Ornette Coleman

Dead Wax Records Opens Its Doors on Cherokee Street

Last Saturday, Dead Wax Records (1959 Cherokee Street; 314-913-3692) quietly opened its doors for business, offering a few hundred square feet of neatly packed LPs for collectors and vinyl newbs alike to peruse. Shoppers and sun soakers have a new spot to stop in on Saturdays, and the small but well ... More >>

Prime-Time Ornette

The Six Best Songs Over Thirty Minutes Long

"American Pie" is eight and a half minutes, "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" is seventeen. It is not uncommon for a prog track to reach twenty minutes, but it takes a certain breed to break the half-hour barrier. Below is a list of the six best songs over thirty minutes long. Feel free to interject your favorit ... More >>

Guitar sensei Bill Frisell is always in tune

Captain Beefheart in St. Louis -- With Styx?

Frank Xavier WeyerichCaptain Beefheart and Tom "Papa" Ray​On Friday, Don Van Vliet, a.k.a. Captain Beefheart, died at the age of 69. Tributes and remembrances have been pouring in since Friday, from a reprint of a 1980 Lester Bangs story on the man to a moving LA Times piece by ex-RFT staffer ... More >>

Megafaun

8 p.m. Friday, June 18. Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center, 3301 Lemp Avenue.

Pat Metheny

8 p.m. Saturday, May 8. The Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center, One University Drive at Natural Bridge Road on the campus of University of Missouri-St. Louis.

Many Arms

8 p.m. Thursday, November 5. The Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center, 3301 Lemp Avenue.

Show Review: The Dave Holland Quintet at the Sheldon, Saturday, January 24

(Words by Ryan Wasoba)The payoff of improvised music comes in the form of unspoken, unplanned climaxes born of highly evolved communication between disciplined musicians. These moments come in the form of well-placed melodies, unexpected texture changes and tension-releasing cymbal crashes. They mat ... More >>

RFT Music Awards Nominees: St. Louis' Best and Brightest

Homespun: Various Artists

Sound (52nd City)

Geri Allen

8:30 and 10:15 p.m. Friday and Saturday, September 29 and 30. Jazz at the Bistro, (3536 Washington Boulevard)

Let's Get It Started

B-Sides cops to liking the Black Eyed Peas, talks to local-boy-done-good Marty Ehrlich and dreams up some new logos for American Idol contestants

Gato Barbieri

Saturday, April 17; Sheldon Concert Hall

The Bad Plus

Tuesday, April 20; the Duck Room

The Kronos Quartet

Wednesday, March 31; Touhill Performing Arts Center

Dub Bomb!, Baby

The influence of Jamaican remixes has spread far and wide since British punk rockers took to dub reggae in the 1970s

Hitting the Mark

Official genius Ken Vandermark wants to reach people who don't know they like jazz

Fuzak It Ain't

Yakuza mixes rock and jazz, but don't let that scare you off

El-P

Fantastic Damage (Definitive Jux)

List-omania

RFT music geeks pick the best recordings of 2001

Joe Henry

Fuse (Mammoth)

Aisles of Miles

The Missouri History Museum pays tribute to East St. Louis legend Miles Davis

Key Concept

"Hyperpianist" Denman Maroney pulls strings to get the sounds he wants

Joshua Redman

Wednesday-Saturday, March 29-April 1; Jazz at the Bistro

KEN VANDERMARK'S JOE HARRIOTT PROJECT

Straight Lines (Atavistic)

Public Affairs

Sound Track