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News: Performance / Tour

Mazz Swift (Violin) and Ben Tyree (Acoustic Guitar) Bring Daring and Adventurous Sonic Explorations to Rose Live Music -- Thursday, April 22nd. @ 9PM

April 11, 2010

Out of the primordial stew that is Burnt Sugar comes the inevitable string & noise duo: violinist/vocalist Mazz Swift and guitarist Ben Tyree plan to pull out all the stops with their fiery brand of virtuosic and heavily improvised avant-chamber jazz. On Thursday, April 22nd at 9pm, Swift and Tyree will present MazzMuse (feat. Ben Tyree) ...

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News: TV / Film

Richard Zanuck a Living Film History Time Capsule

April 11, 2010

Growing up with the last name Zanuck in Old Hollywood was just like real life -- only different. As a youngster, Richard D. Zanuck had to sell copies of the Saturday Evening Post to learn the value of hard work. “Of course," Zanuck said with a wink, “my dad did have a chauffeur take me to ...

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News: TV / Film

Film Productions Leaving the Coasts

April 11, 2010

Fewer yellow signs are popping up in Los Angeles this spring. Those placards, which direct cast and crew members to a location shoot, normally sprout like wildflowers in March and April, as pilot production reaches full bloom. But despite an uptick in broadcast pilot orders this year, Los Angeles -- and New York, too -- is ...

News: Recording

Myron Walden's Youthful Inspiration Reborn

April 11, 2010

NYC sax man Myron Walden departs from the standard jazz idiom with Myron Walden Countryfied (out in June from Demi Sound Records), a funky, down-home project where “lithe, Southern soul-drenched melodies" (JazzTimes) meet a little blues and rock and roll. An early Countryfied performance at NYC venue Pianos showed the sheer energy of the group. Countryfied, ...

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News: Recording

Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews is Naturally Funky

April 11, 2010

Troy “Trombone Shorty" Andrews comes by his funky New Orleans musical style by nature and nurture. The 24-year-old's homegrown blend of rock, R and funk, as featured on his new album “Backatown" (Verve, April 20), is not only a product of the 6th Ward neighborhood known as Trem; it also comes out of a long family ...

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News: Event

Quincy Jones to Speak at IU Bloomington Commencement

April 11, 2010

Legendary musical composer and arranger, record and television producer, magazine publisher and trumpeter Quincy Jones Jr. - known to many simply as “Q" - is being presented with an honorary Doctorate of Music by Indiana University at its 2010 undergraduate commencement ceremonies, May 8, in Bloomington, Ind. The ceremonies will be conducted in two sessions, one ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Wayne Shorter to Perform at Art After 5 (Philadelphia)

April 11, 2010

Art After 5 will mark a significant milestone in April with the world premiere of an original composition by Wayne Shorter, widely acknowledged to be the greatest living composer of jazz music. Shorter has been hailed for breaking down the barriers between jazz and classical music and creating beautifully complex tunes. He was commissioned to produce ...

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News: Recording

Garaj Mahal - More Mr. Nice Guy, Plus a Bonus from Fareed Haque! (2010)

April 11, 2010

By PicoRight about a year and a half ago, jam band extraordinaire Garaj Mahal wowed us with their nimble, creative offering w00t, which made 2008's “Best Of" list of fusion records, and contained a killer track I thought topped all other songs in the fusion jazz category. Now in their tenth year of existence, ...

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News: Video / DVD

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Four from Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band

April 11, 2010

It's been a while since we've highlighted any big band clips for this weekly feature, and so today let's take a look at some videos of pianist, saxophonist and arranger/composer Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band, who are coming to town to play next Saturday, April 17 at the ...

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News: Video / DVD

Weekend Extra: Farmer, Konitz, Persson

April 11, 2010

I have no idea how Sharkey Bonano (see the April 9 item below) felt about Art Farmer's playing or, indeed, whether he was aware of Farmer. They were from different eras and different styles. My guess is that Farmer's lyricism would have appealed to Bonano, whose own playing carried a trace of Bix Beiderbecke DNA. In ...