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News: Performance / Tour

Laws, Sutton and Koonse in Concert

April 14, 2010

Music for voice, flute and guitar is rare in any idiom. In jazz, it is singular. When flutist Hubert Laws, singer Tierney Sutton and guitarist Larry Koonse performed together at a fund-raising event last fall in Los Angeles, the creative spark that materialized pleased and intrigued them. They made room in their busy musical lives for ...

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News: Recording

Native Singer Jeremy Goodfeather Dons Baseball Cap in Lieu of Feathers

April 14, 2010

When Native American singer and activist Floyd Red Crow Westerman passed away in 2007, Jeremy Goodfeather's Hunka (adopted) mother asked him to play a few songs at the Oakland memorial, a request that launched an unexpected series of events for the San Francisco resident. “I had established myself as a community member within the Native circle, ...

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News: Festival

The 5th Annual Miles Davis Festival - Saturday, August 14

April 14, 2010

Just a quick reminder from headquarters for your summer planning. The Fifth Annual Miles Davis Festival is Saturday, August 14, 2010 at the Commons, Lewis & Clark Community College, 5800 Godfrey Road, Godfrey, Illinois at 12:00 pm HEADLINERS: Michael Anthony Fitzgerald & Brian White The Howard Neal Band will honor LUTHER INGRAM and his music. The ...

News: Recording

Balkan Beat Box: Album and Tour

April 14, 2010

BALKAN BEAT BOX RETURNS WITH HIGHLY PRAISED BLUE EYED BLACK BOY APRIL 27 ON NAT GEO MUSIC, SUMMER TOUR DATES INCLUDE STOPS AT LOLLAPALOOZA, LINCOLN CENTER AND MORE Balkan Beat Box Critics are applauding Balkan Beat Box's new set Blue Eyed Black Boy, due out April 27 on Nat Geo Music. Huffington Post proclaims ...

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News: Festival

Fantastic Hullabaloo Jazz Fest w/ DDBB, Molitz...

April 14, 2010

FANTASTIC HULLBALOO BRINGS MUSIC & ART TOGETHER FOR TWO NIGHTS DURING NEW ORLEANS JAZZ FEST The Dirty Dozen Taboot Presents two nights of music and art at the Fantastic Hullabaloo on April 29 and 30. Musicians include BoomBox with Steve Molitz on keys, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Yo Mama's Big Fat Booty Band, ...

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News: Festival

Jazz This Week: Greater St. Louis Jazz Festival, John Pizzarelli, King Sunny Ade, Ronald Carter and Russell Gunn, Lea Delaria, and More

April 14, 2010

It's an extremely busy week for jazz and creative music in St. Louis, with everything from big bands and straight-ahead small group swing to organ-driven soul-jazz, cabaret, free improv, and two or three different flavors of ethnic music fused with jazz.Let's go to straight to the highlights, described here in more-or-less chronological order:

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News: Recording

Mike Reed's People, Places and Things - Stories and Negotiations (482 Music)

April 14, 2010

The last tine in drummer Mike Reed's three-pronged exploration of Chicago jazz history, this disc is appropriately climactic in its inspired variation on the project's guiding theme. Reed conscripted three living legends with deep ties to the Windy City scene - trumpeter Art Hoyle, trombonist Julian Priester and multi-instrumentalist Ira Sullivan, heard solely on tenor - ...

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News: Obituary

Steve Reid: 1944-2010

April 14, 2010

On Monday night, drumming great Steve Reid died at the age of sixty-six after a battle with cancer. He leaves behind a legacy that's explicitly known by few but surely felt by many. A couple of years ago we profiled what is sadly now his last record released in his lifetime, the superb Daxaar, the result ...

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News: Obituary

RIP Steve Reid

April 14, 2010

“Devastated by the news that my friend drummer Steve Reid passed away last night in New York--a true inspiration who will be greatly missed." --Gilles Peterson 4/13/2010 We were lucky enough to have Steve Reid, the legendary drummer at a classic Giant Step 2005 event in NYC: Gilles Peterson Presents 'The BBC Sessions Live'. The night ...

News: Event

Jazz St. Louis Benefit Gala Raises More Than $150,000

April 14, 2010

Jazz St. Louis has announced that their benefit gala held last Sunday at the Hilton at the Ballpark netted more than $150,000, an increase of more than 30% from the 2009 event. The benefit featured music from saxophonist Houston Person, Good 4 The Soul, the Funky Butt Brass Band, and the Jazz St. Louis All-Stars student ...