Results for "Music Industry"

The Horace Silver Songbook

August 25, 2008

Foundry Arts Centre Getting More Funding from City of St. Charles

August 24, 2008

The Foundry Arts Centre, which last year served as the venue for Jazz St. Louis' St. Charles concert series, is getting some financial help from the city of St. Charles. According to an article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Charles is giving the Centre $30,000 to help with operating expenses, helping to offset a ...

Other Places: John Coltrane, Bud Shank

August 24, 2008

John Coltrane In the August 21 Wall Street Journal, Nat Hentoff tells of a New York second grade teacher, Christine Pasarella, who uses John Coltrane as a classroom role model in her work of drawing out the intelligence of her students. He reports Mrs. Pasarella saying that when she played Coltrane's recordings... “...the children ...

Girl Talk: Reveling in the Party

August 22, 2008

By: Chris Clark Girl Talk by Christos Schizas Gregg Gillis is a music-making machine. Better known throughout the world as Girl Talk, the one-man mixing master has risen to international acclaim after the critically heralded release of 2006's Night Ripper. Everyone from Rolling Stone and Pitchfork to Beck and Wayne Coyne ...

Songs for Some Jazz Fathers: Shorter, Silver and Wilson

August 20, 2008

Three significant jazz masters will be celebrating milestone birthdays in the next several weeks. On August 25, tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter turns 75. On September 2, pianist Horace Silver marks 80 years. And on September 4, bandleader Gerald Wilson--perhaps the last great living link to the swing era--sees in his 90th birthday. I have Night Lights ...

More on Jean Kittrell's Retirement

August 20, 2008

Following up on last week's post about the retirement of veteran St. Louis jazz singer and pianist Jean Kittrell, you may recall a reference in that post to a press release sent out by the Sheldon Concert Hall announcing that pianist Pat Joyce would be replacing Kittrell on a show there due to “health concerns." At ...

Jazz It up New Orleans

August 19, 2008

IT comes as a bit of a surprise to learn that a popular pastime in New Orleans is the hurricane party. As the clouds build over the Gulf of Mexico, they watch, drinks in hand, as the storm looms bigger and blacker. The preferred drink-in-hand is, of course, the Hurricane, a rum-based creeping stunner which has ...

Jazz and R&B Photography by Skip Bolen on Youtube

August 19, 2008

This video contains an impressive portfolio of Skip Bolen's music portraits from New Orleans and Los Angeles: James Brown (The Godfather of Soul), the luminous jazz vocalist Jimmy Scott, plus many other jazz and R&B musicians including Wayne Shorter, Henry Grimes, Roy Hargrove, Dave Brubeck, Herbie Hancock, Nicholas Payton, David Murray, Marcus Roberts, Terence Blanchard, Irvin ...

Bohemia in Brooklyn

August 18, 2008

Move over, Manhattan: There's a new jazz nucleus For more than 50 years, Manhattan was an epicenter of jazz. The music especially thrived in areas where crime and abandoned buildings kept the cost of living low for artists like Charlie “Bird" Parker, who rented an apartment at 151 Avenue B. On a recent rainy Friday night ...

Vinyl Records Make a Return

August 18, 2008

Music on discs, the big, old-time kind, is popular again. Baby boomers and even kids seek it out. The industry responds. When the doorbell rings at Monti Olson's Glendale home in the middle of the night, it can mean only one thing: Jeff Bowers, his partner in Original Recordings Group, has brought new album artwork for ...