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News: Recording

Gary Lewis & the Playboys' "The Complete Liberty Singles" Coming On Collectors' Choice on May 26

April 22, 2009

‘60s band’s golden era included “This Diamond Ring,” “Count Me In,” “Save Your Heart for Me,” “Everybody Loves a Clown,” “Sure Gonna Miss Her,” “Green Grass” and more. The hit team included Snuff Garrett, Al Kooper, Leon Russell, Hal Blaine and Jim Keltner. LOS ANGELES, Calif. — In the tradition of Collectors’ Choice Music’s ...

News: Performance / Tour

Seattle Times: Noted Jazz Trio Fly Coming to Seattle

April 22, 2009

In hindsight, Mark Turner agrees that power saws and horn players should probably avoid close proximity. He came by this insight the hard way. when a home-maintenance project suddenly turned into a potentially career-ending accident. One of jazz’s most eloquent and widely admired tenor and soprano saxophonists, Turner severed the tendons in his left-hand middle and ...

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News: Award / Grant

Pulitzer Prize: Steve Reich

April 22, 2009

Steve Reich Wins 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Music Steve Reich The 2009 Pulitzer Prize for “distinguished musical composition by an American" has been awarded to New York composer Steve Reich. Reich won the $10,000 prize for his Double Sextet (Boosey & Hawkes), “a major work that displays an ability to channel an initial burst of energy ...

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News: Music Industry

Jimmy Herring: Don't Say No

April 22, 2009

By: Dennis Cook Jimmy Herring Superheroes don't always look super in their day-to-day lives. Case in point, Jimmy Herring, a quiet, perfectly gracious Southern man, who'll shake your hand and let you yack his ear off longer than he probably should. In short, the definition ...

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News: Recording

Horace Silver: Horace-Scope

April 22, 2009

Everyone has a favorite Horace Silver album. Mine is Horace-Scope. Recorded in July 1960, the album has a hair-raising lineup of tracks and a superb mix of Silver's grumbling bass lines, high-energy melodies and snap-crisp horns. Don't get me wrong, I love Song for My Father, Six Pieces of Silver and Blowin' the Blues Away. All ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Pollstar: Sandy Stewart and Bill Charlap Coming to St. Louis in December

April 22, 2009

The online tour information service Pollstar has added a listing showing four nights of performances by singer Sandy Stewart and her son, jazz pianist Bill Charlap (pictured), Wednesday, December 9 through Saturday, December 12, at the Kranzberg Arts Center, 501 N. Grand (at Olive) in St. Louis' Grand Center arts district. Stewart and Charlap ...

News: Performance / Tour

The Sheldon's "Coffee Concerts" to Feature Local Jazz Artists

April 22, 2009

Although we covered the announcement of the Sheldon Concert Hall's 2009-10 jazz series here a couple of weeks ago, at the time yr. humble StLJN editor did not have access to next year's schedule of the Sheldon's “Coffee Concerts," a series of late-morning performances that typically features a number of local St. Louis jazz musicians. The ...

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News: Social Gathering

Jazz St. Louis CD Listening Club to Meet Tuesday, May 12

April 22, 2009

Jazz St. Louis has scheduled the next meeting of its CD Listening Club for 7:00 p.m., Tuesday, May 12 at Borders bookstore, 1519 S. Brentwood Blvd.For the club's May meeting, Dr. Gerald Early of Washington University and Jazz St. Louis executive director Gene Dobbs Bradford will lead a discussion of Miles Davis' classic Kind ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Generations Band, Featuring Jimmy Cobb and Eric Alexander, Returns to Yoshi’S SF on Wednesday and Thursday, May 6 & 7

April 22, 2009

Two sets Wednesday night and “Battle of the Combos” Competition Finals on Thursday (San Francisco, CA) The Generations Band, an all-star sextet featuring Jimmy Cobb, Eric Alexander, Andrew Speight, David Hazeltine and Ray Drummond, will make its return to Yoshi’s San Francisco for two nights of special event concerts on Wednesday and Thursday, May 6 and ...

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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Charles Mingus

April 22, 2009

All About Jazz is celebrating Charles Mingus' birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Charles MingusOne of the most important figures in twentieth century American music, Charles Mingus was a virtuoso bass player, accomplished pianist, bandleader and composer. Born on a military base in Nogales, Arizona in 1922 and ...