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    NPR: Jazz & Blues

  • Dave Holland Announces New Album, Band, Internet

    8 Feb 2010 | 2:10 pm
    New music from Holland is always good news. But today's revelations are great news. Not only is the veteran bassist and composer announcing a new album, Pathways, with a new band, the Dave Holland Octet — he's also launching a new Web site built with the direct-to-fan platform Topspin.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

  • Gumbo, Joie De Vivre And The New Orleans Saints

    8 Feb 2010 | 1:36 pm
    Saxophonist John Ellis is not a football fan. But he does love New Orleans — he lived there for five years, and still works with musicians from the city. And last night, when he finally grasped that the New Orleans Saints had won the Super Bowl, he cried.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

  • A Celebration Turned Sendoff For Johnny Dankworth, 82

    8 Feb 2010 | 11:10 am
    After the show — the star-studded, 40th anniversary celebration of the venue she and her late husband had founded — had ended, Dame Cleo Laine broke the news of the death of British jazz icon Johnny Dankworth.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

  • Mahalia Jackson: Voice Of The Civil Rights Movement

    8 Feb 2010 | 10:56 am
    The gospel singer was born about 100 years ago in New Orleans, and when she was 16, she traveled the well-worn path up the Mississippi to Chicago. Beginning in the 1940s, she was one of the first singers to take gospel out of the church, drawing white audiences and selling millions of records. In the process, she inspired generations of singers.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

  • Jazz Ensemble Empirical Recalls Eric Dolphy

    8 Feb 2010 | 8:24 am
    Out 'n' In, the latest album from Empirical, is a tribute to the late musician Eric Dolphy. The record contains six original pieces that adopt Dolphy's style and adaptations of two songs from his album Out to Lunch!» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us
 
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    About.com: Jazz

  • Concert Review: J.D. Allen Trio at the Village Vanguard

    7 Feb 2010 | 12:45 pm
    Saxophonist J.D. Allen is in the habit of playing continuous sets, with each song linking to the next. The transitions can be sly and subliminal, or jarringly abrupt. Joined by bassist Gregg August and drummer Tyshawn Sorey, who substituted for Rudy Royston for the duration of the Vanguard run, Allen treated a series of moods as if they were musical themes. Each slipped away only to reemerge later, fleshing out a framework that turned out to be a piece in itself...read more Image © Frank Stewart Concert Review: J.D. Allen Trio at the Village Vanguard originally appeared on About.com Jazz on…

  • The Jazz Festival Returns to NYC

    4 Feb 2010 | 5:31 am
    George Wein may be old and grandfatherly, but he's pretty hip. In a column at JazzTimes yesterday, February 3rd, 2010, the man who gave birth to the jazz festival as we know it reflected on reinstating a Summer jazz festival in New York City. Last year the tradition was halted due to financial woes. Turns out, the 84-year-old impresario has his ear to the ground: "What about Brooklyn? I keep hearing that there is an exciting jazz scene over the bridge." Finally, someone of the white-haired jazz enthusiast contingency understands! I always suspected that those old guys yelping about the demise…

  • My Funny Valentines

    2 Feb 2010 | 3:24 pm
    If you happen to believe that some classic jazz music would help augment your Valentine's Day spirit, then check out my Valentine's Day jazz lists. There's something for everyone, regardless of predicament: Jazz Songs About Love Jazz Songs About Lost Love Depressing Jazz Songs Image © Getty Images My Funny Valentines originally appeared on About.com Jazz on Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 at 23:24:12.Permalink | Comment | Email this

  • Swing Sets

    31 Jan 2010 | 1:56 pm
    After hearing the Lee Konitz trio toy with standards last weekend at the Village Vanguard, and then saxophonist Pete Robbins' group siLENT Z obscure formal delineations at Tea Lounge with music from their new album siLENT Z - Live (to be released in May, 2010), I was in the mood for something safe, traditional, and conventional. I say that with my tongue in my cheek of course. On Saturday, January 30th, I caught the 11:30 pm set of the Jeremy Pelt Quintet at the Jazz Standard. Just because trumpeter Jeremy Pelt and his limber bandmates don't throw out formal structure doesn't mean that there…

  • Jazz Grammy Award Winners 2010

    31 Jan 2010 | 1:30 pm
    Welp, the judges have judged, and the winners of the 2010 jazz Grammys are now posted. Image Courtesy of Concord Records Jazz Grammy Award Winners 2010 originally appeared on About.com Jazz on Sunday, January 31st, 2010 at 21:30:50.Permalink | Comment | Email this
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    Smooth News

  • Sade’s ‘Soldier Of Love’ Debuts; Three TV Appearances Today

    Brian
    9 Feb 2010 | 2:00 am
    Today (February 9) sees the debut of Sade’s Solider of Love, the singer’s highly anticipated new CD that is her first since 2000’s Lovers Rock. The first single released from Soldier Of Love, the title track, has been historic in that it is the first song to ever debut at No. 1 in monitored airplay and also the first vocal track to hit No. 1 on any monitored smooth jazz radio chart. “Soldier Of Love” debuted at No. 1 the first weekend in January on the Smooth Jazz Top 20 Countdown. In addition to the No. 1 song, Sade’s 10-song CD features titles such as “The Moon and the Sky,”…

  • Corinne Bailey Rae Debuts In Billboard’s Top 10

    Brian
    8 Feb 2010 | 1:45 pm
    Grammy Award-winner Corinne Bailey Rae’s new CD The Sea entered the Billboard 200 at No. 7, selling more than 53,000 copies its first week. Her sophomore CD features the smooth jazz single “Closer.” She’s made several recent TV appearances to promote the CD, and is scheduled to perform March 1 on Late Show with David Letterman, March 8 on Jimmy Kimmel Live an April 4 on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno. The Sea, whose 11 songs are all written by Bailey Rae, is her follow-up to her 2006 self-titled CD that included the smooth jazz hits “Put Your Records On,” “Like a…

  • Queen Latifah, Bill Withers A Part Of Biggest TV Show Of All Time

    Brian
    8 Feb 2010 | 11:40 am
    Singer and actress Queen Latifah and soul legend Bill Withers are now part of television history. Sunday’s (February 7) Super Bowl game between the New Orleans Saints and Indianapolis Colts – which the Saints won 31-17 – set a new all-time U.S. ratings high, besting the 27-year-old record held by the final episode of “M*A*S*H.” It drew 106.5 million viewers, smashing Super Bowl records and edging out 1983’s “M*A*S*H” finale, which had 105.97 million viewers. The numbers are from Nielsen via CBS Sports. Latifah sang “America the Beautiful” before Carrie…

  • Michael Lington Peforming Again For Danish Royal Family

    Brian
    8 Feb 2010 | 8:45 am
    Smooth jazz saxophonist Michael Lington,a native of Copenhagen, Denmark, who became an American citizen in 2008 in Los Angeles, has once again been commissioned to perform for the Danish Royal Family. This time it is for HM Queen Margrethe II’s 70th birthday on April 16. This is the fourth time Lington will perform for the Danish monarchy. He performed in 1990 for the Queen’s 50th birthday, in 2004 for Crown Prince Frederik’s wedding to Princess Mary, in 2009 for Prince Consort Henrik’s 75th birthday, and now for Queen Margrethe’s 70th birthday celebration.

  • Patti Austin A Big Part Of ‘We Are The World’ Remake

    Brian
    7 Feb 2010 | 2:00 am
    Grammy Award-winning vocalist Patti Austin was instrumental in helping mentor Quincy Jones and Lionel Richie make “We Are the World - 25 for Haiti.” “Here we are 25 years later,” Austin told Entertainment Tonight. “Sadly we have this horrible thing happen in Haiti, but fortunately we have this great piece of music to represent and hopefully raise more and more money to help this situation …  We changed the phrasing a little bit, we changed a note here and there - and adapted it for this new crop of people that we have out there that are most recognizable.”…
 
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    All About Jazz

  • INTERVIEW/PROFILE: Jazz Musician of the Day: Steve Wilson

    9 Feb 2010 | 2:10 am
    All About Jazz is celebrating Steve Wilson's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Steve WilsonThese are some of the qualities that have earned STEVE WILSON a prominent position on the bandstand and in the studio with the greatest names in jazz, as well as critical acclaim as a bandleader in his own right. A musician\'s musician... more...

  • CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Postal Service Offers "Love Letters from Ella"

    8 Feb 2010 | 7:42 pm
    Serenade that special someone in your life this Valentine's Day with classic love songs featuring acclaimed music artist Ella Fitzgerald. On sale for a limited time at select Post Offices nationwide, Love Letters from Ella is a collection of the jazz singer's most cherished love songs, recorded with some of her favorite collaborators - including Count Basie and his orchestra, Joe Pass and Andre Previn. This special edition, first released in 2007, also boasts a full reproduction of Fitzgerald's commemorative postage stamp...

