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DVD: Peter Gabriel - Growing up Live (2003)
By Tom Johnson Perhaps it was a reaction to claims by fans and detractors alike that Peter Gabriel's previous live offering, Secret World Live, was really more “live" than live, that Gabriel decided to both offer up untouched soundboard recordings of each show on his summer tour and to quickly release a live DVD documenting a ...
"Nasty Jazz" DVD Release Scored by Chicago Jazz Composer Greg Spero
Chicago jazz composer Greg Spero and Artist/Technologist Doug Siefken combine forces on new Long Glance Media release: Nasty Jazz—a technologically innovative, genre-defining Single Panel Fluid Stills Digital Art and Music DVD designed for flat screen TVs Chicago IL, USA—Move over the Bluesand move on down the road, Rock n Roll! Nasty Chicago Jazz is now behind ...
Art Blakey in Paris, 1959
Drummer Art Blakey had a knack for attracting the best young talent to his ever-changing groups,collectively known as The Jazz Messengers. Over the 1950s, 1960s, and beyond,this was a proving ground for musicians to show their stuff. Blakey was often the biggest cheerleader as well as the one setting a perfect backbeat to showcase his soloists. ...
Steely Dan Sunday: "Kings" (1972)
Here's an early indication that Steely Dan wasn't going to dwell on romantic themes in their lyrics; songs about love in fact soon became the exception, not the rule. But a rock song about a late 12th century English ruler? Before you think that maybe the references to Richard the Lionhearted's foreign military adventures was meant ...
CD/DVD: Kronos Quartet - Rainbow: Music of Central Asia Vol. 8 (2010)
Volume 8 in the Smithsonian Folkways series on the music of Central Asia paired the Kronos Quartent with Afghan rubâb virtuoso Homayun Sakhi and Azerbaijani father-daughter singing duo Alim and Fargana Qasimov. The results of the collaborations were almost too good to be believed. The stories of how the compositions were put together are fascinating. In ...
Gary Lucas One-Take - "Q & A"
Former Captain Beefheart and Jeff Buckley guitarist performs a new instrumental piece entitled “Q & A" on Dusty Wright's One-Takes. About Gary Lucas A world class guitar hero, a Grammy-nominated songwriter, an international recording artist with over a dozen acclaimed solo albums to date, and a soundtrack composer for film and television, Gary Lucas is on ...
Formulating an Effective Youtube Strategy
The accessibility of Youtube has ushered in an unprecedented level of focus on video content —both for bands and for fans. For any artist that wants to maximize his impact online, it is essential to develop a video content strategy for YouTube that not only represents them well, but also helps their fan base connect and ...
Mulligan's Birthday
Today is the 84th anniversary of Gerry Mulligan's birth. He died in 1996 at the age of 68. There are many contexts in which to remember Mulligan—as a precocious teenaged arranger for Tommy Tucker, Elliott Lawrence and Gene Krupa; one of the key figures in the Birth of the Cool recordings; the leader of groups from ...
STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: A Brad Mehldau Sampler
With pianist Brad Mehldau bringing his trio back to Jazz at the Bistro this Wednesday and Thursday, it seems an opportune time to offer some video footage of him, bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jeff Ballard in action. One of the more heavily hyped jazz players of his generations, ...
