Results for "Music Industry"

New Orleans Ordered Evacuated Ahead of Gustav

August 31, 2008

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin ordered the city's more than 239,000 residents to evacuate on Sunday in the face of powerful Hurricane Gustav, which he called “the mother of all storms." The evacuation order issued on Saturday was the first in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina devastated the historic Southern city in August 2005. “This is ...

Jazz This Week: The End of Summer and the Big Muddy Blues

August 30, 2008

As we head into what is effectively the final weekend of summer 2008, things are still in the relatively slow, dog-days mode with regard to live jazz in St. Louis. All of our town's various not-for-profit presenters are basically on hiatus until after Labor Day, and club activity is kind of sparse this weekend, too.

Compatible Quotes: Bix Beiderbecke

August 30, 2008

One of the things I like about jazz, kid, is I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you? -- Bix Beiderbecke Finally Beiderbecke took out a silver cornet. He put it to his lips and blew a phrase. The sound came out like a girl saying 'yes'. -- Eddie Condon ...and all ...

Paquito D'Rivera Condemn the Arrest of Punk Rocker Gorki Aguila

August 29, 2008

Grammy Award-winning composer, saxophone and clarinet player Paquito D'Rivera has joined Bloggers United for Cuban Liberty in condemning Monday's arrest of dissident punk rocker Gorki Aguila by Cuban authorities. Cuban-born D'Rivera and Bloggers United for Cuban Liberty call for Aguila's immediate release. “The rockers have historically been the most courageous and honest musicians in Cuba, standing ...

Wilco East and West

August 29, 2008

Wilco :: 08.22.08 :: Les Schwab Amphitheater :: Bend, OR Wilco :: 08.22 :: Bend, OR Wilco's late summer tour has seen them crisscrossing the nation, hitting cities as spread out as Fairbanks, Alaska and Eagle, Idaho. This Saturday night concert in Bend, Oregon began early, around 6:30 p.m., with ...

Oliver Lake Featured in St. Louis American

August 29, 2008

Diversion: Marimba Queens Meet Insane Bassist

August 29, 2008

Rifftides reader David Peterkofsky inquired about modern-day jazz marimba players. In the course searching, I ran across a 1940s soundie with marimbists galore. This has little to do with jazz, but it's an opportunity to see a bass player who makes Chubby Jackson seem catatonic.    As for Mr. Peterkofsky's question, Bobby Hutcherson, Stefon Harris, Dave Samuels, ...

The Next Generation of Jazz

August 28, 2008

You could say it all began with a blue Porsche. It is what jazz musician Chris Brubeck remembers distinctly about his junior high music teacher Ray Tiezzi, who gave him his first few trombone lessons more than 40 years ago in Connecticut. “It was a cool-looking car -- part of his persona," Brubeck, son of noted ...

Most Sung-About Body Part? The Eyes Have It

August 26, 2008

Visual artists Fernanda Vigas and Martin Wattenberg analyzed over 10,000 songs to find out which parts of the human body were mentioned the most and broke down the resulting data by genre. The result: An interactive graphic work called “Listen" that correlates musical genres with the body parts they mention the most, as part of their ...

How We Forgot the City of Jazz and Jambalaya

August 25, 2008

Three years after Hurricane Katrina, the world's media has lost sight of the ongoing misery in New Orleans. Richard Holledge picks up the story Anyone hungry for the big news story might be underwhelmed by a newspaper announcing that it was restoring the ratings for restaurant reviews. But that was “a big deal" for The Times-Picayune, ...