  • PERFORMANCE/TOUR: 5th Annual "Jazz in the Gardens"

    8 Feb 2010 | 7:39 pm
    Jazz legends David Sanborn, Cassandra Wilson and Joe Sample are set to take the stage during the 5th Annual "Jazz in the Gardens" hosted by #1 rated, nationally syndicated radio personality Tom Joyner, Saturday, March 20th and Sunday, March 21st at Sun Life Stadium (formerly Dolphin Stadium), 2269 Dan Marino Blvd, Miami Gardens, Florida 33056. Internationally-known and well-respected, these jazz musicians are at the top of the genre, oftentimes pulling in audiences of over 6, 000 on their own bill...

  • RADIO/PODCAST: New Podcast for Ken Navarro's Upcoming CD "Dreaming of Trains" Now Available

    8 Feb 2010 | 6:11 pm
    A new podcast for Ken Navarro's upcoming CD Dreaming of Trains has just been published. Navarro takes the listener on a journey behind the scenes and discuss the composing, recording and mixing of his upcoming CD. The official CD retail release date for Dreaming of Trains is March 16, 2010. However, the CD and download are now available exclusively at kennavarro.com...

  • TV/FILM: How David Letterman, Jay Leno and Oprah Winfrey Pulled off Their Secret Super Bowl Promo

    8 Feb 2010 | 3:01 pm
    To pull off the surprise Super Bowl spot he did with rival David Letterman, Jay Leno flew secretly to New York on the NBC jet last Tuesday and managed to sneak into the Ed Sullivan Theater undetected wearing a hoodie, sunglasses and a fake mustache. Rob Burnett, executive producer of the Late Show, said keeping Lenos participation under wraps was the key to preserving the effect of the 15-second promo, which featured the two late-night comedians uncomfortably watching the Super Bowl together, with Oprah Winfrey trying to keep the peace...
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    Jazzuality

  • Java Jazz Festival 2010: Java Jazz On The Move has Started at Margo City

    Riandy K
    7 Feb 2010 | 8:40 am
    As the time draws nearer, finally the series of Java Jazz pre-event, popularly known as Java Jazz On The Move (JJOTM) has started. It’s going to be held in many different venues, and the opening was very special at the place where jazz has found its home since about a year ago, Margo City. Margo City is known as the home of Margo Friday Jazz, a weekly event that is going on strong until today. It’s the place where the jazz community in Jakarta, musicians and jazz lovers join together to enjoy what jazz can bring. Margo Friday Jazz was just celebrating its 1st Anniversary last week…

  • Java Jazz Festival 2010: Audition Road to AXIS JJF 2010

    Riandy K
    5 Feb 2010 | 4:58 am
    If you have your own band or a soloist, if you are talented and wish to perform at AXIS Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival 2010,  this is your chance to make it happen! AXIS is giving you a chance to show what you got in the one of the biggest jazz event in the world. The audition will start soon, for solo performance or jazz group with 5 personnels at max, with age ranging between 15 to 35 year old. Check out the terms and condition: All the band personnel have AXIS number The duration for each band/solo is 5 minutes (2 minutes for instrument settings and 3 minutes performance) 5…

  • Serambi Jazz Presents: Kristiina Tuomi Trio

    Riandy K
    3 Feb 2010 | 7:14 pm
    It’s great to know that Serambi Jazz is confirmed to continue their mission, following their success in 2009 with a series of two-monthly event. Through these events that were held all through last year, we could clearly see that the relationship between Germany and Indonesia, especially in music, which as a matter of fact had established in 1967 is blossoming again. Serambi Jazz is the place for both the musicians and in bigger scale, the people in these two great nation to know and understand each other, exchanging informations and cultural backgrounds, including jazz as one of the…

  • Jazz Break Revival XIX – Workshop and Performances : The Report

    Riandy K
    3 Feb 2010 | 11:14 am
    We have reached the 19th Jazz Break Revival. It’s the first step after the maturity number that we have just passed last month. We were surprised by the coming of the legendary band Chaseiro on Jazz Break Revival January edition, giving out a very memorable performance for all their fans in Bandung. (Check out our exclusive interview with Chaseiro here) And what a way to kick off the start of this edition. This time it wasn’t only a concert, but Jazz Break Revival has touched the educational side of music. We always believe that jazz development won’t be enough if we only…

  • Java Jazz Festival 2010: SPECIAL STUDENT PRICE and JAVA JAZZ ON THE MOVE Is Coming Soon

    Riandy K
    2 Feb 2010 | 9:20 am
    SPECIAL STUDENT PRICE IS ON THE WAY The long-awaited Student Price for AXIS Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival 2010 is Coming Soon! This year, for its sixth edition, AXIS Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival 2010 has a special offer presented in a special way for students who cannot wait to get their hands on the Festival’s tickets.  To jazz up the remarkable experience of ticket-purchasing, for this year’s edition of the Festival, a special mobile ticket box will begin circulating later this week, catering ONLY to students. The mobile ticket box (easily noticeable due…
 
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    Yahoo! News: Jazz

  • Bonnaroo: Bonnaroo Music Festival – the tickets, the performers, the fun! (Entertainment and Showbiz!)

    9 Feb 2010 | 8:53 am
    Annual, four to five-day music festival, created and produced by Superfly Productions and AC Entertainment, Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival is all set to hit on a 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tennessee this time. Multiple stages of live music, indie rock, world music, hip hop, jazz, americana, bluegrass, country music, folk, gospel, reggae, electronica, and other [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry ...

  • Notre Dame Jazz Night tickets on sale until Feb. 19 (The Hawk Eye)

    9 Feb 2010 | 8:31 am
    Burlington Notre Dame Music Department's Jazz Night featuring music of the '80s will be 7 p.m. Feb. 26 in the elementary gym. Cost is $24 for a table of four or $6 per seat. Reservations are required. Call the school at (319) 754-8431 ext. 302 for reservations and to place dessert orders.

  • Autism: And All That Jazz (Boston Globe)

    9 Feb 2010 | 8:06 am
    Berklee College of Music student Matt Savage, an autistic piano player of prodigious talent, will make a rare local appearance Friday at the Acton Jazz Cafe. The second semester student, though not yet 18 years old, has won multiple ASCAP...

  • Proposed VPA changes affect more than just music majors (The Daily Orange)

    8 Feb 2010 | 11:54 pm
    When I was in high school, music programs, such as marching band, pep bands and jazz ensembles, were very important aspects of my life. When I made the transition to college, I was very excited to learn that despite picking a different major than music, I could still continue to be involved in an area that meant so much to me.

  • Sir John Dankworth: Saxophonist who pioneered modern jazz in Britain and became a patron of music education (Independent)

    8 Feb 2010 | 4:07 pm
    One of the first British musicians to grasp the fundamentals of "modern" (post swing) jazz, the saxophonist Johnny Dankworth eventually surpassed his bandleading days to become a skilled composer of film music, a prominent patron of the arts and head of a burgeoning musical dynasty. It is unlikely that there was ever such a splendid husband and wife partnership in jazz as that engendered when ...
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    Wynton Marsalis

  • The Spirit of New Orleans

    Luigi Beverelli
    7 Feb 2010 | 12:58 pm
    Down on the Bayou where the mighty Mississippi kisses Lake Pontchartrain and spills into the Gulf of Mexico. There sits that jewel of the Southland. What the French lost to the British who gave it to the Spanish who lost it back to the French who sold it to America for….. Well, some folks say Jefferson conned Napoleon in a card game and won it for some jambalaya and a chicory coffee. New Orleans, N’Awlins, the Crescent City, the Big Easy, the northern capitol of the Caribbean, Groove City. Man, they have things down there you wouldn’t believe. A mythic place of Mardi-Gras…

  • ASO’s performance of Blues Symphony to be broadcast on Monday, January 18th

    Luigi Beverelli
    13 Jan 2010 | 1:14 pm
    The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra will perform the 18th annual musical tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, “A King Celebration” on Thursday, January 14, 2010 at 8:00 p.m. The performance, commemorating the life and work of the celebrated civil rights leader, will take place in the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel of Morehouse College, the alma mater of Dr. King. The program will feature movements II, III, IV, V and VI of Wynton Marsalis’s Blues Symphony; Part I of Slavery Documents by Donald Sur; Beethoven’s Leonore Overture No. 3, and the traditional “We…

  • NEA Jazz Masters Concert To Be Broadcast Live on January 12th

    Luigi Beverelli
    11 Jan 2010 | 8:33 am
    WBGO Jazz 88.3FM will broadcast the 2010 NEA Jazz Masters Awards Ceremony & Concert taking place on Tuesday, January 12 at 7:30PM in the Rose Theater at Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center at Broadway at 60th Street. The performance will feature the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis in a program dedicated to the 2010 honorees’ works. Joining the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra will be many of the honorees themselves including Muhal Richard Abrams, Bill Holman (as guest conductor), Annie Ross, and Cedar Walton. Also featured will be 2010 Jazz…

  • Wynton Marsalis and JLCO To Release New CD on February 2nd and Tour US In March 2010

