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Power Pop Legends Shoes Begin 2013 Shows With SXSW Debut In March

February 22, 2013

In celebration of their first new album in 18 years, the acclaimed Ignition, the boys from Zion fire up for Austin ZION, Ill. — Following the August 2012 release of Ignition, their first new album in 18 years, Shoes will appear at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Music Conference and Festival in Austin, Texas in March, ...

News: Radio

Dennis Owsley Seeking Recent Recordings for Updated Jazz History of St. Louis

February 22, 2013

Dennis Owsley, host of the Jazz Unlimited program airing at 9:00 p.m. Sunday nights on KWMU (90.7), is preparing to celebrate his 30th year of continuous jazz broadcasting on the station, and to do so, he needs a bit of help from local St. Louis musicians. Owsley, who also wrote the book City of Gabriels: The ...

News: Music Industry

ShowGo.tv Launches at SFMusic Tech Summit

February 21, 2013

SFMusic Tech Fund, Media Execs Lead Investment Advisory Board Includes XM Founder/CEO Hugh Panero, Former Napster COO Milt Olin, Legendary Artist Manager Ron Stone San Francisco, CA: ShowGo.tv, the leader in delivering live music experiences from clubs around the world, today launches its global concert streaming service. Founded by a group of cable, music and streaming ...

News: Radio

The Memories Of Danny Barker This Week On Riverwalk Jazz

February 21, 2013

This week's Riverwalk Jazz features interviews with New Orleans jazz pioneer Danny Barker. The Smithsonian Institution opened the vaults of the Archives Center at the National Museum of American History so that we could present Danny Barker’s authentic New Orleans vernacular as he recollects life in the Crescent City in the early 1900s. The program is ...

Article: Hardly Strictly Jazz

Carole Simpson Remembered

by Skip Heller
February 21, 2013

As news of Donald Byrd's passing was leaking out slowly, jazz educator Keith Pawlak sent me a note on Facebook asking if I had heard that pianist/vocalist Carole Simpson had passed away. Her name is barely known except to a few collectors who specialize in female singers of the Eisenhower era. She was during ...

Article: Album Review

New York Voices: Live with the WDR Big Band Cologne

Read "Live with the WDR Big Band Cologne" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
February 21, 2013

New York Voices celebrates its Silver Anniversary with the release of the jazz vocal quartet's first completely live recording, Live with the WDR Big Band Cologne, recorded at the Kölner Philharmonie in May, 2008. Sharing a jazz ensemble field with Manhattan Transfer and the Uptown Vocal Jazz Quartet has in no way dampened the group's efforts ...

News: Festival

Bassist Marcus Miller Joins August 3 Line-up At 2013 Newport Jazz Festival

February 21, 2013

BASSIST MARCUS MILLER JOINS AUGUST 3 LINE-UP AT 2013 NEWPORT JAZZ FESTIVAL NEWPORT, RI: Marcus Miller, the stellar composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist best known as a bassist, has been added to the Saturday, August 3, line-up of the Newport Jazz Festival® presented by Natixis Global Asset Management, which takes place August 2 - 4 at the ...

News: Recording

Albert King's Late '60s "Born Under A Bad Sign" To Be Reissued On Stax Records

February 21, 2013

Release teems with King’s best-known songs: “Born Under a Bad Sign,” “Crosscut Saw,” “Oh, Pretty Woman” and “Laundromat Blues.” Steve Cropper, Booker T. & the MGs, the Memphis Horns and Stax’s songwriters help make it an all-time blues classic. LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Any list of seminal 1960s electric blues albums is incomplete without Albert King’s ...

News: Festival

Scott Hamilton at the PDX Festival

February 21, 2013

When Scott Hamilton came to prominence in the 1970s he was a jazz wunderkind unlike any other saxophonist of his generation. He was twenty-two years old when he arrived in New York from Providence, Rhode Island in 1976. Most of his saxophone contemporaries wanted to be John Coltrane, blazing trails through the post-bebop era. Hamilton wanted ...

News: Performance / Tour

Andre Delano to Perform with Good 4 the Soul on Sunday, March 3 at BB's Jazz, Blues and Soups

February 21, 2013

Saxophonist Andre Delano, the East St. Louis native who's had significant success as a touring musician and recording artist, is returning home to perform at 6:00 p.m. Sunday, March 3 at BB's Jazz Blues and Soups. He'll be backed for the gig by Good 4 The Soul, which includes fellow East St. Louisans Adaron “Pops" Jackson ...