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News: Performance / Tour

Leila Adu Rediscovers New Zealand in Month-Long Homecoming Tour

April 3, 2010

New Zealand - Singer/Composer/Performer Leila Adu proves that you can go home again with her first New Zealand tour in 5 years. Adu an artist of Ghanaian and British descent has produced three critically acclaimed albums, written for and sung with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, toured and received radio play around the globe. This upcoming ...

News: Recording

Sony Masterworks New Release: 'Best of Classic Meets Cuba'

April 4, 2010

Sony Masterworks Releases Klazz Brohters & Cuba Percussion's Best of Classic Meets Cuba March 30, 2010 During a concert tour of Cuba, three classically trained musicians from Germany - concert pianist Tobias Forster, his brother, bassist Killian Forster and drummer Tim Hahn, a.k.a. the Klazz Brothers - began playing music with two of the most dynamic ...

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News: Music Industry

Rimo Belli Drum Pioneer Snares a Big Chunk of the Market

April 4, 2010

Remo Belli's company, Remo Inc., has been making Mylar drumheads for five decades. The innovation is credited with helping spur the rock 'n' roll craze by making drums more readily available. The gig: Chief executive and founder of Valencia-based Remo Inc., a pioneer in drumhead technology and a leading manufacturer of drumheads for more ...

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News: Video / DVD

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Spotlight on Cyrus Chestnut

April 4, 2010

Today, our video spotlight is trained on pianist Cyrus Chestnut, who's returning to St. Louis next Saturday, April 10 for a performance at the Sheldon Concert Hall. Chestnut has played here a number of times before, most recently in March 2008 at Jazz at the Bistro. On this ...

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News: Obituary

John Bunch, 1921-2010

April 4, 2010

Jazz this week lost John Bunch, a pianist whose imagination and adaptability kept him in demand for more than 60 years. Establishing his career in New York following his World War Two military service, Bunch slid smoothly from swing into bop and remained a reliable sideman and soloist who incorporated aspects of both eras in a ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Honoring Dizzy Gillespie with a Mix of Many Styles

April 4, 2010

Twenty years ago the pianist Danilo Perez was a precocious member of Dizzy Gillespies United Nations Orchestra, a clutch of musicians from the Americas and the Caribbean. That appointment, which ended with Gillespies death in 1993, was formative: Mr. Perez has said it gave him the conviction to seek out his own personal amalgam of jazz ...

News: Music Industry

Jill Sobule and John Doe Sell Recording Studio Tickets to Help Fund Project

April 4, 2010

Jill Sobule was an early proponent of music 2.0. She was among the first to fan fund an album and has always used social media well. To help fund a new recording project, she's selling a limited number of tickets for fans to spend time in the studio as she and John Doe make a new ...

News: Technology

Pandora Unveils iPad App

April 4, 2010

Among the various iPad apps that are making their debut Friday is Pandora, which has optimized its popular Internet radio iPhone app for Apple's tablet. “When we started thinking about how to bring Pandora to the iPad, my thought process was, what are people really going to do with a device like this that has this ...

News: Recording

Steve Miller Band: First New Studio LP in 15 Years

April 4, 2010

THE GANGSTER OF LOVE - OR MAURICE TO HIS FRIENDS - RETURNS! Steve Miller Roadrunner/Loud & Proud Records has announced a new deal with the Steve Miller Band and Miller's new imprint Space Cowboy Records. Recorded at film producer George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch, Bingo! (arriving June 15) is the band's first studio album in 17 years. ...

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News: Recording

R&B Songstress Corinne Bailey Rae Undergoes a "Sea" Change

April 4, 2010

No one could have planned the album that became Corinne Bailey Rae's sophomore work, even though the determined young Brit tried mightily to impose her vision on The Sea. Life, and death, however, intervened. Rae, who'll showcase the album on a five-week North American tour beginning Tuesday in Los Angeles, says she wanted “a heavier, more ...