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News: Obituary

Rashied Ali, Free-Jazz Drummer, Dies at 76

August 15, 2009

Rashied Ali, whose expressionistic, free-jazz drumming helped define the experimental style of John Coltrane’s final years, died Wednesday in Manhattan. He was 76. The cause was a heart attack, said his wife, Patricia Ali. Mr. Ali, who first encountered Coltrane in their Philadelphia neighborhood in the late 1950s, made the leap from admiration to collaboration in ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Moppa Elliott Jazz History Scrambled, with Love and Respect

August 15, 2009

Theres a bustling, ostentatious impiety in the music of Mostly Other People Do the Killing. Led by the bassist Moppa Elliott, its a jazz quartet with a diligent grasp of history but an anarchic take on convention. At Zebulon in Brooklyn late on Thursday night, the group riffled through jazz idioms with hammy geniality, like an ...

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News: Recording

Retro-Soul and Jazz, Fine, but Krautrock, Anyone?

August 15, 2009

Ledisi For the R&B singer-songwriter Ledisi change is good even when it hurts, and there’s no point in resisting it anyway. “Turn Me Loose” (Verve Forecast), due out Tuesday, is her dissertation on the subject, inspired less by a recent presidential slogan than by a distant blues-rock anthem: “Them Changes,” a snarl of a tune by ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Benny Green Tribute to Oscar Peterson on Jazz NW, August 16

August 15, 2009

The general consensus is that one of the major highlights at this Summer’s Jazz Port Townsend was The Tribute to Oscar Peterson played by the Benny Green Trio. This exciting performance brought the capacity audience to its feet with the brillance of Benny Green’s Tribute to piano great Oscar Peterson. Most of the music was also ...

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News: Music Industry

Lesh, Weir, Russo, Lane, Chimenti: New Group "Furthur" for Sept.

August 15, 2009

Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, Joe Russo, Jay Lane, Jeff Chimenti and John Kadlecik Form New Band “Furthur" / Set Dates For September Phil Lesh The Dead's Phil Lesh and Bob Weir have formed a new band with drummer Joe Russo (Benevento/Russo Duo), guitarist John Kadlecik (Dark Star Orchestra), as well as Weir's RatDog bandmates ...

News: Technology

Happy Birthday Jazzwax

August 15, 2009

JazzWax turned two years old on August 3rd. I was too busy posting the start of my Denny Zeitlin interview to remember. A friend mentioned it yesterday, and my palm hit my forehead. So today I decided I'd pause briefly and reflect. The past two years have certainly been an exciting adventure. I always say I'm ...

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News: Performance / Tour

United Way Raising Funds with Erin Bode Performance, Auction of Tickets to Jazz at the Bistro

August 15, 2009

Singer Erin Bode will be the featured entertainment at a charity event benefiting the United Way to be held from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., Saturday, August 29 at Chandler Hill Vineyards, 596 Defiance Road in Defiance, MO (about 15 minutes west of Chesterfield.)“Chocolate, Wine and All That Jazz" will kick off the fall ...

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News: Performance / Tour

SLSO Will "Swing, Swing, Swing" on Friday, October 9

August 15, 2009

Via a post by classical music critic Sarah Bryan Miller on the Post-Dispatch's Culture Club blog: The Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra will perform the music of Duke Ellington, Woody Herman, and Glenn Miller at an “SLSO Presents:" concert called “Swing, Swing, Swing" at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, October 9 at Powell Symphony Hall, 718 N. Grand ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Eastern Blok to Play Free Concert on Friday, August 28 at Saint Louis Art Museum

August 15, 2009

The “pan-cultural ensemble" Eastern Blok (pictured) is returning to St. Louis to play a free concert at 7:00 p.m. Friday, August 28 in the Saint Louis Art Museum's Grigg Gallery. The performance is part of the Museum's “Art After 5" series, which features free concerts from solo and ensemble musicians on the fourth Friday of each ...

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News: Video / DVD

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Spotlight on Clark Terry

August 15, 2009

This week's videos feature the great trumpeter and flugelhorn player Clark Terry, a St. Louis native who (health permitting) will be coming home at the end of the month to headline “A Night of Jazz Greats" on Saturday, August 29 at Harris-Stowe State University.The concert, which ...