    Luigi Beverelli
    23 Dec 2009 | 9:23 am
    Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra will embark on the “Portrait in Seven Shades” U.S. Tour in March 2010. The band will perform selections from the suite as well as a repertoire to include tunes by Count Basie, Mary Lou Williams and others. Jazz at Lincoln Center announces the CD release of Portrait in Seven Shades, composed by jazz reedman Ted Nash and performed by the world-renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis… Portrait in Seven Shades, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra’s first CD of original music in nearly four years, will be…

  • Wynton Marsalis Featured In Vogue Magazine

    Luigi Beverelli
    9 Dec 2009 | 9:30 am
    Wynton Marsalis loves the sound of New York City. For the 48-year-old jazzman, there’s a thrilling harmony in the jangle of the streets. “If you listen beneath the surface of noise—the construction, the sound of the traffic, beneath the rumble of the subway—you can get down to the different interactions between people,” he says. If anyone can hear such nuance, surely Marsalis can. Born in sound-rich New Orleans, he came to New York as a seventeen-year-old prodigy to study at the Juilliard School and promptly started gigging with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. These days, as the…
 
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    Topix: Michael Buble

  • Stars Line Up for Olympic Torch Race

    9 Feb 2010 | 9:27 am
    Schwarzenegger will be one of the runners ferrying the Olympic flame to= the city of Vancouver before the event kicks off at the BC Place venue o= n Friday , while Canadian native Buble will take part in the rac= e on Thursday .

  • Diner hosts Science Project

    6 Feb 2010 | 11:51 pm
    Tom Skinner's "Science Project," a long-standing Tulsa tradition of seasoned and influential musicians, is moving to the Blue Dome Diner, 311 E. Second St., in downtown Tulsa, confirmed the venue's owner, Brian Prewitt.

  • Readers loved busted banker's assets

    4 Feb 2010 | 11:26 pm
    A BUSTED banker looking at a different kind of assets and sordid details of millionaire Herman Rockefeller's death among the most read stories this week.

  • Snoop Dogg At Webster Theatre; Bubl At Mohegan Sun

    4 Feb 2010 | 1:16 am
    It's a promising start to 2010 for the Webster Theatre : After landing Ray Davies March 6, the Barry Square club has announced Snoop Dogg for Feb.

  • Michael Buble returns to to Mohegan Sun in July: Eric R. Danton | Sound Check

    2 Feb 2010 | 8:57 am
    After a high-profile performance last weekend on "Saturday Night Live," pop singer Michael Buble has announced a tour that brings him to Mohegan Sun July 2-3. Tickets go on sale Friday, Feb.
 
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    Topix: Chris Botti

  • Dave Koz Cruise Visiting Alaska For The First Time

    3 Feb 2010 | 2:20 am
    In 2005, smooth jazz saxophonist Dave K oz debuted his Dave Koz and Friends Cruise , departing from San Diego and visiting ports of call in Mexico.

  • Trumpeter delights BR crowd

    1 Feb 2010 | 2:08 am
    Chris Botti plays one of the most romantic trumpets in the music business. Making a return engagement Saturday to the Baton Rouge River Center Theatre for his second Irene W. and C.B. Pennington Foundation Great Performers in Concert appearance, Botti and his quartet, featuring former Baton Rouge resident Mark Whitfield, bridged the worlds of jazz, ...

  • SLSO to perform with Chris Botti, Ozomatli

    29 Jan 2010 | 5:45 pm
    The Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra has announced its 2010-2011 schedule, and the slate of upcoming concerts includes some events of interest to fans of jazz and creative music.

  • These oddballs deserve love, too

    29 Jan 2010 | 5:25 am
    Jed Gottlieb writes about music, film and pop culture for local, regional and national publications.

  • "Hope For Haiti" Raises Millions; Chris Botti Joins Sting During Telecast

    24 Jan 2010 | 2:15 pm
    Friday night's Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief raised more than $58 million a ' a record for a disaster relief telethon, said the event's organizers.
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    Topix: Diana Krall

  • The State of Jazz

    8 Feb 2010 | 7:03 pm
    This NPR piece about a woman complaining that current jazz isn't exciting makes my head explode .

  • Preview: Alan Broadbent at Auckland Town Hall

    6 Feb 2010 | 6:47 pm
    Who: Grammy-winning pianist/arranger Alan Broadbent, with Frank Gibson and Tom Dennison Where: Auckland Town Hall Concert Chamber, February 12, 8pm Also: with Diana Krall, Villa Maria Estate, Mangere, February 20 Alan Broadbent is back home for concerts.

  • Elvis comes to the rescue

    6 Feb 2010 | 4:07 am
    Elvis Costello performs with The Sugarcanes at Stanley Park's Malkin Bowl Monday night, on the eve of his 55th birthday.

  • Brent sings the blues

    4 Feb 2010 | 4:04 am
    There's an earthy blend of Mississippi Delta, middle-class background, smoky bars and being on the road that's in Eden Brent's voice even when she talks.

  • Celebrity birthdays on Feb. 2

    2 Feb 2010 | 3:51 am
    Singer Glenn Frey is 61. Actress Lori Singer is 52. Actress Kelly Rutherford is 41.
 
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    The Smooth Jazz Blog

  • 161. Fall Career Fair Draws Record Numbers | CBA News and Events

    9 Feb 2010 | 6:33 am
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    9 Feb 2010 | 6:01 am
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    8 Feb 2010 | 1:16 pm
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    8 Feb 2010 | 2:37 am
    Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 $79.95 Adobe Photoshop Lightroom $79.95 AutoCAD Land Desktop 2009 32 bit $185.95 Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard $29.95 Mac OS X v10.5.6 Leopard $69.95 Snow Leopard Server 10.6 $239.95 Mac OS X Server v10.5.4 Unlimited-client license $229.95 MAGIX 3D Maker $19.95 MAGIX Audio Cleaning Lab 15 deluxe $29.95 MAGIX Digital Photo Maker 8 $25.95 McAfee VirusScan for Mac $9.95 Digital Photo Maker 9 $29.95 Adobe Creative Suite 4 Master Collection $329.95 3ds Max 2010 32 and 64 bit $199.95 3ds Max Design 2010 32 and 64 bit $199.95 AutoCAD Map 3D 2009 32 bit $189.95 AutoCAD…

  • Our show is jam packed this week with cool stuff....

    7 Feb 2010 | 1:51 pm
    Hey smooth people:On Smooth Jazz USA this week, you will hear:* Tracks from the newe CD from David Sanborn titled "Only Everything. His second tribute CD to the late Ray Charles.* I will welcome keyboardist George Winston to the show. I'll talk with him and play tracks from his new CD "Love Will come, the Music of Vince Guaraldi, volume 2.* Pat Metheny has a new CD titled "Orchestrion" which finds him being the only artist and using the Orchestrion technology to create all of the instrument sounds you will hear.* Several new tracks.* Smooth Jazz Newsand* The Frank…
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    Night Lights Classic Jazz

  • Suite History: Four Jazz Composers and the African-American Odyssey

    David Brent Johnson
    8 Feb 2010 | 6:29 am
    Duke Ellington, Oliver Nelson, John Carter, and Wynton Marsalis all undertook a weighty artistic task--to represent the historical journey of African-Americans in music. Historian Michael McGerr joins the program as we play music from all four composers' extended works and talk about their place in jazz history.

  • Dedicated: an Interview With Grammy Winner Kurt Elling

    David Brent Johnson
    1 Feb 2010 | 5:36 am
    Kurt Elling won his first Grammy Sunday night, for his John Coltrane tribute CD "Dedicated to You." Listen to music from the CD and an interview with the singer from a recent Afterglow program.

  • 2010 Jazz Grammy Winners

    David Brent Johnson
    31 Jan 2010 | 9:25 pm
    Chick Corea, Kurt Elling, and Dan Morgenstern are a few of the jazz winners from last night's ceremony.

  • Chicago Calling: Unsung Heroes of the City’s Hardbop Scene

    David Brent Johnson
    29 Jan 2010 | 10:07 am
    Chicago is a historic capital of early jazz and post-World War II blues, but in the 1950s and early 60s it also had a thriving hardbop scene. Musicians such as Ira Sullivan, Wilbur Ware and Von Freeman played with a bluesy, brawny edge, suffused with what Chicago native and jazz critic Larry Kart calls "an air of downhome experimentation."

  • Cafe Society: the Wrong Place for the Right People

    David Brent Johnson
    22 Jan 2010 | 5:00 am
    At the end of 1938 a former shoe salesman named Barney Josephson opened what would become one of the most legendary nightspots in jazz history. Cafe Society was New York City's first integrated nightclub, and it quickly became a gathering place for artists, intellectuals, leftwing political figures, jazz lovers, and--perhaps inevitably--the very Manhattan sophisticates it meant to mock with its satirical murals and ill-dressed doormen. It was also the place where Billie Holiday debuted her version of the harrowing anti-lynching anthem Strange Fruit, which Time Magazine would declare 60 years…
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    Commonder Trombone

  • Times Topics

    wiley
    27 Jan 2010 | 9:12 am
    Maybe many have already noticed, but the New York Times now offers, in its Times Topics section, content organized around lots of notable people, including some major jazz musicians: Louis Armstrong John Coltrane Miles Davis Of course, there’s also a Times Topic devoted to Sarah Palin, consuming valuable space that could be devoted to something else.

