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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Avishai Cohen's Triveni reimagines standards
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, our video spotlight shines on trumpeter Avishai Cohen, who will be in St. Louis to perform for one night only this Thursday, May 21 at Jazz at the Bistro. Cohen will be playing with his group Triveni, a trio with bassist Omer Avital and drummer Nasheet Waits that plays stripped-down versions of well-known songs from the modern jazz repertoire, along with original material in a similar style. Not to be confused with the jazz bassist of the same ...
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Catching Up With Bobby Shew
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
When trumpeter Bobby Shew left Los Angeles after years of work in big bands and the film and recording studios of L.A., he made a major commitment to education. From his home in New Mexico, he travels in the US, Asia and Europe for classes and workshops with college and high school music students. Among visits to schools in places as far-flung as Tokyo, Prague, Oulu in northern Finland and—recently—the US Pacific Northwest and southern British Columbia, he manages to ...
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Anita O'Day: Berlin, 1970
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
By 1970, Anita O'Day was over the hill. At clubs and in concert, she tended to stick with dowdy songs from the swing era that she had been singing for decades. When she took on new pop material, she tended to torture them with her famous note-bending style. And yet O'Day remained an artist throughout, sticking to her guns and treating songs not as pop singers do but as jazz musicians interpret them. Here's O'Day at the Berlin Jazz Festival ...
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Spotify Revenues Top $1 Billion, Losses Widen As Music Streamer Plans Video Launch
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HypeBot
With an Apple music relaunch right around the corner, Spotify has been busy shoring up $400 million in new funding, deep discounting paid subscriptions and now, according to multiple reports, plotting the addition of video content. Spotify revenue jumped 45% last year to $1.1 billion according to new financial reports obtained by Reuters. But operating losses also widened to $185 million USD, compared with a loss of $102 million last year. The company says product development and international expansion caused the ...
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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Regina Carter's Southern Comfort
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Today, let's check out some videos featuring violinist Regina Carter, who will be back in St. Louis next week to play Wednesday, May 13 through Saturday, May 16 at Jazz at the Bistro. Carter will be performing music from her album Southern Comfort, which was released early in 2014, not long after the last time she played the Bistro, backed by a straight-ahead piano trio, in November 2013. The Detroit native has said that Southern Comfort continues a process she ...
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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Buying in to Tim Berne's Snakeoil
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Today, let's have a look at some video clips featuring saxophonist Tim Berne and his band Snakeoil, who are coming to St. Louis to perform in a concert presented by New Music Circle next Friday, May 8 at the The Stage at KDHX. Snakeoil is the latest of several bands led by Berne, who's 60 years old and originally from Syracuse, NY. Something of a late bloomer musically, Berne didn't start playing saxophone until he was in college, focusing mostly ...
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