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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Introducing The Necks
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
For this week's video showcase, it's time to check out The Necks, who will be making their St. Louis debut in a concert presented by New Music Circle at 8:00 p.m. Saturday, March 26 at The Stage at KDHX. Touted as “one of the great Australian underground acts," The Necks are a trio featuring Chris Abrahams on keyboards, Tony Buck on drums, and Lloyd Swanton on bass. Since forming in the 1980s, they've released 18 albums, the most recent of ...
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The George Martin Touch
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Yesterday I posted a remembrance and appreciation of the late producer George Martin, along with recollections from the time I spent with him at his summer estate in the English countryside in August 2012 for the Wall Street Journal. Let's end the week with 12 of my favorite songs produced by Sir George. Be sure to pay close attention to the openings of each one: Here's Cilla Black's Love of the Loved (1963), written by Lennon and McCartney... Here's ...
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Last Message of Pres: 1959
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Last week I received an email from filmmaker Henry Ferrini, who is busy making a documentary on Lester Young. He sent along a clip in which he features Young playing I Can't Get Started from March 1959 and the tenor saxophonist being interviewed by jazz journalist François Postif. The music is beautiful and Young's words about being African-American in the U.S. and Paris are harrowing. Let's give a look and listen... Here are all the tracks from Le Dernier ...
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Wexler's Blues Picks: 1950
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
I was doing some research recently for a project I'm working on and happened to read an article that Jerry Wexler wrote for the Saturday Review in June 1950. Wexler, who would become a partner in Atlantic Records in 1953 and emerge as one of the top R&B producers in the 1950s and '60s, had just convinced his bosses at Billboard magazine to change all mentions of “Race Records" in its charts to “Rhythm and Blues." In the article, entitled ...
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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Dee Dee Bridgewater and Irvin Mayfield
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Today, let's look at some videos of singer Dee Dee Bridgewater and trumpeter Irvin Mayfield, who are coming to St. Louis to perform starting Wednesday, March 16 and continuing through Saturday, March 19 at Jazz at the Bistro. Already well-established as individual artists, Bridgewater and Mayfield joined forces for the first time in 2015 to collaborate on the album Dee Dee's Feathers, which features the two of them with the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra and assorted guest stars playing songs ...
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Popular TV Talk Show Host And Singer Oleg Frish Celebrates 20th Anniversary In Media With New Single & Video "The Things We Did Last Summer, From "Duets With My American Idols"
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Miles High Productions
Oleg Frish, the acclaimed New York based radio and talk show host and singer/performer is celebrating his 20th Anniversary in media this year. Since moving from Russia to New York to premiere his weekly talk show on Russian Television International (RTVi) he has interviewed over 2,000 music stars, celebrities, and many of his personal American idols including; the late James Brown, B.B. King and Donna Summer, Connie Francis, Engelbert Humperdinck, and Kenny G, to name just a few. Frish is ...
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