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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Jen Shyu's "Solo Rites: Seven Breaths"
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, let's take a look at some videos featuring composer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist Jen Shyu, who's performing here in St. Louis in a concert presented by New Music Circle next Friday, November 11 at the Kranzberg Arts Center. Shyu, who's now in her late 30s, was born in Peoria, IL to parents who immigrated to the US from Taiwan and East Timor. She was something of a child prodigy, winning many piano competitions and performing a Tchaikovsky piano concerto ...
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Mixing a YouTube Cocktail
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
I've always been a bit of a YouTube nut. After Google, it's the single most important educational and entertainment tool on the web. But from time to time, I come across videos with great images but lousy audio. So I've started mixing what I call “YouTube Cocktails." My YouTube Cocktail involves watching one video while listening to another. I'll pull up the video I want to watch, pause it and mute the sound. Then I pull up a second video, ...
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King of Jazz: Two-Color Print
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In April 1930, at the advent of the “talkie," Universal Pictures released King of Jazz. The 105-minute film was a revue of Paul Whiteman's music through film and animation. But what made the movie truly special was that it was released using a two-color process. Color films weren't new, per se. France had released the first in 1903 called La Vie at la Pssion de Jesus Christ in Pathechrome while The Gulf Between was released in the U.S. in 1917 ...
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Philadelphia Jazz Label Dreambox Media To Celebrate Thirtieth Anniversary With Final DVD "Flicks Sticks & Tones"
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All About Jazz
Dreambox Media will issue its last release by the end of 2016, coinciding with the Jazz label’s 30th anniversary. Originally Encounter Records solely to promote his band Reverie, founder and drummer Jim Miller considers 1986 the year the label officially started, as the September 1999 Jazz Times pointed out, “because it was then that vocalist / educator Suzanne Cloud…had similar frustrations and came to him to release her recording; she then began to spread the word to other musicians” (note: ...
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Four Anita O'Day Videos
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Today, four videos of Anita O'Day—a couple that just recently went up at YouTube and a couple of gems that have been up there for a while. All are out, way out... Here's Fly Me to the Moon... Here's 'S Wonderful... Here are two TV interviews—one with Tom Syder and the other with Harry Reasoner of 60 Minutes. Fun to listen to O'Day's voice... Here's O'Day singing Memories of You in the Gene Krupa Story (1959), starring Sal Mineo as ...
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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Donny McCaslin goes "Beyond Now"
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, StLJN's video spotlight shines on saxophonist Donny McCaslin, who's coming to St. Louis to perform starting Wednesday, October 19 through Saturday, October 22 at Jazz at the Bistro. McCaslin has been in the news quite a bit this year, thanks to the work he and his band- Tim Lefebvre on bass, Jason Lindner on keyboards, and Mark Guiliana on drums- did on the late David Bowie's final album Blackstar. While this may have been the first time a ...
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John Coltrane: Cattin', 1957
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Did John Coltrane record with Lester Young? Sadly no, but in 1957, he came pretty close as far as the ear is concerned. In May of that year, Coltrane recorded the album Cattin' for Prestige with tenor saxophonist Paul Quinichette (pronounced QUIN-ah-shay). Coltrane's sax mate on the album was known in the jazz media as the Vice President or Vice Prez for his almost picture-perfect emulation of Lester Young, whom Billie Holiday had nicknamed “Prez" for his cool and dominant ...
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