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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Sylvie Courvoisier and Mark Feldman
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, let's peruse some videos of pianist Sylvie Courvoisier and violinist Mark Feldman, who are coming to St. Louis to perform in a concert presented by New Music Circle on Friday, December 4 at The Stage at KDHX. The UK newspaper The Guardian in 2013 called them “both fine-tuned virtuosi whose projects sound like edgy classical chamber-music as much as improv or jazz." Courvoisier is a Swiss native, trained as a classical pianist with an early interest in traditional ...
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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Omaha Diner offers menu of reimagined hits
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
"You've got to have a gimmick" may be a hoary old show-business cliche, but there's still some truth to the idea. Building an act around a distinctive, easily understood concept can help a performer stand out, and as “gimmicks" go, the band Omaha Diner has a pretty good one. The quartet - seven-string guitarist Charlie Hunter, single-named saxophonist Skerik, drummer Bobby Previte, and trumpeter Eric Bloom, in for original member Steven Bernstein - plays only songs that have hit number ...
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10 Best Saloon Songs
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
A saloon song, by definition, is a conversation set to music that one has with oneself or with an imaginary bartender about being dumped. It doesn't matter if the “bartender" is actually listening, and the person singing it can be a man or woman. What matters most is the impression the singer leaves with the listener that he or she is nursing at a near-empty bar around closing time and sharing his or her romantic woes. When sung properly, a ...
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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Catching up with Karrin Allyson
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, let's check out some videos featuring Karrin Allyson, who returns to St. Louis next week to perform on Wednesday, November 11 and Thursday, November 12 at Jazz at the Bistro. Allyson, a Kansas City native now based in NYC, was a favorite of Jazz at the Bistro founder Barbara Rose, and performed here a number of times in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Her visits grew somewhat less frequent once she moved east, and it's been more ...
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Happy 80th, Henry Grimes
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Today is Henry Grimes's 80th birthday. While Henry is known as free jazz's most eminent bassist, he also appeared on a significant number of important mainstream jazz albums earlier in his career. Henry's sound has always been strongly supportive as a time-keeper and fiery in intensity, pushing musicians to take creative risks. As Sonny Rollins notes in his forward to Barbara Frenz's new biography of Henry, Music to Silence Music, “Henry's music, the music of the man, has been such ...
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Shirley Scott + Clark Terry
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In August 1966, organist Shirley Scott and flugelhornist Clark Terry came together to record an album for Impulse. The album, Soul Duo, also featured bassists George Duvivier and Ben Cranshaw and drummer Mickey Roker, and was recorded four months after another date together—Roll 'Em: Shirley Scott Plays the Big Bands (Impulse). Unfortunately, Soul Duo would be the only album Scott and Clark would record in a small-group format. What makes this recording special is the conversational quality of Scott's dimensional ...
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