  • Commander Trombone Classic: View to a Polka

    wiley
    7 Jan 2010 | 7:47 am
    Happy New Year! The following article ran on Commander Trombone in 2005. As you might or might not expect, Commander Trombone has by this time played numerous gigs on the trombone. Trust me, if you were to read my résumé, you’d quickly see that the word numerous is used numerous times in regard to gigs. The Show’s On:Big Joe alerts the neighbors Some time ago, one of the aforementioned gigs was playing trombone on a cruise ship. I played in the show band. As its name suggests, the show band played for the cruise ship shows. It was a kind of all-purpose musical…

  • Merry Christmas

    wiley
    22 Dec 2009 | 7:51 am
    Commander Trombone wishes everyone a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, or whatever else you might be celebrating. Just for fun, I’ll be stealing some holiday cheer from these people . . . Link to YouTube Video.

  • Holiday Blues, Half-Off

    wiley
    4 Dec 2009 | 1:07 pm
    December 4? Already? Commander Trombone apologizes for not updating this space more frequently. Please stand by for more. While you’re waiting for that precious content to arrive, please use the Amazon link on the main page or below for all your Christmas, Hanukah, and Kwanzaa purchases. No, the true meaning of none of these holidays is embodied in material things, and yes, we should probably recycle some of the older things first … But what can I tell you? Christmas is coming, the economy is in trouble, and the goose is getting as lean as a runway model. Importantly, though, you…

  • Meet the Animatronic Eisenhower

    wiley
    8 Sep 2009 | 8:54 am
    Today, the President of the United States will address children who attend secondary schools. Or, the POTUS will address children who attend public school if the local school bureaucrats allow him to. You see, the school bureaucrats are under a lot of pressure from “king-hell-crazy parents” who believe that President Obama is a socialist who has a secret plan to indoctrinate children. Don’t believe it? Just look at this copy from the president’s speech: …But at the end of the day, the circumstances of your life – what you look like, where you come from, how…
 
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  • Keep An Ear Out For Gadi Lehavi

    8 Feb 2010 | 5:06 pm
    With fairness, it could be charged that Rifftides has been too concerned lately with the old and the dead. Well, certain observances and acknowledgements needed to be made. But let's move on. David Liebman wrote with an antidote. Here's his message: ok--it's a cliche now that "they"(meaning the kids) get better earlier-check this out--he's already doing classical stuff since he was a babe--jazz for two years--Ravi (Coltrane) turned me on to him before I went to Israel a few weeks ago 13 yr old from Tel Aviv in a club there--just jamming what's next, out of the womb burning or what? The…

  • Compatible Quotes: Youth

    8 Feb 2010 | 3:01 pm
    The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.--Friedrich Nietzsche It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.--George Bernard Shaw For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!--Robert Louis Stevenson The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.--Pearl S. Buck Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.--Frank Lloyd Wright I'll…

  • The Willis Conover Facebook Page

    7 Feb 2010 | 12:04 am
    What three administrations in the White House have refused to do, the people have done. They have recognized Willis Conover, the Voice of America broadcaster who may have been America's greatest cultural diplomat of the Cold War. He now has his own Facebook page, The Willis Conover Club. Will that lead to his getting a long overdue posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom? Possibly not, but his page, up only a day or two, is rapidly accumulating fans. One of them typifies the many musicians who huddled around their shortwave radios behind the Iron Curtain and were inspired by the jazz that…

  • John Dankworth, RIP

    6 Feb 2010 | 5:01 pm
    Sad news from London that Johnny Dankworth --Sir John Dankworth-- has died at 82. The alto saxophonist, composer and band leader and his wife, the singer Cleo Laine, have been pillars of jazz in England since the early 1950s. To read the BBC's announcement of his death, go here. John Dankworth

  • Weekend Extra: Woody Herman's Second Herd

    6 Feb 2010 | 4:41 pm
    Browsing YouTube, I came across what must be among the rarest pieces of jazz film, a sequence of Woody Herman's Second Herd, the celebrated Four Brothers band. We hear Herman's vocal and a bit of Stan Getz's tenor saxophone on "Caldonia," then most of "Northwest Passage," both pieces holdovers from the First Herd destined to be staples in the Herman book for the rest of his life. Herman, Getz and Shorty Rogers play the trio section of "Northwest Passage," then there's a succession of four-bar solos by a guitarist, Getz, Al Cohn, Zoot Sims, Serge Chaloff, a trombonist and Herman. The guitarist…
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    Jazz@Rochester

  • Jazz Around Town: Live jazz listings in and around Rochester, NY

    Greg Bell
    3 Feb 2010 | 7:28 pm
    Back in Roch after a few days in NYC for a conference. I'm going to have to go there sometime just to go hear some music. Sunday was my only opportunity. The jazz goes on in Rochester over the next 7 days: Thursday, February 4, 2010 Jazz Dawgs @ Bistro 135, 6:30 pm Dawn Thomson & Special Guests @ Max at Eastman Place, 7:00 pm Dave Rivello Ensemble @ Village Rock Cafe, 7:00 pm Trio East @ Little Theatre Cafe, 7:30 pm Matt Valerio @ The Grill at Strathallan, 8:00 pm Standard Jazz Quartet @ Starry Nites Cafe, 8:00 pm Filthy Funk All Star Jam @ Lovin Cup, 9:00 pm Friday, February 5, 2010…

  • Live Shots ... Joe Locke in NYC

    Greg Bell
    31 Jan 2010 | 7:49 pm
    Haven't done a "Live Shot" post in awhile. What better way to come back to it than with vibist Joe Locke, playing with Geoffrey Keezer, George Mraz, Clarence Penn and Kenny Washington on vocals here in New York City. This was the group's last night of three at Dizzy's at Jazz at Lincoln Center highlighting their new CD "For the Love of You". Lucky coincidence I'm in town for a conference and can make that Rochester connection.  The photo quality could be better (sorry Mr. Keezer, couldn't get you in the frame).

  • Jazz Around Town: While I'm away, the music will play...

    Greg Bell
    27 Jan 2010 | 4:59 pm
    Leaving this weekend for a few days in the Big Apple for a conference. Planning to grab the end of the Joe Locke Group's stay at Dizzy's in JALC on Sunday and, I hope, will have some energy after hanging out with legal technology types to get out and catch something in the Village. While I'm gone (and a bit before...) there's some jazz around Rochester: Thursday, January 28, 2010 Todd East @ Brio Wine Bar & Grill, 6:00 pm Jazz Dawgs @ Bistro 135, 6:30 pm Dawn Thomson & Special Guests @ Max at Eastman Place, 7:00 pm Deborah Magone @ Little Theatre Cafe, 7:30 pm Giant Gaspar Group @…

  • Don't cloister yourself ... get out to see Monk the Play at Exodus to Jazz

    Greg Bell
    25 Jan 2010 | 7:52 pm
    Just a quick reminder to check out the play about Thelonius Monk, which will be at Exodus To Jazz on Friday and Saturday, January 29-30, at 8:00 pm in the Riverview Ballroom at the Radisson Hotel Rochester Riverside, 120 Main Street East, Rochester, New York. There's more details on my earlier post about Monk the Play and in Jeff Spevak's article 'Monk' brings jazz legend to life in Rochester in the D&C.

  • Jazz Around Town: Rochester's cold nights warmed by some hot jazz

    Greg Bell
    20 Jan 2010 | 5:02 pm
    It's Wednesday and time again for listings for live jazz here in and around Rochester, New York. Hope you have a chance to get out and hear some.... Thursday, January 21, 2010 Todd East @ Brio Wine Bar & Grill, 6:00 pm Jazz Dawgs @ Bistro 135, 6:30 pm Dawn Thomson with Bob Sneider @ Max at Eastman Place, 7:00 pm Mike Allen & the Avatars @ Beale Street Cafe, 7:00 pm Deborah Magone @ Little Theatre Cafe, 7:30 pm Matt Valerio @ The Grill at Strathallan, 8:00 pm Dave Rivello Ensemble @ Village Rock Cafe, 8:00 pm Friday, January 22, 2010 Sofrito @ Bistro 135, 6:00 pm Ryan T Carey & El…
 
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  • Marlena Shaw in St. Louis on 05/26/10

    26 May 2010 | 9:15 pm
    Artist: Marlena Shaw Date: Wednesday, May 26th 2010 - Saturday, May 29th 2010 Time: 10:15pm City: St. Louis Venue: Jazz at the Bistro Address: 3536 Washington Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63103 Country: US Admission: $30-$35 Buy tickets Notes: Concert Info: 314.289.4030. Dining Reservations: 314.534.3663. Student pricing available. More info. Add to Google Calendar | Download iCal

