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Is Jazz Coming Back to Downtown St. Louis?
Though many jazz clubs have come and gone in downtown St. Louis over the decades, in recent years it's been tough to find live jazz in the figurative shadow of the Gateway Arch.In the nearly four years I've been writing StLJN, jazz bookings at the Adams Mark Hotel's lounges and restaurants, once a staple ...
Charlie Parker: Stella by Starlight
Pairing Charlie Parker with strings began as an accident but quickly became an artistic stroke of genius. By combining bebop and mood music, producer Norman Granz stumbled upon a jazz-classical format that he would use successfully dozens of times throughout his career. For Parker, recording with strings and woodwinds between 1947 and 1954 legitimized his bebop ...
Gene Stout: It Has Been a Long and Winding -- And Totally Wonderful -- Road
From the final article by Gene Stout, Seattle PI Music Critic: My time on the music beat — from 1983 to the present — has been a wild ride, with hundreds of interviews with some pretty famous people and hundreds of concert reviews. It has been an honor to write about music in a city that ...
Help Your Fellow Musicians and Yourself - Tax Debt Assistance
Attn: Fellow Musicians Thirty eight million people have tax problems this year--that's one out of every four people. You can help them and yourself. We can: Get bank levies released Payroll tax minimized Wage Garnishment Stopped Tax Debt Eliminated By simply referring your friends in need you can earn a 20% referral fee. ...
50 Ways to Improve Your Life: Listen to Kind of Blue
Listen to Kind of Blue by Miles Davis
Philadelphia Orchestra Cancels 2009 European Festivals
The Philly Sound" (Of Silence): Philadelphia Orchestra Cancels 2009 European Festivals Tour Due To Lack Of Sponsors & Weak Dollar. The ghost of Eugene Ormandy is very, very angry: Unable to find sponsorship, the Philadelphia Orchestra has canceled its 2009 European festivals tour. Such a cancellation is highly unusual, and this one is doubly painful. The ...
Philadelphia Orchestra Cuts Staff 20 Percent
The sour notes of job losses are being heard at the Philadelphia Orchestra. The orchestra let 12 staff members go Wednesday. Six positions will go unfilled, reducing administrative staff 20 percent. The job cuts save about $900,000 a year, only a start on filling a more-than-$2 million potential deficit. An orchestra endowment drive recently raised $130 ...
Baltimore Opera Pursuing Chapter 7, Dissolution
The Baltimore Opera Company's board of trustees has voted to seek Chapter 7 liquidation and sell off the 58-year-old company's assets. General Manager M. Kevin Wixted says the company didn't have enough money to do more than struggle month to month. He said the company would never get ahead and could never raise enough money to ...
Morse Theatre Operators, Owners Strike Deal to Remain Open
The music may keep playing at the Morse Theatre. An agreement in principle has been struck between the firm that has operated the refurbished Morse since October and the owners of the building. The two parties fell into a dispute last month over operation of the facility, which opened in October to critical acclaim, after a ...
Defense Rests in Phil Spector Murder Retrial
Phil Spector's defense attorney rested his case Thursday in the music producer's murder retrial involving the shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson. Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler advised Spector of his right to testify, but he chose not to take the stand in his own defense. Attorney Doron Weinberg concluded with testimony from forensic psychologist ...


