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History of Indian Summer
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In 1904, Victor Herbert resigned as leader of the Pittsburgh Symphony to form the Victor Herbert Orchestra. He was determined to take a run at commercial success by performing operettas in New York. The operetta predated the musical and was immensely popular in the late 1800s and into the early 1900s. Operettas were much shorter than operas and more contemporary and whimsical in theme, tone and character. Spoken dialogue often was mixed in with singing, and acting skills were required. ...
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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: A few sips of Moon Hooch
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, let's sample some videos from Moon Hooch, who are returning to St. Louis to perform on Friday, October 13 at the Old Rock House. The NYC-based trio- drummer James Muschler and saxophonists Mike Wilbur and Wenzl McGowen- met while attending The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in NYC, and got their start in 2010 busking in subway stations. With some help from some fortuitously timed national media attention, including one of the most-viewed episodes ever of ...
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History of Early Autumn
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In 1946, the classically inclined arranger Ralph Burns brought an Impressionist three-part suite to bandleader Woody Herman called Summer Sequence. As Gary Giddens notes in Visions of Jazz, Herman recorded the three parts in September '46, when saxophonist Flip Phillips was the band's chief saxophone soloist. But in the 78 era, three parts of anything were ill-fated. You needed four parts to fill four sides of two records. So Columbia, Herman's label at the time, shelved the masters. In late ...
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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Spotlight on Steve Swell
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, let's take a look at some videos featuring trombonist Steve Swell, who will be making his St. Louis debut and kicking off New Music Circle's 2017-18 season with a concert on Saturday, October 7 at at The Stage at KDHX. Swell will be joined by an all-star assemblage of avant-gardists, including pianist Dave Burrell, known for his solo work and as an associate of major free-jazz artists such as Archie Shepp and Pharoah Sanders; alto saxophonist Jemeel Moondoc, ...
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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Fall 2017 jazz preview
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
As the end of August approaches, it's time once again for StLJN's fall jazz preview, offering some video samples of the most noteworthy jazz and creative music performers who will be visiting St. Louis in the next few months. Since Rebirth Brass Band's Labor Day weekend show at Atomic Cowboy got a post of its own a couple of weeks ago, let's get started with a video from trumpeter and St. Louis native Keyon Harrold, who will be coming home ...
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Frank Sinatra on Film: 1942-'51
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Let's end the week with clips of Frank Sinatra singing in films between 1942 and 1951, when he was still idolized by women and before middle-aged men stole him away in the mid-1950s: Here's Sinatra singing Poor You from Ship Ahoy in 1942 with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra... Here's Sinatra singing The Music Stopped from Higher and Higher in 1943... Here's Sinatra, again from A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening... Here's Sinatra and Gloria DeHaven singing Come Out, Come ...
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Who Was Flip Nuñez?
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
A couple of weeks ago, I posted about singer Bev Kelly and included a track of her singing Long Ago and Far Away live in San Francisco in 1960. After her first run through the song, Bev introduced her pianist prior to his solo: “Flip Nuñez." Most readers may be unfamiliar with the pianist-singer and composer (1931-1995), largely because he spent much of his career in San Francisco. For a chunk of the early 1960s, he was often at San ...
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