  • Marlena Shaw in St. Louis on 05/26/10

    26 May 2010 | 7:30 pm
    Artist: Marlena Shaw Date: Wednesday, May 26th 2010 - Saturday, May 29th 2010 Time: 8:30pm City: St. Louis Venue: Jazz at the Bistro Address: 3536 Washington Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63103 Country: US Admission: $30-$35 Buy tickets Notes: Concert Info: 314.289.4030. Dining Reservations: 314.534.3663. Student pricing available. More info. Add to Google Calendar | Download iCal

  • Legacy Jazz Quintet in St. Louis on 05/21/10

    21 May 2010 | 9:15 pm
    Artist: Legacy Jazz Quintet Date: Friday, May 21st 2010 - Saturday, May 22nd 2010 Time: 10:15pm City: St. Louis Venue: Jazz at the Bistro Address: 3536 Washington Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63103 Country: US Admission: $15 Buy tickets Notes: Concert Info: 314.289.4030. Dining Reservations: 314.534.3663. Student pricing available. More info. Add to Google Calendar | Download iCal

  • Legacy Jazz Quintet in St. Louis on 05/21/10

    21 May 2010 | 7:30 pm
    Artist: Legacy Jazz Quintet Date: Friday, May 21st 2010 - Saturday, May 22nd 2010 Time: 8:30pm City: St. Louis Venue: Jazz at the Bistro Address: 3536 Washington Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63103 Country: US Admission: $15 Buy tickets Notes: Concert Info: 314.289.4030. Dining Reservations: 314.534.3663. Student pricing available. More info. Add to Google Calendar | Download iCal

  • James Carter Organ Trio in St. Louis on 05/12/10

    12 May 2010 | 9:15 pm
    Artist: James Carter Organ Trio Date: Wednesday, May 12th 2010 - Saturday, May 15th 2010 Time: 10:15pm City: St. Louis Venue: Jazz at the Bistro Address: 3536 Washington Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63103 Country: US Admission: $25-$30 Buy tickets Notes: Concert Info: 314.289.4030. Dining Reservations: 314.534.3663. Student pricing available. More info. Add to Google Calendar | Download iCal
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    Squeeze My Lemon

  • Blues Diva Etta James Hospitalized

    9 Feb 2010 | 9:18 am
    Several News outlets are reporting that Blues, soul and R&B music diva Etta James was recently hospitalized in California and is in critical condition. She is reported to be suffering from sepsis, a type of blood poisoning. Get more details here;Blues legend Etta James in hospital by the BBC.Singer Etta James hospitalized with a serious infection [Updated] by the LA Times.com.We wish Ms. James a speedy recovery.Etta James @SqueezeMyLemon

  • Blues Book: Oak Anthology of Blues Guitar

    9 Feb 2010 | 1:00 am
    Oak Anthology of Blues Guitar: Texas Blues Guitarclick image for infoBook Description - Explore traditional playing styles through transcriptions and analysis of 22 tunes by master Texas blues guitar players. Instruction in special tuning and bottleneck playing and a complete discography.Book Details * Paperback: 144 pages * Publisher: Music Sales Corporation (June 1984) * Language: English * ISBN-10: 0825602955 * ISBN-13: 978-0825602955 * Product Dimensions: 11.9 x 9 x 0.5 inches Blues Books @SqueezeMyLemonBlues Music Books @Amazon.com

  • Jesse Dee — Bittersweet Branch

    8 Feb 2010 | 11:10 pm
    Rock & Roll Reviewwhat you get is one of the best underground, under-the-radar soul-pop albums to come out in a long timeIndependentWhite-boy retro-soul, long on attitude and stomp, short on subtlety. Bittersweet Batch

  • More Talkin Blues

    8 Feb 2010 | 5:00 pm
    Here's Corb Lund from Alberta Canada singing The Truck Got Stuck.

  • It's the Birthday of Adolfo Fito de la Parra of Canned Heat

    8 Feb 2010 | 12:01 am
    Adolfo "Fito" de la Parra (born 8 February 1946 in Mexico City) is a mexican drummer best known as a longtime member of Canned Heat.Adolfo began playing drums in a band called Bluesberry Jam which eventually turned into Pacific Gas & Electric. In 1967, he replaced Canned Heat's original drummer, Frank Cook and played his first gig with the band on December 1, 1967. He joined in time for their second album, Boogie with Canned Heat, and has played on every subsequent album up to present day.Fito is the only member of the classic 1960s Canned Heat that is tours with the current version of Canned…
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  • MAY I JOIN YOU?

    jazzlives
    9 Feb 2010 | 8:05 am
    From the Joe Bushkin website — www.joebushkin.com — a galaxy of stars, seated in a club: Louis and Lucille Armstrong, Eddie Condon, a lovely young woman (unknown to me), Jack Teagarden, Joe Bushkin.  Circa 1949, perhaps?  Oddly for a nightclub scene, the tablecloth is almost bare (no glasses, whether full or empty) and Louis has his handkerchief.  Was this at one of his gigs?  Research, please! The Bushkin site has many other interesting photos (unidentified) and a video of Joe with, among others, Judy Garland and Bing Crosby. Filed under: "Thanks A Million", Ideal Places,…

  • “BIX AND HIS GANG” REDUX, 1975

    jazzlives
    8 Feb 2010 | 7:59 pm
    I don’t exactly know the source of the videos below — except that they’ve been posted by “sergech” on YouTube some time ago.  I was in the audience at several New York City concerts of the New York Jazz Repertory Company in 1974 and 1975: two tributes to Louis Armstrong, two to Bix Beiderbecke, but I can’t say whether these clips come from either of the two Bix concerts that I saw. And perhaps the whole world has already seen them on YouTube.  But since I keep returning to them with pleasure, awe, and sadness, perhaps they will be new to someone?  The…

  • RINGSIDE AT KEVIN’S: Feb. 5, 2010

    jazzlives
    8 Feb 2010 | 4:01 am
    My readers will catch the reference in the title to one of the great recordings of the early LP era (some might say one of the great recordings of all time) RINGSIDE AT CONDON’S, a collection of live performances by Eddie Condon’s 1951-52 band at the club named for him.  The music is precise but utterly spirited, a collection of great idiosyncratic soloists forming a cohesive ensemble unit. Drummer Kevin Dorn doesn’t have his own club, and he probably wouldn’t want one — but the music he and his band, THE BIG 72, played last night at The Garage (Seventh Avenue…

  • HOOLEY’S HOME MOVIES

    jazzlives
    4 Feb 2010 | 3:21 am
    From Bill Haesler, the Australian jazz scholar, and courtesy of Denis King, I learned that Harry Oakley has posted on YouTube a four-minute selection from the trumpeter Sylvester Ahola’s home movies, taken in the 1920s.  They are cheerful sketches of musicians mugging for the camera, and in some cases doing vaudeville bits.  But few of young men we see here are identified or perhaps identifiable.  I wonder if these faces are known to my readers?  (I find it delightfully ironic that there’s a sign for ROOSEVELT FIELD in this selection: it was famous as a Long Island…

  • THE MAGIC HORN OF “PAPA RAY” RONNEI (by Hal Smith)

    jazzlives
    3 Feb 2010 | 7:07 pm
    Video by the multi-talented Katie Cavera: The Magic Horn of ‘Papa Ray’ Ronnei  by Hal Smith (originally published in JUST JAZZ) It has been nearly 40 years since I first heard the cornet magic of ‘Papa Ray’ Ronnei…  In the mid-‘60s I was a dedicated fan of the San Francisco style as played by Lu Watters, Turk Murphy, Bob Scobey, the Firehouse Five and…Vince Saunders’ South Frisco Jazz Band.  In 1966 my parents had taken me to Huntington Beach, California where the South Frisco band played weekends at the ‘Pizza Palace’.  We became instant fans of the SFJB after that…
 
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  • Cahl's Jukebox, 2-7-10

    Carl Abernathy
    7 Feb 2010 | 7:43 am
    Sunday morning blues:1) Earl Forest: "Rock the Bottle"2) Jimmy Reed: "Cry Before I Go"3) Johnny Winter: "Mad Dog"4) Lurrie Bell: "You're Gonna Be Sorry"5) Earl Hooker: "Love Ain't a Plaything"6) Roy Rogers and Norton Buffalo: "Big Jake"7) Henry Gray: "How Could You Do It"8) Layce Baker Jr.: "Don't Pet My Dog"9) Big Bill Morganfield: "My Last Affair"10) Eddie Turner: "Save My Life"

  • Haiti Relief Concert

    Carl Abernathy
    7 Feb 2010 | 7:38 am
    Musicians around the world have contributed their talents to raise money for relief in efforts in Haiti. A benefit show featuring Haitian musicians on Valentine's Day at Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music is sure to be one of the most poignant. I wish I could be there.

