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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Buying in to Tim Berne's Snakeoil

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
May 3, 2015

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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Blossom Dearie: It's Spring!

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
May 1, 2015

For me, no other jazz voice sounds as much like spring than Blossom Dearie's. The jazz pianist, arranger and vocalist had a child-like timbre, which was deceptive, since in truth she was an enormously gifted pianist and vocalist. Dearie died in 2009. Here are three videos of Dearie that will make you feel like the season... Here's Dearie in Paris in 1961... Here's Dearie in Paris in 1965... And here's Dearie appearing on the BBC (if you wish, ...

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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Introducing Cécile McLorin Salvant

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
April 25, 2015

This week, our video spotlight shines on singer Cécile McLorin Salvant, who will be making her St. Louis debut with a performance next Saturday, May 2 at the Sheldon Concert Hall. Salvant, 25, is originally from Miami, and first came to wide attention in 2010 by winning first prize in the annual Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition. She then signed with Mack Avenue Records and released her debut album Womanchild in 2013. It was nominated for a Grammy Award the ...

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Gryce and Byrd's Jazz Lab

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
April 21, 2015

In the early 1950s, as the 10-inch LP began rolling out, leaders of jazz recording sessions were given top billing followed by the size of their ensemble. Hence the Miles Davis Quintet, the Thelonious Monk Quartet and the Sonny Clark Trio. As the decade continued, jazz supergroups formed with multiple star soloists. Names were either created for the group, such as the Modern Jazz Quartet and the Jazz Messengers, or names were fused, like the Clifford Brown/Max Roach Quintet. In ...

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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Gerald Cleaver & Black Host

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
April 18, 2015

Today, let's have a look at some videos featuring drummer, composer and bandleader Gerald Cleaver, whose group Black Host will be in St. Louis next Saturday, April 25 for a New Music Circle concert at The Stage at KDHX. Cleaver is a Detroit native known for his work with a wide range of artists in jazz and improvised music, including Joe Morris, Roscoe Mitchell, Miroslav Vitous, Michael Formanek, Tomasz Stanko, Lotte Anker, Craig Taborn, and many more. Black Host, just ...

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June Christy: Stars of Jazz, '58

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
April 16, 2015

In 1958, June Christy was one of the West Coast's best-known jazz-pop recording artists. At Capitol Records, where Pete Rugolo arranged many of her albums, Christy delivered songs with a sunny melancholy and breathy coolness that perfectly reflected the sighing resignation of bluesy middle-age suburbanites in Southern California. In March '58, Christy appeared on Stars of Jazz, the Los Angeles jazz TV show hosted by pianist and singer-songwriter Bobby Troup. Christy sang I Want to Be Happy and That's All ...

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Songlines Recordings Posts Richter 858 Video On You Tube

Source: GoMedia PR
April 14, 2015

Long-Form Video, Originally Featured on 2005 Album by Bill Frisell, Has Not Been Available For Viewing since Middle of 2000s In 2002 Bill Frisell was commissioned by producer David Breskin to create the music for an elaborate art book project on the great German painter Gerhard Richter. The book, Richter 858, was published in connection with a comprehensive US retrospective of Richter’s work, although it focused entirely on a recent series of eight small abstract paintings numbered 858-1 – 858-8. ...

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Rare Photos: Joe Graves, 1947

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
April 14, 2015

Betty fell in love with jazz in the 1940s. Armed with her trusted camera, she took as many photos as she could of the musicians she adored. Last week, Betty sent along a bunch of snapshots through her friend Chris, so I could share them with you. Both are avid JazzWax readers. Today, three photos of Joe Graves (above), a big band trumpeter starting in the 1940s and whose sound was a ringer for Harry James. I'm guessing the year ...

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