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News: Recording

Review: At 82 Mose Allison Sings Like a Sage

March 22, 2010

Mose Allison, “The Way Of The World" (Anti-) At age 82, Mose Allison is not about to change. He's still an unclassifiable classicist who would find a single musical genre as confining as being limited to one octave on his piano. And so he bridges the divides between the blues, pop and jazz on ...

News: Technology

SXSW is a Bands' Social Network Like No Other

March 22, 2010

AUSTIN, Texas -- Don't expect the bands and labels gathered at the South by Southwest Music Festival to forsake MySpace, Twitter and Facebook anytime soon. Most musicians and industry players find that none of these virtual connections replace the need to shake hands, look one another in the eye or bond over a couple of Lone ...

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News: Obituary

The Voice of the Hollywood Bowl

March 22, 2010

Mark Ferber dies at 60; longtime production supervisor at the Hollywood Bowl. To thousands of concert-goers, Mark Ferber's voice was comfortingly familiar as he announced, “Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Hollywood Bowl." As a child, he bicycled to the Bowl to do his homework in the picnic areas he found so peaceful. He was hired ...

News: Technology

The iPad May Change Computing, Just Not Your Life

March 22, 2010

The first time you walk into an Apple Store and pick up an iPad, you'll understand the hype: Apple has managed to create a beautiful, thoughtfully designed, compelling product in a space where mediocrity was, until now, status quo. But odds are you probably won't buy one at least not yet. And that's OK. For despite ...

News: Music Industry

L.A. Band Tries to Cash in with Free Monthly Album

March 22, 2010

In an instrument-filled garage almost every day for the past year, musician John Wood has tried to find a new way to make a living. Wood and a bunch of other artists use the soundproofed space with an extra-high ceiling to create a new album every month. It's a staggering feat when you consider it means ...

News: Radio

The Jazz Session #153: Frank Kimbrough

March 22, 2010

Pianist Frank Kimbroughs latest CD, Rumors (Palmetto, 2010), comes out on March 30, 2010. Its a trio session with bassist Masa Kamaguchi and drummer Jeff Hirschfield. In this interview, Kimbrough talks about the albums uncommon recording method; how Andrew Hill impacted his early musical life and the lifelong friendship that resulted; and why being ready to ...

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News: Music Industry

Jim Knapp Orchestra Goes On Hiatus

March 22, 2010

from Jim Knapp: The Jim Knapp Orchestra will no longer be performing on a regular basis. We have been going 18 years and that seems to be the lifespan for this group as a regular performing organization. I am eternally grateful for the musicians of such great talent who have made up the band including several ...

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News: Music Industry

Mining Brooklyn's Jazz Legacy

March 22, 2010

Brooklyn had more jazz clubs and related venues than Manhattan in the 1950s and '60s. So say Randy Weston and numerous other observers and historians of the bigger, brilliantly-multi culti, undeniably colorful and richly historic borough across the East River. This and other fascinating facts of Brooklyns storied jazz history are becoming clearer by the day through ...

News: Recording

Free Download of Funky Butt Brass Band Now Online at archive.org

March 22, 2010

The Funky Butt Brass Band has put online a recording of their performance last Saturday night at Jazz at the Bistro, and you can download it for free from Archive.org.The download includes a number of the FBBB's staples, as well as versions of “It's All Over Now" and “Where Y'At?" with guest solos from ...

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News: Festival

Greater St. Louis Jazz Festival Announces Schedule of Events

March 22, 2010

The Greater St. Louis Jazz Festival has announced the complete schedule of events for this year's fest, which will be held Thursday. April 15 through Saturday, April 17 at the Touhill Performing Arts Center on the campus of the University of Missouri - St. Louis (UMSL).The 2010 GSLJF will feature concerts by trombonist Conrad ...