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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: The Soul Rebels' brass band revolution
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, StLJN's video spotlight shines on the Soul Rebels, who are coming to St. Louis to perform on Thursday, May 25 at the Old Rock House. Described by Village Voice as “the missing link between Public Enemy and Louis Armstrong," the group was founded in the early 90s in New Orleans by percussionists Lumar LeBlanc and Derrick Moss, who then were both part of the more traditionally minded Olympia Brass Band. LeBlanc and Moss wanted to bring more contemporary ...
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Five Stan Getz Videos
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Let's end the week with a bunch of Stan Getz videos that went up at YouTube fairly recently: Here's I'll Remember April, recorded in Stockholm with Jim McNeely (p), George Mraz (b) and Victor Lewis (d) on a warm evening in 1983... Here's the same group on the same date playing Billy Strayhorn's Blood Count, with an emotionally moved Chet Baker on stage... Here's Stan Getz in Copenhagen playing Antonio Carlos Jobim's Wave... Here's Getz on Late Night With David ...
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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: George Benson's guitar and grooves
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, let's check out some videos featuring guitarist and singer George Benson, who will be back in St. Louis next week to perform for the Sheldon Concert Hall and Art Galleries' annual fundraising gala on Friday, May 12 at the Sheldon. Named a “Jazz Master" by the National Endowment for the Arts and the winner of ten Grammy awards, Benson is undeniably one of the most successful crossover musicians of the past half-century. After establishing himself as a first-rate ...
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Singer/Spoken Word Artist Tony Adamo Releases "Rain Man" Video
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Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
By Dick Metcalf, editor, Contemporary Fusion Reviews Look—up in th' sky; it’s a BIRD… it's a PLANE… ah, naw, mang, it’s just the “Rain Man”, my pal Tony Adamo, performin’ some of the absolutely COOLEST original music/lyrics he’s done to date! & I know, man… ’cause I’ve reviewed 100’s of his “hip- spoken-word” songs—most recently in issue #154, and I can tell you, peepz’, this is the coolest video I’ve seen from Tony yet! You should definitely read that review, ...
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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Spotlight on Joey DeFrancesco
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, StLJN's video spotlight shines on organist Joey DeFrancesco, who's returning to St. Louis to perform Wednesday, May 10 through Saturday, May 13 at Jazz at the Bistro. Back here for the first time since playing in December 2014 at the Bistro, DeFrancesco on this visit is supporting a new recording, Project Freedom, released in March by Mack Avenue Records. The album marks the addition of saxophonist Troy Roberts to DeFrancesco's band, which already included drummer Jason Brown and ...
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Ella Fitzgerald at 100
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Ella Fitzgerald was born 100 years ago today and died on June 15, 1996. By any measure, she was easily the most important singer of the 20th century. By the time she was 21 in 1938, she had completely transformed pop singing, dragging the vocal into the Swing Era by giving it more relaxed, jazz-influenced feel. In the 1940s, following Chick Webb's death in 1939, she led Webb's band and became the Swing Era's first important female big-band leader. By ...
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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: SFJAZZ Collective plays Miles Davis
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, it's time to check out some videos of the latest iteration of the SFJAZZ Collective, who will be here in St. Louis to perform starting next Wednesday, April 26 through Saturday, April 29 at Jazz at the Bistro. Founded in 2004 as a sort of ever-evolving, all-star house band for the San Francisco presenter SFJAZZ, the group's lineup by design has changed considerably over the years, and currently features Miguel Zenón (alto sax), David Sánchez (tenor sax), Sean ...
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Ben Webster + Ahmad Jamal
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Jazz From Studio 61 was a CBS show hosted by Robert Herridge that aired on February 15, 1960. It was part of the network's Herridge-produced Robert Herridge Theater series. For this half-hour jazz program, Herridge brought together two groups—one led by tenor saxophonist Ben Webster and the other by pianist Ahmad Jamal. In the past, I've only found this show chopped up into segments on YouTube. Now it looks like Don Kaart has uploaded a top-quality print of the entire ...
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