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Videos: Sue Raney, 1963
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In August 1963, West Coast singer Sue Raney appeared on the Australian TV program Brian Henderson's Bandstand. Henderson was a newsreader on the country's Nine Network and hosted its music show from 1958 to 1972. Sue was likely in Australia to perform and promote one of her Capitol releases. These videos of her performances went up at YouTube a month ago and were sent along by Steve Taylor: Here's Sue singing Fly Me to the Moon. What a marvelous, flawless ...
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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: The Wooten Brothers keep it in the family
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, let's check out some videos featuring the Wooten Brothers, who are coming to St. Louis to perform next Saturday, June 24 at the Chesterfield Jazz Festival, headlining a bill that also will include Bach to the Future with Tracy Silverman, Anita Jackson, Soul Cafe, and Kim Fuller & Maurice Carnes. The band includes bassist Victor Wooten, the youngest of the four brothers, and drummer Roy “Futureman" Wooten, who are best known as half of banjo player Béla Fleck's ...
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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Spotlight on Gerald Albright
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, StLJN's video spotlight shines on saxophonist Gerald Albright, who will be back in St. Louis to perform on Friday, June 16 at the Sheldon Concert Hall as part of “A Salute to Fathers and Mentors," also featuring singer Denise Thimes, saxophonist Tim Cunningham, and comedian James Stephens III. A native of Los Angeles, Albright first gained public attention as a solo artist in the mid-1980s after touring as a sideman with Patrice Rushen and Alphonse Mouzon. With a ...
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Videos: Diahann Carroll
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Diahann Carroll is best known as an African-American actress who appeared in movies in the 1950s and then on TV in the'60s and beyond—most notably on Julia and Dynasty. Julia aired on NBC from 1968 to 1971 and starred Carroll as a widowed nurse who worked in a white doctor's office (Lloyd Nolan). It was the first network TV show to feature an African-American woman in the lead role (Gail Fisher, Mannix's secretary, played a supporting role). But Carroll also ...
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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Seven Miles Davis collaborators who helped shape jazz
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Yesterday was the 91st anniversary of Miles Davis' birth, and to follow up on StLJN's video tribute to him in this space last week, today let's take a look at some of the musicians who worked with Davis and then went on to become significant influences on jazz in their own right. Tenor saxophonist John Coltrane played with Davis as part of his “first great quintet" in the late 1950s, making a memorable contribution to the trumpeter's seminal album Kind ...
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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: A birthday tribute to Miles Davis
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
With the 91st anniversary of Miles Davis' birth coming up next Friday, May 26, it's time for StLJN's annual tribute to the most famous and influential jazz musician ever to come from this area. In an encore post from last year's celebration of the trumpeter's 90th natal date, here are nine videos from throughout his career—one for each decade since his birth—selected by yr. editor as personal favorites. From that post, here's a description of the clips: The first, embedded ...
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