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News: Recording

Prog-Folk Legend Judy Dyble Releases The Third Masterpiece Of Her Career In The USA

February 8, 2013

London, UK – Judy Dyble's career has seen her move on from being one of the original founding members of the legendary UK folk rock band Fairport Convention after the first and 'rockiest' album release to join with fellow London based musician, and later founding member of Foreigner, Ian McDonald. Advertising in Melody Maker with the ...

News: Radio

This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: Crescent City Stomp: A Mardi Gras Celebration

February 7, 2013

Crescent City Stomp: A Mardi Gras Celebration This week on Riverwalk Jazz, The Jim Cullum Jazz Band teams up with New Orleans natives Topsy Chapman and Vernel Bagneris to celebrate the roots of New Orleans Jazz. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be streamed on-demand ...

Article: Mr. P.C.'s Guide to Jazz Etiquette and Bandstand Decorum

February 2013

by Mr. P.C.
February 7, 2013

Dear Mr. P.C.:My teacher told me to practice with a metronome, but then I was getting ahead of it sometimes, and behind it sometimes. Where can I get a metronome that works? Beats Me Dear Beats:Don't be so quick to blame your metronome--you may have accidentally hit its “jazz" setting. ...

Article: Album Review

Ehud Asherie and Harry Allen: Lower East Side

Read "Lower East Side" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
February 7, 2013

Pianist Ehud Asherie and tenor saxophonist Harry Allen are established musical partners with a shared fondness for a time when songwriting giants like Irving Berlin and Richard Rodgers were at their creative zeniths. Lower East Side is the pair's second duo outing, following on from Upper West Side (Posi-Tone, 2012), and once again the two demonstrate ...

Article: Live From Philadelphia

January 2013: Larry McKenna Quartet

by RJ Johnson
February 7, 2013

Larry McKenna QuartetJanuary 17, 2012Arch Street Meeting HousePhiladelphia, PAThe Philadelphia jazz scene is well known for its reverence of jazz tradition. Compared to the constantly shifting modern scene of New York City, and the experimental projects produced by the current European scene, Philadelphia musicians are often seen as ...

Article: Album Review

WA: Cross The Center

Read "Cross The Center" reviewed by Dave Wayne

by Dave Wayne
February 7, 2013

On its surface, Cross The Center may seem like a guitar/drums free jazz freakout. This perplexingly named group from the Pacific Northwest, like their homies Dylan Carlson, SUNN)))000, and The Melvins, proves convincingly that it is possible to freak out with great intelligence, wit and skill. Sure, the electric guitars of Simon Henneman and C. J. ...

Article: Album Review

Wayne Shorter Quartet: Without a Net

Read "Without a Net" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles
February 7, 2013

It is now well over a decade since legendary saxophonist Wayne Shorter formed this quartet with Danilo Pérez, John Patitucci and Brian Blade to tour and record Footprints Live! (Verve, 2001), an album which signaled the end of a period in the doldrums for Shorter and a cracking return to form. The energy and verve of ...

Article: Album Review

Wayne Shorter: Without a Net

Read "Without a Net" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner
February 7, 2013

The cover art of Without a Net alone might raise a few eyebrows, but it's the music that proves saxophonist Wayne Shorter is still one of jazz's most ardent provocateurs. In his return to Blue Note after 43 years, Shorter--who turns 80 in 2013-- demonstrates his ongoing vitality and ingenuity as an extraordinary composer, improviser, and ...

News: Performance / Tour

Jazz This Week: The Wee Trio; Mardra and Reggie Thomas; CD Release Event for Swagler, Slaughter, Jost and Morrison; and More

February 7, 2013

With the annual Mardi Gras parade this Saturday, Valentine's Day just around the corner, and the usual mix of other perormances happening around town, there's an eclectic selection of jazz and creative music on St. Louis stages this weekend. Let's go to the highlights... Tonight, saxophonist Jason Swagler, guitarist Eric Slaughter, bassist Nick Jost and drummer ...

Article: Hardly Strictly Jazz

Beyond The Blues

by Skip Heller
February 6, 2013

Back when I was a kid—I was born in 1965—the first comprehensive push for children's education about American Black History was on. Elementary school libraries suddenly included books about Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and George Washington Carver, and there were even a few books about jazz and blues for young readers.I wish I could ...