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Shades of Jade
Jazz this week: Matthew Shipp & Michael Bisio, Shades of Jade, T. Oliver Reid, Koplant No, Essentially Ellington Festival, and more
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Check out more events at Jazz Near You: St. Louis. It's another busy weekend of live jazz and creative music in St. Louis, with a number of noteworthy shows from both touring and local performers, including a new variation on the usual booking formulas from Jazz St. Louis, as Jazz at the Bistro will for the first time in recent memory feature three different acts on three consecutive weekend nights. Let's go to the highlights... Wednesday March 25 The Funky ...
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Marc Johnson - Shades of Jade (2005)
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Something Else!
By Mark Saleski If you're at all familiar with jazz bassist Marc Johnson you surely know about his classic 1987 album Second Sight (by his group Bass Desires). On that record, Johnson teamed up with Peter Erskine (drums) and the phenomenal guitar duo of Bill Frisell and John Scofield. Second Sight is the kind of record I like to recommend to jazz neophytes. Rather than putting on a lengthy display of chops, the tunes buoy the melodies and motifs with ...
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