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News: Award / Grant

Classical Grammy's 2010

January 31, 2010

Producer Of The Year, Classical Steven Epstein Adams: Doctor Atomic Symphony (David Robertson & Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra) Bernstein: Mass (Marin Alsop, Jubilant Sykes, Asher Edward Wulfman, Morgan State University Choir, Peabody Children's Chorus & Baltimore Symphony Orchestra) Corigliano: A Dylan Thomas Trilogy (Leonard Slatkin, George Mabry, Sir Thomas Allen, ...

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News: Award / Grant

Grammy Jazz Awards Announced

January 31, 2010

The Grammy Awards: The Winners A running tally of the winners The 52nd annual Grammy Awards blasted out of the gate with the pre-telecast awards ceremony, which started at 1 p.m. PT at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Winners in the early going included producer A.R. Rahman for “Slumdog Millionaire," best compilation soundtrack album; ...

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News: Music Industry

Broken Record: Music and Money in the Download Era

January 31, 2010

The path to success is no longer labeled. Hunting for a record deal won't cut it anymore. Modern bands are focusing more on the Internet, looking for film soundtrack opportunities and piggy-backing album sales on designer T-shirts. The Troubadour, awash on a recent night in indigo light and chiming guitars, doesn't look all that different than ...

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News: Interview

Chicago Underground Dive into the Laptop-Jazz Vortex

January 31, 2010

By Tad Hendrickson The fusion of jazz and electronics hasn't been a particularly fertile one -- particularly when you consider the possibilities of pairing the agility of improvisation-minded musicians with the infinite possibilities offered by technology, both in the production studio and in the live setting. In the late '60s and early '70s, Miles Davis and ...

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News: Recording

Brad Mehldau Rides Again

January 31, 2010

When Brad Mehldau released Largo in 2002, I remember thinking it was high-time the era's greatest jazz pianist ventured beyond his comfy acoustic trio. Since signing a deal with the now-defunct Warner Jazz at the tender age of 24, Mehldau had released six piano trio records with the same personnel (Larry Grenadier on bass, Jorge Rossy ...

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News: Interview

POW! Darius Jones

January 31, 2010

The Brooklyn jazz scene has been a boon to New York, fostering a defiantly local culture that the city's biggest clubs (Blue Note, Vanguard, etc) sometimes lack. In Greenwich Village, you see top jazz stars deliver polished performances; at Brooklyn events like the New Languages Festival, you see scruffy young musicians experimenting, developing, emerging. Yet there's ...

News: Award / Grant

P-D Story Celebrates Award for Clark Terry

January 31, 2010

As first mentioned here on StLJN back in December, trumpeter and St. Louis native Clark Terry (pictured) will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) in conjunction with this year's Grammy Awards.To celebrate the occasion, Calvin Wilson of the Post-Dispatch has a feature story in today's ...

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News: Recording

Tribecastan's 5 Star Cave

January 31, 2010

Around The World in Three Blocks: The Traditional, Radical Music of the Nation of TriBeCaStan Nestled in the heart of a bustling urban sprawl, between skyscrapers and shanties, lies a sonic oasis in which the sounds of the Indian sarod meet surf rock, West African kora merges with Appalachian mountain tunes, and Afghani melodies mingle with ...

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News: Recording

Business Class Refugees Kartick and Gotam Mix Local Music from Around the World with Electronica

January 31, 2010

Kartick & Gotam, Business Class Refugees (EarthSync) The world is a swirling arrangement of sand and water, elements that sing and crash. From the deserts of the Sinai to the drowned islands of Indonesia, these fluid forces of life and destruction guide the emergence of a new post-cataclysm harmony of people and music, serenity from out ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Parris Takes the Music South

January 31, 2010

No matter that there was another Arctic blast of winter in New England, singer Rebecca Parris packed in a full house at Chan's in Woonsocket RI Saturday evening with a heated set that had us feeling like we were in Rio. The Boston-based singer, always a huge draw at Chan's, was joined by saxophonist Dan Moretti, ...