  • Cahl's Jukebox, 2-6-10

    Carl Abernathy
    6 Feb 2010 | 8:12 am
    The daily mix:1) Stephen Simmons: "Loserville"2) Bruce Springsteen: "Mansion on the Hill"3) Billy Bragg: "Sing Their Souls Back Home"4) Gene Clark and the Gosdin Brothers: "Tried So Hard"5) Charlie Mars: "When the Sun Goes Down"6) Jason Bajada: "Tired of Talking"7) Jason Collett: "Winter Soldier"8) Gwil Owen: "Gravy"9) Magnolia Electric Co.: "Shiloh"10) Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham: "I'm Your Puppet"

  • Sue Foley and Peter Karp

    Carl Abernathy
    4 Feb 2010 | 11:38 pm
    Sue Foley and Peter Karp will release an album called "He Said, She Said" next month. The tracks on the Myspace page for the album are great.

  • Cahl's Jukebox, 2-5-10

    Carl Abernathy
    4 Feb 2010 | 11:25 pm
    Friday morning blues:1) Son House: "Dry Spell Blues"2) Blind Lemon Jefferson: "Hot Dogs"3) Johnny Shines: "Moaning and Groaning"4) Little Sonny: "You Got a Good Thing"5) T.J. Sullivan: "You Give Me Hope"6) Eddie C. Campbell: "That's When I Know"7) Tinsley Ellis: "Free Man"8) Johnny Copeland: "Houston"9) Junior Kimbrough: "Crawling King Snake"10) Big Maceo: "Detroit Jump"
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  • Pat Metheny - Orchestrion (Nonesuch, 2010)

    8 Feb 2010 | 2:44 pm
    This album is a unique "solo" project with guitarist Pat Metheny and a raft of machine controlled musical instruments. Inspired by experimenting with a player piano in his grandfather's basement, which led to a life-long love of technology and its musical applications. It's easy to imagine Metheny in a basement laboratory somewhere preparing his army of musical machines to embark on world conquest. In the end it is a pleasant and enjoyable album to listen to, although not the most exciting and dynamic, falling somewhere in the middle of the softer rounded curves of the Pat Metheny Group and…

  • Books

    8 Feb 2010 | 10:56 am
    The Fever Kill by Tom Piccirilli. Crease is a man with a problem. He is an undercover cop who has become fed up with leading a double life and has outed himself to a drug kingpin who swears vengeance. On the run for his life, he flees New York City to the rural Vermont town of his birth. Here he finds a mystery that has haunted him throughout his life. His father, also a cop, shot and killed a child during a botched kidnapping. After this he took to drink and died a broken man. Crease picks at the scar, digging up old wounds and vows to solve the mystery, while the showdown with the drug…

  • Various Artists - M For Mississippi DVD (M For Mississippi, 2008)

    7 Feb 2010 | 11:01 am
    Subtitled "a roadtrip through the birthplace of the blues," M for Mississippi is a documentary about two blues lovers traveling through the state over the course of seven days interviewing musicians and fans of the music and visiting the few remaining juke joints left in this part of the country. The filmmakers allow the music and the musicians speak for themselves, giving them a chance to tell their stories about growing up in the south and why the blues appeals to them. Seeing the musicians interviewed on the street and in their own homes, you realize that these men aren't playing music for…

  • Matthew Shipp - 4D (Thirsty Ear, 2010)

    6 Feb 2010 | 6:10 pm
    This is a solo piano recording from Shipp, recorded in a spontaneous setting before a very small audience. The performances here are quite short and to the point, only in a few cases five minutes or more in length, and the album itself is quite economical. There is also some very delicate playing - not ornamental, but elegant and probing, and many of the songs on the album have a haiku-like brevity. Shipp is fascinating in that he is developing his own conception of piano improvisation, grounded in the jazz piano firmament, but branching out in search of new ideas and methods. He uses the…

  • Chicago Underground Duo - Boca Negra (Thrill Jockey, 2010)

    5 Feb 2010 | 3:25 pm
    For a band with only two members, this group gets an impressive variety of sounds. Rob Mazurek on cornet and Chad Taylor drummer also use the studio as an instrument, alternating between post bop jazz and near ambient soundscapes. Taylor's rhythmic sense is unerring throughout the album, whatever the tempo. Electronics are added at times, and add effect, especially at slower tempos making for spooky music along with slurred horn. "Green Ants" has sputtering cornet and rolling drums setting a fast pace, then moving into a slower abstract section before turning to an echoed effect at the end.
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  • This Is The New Jazz Thing on Jazz 88.3! Thursday, February, 2010

    VO@TheNewJazzThing.com (Vince Outlaw)
    4 Feb 2010 | 7:33 pm
    The New Jazz Thing is LIVE! Thursday, February 4, 2010, 6 to 8 PM PT on Jazz 88.3 FM, KSDS San Diego, Webcast at http://Jazz88.org! Quick Link: Jazz 88 Playlist Archive for Thursday, February 4, 2010 (scroll to 6PM to see the tunes spontaneously mixed on Tonight’s show!) The discs for tonight’s show…all NEW!! New This Week 02/04/2010 - The latest adds to the Jazz 88 Library… Testing the new TNJT RSS Feed via Jazz 88 and Grazr…

  • This Is The New Jazz Thing on Jazz 88.3! Thursday, January 28, 2010 - James Zollar

    VO@TheNewJazzThing.com (Vince Outlaw)
    28 Jan 2010 | 9:10 am
    The New Jazz Thing is LIVE! Thursday, January 28, 6 to 8 PM PT on Jazz 88.3 FM, KSDS San Diego, Webcast at http://Jazz88.org! Quick Link: Jazz 88 Playlist Archive for Thursday, January 28, 2010 (scroll to 6PM to see the tunes spontaneously mixed on Tonight’s show!) Tonight on the show: James Zollar, former San Diegan, has a new disc out, “Zollar System”, and is playing with the Count Basie Orchestra in SD this weekend, so we’ll be chatting with him in Hour 2 of The New about all of that and more. Check out the links below to James MySpace (to listen to a few tunes),…

  • This Is The New Jazz Thing on Jazz 88.3! Thursday, January 21, 2010 - Karin Carson

    VO@TheNewJazzThing.com (Vince Outlaw)
    21 Jan 2010 | 7:35 pm
    The New Jazz Thing is LIVE! Thursday, January 21, 6 to 8 PM PT on Jazz 88.3 FM, KSDS San Diego, Webcast at http://Jazz88.org! Quick Link: Jazz 88 Playlist Archive for Thursday, January 21, 2010 (scroll to 6PM to see the tunes spontaneously mixed on Tonight’s show!) Tonight on the show…Karin Carson debuts her new CD “The Time Is Now” on the show and chats about the upcoming release party 1/23/2010 at Tango Del Rey. We’ll chat about her San Diego roots, her musical background, how the CD came about with all these great players, and her other musical pursuits.

  • This Is The New Jazz Thing on Jazz 88.3! Thursday, January 14, 2010 - XBORDER Cross Border Trio

    VO@TheNewJazzThing.com (Vince Outlaw)
    14 Jan 2010 | 3:34 pm
    The New Jazz Thing is LIVE! Thursday, January 14, 6 to 8 PM PT on Jazz 88.3 FM, KSDS San Diego, Webcast at http://Jazz88.org! Quick Link: Jazz 88 Playlist Archive for Thursday, January 14, 2010 (scroll to 6PM to see the tunes spontaneously mixed on Tonight’s show!) Tonight on the show…in Hour 2 of The New (7PM PT), XBORDER, the new collaboration between the Cross Border Trio of Jason Robinson, Rob Thorsen, and Paquito Villa with pianist/vibist Anthony Smith plays Dizzy’s San Diego Friday, January 15, 2010, so we’ll be chatting with some of the band and playing their…

  • This Is The New Jazz Thing on Jazz 88.3! Thursday, January 7, 2010 - Jazz Trends In 2010, Pete, Sheila, and The Whole Escovedo Family!

