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The Jazz Hang: 2009 - The Year of Live Music
Well, here it is the New Year again. It seems I should have some inspiring personal missive or perhaps a bold, optimistic profundity to share. But the truth is people: I got nothing. Oh sure, I’m plenty excited for the January 20th inauguration. Even though the election was back in November, I still grapple to find ...
The Value of What We Do
Over the coming weeks we are going to run a series of posts relating to the value of live music, jazz, culture and the importance of what we as musicians do and how it effects others. This has been something that SJS has been thinking about doing for a while and we are not entirely sure ...
Armstrong Park Redivivus
As New Orleans makes its slow way back from the devastation of hurricane Katrina and the fumbling federal and state crisis response, there are rays of hope on the cultural front. The jazz journalist Larry Blumenfeld, who has become a semi-permanent New Orleans resident, writes about it in The Wall Street Journal.Once alight with bulbs ...
Bernard/Medeski/Hess/Moore
Will Bernard with John Medeski, Andy Hess, Stanton Moore Tour Will Bernard Currently touring in support of his latest Palmetto release, Blue Plate Special, two-time Grammy nominated guitarist and composer, Will Bernard is joined by John Medeski (Medeski, Martin & Wood) on keyboards, Andy Hess (Gov't Mule, John Scofield) on bass and Stanton Moore (Galactic) on ...
Signed Guitar by the Dead from Obama Inauguration
HeadCount Auction: Signed Les Paul By The Dead from Obama Inauguration Bid now for a truly one-of-a-kind historic item! As The Dead descended on Washington to appear at the historic Mid-Atlantic Inauguration Ball, they signed a black Gibson Les Paul guitar on behalf of HeadCount, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that registered over 100,000 voters last year. ...
Seattle Times: At Tula's, the Last Stand of the Jazz Open Jam
About six months ago, Mack Waldron had the contract in his hand. Sign it and the club he had owned for 15 years, Tula’s, would belong to someone else. All he had to do was sign his name. His lease was ending. His rent was going up. He was 67. His knees and his feet ached ...
More on the St. Louis Jazz Cafe
Following up on a story from last month, there was an interesting comment this past week on the December 26 post about the St. Louis Jazz Cafe, a new music venue scheduled to open in March at 1501 Locust downtown.Responding to the original Post-Dispatch story as well as an earlier commenter here at StLJN, ...
Rocky Week Ahead for Music Stocks
Wall Street analysts are predicting a very rocky week in the markets with an unusual number of economic reports scheduled for release. With virtually all indexes offering only bad news, stock traders are readying for a wild ride. That's bad news for the battered music sector and its publicly traded companies, many of whom are trading ...
Conte Candoli: Best from the West
Some of the finest West Coast jazz combo playing of late 1954 appears on Best From the West: Modern Sounds from California (Vols. 1 and 2). These albums were issued by Blue Note as a pair of 10-inch LPs. Frankly, there isn't a drop of filler here, and the playing and compositions, many of which are ...
Other Places: A Bud Shank Profile
The current offering on Steve Cerra's Jazz Profiles web log is part one of an extensive examination of the career and music of alto saxophonist Bud Shank. It incorporates most of the contents of the booklet I wrote for the Mosaic Records boxed set The Pacific Jazz Bud Shank Studio Sessions (1956-1961), long out of print. ...


