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Cherry Wainer: Funky Organ
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Virtually unknown in the States, Cherry Wainer was a British organist who appeared most often on German television in the 1960s as a duo with her husband, drummer Don Storer. What she lacked in time and swing she more than made up for with energy and charisma. Wainer died in 2014. Here are a few clips: Here she is playing the Peter Gunn theme... Here she is playing A Taste of Honey... Here's Wainer behind Ernestine Anderson singing Moanin'... And ...
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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Ikue Mori & Nate Wooley
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week's grab-bag of videos features electronic musician Ikue Mori and trumpeter Nate Wooley, who will be performing in a concert presented by New Music Circle next Saturday, February 18 at The Luminary. Mori, 63, is a Japanese native who first gained recognition in the late 1970s as the drummer for the NYC-based “No Wave" band DNA. She subsequently began working with drum machines and electronics, eventually abandoning the drums entirely for a laptop computer, which remains her preferred instrument. ...
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The Gals of Gunn
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Earlier this week, I featured a clip of Lola Albright singing How High the Moon on TV's Peter Gunn in the late 1950s. The other young actress-singer who appear on the detective series was Linda Lawson, whom I've posted about in the past about her sole superb album, Introducing Linda Lawson. She was cast on Peter Gunn as Lynn Martel, a nightclub singer under the control of a thug in “Lynn's Blues" (season 1, episode 7, November 1958). Lawson, like ...
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Richard Niles' Bandzilla To Release Two New Videos In Support Of Critically Acclaimed New Album
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
Composer Richard Niles has released the highly acclaimed album BANDZILLA RISES!!! Jazz Weekly says “BANDZILLA is hip to the bone!” while Music Street Journal says BANDZILLA “is killer jazz fusion that just plain rocks!… incredibly strange but also very cool.” Cherry Pop calls it “one of the most adventurous albums I have ever heard,” while Midwest Record says, “thinking man’s pop that also provides heat for the feet… killer stuff throughout!” Now Niles has released two new videos from the ...
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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Spotlight on Ralph Towner
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, let's take a look at some videos featuring guitarist Ralph Towner, who's coming to St. Louis to perform in a concert presented by Washington University's Jazz at Holmes series on Saturday, February 18 at the 560 Music Center. Towner this week released a new album of solo guitar, My Foolish Heart. It's his 29th recording for the ECM label, which has put out all of his solo material since 1973. Recorded last Feburary in Lugano, Switzerland under the ...
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Alaska Dreamers Release New Video: "About You"
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Oskars Ozolins
It's not everyday you hear about musicians from Latvia. Alaska Dreamers have crafted a sound that is accessible and powerful at the same time. What started as the experimental music duo of Reinis Ozolins and Rudolfs Dankfelds would grow into something much larger, to become the ambitious mob of a band that they are today. Fronted by vocalist Kristine Praulina, Alaska Dreamers already have a collection of songs and touring experience under their belt, not to mention an amazing video ...
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Birth of the Cool: 2009
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
To fully appreciate how seductive and spectacular Miles Davis's so-called Birth of the Cool recordings were in 1949 and '50, you actually have to see the music being played. Listening doesn't quite provide all the thrills and chills. Today, you're going to get a chance to do just that. Something happens when you watch a nonet play songs arrangements by Gil Evans and John Lewis. Your brain widens and you have a finer appreciation for how great this music was. ...
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