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Tom Morello at the Grammy Museum

April 1, 2009

Tom Morello at the Grammy Museum: Political activism, music biz lessons and what about another Rage album? Prior to Tuesday evening, when Tom Morello was last seen on stage in Los Angeles, he was spearheading a benefit for various homeless advocacy groups at the Fonda Theater in Hollywood, performing with the likes of Wayne Krame and ...

Daryl Sherman Chasing the Monday Blues with a Signature Jazz Sound

April 1, 2009

That shopworn description songbird applies to the jazz singer and pianist Daryl Sherman. Not only because she has a sweet, little-girl lilt embodied in her voice, but also because her musical spirit belongs to an era when jazz singing was an expression of pure enjoyment; Freudian subtexts had yet to tunnel into the core of popular ...

Jimi Hendrix Childhood Home Torn Down

April 1, 2009

Despite an eight-year, $100,000-plus effort by a Seattle real-estate investor, the house where Jimi Hendrix lived as a child in Seattle is gone. A home where Jimi Hendrix lived was moved to Hi-Land Mobile Manor in Renton by its owner, Pete Sikov. Sikov complied with an order to tear down the house. It's gone, by order ...

Samantha Crain in Brooklyn, a Voice of Shadows and Fog

April 1, 2009

None of the jokes were landing for Samantha Crain & the Midnight Shivers on Sunday night at Southpaw, in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn. Between songs, Ms. Crain or one of her bandmates would make a false start or two and giggle, only to be met by an indifferent audience. Samantha Crain and her band, ...

Beck Reissuing 1994s One Foot in the Grave

April 1, 2009

Beck will reissue his 1994 slacker folk album One Foot in the Grave on April 14th, with reportedly 16 additional songs tacked onto the original track list. The rockers publicists confirmed the release date, which Rock Daily noted on Amazon.coms preorder page, which also indicates Interscope Records will handle the reissue. The LP was originally distributed ...

Jazzwax Mindblowers (Vol. 5)

April 1, 2009

If you're new to this blog, you should know that at the tail end of each quarter I provide a roundup of my favorite quotes from JazzWax interviews posted over the past three months. Between January and March 2009, I interviewed Jimmy Cobb, Sandie Shaw, Buddy De Franco, David Soyer, Helen Merrill, Phil Woods, Hal McKusick, ...

Radio Station KFUO is for Sale

April 1, 2009

Over the weekend, St. Louis Post-Dispatch classical music critic Sarah Bryan Miller published a story and two blog posts detailing the possible sale of KFUO (99.1 FM), the area's only classical music radio station, by its longtime owners, the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod. “On Feb. 19, its (board) members appointed a special committee ...

Ghasem Batamuntu Interview - A Gift from Trane

April 1, 2009

Too Slim & the Taildraggers Guitarist/Leader Tim "Too Slim" Langford Interviewed at AAJ

April 1, 2009

Listening to Too Slim & The Taildraggers is, as one reviewer put it, .".. like taking a journey through the history of American music." Absorbing everything he could at first, Tim “Too Slim" Langford, lead guitarist and vocalist for the group, today plays what he likes. Although his focus at first may have been blues, today ...

Jazz Musician of the Day: Gil Scott-Heron

April 1, 2009

All About Jazz is celebrating Gil Scott-Heron's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Gil Scott-HeronGil Scott-Heron - vocalist, composer, pianist, bandleader, recording artist “I consider myself neither poet, composer, nor musician... more Website | Videos | Articles Follow Gil Scott-Heron @ AAJ Put AAJ's ...