    VO@TheNewJazzThing.com (Vince Outlaw)
    7 Jan 2010 | 8:41 am
    The New Jazz Thing is LIVE! Thursday, January 7, 6 to 8 PM PT on Jazz 88.3 FM, KSDS San Diego, Webcast at http://Jazz88.org! Quick Link: Jazz 88 Playlist Archive for Thursday, January 7, 2010 (scroll to 6PM to see the tunes spontaneously mixed on Tonight’s show!) Tonight on the show (UPDATE: PETE only)…Pete, Sheila, and the whole Escovedo Family will be joining me in Hour 2 of the New to chat about their upcoming shows in San Diego at Anthology SD (and hosted by Jazz 88’s own Latin Groove-Master Chris ‘C-Love’ Springer)! Also, we’ll be looking forward into…
 
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  • Tim Price on the music of Charlie Mariano- Rico Reeds blog

    1 Feb 2010 | 9:40 am
    Hello again, Tim Price here for Rico Reeds. I thought I might discuss some unique and important music played by Charlie Mariano and friends.The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady--- Charles Mingus's 1963 recording was wake-up call to jazz- - a lesson in alto saxophone expression by Charlie Mariano. Even so, today, in listening to that, one wonders why Mariano was not given his proper place in jazz he deserved-he played in a style derived from the mainstream of jazz's development with constantly expanding horizons. Externally, Charlie's style bore the marks of modern jazz in terms of melody,…

  • Jazz Rooster joke from Tim Price

    25 Jan 2010 | 1:03 pm
    A rooster is getting ready to retire from his gig at the Farm....he sent the word out to some young roosters to come up and audition for the gig....the first young rooster comes up and scats the bird solo on Night in Tunisia.....nothing happens the sun doesn't come up no dogs start barking..........the next young rooster comes up and does Trane's solo on "Giant Steps'.........still nothing happens...a third rooster comes up and does Ornette's thing on "Ramblin'' still nothing happensFinally the Old Rooster says, why you sad motherf#$%&@s and clears his throat gives a little cough and…

  • Harmonic Major- Modern Jazz Vocabulary vol.1

    25 Jan 2010 | 12:57 pm
    The harmonic major scale (simply a major with a flat sixth) is a relatively new addition to Jazz improvisation. It has an interesting exotic sound and can be a important element of a modern Jazz musician's vocabulary.Music theory always lags significantly behind what musicians are actually playing on the streets. There are many useful "exotic" scales like the harmonic major (some of which are only one or two notes different the handful of scales that most Jazz musicians are taught in schools) that have been used by players for years without showing up in any Jazz theory books. Saxophonist…

  • New Yorker cartoon

    23 Jan 2010 | 8:33 am

  • Yusef Lateef interview on WGBO

    23 Jan 2010 | 8:10 am
    Here's a nice interview with NEA Jazz Master Yusef Lateef from WGBO's Checkout show. He talks about his musical influences and development, world music, his involvement with Islam, and his current work.Yusef Lateef interview
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  • Jazz Guitar Legend Jimmy Wyble - RIP

    admin
    18 Jan 2010 | 10:15 am
    I had been offline for the past few days due to a brutal virus attack on my computer which left me clueless about what was happening in the rest of the world. Having finally restored my system I was saddened to learn from Jazz Guitarist Brandon Bernstein that Jazz Guitar Legend Jimmy Wyble had passed away on Saturday the 16th of January. I of course had heard of Jimmy over the years as being an outstanding player in both Jazz and Western Swing, I was aware that he had played in the Red Norvo Trio and that he was a member of the Texas Playboys. And even knew about his two line improvisation…

  • MEL BAY - 20% OFF Until January 27, 2010

    admin
    8 Jan 2010 | 12:19 pm
    Hey all. Just a quick note to say that Sheet Music Plus has a 20% off sale of all Mel Bay products until January 27, 2010. This includes all their method books and DVD’s. Mel Bay’s instructional method books and DVD’s are top notch products that deliver value and solid entertainment. So if you have been thinking about how to spend your Christmas or Chanukah money, here’s a great way to enrich your Jazz Guitar studies and viewing pleasure while saving some money. A win win all around…:) Take care all and happy picking!

  • Jazz Guitar On The Radio - KCSM.ORG

    admin
    7 Jan 2010 | 12:16 pm
    Hello all. I hope you are all settled into 2010 and that this New Year will be your best yet. I’ve been rather busy but will be spending more time adding posts the Jazz Guitar Life Blog as well as updating Jazz Guitar Life itself regularly. The reason for this post is as the subject line sates: Jazz Guitar on the radio! I know I have revisited this topic before but I’m always going to mention the importance of Jazz on the radio. Especially when it comes to the great,. commercial free Jazz radio of KCSM. I first heard of them when I was visiting San Francisco back in 2003. I was…

  • Jazz Guitar Life Finally Updated + Happy New Year!!

    admin
    1 Jan 2010 | 8:36 pm
    Hey all and Happy New Year! I hope all has been going well for all of you. Well, FINALLY, Jazz Guitar Life has been updated with 7 new interviews, reviews, and even a couple of lessons. The new interviews feature Tuck Andress, Laverne Christie, Kevin Van Sant, Sheryl Bailey, Terrence Brewer, Mike Kennedy and the duo of Kathy Dyson and Deirdre Cartwright.As always feel free to let me know what ya think. Now, I realize that it’s almost been two years since Jazz Guitar Life was updated. I can’t believe it has gone on for that long but my life has been crazy busy. I do promise though…

  • Frank Vignola Trio - Concert Review - Montreal International Jazz Festival 2009

    admin
    27 Aug 2009 | 2:10 pm
    Hi all. Just a quick post to say that I did a review of the Frank Vignola Trio at this years (2009) Montreal International Jazz Festival and it is now here to check out. As you will get from my review, it was an awesome show and truly one of the best concerts I have ever seen. It was exciting, entertaining and full of prodigious playing from all concerned. If you ever get a chance to check out Frank Vignola and his Trio, do so. You won’t be disappointed! And if you have seen a Frank Vignola show, I’d love to hear your comments. Later all… Lyle
 
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    JazzWax

  • Shorty Rogers: Re-Entry

    Marc Myers
    9 Feb 2010 | 5:02 am
    In 1969, trumpeter Shorty Rogers stopped recording. He was simply too busy to keep up with the practicing necessary to handle the endurance of a studio session. The flood of work in Hollywood compelled him to focus on composing, arranging and orchestrating for television and the movies. Rogers, along with Gerry Mulligan, had been one of the chief architects of West Coast jazz in the early 1950s, and his arrangements for The Giants, his nonet, set new exciting standards for mid-sized jazz groups.  But by the late 1960s, times had changed. The popularity of acoustic jazz was dimming, and the…

  • Oscar Peterson: Duo Sessions

    Marc Myers
    8 Feb 2010 | 2:32 am
    The farther back in time you go, the more glorious pianist Oscar Peterson sounds. Like sliding a bar to and fro on the computer screen to find just where the hues are richest in a digital image, the Oscar Peterson Story is perhaps sweetest between 1949 and 1951. During this period, Clef Records' producer Norman Granz paired the mighty Peterson with just a bass—Ray Brown or Major Holley. The resulting recordings remain unrivaled for their ferocious sensitivity and grace. This observation takes nothing away from the impeccable Peterson quartet and trio sessions that followed for Granz…

  • Sunday Wax Bits

    Marc Myers
    7 Feb 2010 | 3:32 am
    From the Brubecks. Following my four-part interview with Dave Brubeck last week, I received the following email from Iola, Dave's wife of 67 years: "Dave and I loved your series, in particular your introduction in Part 2, in which you drew comparisons between Dave's music and modern glass residential architecture of the 1950s. Our home in Connecticut is not far from Philip Johnson's Glass House and is modern in design—although not as sparsely furnished and clean of line as his. After all, we raised six kids in our house. "Our house, designed by Beverley Thorne, is a…

  • PhotoStory15: Miles Davis

    Marc Myers
    5 Feb 2010 | 4:17 am
    When I first saw this image of Miles Davis playing the tenor  saxophone, I had a "what's wrong with this picture" moment. The photo of the trumpeter clearly was taken in the early 1960s, and Davis was never known to have doubled on the instrument. The blurry nature of the image also signified urgency. So I asked the person who sent it to me and was told the image is from Swing, Bop & Free, a magnificent new book available only in Italy by Roberto Polillo, a photographer with a superb eye for jazz drama and poetry. Why is Miles playing tenor? Whose tenor is it? Why is the…

  • Interview: Dave Brubeck (Part 4)

    Marc Myers
    4 Feb 2010 | 4:54 am
    In 1956, the U.S. State Department began sending jazz   musicians on world tours as a way to showcase the excitement of American creativity and the spirit of American culture. The move was an attempt to checkmate Soviet influence in vulnerable areas during the Cold War. In 1958 the Dave Brubeck Quartet visited Eastern Europe and the Near East on such a tour. The result for Dave was exposure to a range of new and fascinating cultures. For the group, the tour meant worldwide audiences. And for Columbia Records, the tour ignited a new global market for Dave Brubeck Quartet recordings. [Photo…
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    WBGO Blog: Jazz and Beyond

  • The Blues of The River

    Simon Rentner
    5 Feb 2010 | 4:19 pm
    Baaba Maal produces a music festival – The Blues of the River – every year in his hometown, Podor, a small village on the northern tip of Senegal, West Africa.  For the opportunity to meet Maal, I traveled over 10 hours by car from Dakar, and then waited an entire day for the chance to [...]

  • Christian McBride: The Movement Revisited at Juilliard

    Becca Pulliam
    5 Feb 2010 | 8:19 am
    Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. — each is a voice in the Christian McBride oratorio The Movement Revisited.  I saw the performance on February 2 with the Juilliard Jazz Orchestra with Choir, McBride on bass and leading the orch, and arranger J. D. Steele conducting the choir. They are charismatic and so [...]

  • See WBGO on NJN this Thursday

    bwood
    25 Jan 2010 | 1:27 pm
    Erich Lugo Padilla recently exhibited his work in the WBGO Gallery, and NJN was there.  Tune in to NJN this Thursday at 7pm to see the story Don Francisco, Art & Report Card on Latinos in the Media Thursday, January 28, 2010, at 7 pm; Sunday, January 31 at 8 am Don Francisco, international star of the highly celebrated [...]

