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News: Interview

Sharon Jones from Jameson to Fela Kuti, Preshow Rites of a Soul Band

April 26, 2010

SHARON JONES is, as the saying goes, the real deal. A 5-foot-1 vocal powerhouse who has been nicknamed the Queen of Funk, Ms. Jones, 53, grew up singing at home in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, in church and in local bands. But professional success in music eluded her; for a time she worked as a prison guard at ...

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News: TV / Film

Woody Allen: Have I Mentioned I Love Paris?

April 26, 2010

Woody Allen has been saying for years that he's happy to explore new means of financing -- er, urban backdrops -- and has pretty much backed up that promise/flexibility by jumping between England and Spain for his past half-dozen films (including one detour to his native New York). The director hasn't stopped off in Paris yet, ...

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News: Video / DVD

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: The Legacy of Count Basie

April 25, 2010

With the Count Basie Orchestra set to appear in the St. Louis area next weekend, this seems like the perfect opportunity to present some vintage video of Basie and his band. The present-day Basie Orchestra, currently under the direction of trombonist Bill Hughes and featuring St. Louis native ...

News: Technology

STLJN Turns Five

April 25, 2010

Though it may be somewhat difficult to believe, it was five years ago today that St. Louis Jazz Notes first went online. If you subscribe to the notion that “Internet years" are the equivalent of “dog years," that makes this site roughly 35 years old. Either way, StLJN is one of the more long-lived outposts of ...

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News: Event

Download the NPR Music Jazz Fest Podcast

April 25, 2010

NPR Music's A Blog Supreme is in New Orleans for the Jazz and Heritage Festival. WBGO's Josh Jackson will be there too: together, they are photographing, interviewing, seafood-eating and blogging their way through the first weekend of festivities. Check A Blog Supreme for reviews, photos and podcasts of everything you missed, including coverage of My Morning ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Southland Jazz

April 26, 2010

Playboy Jazz Festival Hollywood Bowl 2301 N. Highland Ave., Hollywood The 32nd annual summer music party at the bowl returns, with performances by Chick Corea, George Benson, the Manhattan Transfer, Grammy-winning vocalist Kurt Elling, Cuban salsa greats Los Van Van, and fusion guitarist Marcus Miller with young trumpeter Christian Scott, ...

News: Radio

MOJA Radio/Weekly Features: 26 April-2 May 2010

April 26, 2010

This Monday, April 26th, we'll present another “Happy Birthday" edition of our special feature, MONDAY WITH THE MASTERS on MOJA Radio. This time the focus is on one of the most important guitarists in jazz today, STEVE KHAN, just two days before the day that marks his 63rd birthday. You'll hear all about his beginnings in ...

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News: TV / Film

Hollywood Don't Get Games

April 26, 2010

Avatar producer Jon Landau says getting game developers to work directly with forward-thinking filmmakers is the solution to Hollywood's long-standing videogame problem. The process for developing movie-themed games “can't be studio-driven," Landau told Wired.com. “It has to be filmmaker-driven. I think [game companies] need to go find the Jim Cameron's, Steven Spielberg's and Peter Jackson's of ...

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News: Performance / Tour

New York Jazz Listings

April 26, 2010

CENTRAL BROOKLYN JAZZ FESTIVAL (Friday through Thursday) Tenor saxophonist Houston Person Friday Jazz 966 Fulton Street in Fort Greene Violinist Billy Bang Saturday Sistas Place Nostrand Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant Percussionist Neal Clarke Sunday

News: Recording

One Track Mind: Ethan Keller "Rock and Rock Will Save Your Soul" (2010)

April 26, 2010

By PicoWe've used this space for bringing telling the world about the recorded accomplishments of artists both popular and obscure, and for us, at least, the talented ones who haven't emerged yet are usually the ones that are most fun to write about. With those types, there's a greater chance you're telling the story ...