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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: The return of Rebirth Brass Band
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, let's take a look at some videos of New Orleans' Rebirth Brass Band, who will be coming back to St. Louis to perform on Friday, September 1 at the Atomic Cowboy Pavilion. Formed in 1983 by brothers Keith and Phillip Frazier, Rebirth Brass Band is, along with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, one of the longest running of the contemporary groups re-inventing the New Orleans brass band tradition. Their most recent recording is 2014’s Move Your Body on ...
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Why Does So Much Modern Music Sound The Same? [VIDEO]
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Upcoming documentary The Click explores how technology is making modern music bland. Particular focus is given to percussion, where electronically produced beats have replaced live drummers, and those live drummers left are expected to play perfectly in time with the aid of a “click" or metronome. Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros’ singer Alex Ebert told Quartz that it’s now too easy for anyone to make music with a computer and free software. He bemoans an “undeniable loss of mastery” among ...
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Christopher Davis-Shannon: "Daffodil” Video And Free Download
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Christopher Davis-Shannon
Christopher Davis-Shannon’s fervent baritone floats over the bouncing rhythms of fiddle, and upright bass in his latest single, “Daffodil." A sound that will instantly transport you back to the early twentieth century that was captured at Philadelphia's own historic Ruba Club in a live recording with accompanying videography by Bob Sweeney, appropriately filmed in 8mm. Davis-Shannon is joined by bassist Alexandre Delcourt, and violinist Michael Durkan giving a nod to the American string bands of American music with enough modern ...
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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: 50 years of Herbie Hancock
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, let's take a look at some videos featuring keyboardist Herbie Hancock, who will be back in St. Louis to perform in a concert presented by Jazz St Louis on Thursday, August 10 at Powell Hall. Hancock has been at the forefront of jazz for more than half a century, first coming to wide public attention in the mid-1960s as a member of Miles Davis' “Second Great Quintet." Striking out on his own at the turn of the 1970s, ...
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Videos: Basie in the '30s & '40s
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
No American big band had a bigger influence on swing and jazz than Count Basie's. Today, when we think of Basie, we most often associate him with his post-1952 “New Testament" band. But between 1937 and throughout the 1940s, Basie's band was electrifying for its sheer power, arrangements, infectious dance beat and soloists. Here are a bunch of videos from the period: Here's Count Basie in May 1938 on New York's Randall's Island for the Carnival of Spring concert... Here's ...
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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Samora Pinderhughes, jazz, and justice
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, StLJN's video spotlight is focused on pianist and composer Samora Pinderhughes, who will be here in St. Louis to perform next Thursday, July 20 at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation. A 25-year-old Juilliard graduate who grew up in Berkeley, CA and now lives in Harlem, Pinderhughes has toured with jazz artists including Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah and Branford Marsalis. For his performance here, the pianist will lead a quartet with Scott, bassist Luques Curtis, and percussionist Mark Whitfield, Jr, ...
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Videos: Back Women Cross Over
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
African-American women came into their own in the early 1960s as solo pop singers. Long pegged as jazz or R&B recording artists in the '50s or members of girl groups in the early '60s, African-American women began to cross over to the pop charts thanks largely to exposure on major record labels, runs at supper clubs and appearances on TV variety shows. Here are a bunch of newly uploaded videos I found of leading African-American female vocalists between the mid-1950s ...
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Pianist Vadim Neselovskyi, Bassist Dan Loomis, Drummer Ronen Itzik Shine In Live Performance Video
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Braithwaite & Katz Communications
Last May, the Ukrainian pianist Vadim Neselovskyi released his trio's debut recording Get Up and Go (May 19, Jazz Family and Neuklang Records) with bassist Dan Loomis and drummer Ronen Itzik, and the three musicians have been burning up stages around the world ever since. Their spring performance at jazzahead! 2017 in Bremen, Germany is a perfect example. Neselovskyi's precision and technical skill, honed during years of studying classical piano, work hand in glove with his creative compositions and brilliant ...
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