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News: Performance / Tour

Jazz at the Bistro Announces Summer Schedule

May 3, 2009

Jazz St. Louis has announced the summer 2009 lineup of shows at Jazz at the Bistro. For regulars at the Bistro, it's a mostly familiar group of artists, with one notable exception: guitarist and singer Javier Mendoza, who will perform at the Bistro on Friday, May 29 and Saturday, May 30, filling the dates vacated when ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Pollstar: John Pizzarelli Returning to St. Louis in April, 2010

May 3, 2009

The online tour information service Pollstar has just added a listing indicating that guitarist and singer John Pizzarelli will be returning to St. Louis next year from Wednesday, April 14 through Saturday, April 17 to play at Jazz at the Bistro.The official announcement of the Bistro's 2009-10 season won't come until a little later ...

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News: Music Industry

Weekend Extra: Fitzgerald and Peterson

May 3, 2009

Thanks to Julius LaRosa for pointing us toward a performance with the Oscar Peterson Trio by Ella Fitzgerald late in her career. Peterson sits out most of the first chorus. Bassist Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen generates the powerful swing with Fitzgerald. Then the pianist and drummer Martin Drew join the ride. Ella is rarely singled out for ...

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News: TV / Film

Playing for Change a Multimedia Movement

May 3, 2009

Bring It On Home After we discovered Roger Ridley performing on the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica and asked him if we could record him singing the John Lennon version of Stand By Me, we were so blown away with his presence and enthusiasm toward music and people that we wanted to film his entire ...

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News: Obituary

Marl Young Pianist Was Key in Desegregating L.A. Musicians Unions

May 3, 2009

Pianist and arranger Marl Young, who also had a law degree, helped integrate Los Angeles' all-black Local 767 and all-white Local 47. He later became the first black music director of a major network TV series, 'Here's Lucy.' Marl Young, a musician who was instrumental in the merger of the all-black and all-white musicians unions in ...

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News: Recording

Rudder:Matorning

May 3, 2009

By: Trevor Pour In the time since I reviewed Rudder's debut self-titled record last year (see review here), it has transformed into an absolute staple of my sonic diet. Its ambiguous genre label prevented me from accurately describing the music to my houseguests, but it never failed to impress even the most cynical listeneres. Rudder's latest ...

News: Recording

Coldplay Give Away Live Album

May 3, 2009

Coldplay To Give Away Live Album Nine track album to be available at shows and online Coldplay Coldplay will be giving away a live CD, LeftRightLeftRightLeft, at every remaining live show in 2009 (apart from festival shows). Starting with the band's first North American tour date, at West Palm Beach in Florida on May ...

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News: Festival

Triple-Clarinet Set Puts Woodwinds in Jazz Fest Spotlight

May 3, 2009

Mozart didn't know Jazz Fest, but he knew about the power of the clarinet. He wrote some of his most gorgeous concertos for the instrument, knowing its clear, clean timbre could lift melodies to soaring heights with the right person behind the reed. Evan Christopher, Tim Laughlin and Gregory Agid all know a thing or two ...

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News: Recording

MoonJune Records CD Release: Copernicus "Disappearence"

May 3, 2009

Copernicus “disappearance" (MoonJune Records) Coming: July 21st 2009 The 'disappearance' of which the New York performer-poet Copernicus speaks is that of The Universe itself. His conceptual concerns are not with the everyday. He is not penning couplets about the changing fortunes of human existence, other than on the grandest (or ...

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News: Interview

Mark Isham Interview - New Album "Bittersweet"

May 3, 2009

Mark Isham talks about his work in film and “The Black Dhalia" Project The interview is part of the book project “under your skin" which will include Interviews with: Anthony Braxton, Ornette Coleman, Cindy Blackman, Taj Mahal, Yusef Lateef, Matt Waugh, Bob James, Skip Mcdonald, Erika Stucky, Living Colour, Dj Rob Swift, Marilyn Crispell, Dick Griffin, ...