News: Recording

Charlie Apicella and Iron City - The Business (2011)

September 8, 2011

There's an irresistible swagger to old-fashioned, grease-popping soul jazz records, something so far removed in this hidebound era of button-down classicists. Everything about it—the left-hand blasts of organ, the scrappy guitar riffs, the flame-kissed sax retorts—just says: Party. Charlie Apicella and Iron City's The Business, newly issued by CArlo Records, is no different. From the initial ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Jazz Around Town: Jazz Gigs for Your Next 7 Days ...

September 8, 2011

Thursday, September 8, 2011 Jazz & Wine Happy Hour with The Swooners @ Woodcliff Hotel & Spa, 5:30 pm Serge and Friends with Drew Moore & Steve Melcher @ Rabbit Room Restaurant, Honeoye Falls, 6:00 pm The John Palocy Trio (Jazz Dawgs) @ Bistro 135, 6:30 pm Joe Santora Trio with Emily Kirchoff @ Michael's Valley ...

News: Performance / Tour

Jazz This Week: Funky Butt Brass Band Opens the Bistro's 2011-12 Season, a Musical Trip Back to 1961, and More

September 8, 2011

The fall season of presenting jazz and creative music in St. Louis gathers some momentum this week, as Jazz at the Bistro and Webster University open their 2011-12 seasons. Let's go to the highlights: Tonight, saxophonist and East St. Louis native Andre Delano will perform with Good 4 The Soul at the Sheldon Concert Hall as ...

News: Radio

The Jazz Session #307: Marco Cappelli

September 8, 2011

Italian guitarist Marco Cappelli's new DVD is In The Shadow Of No Towers, a multimedia project exploring September 11 and its aftermath. The project features an animated graphic novel by artist Art Spiegelman (Maus) and narration by actor John Turturro. In this interview, Cappelli talks about how this remarkable project came to exist; the interesting history ...

News: Interview

Interview: Al Porcino (Part 2)

September 8, 2011

If you own a big band album from the post-war years, chances are Al Porcino is playing first trumpet on the recording. Al often was featured in that chair for his swinging leadership skills, the clarity of his playing, his sight-reading abilities and his knack for hitting screaming high notes. A trumpet section's job is to ...

News: Video / DVD

Reconsidering Ken Burns "Jazz"

September 8, 2011

In a classic example of how time can inevitably alter one's prior impressions, last month I was down in New Orleans working on a piece that will arrive in JazzTimes magazine's forthcoming annual jazz education issue, on the annual Louis Armstrong Jazz Camp. On a couple of occasions during that week I noticed the students viewing ...

News: Book / Magazine

Dysfunctional: Life Journeys of a Second Generation Jazz Musician

September 8, 2011

Dysfunctional is the curious title of a gritty and revealing autobiography written figurative minutes before the passing on to ancestry of a Kansas City treasure, master saxophonist Ahmad Alaadeen. Subtitled “life journeys of a second generation jazz musician," that's precisely where Alaadeen places himself in the jazz lineage—among the second generation of musicians who came up ...

News: Technology

Rockstar Motel Set to Unveil Social Platform for Promoting Artists and Fans

September 8, 2011

Rockstar Motel is a social networking site focused on building a platform for publicizing both artists and fans emphasizing indie and unsigned musicians. Its initial version, set for public unveiling on October 4, is somewhat like a sports fantasy league with player participation. But the longterm vision is quite a bit larger. I spoke this week ...

News: Trends

Study: Youtube Links Have Much Longer Impact Than Facebook, Twitter [chart]

September 8, 2011

We already know that different kinds of posts drive different levels of activity. But do the dynamics of link traffic also depend on where the link is posted? It would seem that it does according to a new study by link-shortening service bit.ly that shows that links have an impact for far longer when posted on ...