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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: We Insist: Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, let's take a look at an extended jazz composition of historical importance that is being revived for a performance later this month in St. Louis. We Insist: Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite is the title of a 1960 album by drummer Max Roach, featuring a five-part work composed by Roach with singer and lyricist Oscar Brown Jr. The album's titular suite will be performed here in St. Louis as part of a program called “Jazz, Race and Politics" ...
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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Femi Kuti continues the Afrobeat tradition
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Today's video spotlight shines on Femi Kuti, the Nigerian singer and multi-instrumentalist who's coming to St. Louis with his band Positive Force to perform on Saturday, July 9 at The Ready Room. The eldest son of Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti, Kuti was born in London in 1962 and grew up in Lagos, Nigeria, raised mostly by his mother. He moved in with his father as a teenager, and eventually began playing saxophone and keyboards with Fela Kuti's band Egypt 80. ...
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Weekend Extra: Roland Kirk
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
I once wrote about the Roland Kirk of the days—”long before he added ‘Rahsaan’ to his name, before he became famous, when he was a tornado roaring out of the Midwest, totally blind and full of insight, playing three saxophones at once, whistles, flute and siren at the ready on a chain around his neck. Kirk was organized turbulence stirring the air with music.” From his emergence as a major musician in the late 1950s to his death in 1977, ...
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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Eight jazz newsmakers of 2016
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
As regular readers know, this space frequently is used to preview shows from touring jazz and creative music performers coming to St. Louis. But with a relative paucity of acts visiting here in the next several weeks, today's video showcase offers something a little different: a look back at some of jazz performers who have been making news during the first half of 2016, starting with trumpeter and St. Louis native Keyon Harrold. Harrold has gotten good notices and a ...
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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Up close with the Chick Corea Trio
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, let's take a look at some video of the Chick Corea Trio with Christian McBride and Brian Blade, who will be in St. Louis to perform on Tuesday, June 21 and Wednesday, June 22 at Jazz at the Bistro. While all three musicians have played St. Louis before on multiple occasions with other groups, this will be their first performance here together. Corea, McBride and Blade made their debut as a trio in 2010 with tours of the ...
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Why The Cornet? (Revisited And Revised With Video)
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Because of circumstances too complicated and mundane to relate, there will be no Monday Recommendation today. Stuff happens. Maybe there will be a Tuesday Recommendation tomorrow. In the meantime, here is a Rifftides post that appeared nearly ten years ago. Possibly you had forgotten about it. The staff has removed outdated links and added video that is anything but outdated. Deborah Hendrick read the comment about Bix Beiderbecke having been a cornetist, not a trumpeter, and asks: “As part of ...
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Sinatra on TV: The DVDs
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
It's easy to forget how many TV specials Frank Sinatra taped over the decades. Let's just say it's dozens. A glance at his entry at IMBD.com can make your head spin. There are the ones you know, ones you don't and ones that you'd love to see in full if you could, like The Frank Sinatra Timex Show: Welcome Home, Elvis! (1960). (Actually, to view it, go here.) Now, Eagle Rock Entertainment has released four separate DVDs that collectively feature ...
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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: The legacy of Oliver Nelson
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Today, we pay a birthday tribute* to one of St. Louis' all-time jazz greats, the late saxophonist, arranger, and composer Oliver Nelson, who was born here on June 4, 1932. Called “one of the most significant jazz voices of his generation" by AllAboutJazz.com, Nelson probably is best known these days for the classic album The Blues and the Abstract Truth, which featured his now-standard tune “Stolen Moments." However, his legacy encompasses much more, as Nelson was one of the most ...
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