All About Jazz is celebrating Pete Christlieb's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Pete ChristliebFrom the 1970s through the 1990s, the sound of Petea€(TM)s tenor could be heard on television and motion picture sound tracks and recordings. The son of a famous bassoon player, Don Christlieb... more...

THE KING CLOSES OUT VALENTINE'S WEEKEND There's the mistaken general impression that by the late '60s Elvis Presley was creatively tapped. Out of touch with both the emerging Flower Power scene and the last, clinging vestiges of '50s cocktail culture, Presley wandered far and wide before finding truly firm footing again in the early '70s. But, in his meandering he exhibited a wild sort of diversity. While a touch scattershot, there's a great many satisfying gems during this somewhat neglected stretch. Almost In Love, originally released in 1970, gathers ten singles, many of them from his films, and offers a strong cross-section of his many changing moods...

Phil Lesh by Robert Chapman For the five people who haven't already heard the news through the Grateful Dead's instantaneous grapevine, The Dead have confirmed the addition of three dates to their 2009 tour, which kicks off April 12 in Greensboro, NC. Newly added shows include second nights in Chicago (May 4) and Mountain View, CA (May 14) - on sale February 20 and 22, respectively - plus a show in George, WA at The Gorge May 16, on sale February 20...

It's time for this week's compilation of news and links related to jazz in St. Louis, including musicians from the Gateway City, recent visitors and coming attractions - plus assorted other items of interest:* Here's another review of the deluxe 50th Anniversary edition of Miles Davis' landmark albu...

Portland, Oregon - At the Portland Jazz Festival between concerts and after hours, much of the talk among musicians is about the death of {{Gerry Niewood = 9878}}. The saxophonist was one of 50 people who died in a plane crash Thursday night near Buffalo, New York. He and guitarist Coleman Mellett were on their way to Buffalo to perform with Chuck Mangione's band. Mellett was also killed in the crash...

Jorma Kaukonen has left the psychedelic '60s behind him. “The ’60s were a long time ago,” Kaukonen says. “You just can’t go backward. The arrow of time only goes in one direction.” Kaukonen has a new album, River of Time Even though his guitar helped Jefferson Airplane soar with the San Francisco Sound on hits such as “White Rabbit” and “Somebody to Love,” Jorma Kaukonen is not sentimental about the psychedelic ’60s...

Have you had enough of Valentine's Day? Is there too much chocolate and alcohol still stuck in your head? Let us help you clear out your romantic cobwebs. From the cathartic noise of The Drones (pictured) to the crunchy hypnotics of Pontiak to the lonely, reissued machine music of Dntel and more, our new playlist takes lethal aim at your post-coital hangover. Don't kill the messenger...

The Grammy winner performs selections from his new album on piano with his jazz- chamber ensemble...

Rita Moreno The Puerto Rican singer/actress is one of scant few to win a Grammy, A Tony, an Oscar and an Emmy. Moreno comes to the Conga Room Thursday where her talent will fill the room...

The ninth annual festival promises to be a Valentine's weekend celebration of the Great American Songbook. Through Sunday at the Marriott Newport Beach...

{{Joris Teepe = 3057}} Quintet with Scott Wenthold (tp), Mark Gross (sx), {{George Colligan = 12084}} (p), Rudy Royston (dr) Place: Fat Cat 75 Christopher Street NYC Date/Time: March 20, 10 PM Cover: $3...

The 2008 Bonnaroo Music Festival was an amazing time for the almost 100,000 music fans in range of the speakers from the six stages there. Since the first Bonnaroo Music Festival back in 2002, live music photographer David Oppenheimer has photographed some of each summers' musical highlights as all-star musicians from many genres graced Bonnaroo's stages...

All About Jazz is celebrating Dena DeRose's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Dena DeRoseDena and her trio (Martin Wind on bass and Matt Wilson on drums) have developed a hard-swinging and dynamic sound that audiences crave, and have accumulated a list of performance credits that proves it. From the legendary Blue Note... more...

{{Patricia Barber = 3626}} sings with a cool, insinuating delivery, as if she's whispering in your ear over a very dry martini in a smoky dive. So although she's best known for her original songwriting, the jazz vocalist and pianist was well-suited to make a record of Cole Porter songs. In Washington, D.C., for a concert at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, she stopped by NPR's Studio 4A for a special Valentine's Day performance and conversation with host Jacki Lyden...

We've super-sized this week's video post to bring you a preview of the Blue Note 7, who will be in St. Louis next Sunday, February 22 to perform at the Sheldon Concert Hall under the combined auspices of Jazz St. Louis and the Sheldon.Because the band is an all-star group assembled specifically for...

Omar Siddiqui, a top executive at Fry's Electronics, was coveted and coddled by Las Vegas casinos. Now he faces fraud charges. Casinos vied with one another to lure the high-stakes Bay Area gambler to their tables. They flew him to Las Vegas on private jets. They put him up free in opulent suites. And they extended him millions of dollars in credit on his signature alone. He was good for business...

Fewer conventions having ripple affect on other businesses. Gaming revenue fell for the 12th month in a row in December and last year's overall drop is historic. Some locals who depend on conventions to survive say they can't afford the war of words going on between President Obama and Mayor Oscar Goodman...

Donald Trump resigned from the board of Trump Entertainment Resorts Inc., the debt-laden casino company he founded, ahead of a possible involuntary bankruptcy filing next week. “I’m not managing it, it’s not me that’s responsible for managing,” Trump, who was chairman, said in a telephone interview today. “Unless we’re going to be responsible for management it’s just not something that’s worthwhile.”...

Case and her "strays" — a half-dozen pianos in varying degrees of disrepair that she has collected sit in her Vermont barn during the recording of her latest record, Middle Cyclone. “I wish I had a tremolo,” Neko Case said. She looked at the Samburger she was wolfing down — Samburgers and Zinburgers being the specialties of a restaurant called Zinburger, in downtown Tucson, where Case lives, for now. With their maple bacon, American cheese and Thousand Island dressing, Samburgers are a cardiothoracic surgeon’s dream...

THERE is a century-old house in the southeast section of this city, with an attic full of vintage instruments and audio equipment and a drum kit in the dining room, and this is where the indie musician M. Ward likes to record. Reel-to-reel tapes are stacked on the linoleum floor upstairs; a broken film projector with an old coil speaker serves as an amplifier; bells and shakers crowd a shelf in a studio lit mostly by Christmas lights; the Wurlitzer gets a lot of use...