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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Four Views of Oliver Lake
This week, let's take a look at some video featuring saxophonist and former St. Louisan Oliver Lake, who recently created a YouTube channel for his work and has been posting all sorts of clips online.A member of the Black Artists Group and a co-founder of the ...
North Coast Music Fest: Umph, Disco Biscuits, Pretty Lights
CHEMICAL BROS, UMPHREY'S MCGEE, DE LA SOUL, NAS, DAMIAN MARLEY, DISCO BISCUITS, AND MORE Umphrey's McGee The North Coast Music Festival, set to take place on September 3-5, have announced their single day lineups, and are offering single day tickets for only $35. For a limited time, additional 3-day passes will remain available at $75. ...
Gregg Allman Receives Liver Transplant
UPDATES TO BE POSTED REGULARLY ON GREGGALLMAN.COM Gregg Allman As part of his continued recovery from Hepatitis C, Gregg Allman recently underwent a successful liver transplant operation at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL. Allman had been on a waiting list for the transplant and is looking forward to a speedy recovery. I feel pretty ...
Fred Anderson, R.I.P.
Fred Anderson, who exemplified the Chicago avant garde as a tenor saxophonist and as a club owner gave it work, has died at 81. The Chicago Tribune's Howard Reich followed Anderson's career. He writes in the newspaper: His was a rigorous, demanding brand of jazz improvisation that bridged the bebop idiom of Charlie Parker (an Anderson ...
2011 Jazz Masters: A Family Affair
The following news release arrived late yesterday: The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) today announced the recipients of the 2011 NEA Jazz Masters Award--the nation's highest honor in this distinctly American music. For the first time in the program's 29-year history, in addition to four individual awards, the NEA will present a group award to ...
Riverfront Times Announces 2010 Music Award Winners
The Riverfront Times this week announced the winners of the paper's 2010 Music Awards, which are selected by reader vote. Veteran saxophonist Willie Akins (pictured) won the 2010 award for “Best Jazz Artist." Other 2010 winners include the Funky Butt Brass Band for “Best Funk/Soul/R&B (Group)," multi-intrumentalist Lamar Harris for “Best Funk/Soul/R&B (Solo Artist)" ...
Miles Davis Jazz Festival Adds to 2010 Lineup
Organizers of the Miles Davis Jazz Festival, which is scheduled for Saturday, August 14 at Lewis & Clark Community College in Godfrey, have informed StLJN of a couple of additions to this year's musical lineup.Along with the previously announced acts - saxophonist Michael Anthony Fitzgerald, guitarist Brian White, and the Howard Neal Band - ...
Interview: Lou Donaldson (Part 3)
Between mid-1955 and the start of 1957, Lou Donaldson did not record for reasons he outlines below. Instead, he booked a long string of urban clubs across the country and toured them back and forth while fronting a quintet that included organist Big John Patton. Along the way, Lou became creatively comfortable with the sax-organ sound, ...
Interview: Stanley Kay (Part 1)
Stanley Kay, Buddy Rich's drummer in the late 1940s, died on Monday (June 21st) in New York after a long illness. He was 86. To the uninitiated, my description of Stanley's occupation in the first sentence may sound odd. Buddy Rich's drummer? Buddy Rich was a drummer. Except that Stanley played drums when Buddy Rich sang ...
All-Night Session: Abrams, Moran, City Winery Jam
Other cities may have more tightly knit jazz communities (Peter Margasak and Andrey Henkin have made pitches for the vitality of Chicago), but none come close to approaching the size and diversity of the New York scene. On any given night, there are around two dozen jazz shows in the city, and it's not uncommon that ...
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