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News: Performance / Tour

Jazz This Week: Red Baraat, Two Times True, St. Louis Big Band, and More

May 31, 2013

While it's not a very busy week for touring jazz musicians visiting St. Louis, as usual our local musicians and bands stand ready with a plethora of performances of their own. Let's go to the highlights... Tonight, alumni of the music programs at Parkway West High School will present a big band jazz concert in tribute ...

News: Contest

Enter the "Sinan Bakir - Tales & Stories" Giveaway at All About Jazz!

May 31, 2013

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the “Sinan Bakir - Tales & Stories“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on June 30th. Click here to enter the contest (Becoming a fan of Sinan Bakir at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck! About Tales ...

News: Website

Jazz Near You Expands to 25 More Cities!

May 30, 2013

Jazz Near You expansion continues with the addition of these 25 U.S. cities: albany.jazznearyou.com anchorage.jazznearyou.com batonrouge.jazznearyou.com boise.jazznearyou.com chattanooga.jazznearyou.com coloradosprings.jazznearyou.com coralsprings.jazznearyou.com danbury.jazznearyou.com dayton.jazznearyou.com eugene.jazznearyou.com fresno.jazznearyou.com greenbay.jazznearyou.com harrisburg.jazznearyou.com madison.jazznearyou.com newark.jazznearyou.com portsmouth.jazznearyou.com poughkeepsie.jazznearyou.com richmond.jazznearyou.com scranton.jazznearyou.com stockton.jazznearyou.com tallahassee.jazznearyou.com toledo.jazznearyou.com

News: Website

Jazz Near You Calendar Widget Improved!

May 30, 2013

If you have a jazz website or blog, you can add tremendous value to it by embedding the Jazz Near You calendar widget. Publishers can choose between a regional calendar, a venue calendar, a festival calendar or a musician calendar. To grab the code, go here. To see the Jazz Near You calendar widget in action, ...

Article: Bailey's Bundles

John O'Gallagher and Jeff Williams: In a Whirlwind

by C. Michael Bailey
May 30, 2013

Here's to avant-garde jazz. Unruly and ill-behaved, the seeds planted by saxophonists Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane, and carried forward by reed multi-instrumentalist Anthony Braxton and melded with trumpeter Miles Davis' post bop, gave rise to a brand of jazz that, while not the complete chaos of free jazz, nevertheless possessed such an inventive spirit that ...

Article: Album Review

Sam Kulik: Escape From Society

Read "Escape From Society" reviewed by Dave Wayne

by Dave Wayne
May 30, 2013

The basic premise of Sam Kulik's Escape From Society was to make a modern-day song poem recording using Craigslist to attract would-be lyricists, instead of a cheesy printed advertisement. Those not immediately familiar with the whole song-poem concept may well recognize the little ads--often seen on the back pages of comic books, men's magazines, and tabloid ...

Article: Album Review

Bonerama: Shake It Baby

Read "Shake It Baby" reviewed by Wade Luquet

by Wade Luquet
May 30, 2013

Bonerama is fun. Bonerama is powerful. And in their first full-length studio CD, they have made a switch from their previous live recordings of brass-infused funk to brass infused-rock. Along with the ever present trio of trombones, the bands guitarist, Bert Cotton, has stepped up to the front line to become a major player with his ...

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Article: Film Review

A Great Day in Harlem: The Spirit Lives - 50 Years On

by Ian Patterson
May 30, 2013

This encore presentation from January 2009 celebrates Jean Bach, director of A Great Day in Harlem. Ms. Bach died on May 27th at her home in Manhattan. She was 94.It is probably the most celebrated ensemble jazz portrait of all time. Fifty-seven of the greatest jazz musicians gathered together on the steps of a ...

News: Radio

Swinging On The South Side: The Heartbeat Of Chicago Jazz This Week On Riverwalk Jazz

May 30, 2013

This week on Riverwalk Jazz, vocalists Topsy Chapman and Vernel Bagneris, trumpeter Duke Heitger and pianist Dick Hyman join The Jim Cullum Jazz Band—club-hopping on the South Side of Chicago from the “black and tans" of the ’20s to the grand ballrooms of the ’30s. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, ...

News: Performance / Tour

Jazz St. Louis Announces 2013-14 Season Schedule

May 30, 2013

Jazz St. Louis has announced their 2013-14 season schedule, including the season lineup for Jazz at the Bistro, plus concerts at the Touhill Performing Arts Center and a new venue for the organization, the Vingh Center for the Arts at Chaminade College Prep School in West County. In addition to the return of many familiar favorites, ...