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Webster University Announces Jazz Concert Schedule for 2011-12

August 22, 2011

The music department at Webster University has announced the schedule of Monday night concerts by the Webster jazz faculty for the 2011-12 school year. The series kicks off at 7:00 p.m. Monday, September 12, with a theme concert dedicated to jazz music released in 1961, a year that included significant recordings by John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, ...

The Jazz Session #303: Ron Carter

August 22, 2011

John Graas: Complete '50s Sessions

August 22, 2011

What's surprising about the French horn isn't that it became a jazz instrument but that there were so many fine jazz players in the late 1940s and '50s. Among the best were Junior Collins, Julius Watkins, David Amram, John Cave, Willie Ruff, Tony Miranda, Jimmy Buffington and Gunther Schuller. But perhaps the finest of them all ...

John Zorn - Masada Guitars (2003)

August 22, 2011

By Mark Saleski John Zorn's Masada is an interesting group. The way I've come to describe them is “Ornette Coleman-listens-to-klezmer." While that's not the only way to get there, it'll do. Pick any recording from the Masada series and you'll hear some fine interplay between Zorn's sax, the trumpet of Dave Douglas and Greg Cohen's bass. ...

Chris Potter and the Dr Big Band - Transatlantic (Red Dot Music, 2011)

August 22, 2011

Saxophonist Chris Potter has become one of the leading lights of the mainstream jazz scene, playing with the likes of Dave Holland and Paul Motian, and recording several albums as a leader. But seldom have we had the opportunity to hear him as the featured soloist in a big band. On this project, he is the ...

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: A Jazz Documentary Film Festival, Part 2

August 21, 2011

Our jazz video showcase continues in vacation mode for another week, with six more full-length documentaries vying for your late-summer attention. First up is a concert film from the Jazz Icons DVD series, Duke Ellington Live In Holland 1958, It's an 80-minute concert performance from Ellington's big band, which ...

Stan Killian - Unified (2011)

August 21, 2011

Stan Killian's Unified is an attractive album right from the first listen. Actually, even before that first listen. Checking out the names of horn players playing alongside Killian listed on the back cover of the CD case, I saw there was already a recipe for success: Dave Binney (alto sax), Jeremy Pelt (trumpet) and Roy Hargrove ...

Sam Rivers and the Rivbea Orchestra - Trilogy (Mosaic Select 38, 2011)

August 21, 2011

When composer and multi-instrumentalist Sam Rivers (bio in pdf) moved to Orlando, Florida in the early 1990's, he had no intention of retiring. Soon the cream of the crop of the Florida improvised music scene began to gravitate around Rivers and a big band playing his intricately progressive, yet accessible charts began to emerge. After a ...

21 Great Ways to Collaborate with Other Artists to Get More Fans

August 20, 2011

This guest post comes from Dave Cool, the Blogger In Residence at musician website and marketing platform Bandzoogle. One of the best ways for emerging bands to gain new fans is to be exposed to another band's audience. Especially if you have similar target markets, fans are more likely to trust a recommendation coming from a ...

Yes, Virginia, There is Jazz at Bumbershoot

August 20, 2011

Sunday, September 4 Level 3 at EMP 325 5th Avenue North Compiled by Danielle Bias As in past years, not a lot of jazz makes it under the broad umbrella of Bumbershoot on Labor Day weekends, but Matt Jorgensen of Origin Records and the Ballard Jazz Festival has curated a lineup for ...