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Videos: Wild Bill Davis + Duke
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Earlier this week, I posted on the tasty genius of organ pioneer Wild Bill Davis. Here are two videos featuring Davis, both with Duke Ellington. On one, he joins the band on Satin Doll. On the other, you get to hear what April in Paris might have sounded like had he made it to the 1955 Count Basie recording session for Verve: Here's Davis's first recording of Ellington-Strayhorn's Satin Doll in 1959 backed bywith George Clarke (ts) Bill Jennings (g) ...
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Videos: Jim Hall, '64 and '05
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Yesterday, I spent the day listening to Jim Hall. You'll find my three-part interview with the late guitar great starting here. And here are three videos of Jim that went up recently at YouTube: Here's Jim playing I'm Getting Sentimental Over You in 1964... Here's Jim with Art Farmer (tp), Steve Swallow (b) and Pete LaRocca (d) in London in 1964 playing Sometime Ago... And here's Jim playing All the Things You Are in Germany in 2005 with Geoffrey ...
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Wild Bill Davis & Johnny Hodges
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Before Jimmy Smith, Shirley Scott, Big John Patton, Jimmy McGriff, Brother Jack McDuff, Groove Holmes and all the other organists you know, there was Wild Bill Davis. Born in Missouri, Davis started his recording career in 1945 as organist and arranger for Louis Jordan and His Tympani Five, one of the leading pioneers of rhythm and blues. When Davis left Jordan in 1951, he led a trio and began recording for Okeh. Perhaps his best known recording today is April ...
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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Sammy Miller and the Congregation
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, let's get acquainted via video with drummer Sammy Miller and his band, the Congregation. The NYC-based group will make their St. Louis debut next week as part of an educational residency for Jazz St. Louis, wrapping up their time here with performances on Friday, October 27 and Saturday, October 28 at Jazz at the Bistro. Along with Miller on drums and vocals, the Congregation includes Alphonso Horne (trumpet), Ben Flocks (tenor sax), Sam Crittenden (trombone), David Linard (piano), ...
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Dizzy Gillespie in London, 1969
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
And on this final day of my four-part series of tributes to Dizzy Gillespie, I saved the best for last: In November 1969, Jazz at the Philharmonic was in London. In the following video, we get to hear producer Norman Granz introduce the first jam-session septet (and oh was a group): Dizzy Gillespie (t), James Moody (as, fl), Clark Terry (flh), Zoot Sims (ts), Teddy Wilson (p), Bob Cranshaw (b) and Louie Bellson (d), plus T. Bone Walker (g) added ...
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Video: Dizzy in Denmark, 1970
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Day #3 of my Dizzy Gillespie tribute. Today, a concert video of Gillespie with his big band at the Tivoli Gardens Concert Hall in Copenhagen, Denmark, on November, 4 1970. And what a monster big band it was! The musicians were Gillespie (tp, voc); Benny Bailey, Art Farmer, Dusko Goycovich and Idrees Sulieman (tp); Nat Peck, Ake Persson and Erik van Lier (tb); Tony Coe and Derek Humble(as); BIlly Mitchel and Ronnie Scott (ts); Sahib Shihab (bs); Francy Bolland (p); ...
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Doc: Dizzy Gillespie, 1990
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In 1990, a documentary about trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie was released that featured not a word of voiceover narration. Instead, To Bop or Not to Be: A Jazz Life, by Norwegian director Jan Horne, simply featured musician interviews in English, concert performances and archival footage. My guess is this approach was favored so the filmmakers wouldn't have to translate or provide subtitles for non-Norwegian viewers. The result is a surprising film without guardrails that showcases the exceptionalism of Gillespie—his musicianship, his ...
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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Spotlight on Harold López-Nussa
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, StLJN's video spotlight shines on pianist Harold López-Nussa, who will make his St. Louis debut with performances starting this coming Wednesday, October 18 and continuing through Saturday, October 21 at Jazz at the Bistro. Now 34 years old, López-Nussa grew up as part of a musical family in Havana, Cuba. His father, drummer Ruy Francisco López-Nussa, and uncle Ernán, a pianist, both were working musicians; his mother Mayra Torres was a piano teacher; and his younger brother Ruy ...
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