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Article: Album Review

LSD: Trio Colossus

Read "Trio Colossus" reviewed by Greg Simmons

by Greg Simmons
April 21, 2013

The detective is hunched over the bar, alone in a dark smoky dive by the waterfront. A blond saunters in, backlit through the gloom by the neon beer light.“Don't you remember me?" she asks.“Why no," he mumbles, “I've got a metal plate in my head and I drink too much vodka."

Article: Album Review

Duke Ellington: The Duke At Fargo 1940 Special 60th Anniversary Edition

Read "The Duke At Fargo 1940 Special 60th Anniversary Edition" reviewed by Chris Mosey

by Chris Mosey
April 21, 2013

An historic double album, the only one to feature the Duke Ellington band in the greatest of its many incarnations, playing a dance date. It captures the immediacy and chaotic magic of the 1940 orchestra in a way the carefully manicured studio recordings and even radio broadcasts of the time just can't do. ...

Article: Bailey's Bundles

Louder than Bombs: Wartime Schubert and Braunfels

by C. Michael Bailey
April 21, 2013

Not everything stopped while World War II raged. Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler and the Berlin Philharmonic regularly performed and recorded until quite late in the war (when their concert hall was bombed), producing some of the most controversial and provocative Beethoven of the period, if not ever. Considered here is one recording of Schubert's Winterreise taped as ...

Article: Live Review

The Moving Sidewalks: New York, NY, March 30, 2013

by Mike Perciaccante
April 21, 2013

The Moving Sidewalks B.B. King's Blues Club & Grill New York, NY March 30, 2013 Before the beard, before ZZ Top and before the dawn of the '70s, Billy Gibbons was the guitar slinger for another Texas-based band. The Moving Sidewalks were active during the late '60s--1967 to 1969, to be ...

Article: Album Review

John Medeski: A Different Time

Read "A Different Time" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
April 21, 2013

John Medeski's A Different Time certainly lives up to its title. It is both everything and nothing like what might be expected from a musician whose stock in trade is a concerted effort to avoid the predictable, as a charter member of Medeski Martin & Wood, in the course of his many live solo efforts and ...

News: Video / DVD

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: An Evening with Dianne Reeves

April 21, 2013

Today, let's take a look at some videos of singer Dianne Reeves, who's coming back to St. Louis to perform next Saturday, April 27 at the Sheldon Concert Hall. Reeves has been a frequent visitor here in recent years. She appeared at the Sheldon in December 2005 as part of a large cast of musicians at ...

Article: Album Review

Beegie Adair: Monica Ramey and the Beegie Adair Trio

Read "Monica Ramey and the Beegie Adair Trio" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
April 20, 2013

The true beauty of any Beegie Adair recording is that it will be straight down the middle mainstream jazz. It is money in the bank. Adair's 50-year career has found her leading her jazz trio, writing advertising jingles and accompanying vocalists, as she does on the present Monica Ramey and the Beegie Adair Trio. Ramey, a ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit: Live From Alabama

by C. Michael Bailey
April 20, 2013

The review of Blackberry Smoke's The Whippoorwill (Southern Ground, 2012) provoked the comment: “The review sets up a bit of a straw man, since southern rock is alive and well in the hands of bands like the Drive-by Truckers and Jason Isbell...These guys did not come out of a vast wasteland.".

Article: Highly Opinionated

The Led Zeppelin Papers: Sacred Cows, Led Zeppelin and Does the Song Remain the Same?

by C. Michael Bailey
April 20, 2013

"Sacred cows make the tastiest cheeseburgers" --after Abbie Hoffman (1936-1989) I have always said of popular culture, that like a McDonald's cheeseburger, it is to be consumed but never considered. Much of music is nothing more than a reflection of popular culture and certainly falls beneath that grand proclamation. A good deal of hip ...

News: Recording

Keyboardist Jon Wirtz Releases A Beyond-Category Jazz Album, "Tourist"

April 20, 2013

Arriving on the Denver scene just a few years ago, keyboardist/composer Jon Wirtz has since performed for millions of people both locally and nationally. Over the past 10 years he has mainly been a sideman, having worked with Grammy-winning producers Malcolm Burn and John Macy, and shared the stage with artists including Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, ...