CD Reviews by C60Crew (Free subscription) | 12/24/2009
Bob Burnett: I have Jeff Goold to thank for the heads-up about the release of this album earlier in the summer. Jeff was my "RA" in the dorm for freshman year of college at Ohio University. I recall that moment of moving into my room, several bins of albums in tow. Well......more than several. More like an amount that required me to rent a U-Haul to get to school. Anyway, Jeff came into the...
The Chicago Blog (Free subscription) | 12/16/2009
Jazz.com's Ted Panken recently posted an in-depth two-part interview with George E. Lewis, author of A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music. In the interview Panken and Lewis engage in a detailed dialogue on the...
WFMU's Beware of the Blog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Give the Drummer Some's 6 Favorite Downloads from the MP3 Blogosphere Barack Obama was elected one year ago tonight, and to celebrate, the Miner feels like going out and pulling the white hoods off a few teabaggers. You betcha! If...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
The 7th Ave. home in the '80s and early '90s of Gil Evans' last orchestra, David Murray's octets, Abdullah Ibrahim's bands, Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy and other avant-gutsy acts closed last night (Oct. 24) without notice or fanfare. Sweet Rhythm nee Sweet Basil was one of the coolest spots to listen, drink and hang out in Greenwich Village, a wood-paneled room with fine sound, sightlines, bookings...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Grammy nominated jazz vocalist Renee Manning is known for her robust voice, rich tones and impeccable time making her truly a musician's vocalist. Her new release, All Grown Up, showcases those attributes in a soothing, quieter set parallel to the powerful big band selections she's known for. Her debut in the jazz world as a singer with the Mel Lewis Orchestra (from 1983-1989) was the longest tenure...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Here's the latest compilation of assorted news briefs and links related to jazz, improvisation, and creative music in St. Louis, including news of musicians originally from the Gateway City, recent visitors, and coming attractions, plus assorted other items of interest.Starting off, as we usually do...
St. Louis Jazz Notes (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Here's the latest compilation of assorted news briefs and links related to jazz, improvisation, and creative music in St. Louis, including news of musicians originally from the Gateway City, recent visitors, and coming attractions, plus assorted other items of interest. Starting off, as we usually do, with a couple of items about Miles Davis , it seems that Kind of Blue drummer Jimmy Cobb 's So What...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
The jazz palette is long and wide. Within any given performance format there exist seminal artists as different as saxophonists {{John Coltrane = 5851}} and {{Lester Young = 11573}}, trumpeters {{Miles Davis = 6144}} and {{Lester Bowie = 5209}}, and pianists {{Art Tatum = 4818}} and {{Gene Harris = 7450...
St. Louis Jazz Notes (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
Here's the latest compilation of assorted news briefs and links related to jazz, improvisation, and creative music in St. Louis, including news of musicians originally from the Gateway City, recent visitors, and coming attractions, plus assorted other items of interest. * Let's start with our usual helping of Miles Davis -related news - specifically, some more details about the upcoming 70-CD set reissue...
Destination: Out (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
UNIVERSAL CONSCIOUSNESS OH ALLAH Alice Coltrane Universal Consciousness Impulse : 1971 AC, organ and harp; Leroy Jenkins, violin; John Blair, violin; Julius Brand, violin; Joan Kalisch, violin; Jimmy Garrison, bass; Jack DeJohnette, drums. String arrangements by AC; transcription by Ornette Coleman. “Is jazz dead? That all depends on what you know.” –Lester Bowie “A higher consciousness...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
The Nu-Art Series, run by trumpeter, gallery owner and former arts administrator George Sams out of his Metropolitan Gallery downtown, is kicking off its fall 2009 season this month with two concerts featuring former St. Louisans who have earned international acclaim in the jazz world.The group Trio...
Bagatellen (Free subscription) | 08/25/2009
Nessa NCD-2 While a hallmark of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, wide-open spaces and atomistic sound-rhythms (frequently on found “little instruments”) are an incomplete picture of how AACM groups were aesthetically manifest. Certainly, space was endemic to groups like the Creative Construction Company and records like Joseph Jarman’s As If It Were the [...]...
PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | 08/14/2009
Douglas revives the Lester Bowie post-modern brass band formula, with great invention.
News (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 08/04/2009
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