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New Mexico Jazz Festival

August 7, 2011

New Mexico is one of the less publicized beauty spots of this country. Past experiences in Santa Fe and Albuquerque have been very agreeable. Last weekend's experience there as a small part of the annual New Mexico Jazz Festival was just one such occasion. Good friend and erstwhile saxophonist-composer Tom Guralnick is one of the unsung ...

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News: Music Industry

Something Else! Featured Artist: Led Zeppelin

August 7, 2011

Led Zeppelin's image, dating back to the band's debauched 1970s heyday, has grown so outsized that it sometimes obscures, well, the music. After all, that was time when—as Rolling Stone's Stephen Davis famously wrote in a late-period Zep review—you could “give an Englishman 50,000 watts, a chartered jet, a little cocaine and some groupies and he ...

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News: Recording

Jan Garbarek - In Praise of Dreams (2004)

August 7, 2011

By Mark Saleski Immediately recognizable saxophone voices: Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane. To this list we must add Jan Garbarek. Every musician brings something unique to the aural world. A way of phrasing. Romanticism of melody. Cryptic storytelling with chords. Energy. Shocking bursts of seeming anti-logic. Tone. Tone. In the jazz/instrumental music realm, tone is it. The ...

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News: Recording

Ben Tyree/BT3 - Re:vision (2010)

August 7, 2011

A couple of years back while covering a record by the whack jazz-funk-rock big band Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber I picked out Living Colour's Vernon Reid's contributions to the collective, but he wasn't the only guitarist on there. Ben Tyree was also on that record. Like Reid, Tyree doesn't settle for the middle of the ...

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News: Recording

Ernie Krivda - Blues for Pekar (Capri, 2011)

August 7, 2011

Harvey Pekar was most well known as a graphic novelist, but he was also a huge jazz fan and occasional critic. He receives a fine tribute on this album, a strong disc rooted in the bebop and hard-bop firmament of jazz, and played with a passion and joy that is infectious. Ernie Krivda plays tenor saxophone, ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Jazz This Week: DMS with George Duke, Marcus Miller and David Sanborn, the Cunninghams, Tony Suggs, and More

August 6, 2011

This weekend's most noteworthy jazz and creative music performances in St. Louis are united by an element of homecoming, as three locals who have made good in the wider world will be back in town to play for the home folks. Here's what's happening: On Friday, the vocal duo The Cunninghams return to St. Louis to ...

News: Radio

The Jazz Session #298: Ingrid Laubrock

August 6, 2011

Saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock's most recent album is The Madness Of Crowds (Intakt, 2011) with the band Sleepthief. Shes also part of the trio Paradoxical Frog with Kris Davis and Tyshawn Sorey. In this interview, Laubrock talks about her self-taught entry into improvised music; her collaborations with a variety of musicians; and why she went back to ...

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News: Recording

Bix Beiderbecke's Last Recording

August 6, 2011

Eighty years ago tomorrow evening, cornetist Bix Beiderbecke flew into a fit of insanity at his home in Queens, N.Y., and promptly died. He was 28 years old. Beiderbecke was a long-time abuser of alcohol at a time when liquor wasn't federally regulated since it was illegal, and most spirits contained little more than amber-tinted isopropyl. ...

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News: Recording

Phil Spector: 7-CD Box Set Due out in October

August 6, 2011

PHIL SPECTOR'S 'WALL OF SOUND' CELEBRATED ON DELUXE 7-CD BOX SET; SIX PHILLES ALBUMS NEVER OFFICIALLY REISSUED IN THEIR ENTIRETY IN THE CD ERA, AND A NEW B-SIDES CD The development of Phil Spector's magnificent Wall Of Sound productions is given its most expansive display ever on the new box set, Phil Spector Presents The Phillies ...

News: Music Industry

Billboard Pro Closes After Just 4 Months

August 6, 2011

Billboard has closed new registration to its independent and d.i.y. artist subscription site Billboard Pro after just over 4 months of operation. “We are not accepting new registrations at this time, pending a revamp and relaunch of the site later this year," reads a notice offering no hint of a relaunch date. Existing users paying $9.99 ...