  • Lee Konitz Trio: Live at the Village Vanguard

    Joshua Jackson
    20 Jan 2010 | 5:11 pm
    Watch live streaming video from wbgo at livestream.com Lee Konitz Trio: Live At The Village Vanguard

  • Mind the Gap: Why Good Schools are failing Black Students

    bwood
    19 Jan 2010 | 11:36 am
    Honoring Black History Month, WBGO seeks out programming focusing on not just the history, but the present and future of African-Americans in and around our area and nation.  On February 18th at 8pm, WBGO  will air the documentary program, Mind the Gap: Why Good Schools are failing Black Students, produced by Nancy Solomon. Nationwide, suburban schools [...]
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    RVAJazz

  • Luciana Souza Trio: Active imaginations

    Dean Christesen
    9 Feb 2010 | 7:05 am
    On stage at University of Richmond's Modlin Center last night, Luciana Souza introduced her colleagues as "two of the most creative and soulful musicians I know." As creative and soulful as guitarist Romero Lubambo and percussionist Cyro Baptista are, they're made whole by Souza, the dynamic vocalist, improviser, lyricist (in Portuguese and English), and storyteller whose tone is sweet and presence is captivating.

  • RVAJazzfest 2010 in photos

    Dean Christesen
    8 Feb 2010 | 9:10 am
    The music at RVAJazzfest on Saturday was, quite simply, amazing, and those who came to listen were rewarded. It really didn't matter what was going on outside or what the day had been like in snowy Richmond; Trio of Justice, Jones+Kuhl, and Ombak put on one hell of a show.

  • RVAJazzfest Update

    Dean Christesen
    6 Feb 2010 | 3:05 pm
    This heinous snow storm has taken its toll. Ray Anderson's flight has been canceled, and Adam Larrabee is stuck in Charlottesville. We've promised that the show will go on regardless of weather, and that it will.

  • The show will go on!

    Dean Christesen
    5 Feb 2010 | 2:26 pm
    RVAJazzfest will happen! Yes, the weather is treacherous and schools and businesses around the area are all closing. However, after much deliberation, we've decided that the show will go on regardless of Saturday's weather.

  • Kurt Rosenwinkel teams up with UVA faculty

    Dean Christesen
    2 Feb 2010 | 6:02 pm
    Guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel is coming to Charlottesville a little later this month for a performance with the Free Bridge Quintet. Mark your calendar, because this one will be well worth the trip. Rosenwinkel is a modern jazz guitar virtuoso and is among the ranks of some of today’s most influential guitar players. His last album, Reflections by [...]
 
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    Kirk Whalum Blog

  • 25 Jan 2010 | 8:03 pm

    Kirk Whalum
    25 Jan 2010 | 8:03 pm
    Poem for Haiti (from the poet David of Jerusalem)

  • 24 Jan 2010 | 2:06 pm

    Kirk Whalum
    24 Jan 2010 | 2:06 pm
    Finally home for a couple of days! As much as I love NY it's always good to be back in Soulsville, sitting in front of OUR fireplace. We're blessed. May a blessing of encouragement flow thru Haiti today.

  • An Offering for Haiti

    Kirk Whalum
    16 Jan 2010 | 12:56 pm
    The people of Haiti are blessed with gifts that we in the rest of the world desperately need. They are not a "poor destitute" people. They are a culturally RICH people whose destinies were forever changed by the greed and short-sightedness of an unfortunate colonialist period in world history, and now need our help to be able to rebuild, preserve and present their much-needed gifts to the world. May I offer, alongside the generous financial gifts and gifts of prayers and concern from so many of you, the following poem from the pen of my favorite poet/songwriter, David of Jerusalem.

  • Tokyo Chronicles cont. Kick Back Café

    Kirk Whalum
    8 Jan 2010 | 10:16 pm
    Looking out at this intimate but incredibly responsive audience at Kick Back Café (this past November) is still one of my most treasured memories. The Guys and I were transformed, our music was transformed!  

  • Back to my Tokyo chronicles...

    Kirk Whalum
    4 Jan 2010 | 8:13 pm
    Now these are some shoes I MUST have! Love the toe-room.  
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    Juan-Carlos Hernandez - Stage Photographer (Jazz Music Dance Theater Live Instruments Performance)

  • TINARIWEN - Eyadou ag LECHE and Saïd ag AYAD

    Juan-Carlos Hernandez - Photographer
    8 Feb 2010 | 5:03 pm
    Eyadou AG LECHE on percussions and Saïd AG AYAD on bass with the musical group of Tuaregs from Mali, TINARIWEN at "L'Usine", Geneva, Switzerland. December 2007

  • Samuel Blaser

    Juan-Carlos Hernandez - Photographer
    7 Feb 2010 | 8:00 pm
    The swiss jazz trombonist Samuel Blaser during a night shooting in Geneva. Rue de Berne. November 2009

  • Dean Bowman

    Juan-Carlos Hernandez - Photographer
    6 Feb 2010 | 11:07 am
    The US jazz and gospel singer Dean Bowman at the AMR, Sud des Alpes, Geneva, Switzerland. December 2009.

  • Marc Copland

    Juan-Carlos Hernandez - Photographer
    4 Feb 2010 | 7:39 pm
    The US jazz pianist Marc Copland during a Masterclass at the AMR, Sud des Alpes, Geneva, Switzerland. February 2008

  • Seamus Blake

    Juan-Carlos Hernandez - Photographer
    3 Feb 2010 | 11:44 am
    The US saxophonist Seamus Blake at the AMR, Geneva, Switzerland. January 2006
 
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    St. Louis Jazz Notes

  • Jazz-inspired art, photos accompanying Nu-Art Series' jazz composers concerts

    Dean Minderman
    8 Feb 2010 | 7:52 pm
    The Nu-Art Series last Saturday kicked off a set of shows at the Metropolitan Gallery that will feature a dozen St. Louis musicians performing their own work and that of well-known jazz composers.In keeping with Nu-Art's ongoing theme of "jazz and visual arts," there's also a new show up at the gallery, featuring jazz-inspired paintings by Tony Renner and photos of jazz artists in performance taken by longtime St. Louis American reporter/photographer Roscoe Crenshaw.There will be an artists' reception for Renner and Crenshaw from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Friday, February 19 at the gallery, 2936…

  • Jeffrey Wright's cabaret show sells out; April date added

    Dean Minderman
    8 Feb 2010 | 7:43 pm
    This just in: Cabaret impresario Jim Dolan sends word that the performances of Jeffrey Wright's show "The Dance" on February 19 and 20 are sold out, prompting the addition of another performance at 8:00 p.m. on Friday, April 16 at the Kranzberg Arts Center. Tickets for Wright's April 16 show are now on sale via www.licketytix.com.

  • Vanessa Rubin to star in Black Rep's Yesterdays: An Evening with Billie Holiday

    Dean Minderman
    8 Feb 2010 | 7:06 pm
    Singer Vanessa Rubin (pictured) is coming to St. Louis to star in the Black Rep's production of Yesterdays: An Evening with Billie Holiday, which will run Wednesday, February 24 through Sunday, March 14 at the Grandel Theater, 3610 Grandel Square (just west of Grand Ave).The play by Reenie Upchurch tells the story of Holiday's last performance at a New York club, incorporating songs such as "My Man", "Strange Fruit", "Fine and Mellow" and "God Bless the Child."Rubin is originally from Cleveland and has performed with many well-known jazz musicians, including St. Louis' own Clark Terry,…

  • Haiti relief benefit to be shown on HEC-TV

    Dean Minderman
    8 Feb 2010 | 8:16 am
    Tickets for the St. Louis Musicians for Haiti benefit at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, February 9 at the Sheldon Concert Hall are sold out, but the event will be televised on HEC-TV (Channel 26/AT&T U-Verse Channel 99) and shown online at www.hectv.org.Hosted by author and former TV newscaster Julius Hunter and featuring singer Brian Owens, folk group Mayor Taylor, the Bottoms Up Blues Gang, pianist Peter Martin, Mardra and Reggie Thomas, singer Kim Massie, singer Christine Brewer and pianist Peter Henderson, the event will raise money for the Haitian earthquake relief efforts of Doctors Without…

  • Jeremy Davenport, Peter Martin to perform Friday, April 2 at The Sheldon

    Dean Minderman
    6 Feb 2010 | 1:00 pm
    Pianist Peter Martin has announced the second show in his new series at the Sheldon Concert Hall: a duo performance with trumpet player, singer and fellow St. Louis native Jeremy Davenport (pictured) at 8:00 p.m. on Friday, April 2.The show is billed as "The Reunion," since Martin and Davenport are old friends. Both attended University City High School here, and both moved to New Orleans in the 1990s to further their musical careers. Both also returned to St. Louis after Hurricane Katrina, though Davenport has since gone back to New Orleans to resume his gig as leader of the house band at the…
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