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News: Performance / Tour

Troy's Jazz Gallery Owner Says Club Will Showcase St. Louis Musicians

January 22, 2013

If there's any truth to the old saying that “the third time's a charm," Troy Williams is hoping it applies to running a jazz club. Williams, whose past ventures into presenting live music included Troy's on the Park near Lafayette Square and Filter in the Central West End, recently re-entered the business with the opening of ...

News: Education

Ronnie Burrage Coming to St. Louis Next Month for Performances, Workshop

January 22, 2013

Drummer and U City native Ronnie Burrage is coming back home to St. Louis at the end of next month for a busy weekend of activities that will include three performances and a workshop: On Thursday, February 28, Burrage will perform a free concert for the Jazz at Holmes series at Washington University, leading a trio ...

News: Recording

UoU "Take The 7 Train" Released Today!

January 22, 2013

Tippin' Records Proudly Presents: UoU's Take the 7 Train (TIP1112) Released Today, January 22, 2013! UoU is: Daisuke Abe guitar, Takuji Yamada alto sax, bass clarinet Yoko Komori piano, Kuriko Tsugawa bass, Yoshifumi Nihonmatsu drums. A profusuion of aspiring jazz musicians from around the globe come to the United States, the birthplace of the genre, to ...

News: Website

Expanded All About Jazz and Jazz Near You Advertising Options for 2013

January 21, 2013

Whether it's a run-of-site or geo-targeted advertisement, All About Jazz and Jazz Near You offer several options to greatly elevate the awareness of your music, your event, or your service. Leverage the web's leading readership of All About Jazz with the local capabilities of Jazz Near You to reach the largest collection of jazz enthusiasts and ...

News: Event

Dex @ 90: Celebrating the Legacy of Dexter Gordon

January 21, 2013

2013 Dexter @ 90 Schedule The Dexter Gordon Society which was formed to honor and preserve the legacy of Dexter Gordon will be launched on February 27, 2013. Thursday, February 7 and Friday, February 8, 2013, University of Hartford. Screening of Round Midnight and a discussion by Maxine Gordon and Rene McLean on the relationship between ...

Article: Album Review

Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Slippery Rock

Read "Slippery Rock" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
January 21, 2013

Like the previous four studio albums by self-styled bebop terrorist band Mostly Other People Do the Killing, Slippery Rock begins with a drum solo over a vamp before kicking into the first tune. That's not the only thing that remains constant. Leader/bassist Moppa Elliott's songwriting talents haven't deserted him either; his charts, named after small Pennsylvania ...

Article: Interview

Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Setting the Record Straight

by Troy Collins
January 21, 2013

Mostly Other People Do the Killing is frequently typecast as one of today's most humorously irreverent young jazz groups, based in no small part on their provocative name, which was inspired by a quote attributed to inventor Leon Theremin--a survivor of the Soviet gulag who exonerated Stalin because “mostly other people did the killing." Bassist and ...

Article: Album Review

Petra's Recession Seven: Live In Chicago

Read "Live In Chicago" reviewed by Jack Huntley

by Jack Huntley
January 21, 2013

Petra van Nuis' voice is at once alluring and robust. Her tone alternates between delicate playfulness and declarative strength, perfectly suiting the combination of hot jazz and standards on Live In Chicago, an enchanting portrait of her band, Petra's Recession Seven. And oh, what a band it is--capable of captivating backing as well as exciting soloing.

News: TV / Film

Fundraising Campaign Launched To Support New Documentary On The NY Art Quartet

January 21, 2013

Alan Roth, filmmaker and director of the new documentary about the New York Art Quartet, has just launched a final fundraising campaign on Kickstarter to complete this feature-length documentary. The film is entitled: The Breath Courses Through Us. Roth explained: “I believe this is one of the more important documentaries on jazz musicians, especially the under-represented ...

News: Recording

Otis Redding's 'Lonely & Blue' on Stax Collects Soul Ballads, out March 5

January 21, 2013

Otis Redding’s Lonely & Blue: The Deepest Soul of Otis Redding could pass for a title Stax/Volt might have released in the late ’60s. The look of the album reflects Stax’s design themes of the era. But in fact it’s a collection that never existed, until now, that homes in on one mood and one theme ...