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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Tuning in to Robert Glasper
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, let's take a look at some video clips featuring keyboardist Robert Glasper, who's bringing his group the Experiment back to St. Louis to perform Wednesday, April 22 and Thursday, April 23 at Jazz at the Bistro. Glasper, a native of Houston who turned 37 just last week, will be returning here for the first time since making his local debut in February 2012 at the Bistro. (That first gig was a long time in the making. Jazz St. ...
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Gerry Mulligan At Brecon
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Gerry Mulligan would have been 88 years old today. Until a year or so before his death in 1996, Mulligan was playing and writing at the top of his game. To remember him, let’s listen to one of the classic compositions played by his quartet at the Brecon, Wales, Jazz Festival in 1991. Here’s Mulligan’s “Walking Shoes” with Bill Mays, piano; Dean Johnson, bass and Dave Ratajczak, drums. For an entire Mulligan concert a year earlier at the Bern, Switzerland, ...
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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: A John Abercrombie Sampler
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, our video spotlight shines on guitarist John Abercrombie, who will be in St. Louis this coming Tuesday, April 7 to perform for the Jazz at Holmes series at Washington University. Abercrombie, who turned 70 last December, has been a significant force on the jazz scene since the turn of the 1970s, working with Billy Cobham, the Brecker Brothers, Jack DeJohnette, Dave Holland and many other well-known musicians, and recording dozens of albums as a leader as part of ...
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Hank Mobley: Just Coolin'
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Before the Wrecking Crew, Funk Brothers or any of the other session bands in the pop-rock and soul era, there was Blue Note. Back in the early 1950s, Alfred Lion came up with the concept of a steadily employed stable of musicians who would record in different configurations for his label. It was ingenious, really, and born out of necessity. With the 12-inch LP in full swing by 1955, labels needed a ton of music to remain competitive. Each side ...
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The Hidden Bill Holman
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Yesterday I posted on three little known powerhouse albums with arrangements by Bill Holman (above). Today, I'm turning you on to a superb album from 2012 that Tom Lord's Jazz Discography wasn't aware featured Bill's work: The Pete Christlieb & Linda Small 11-Piece Band's Tall & Small: High on U (Bosco). Christlieb (above) is a West Coast saxophonist who has played and recorded with big bands and small groups since 1965, when he bean with Si Zentner. That's his tenor ...
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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Person of interest
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Today, let's look at some videos featuring saxophonist and St. Louis native Eric Person, who's coming back home for the first time in five years to perform in a free concert for the Jazz at Holmes series at Washington University this coming Thursday, April 2. Person, who's now 51, grew up in North County and began playing local jazz gigs while still attending Normandy High School. After graduation, he moved to NYC in 1982, and over the next decade refined ...
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Doug Raney: Phantom Guitarist
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
When talk turns to the finest guitarists of the post-war years, Jimmy Raney often is overlooked. So is his son, Doug. Jimmy Raney was born in Louisville, Ky., in 1927, and watched his mother play guitar in the 1930s. Raney studied with guitarist Hayden Causey, eventually replacing him in Jerry Wald's band, where he made his first recordings in 1944. In Chicago he worked with pianist Lou Levy and then joined Woody Herman in 1948. After leaving Herman's orchestra in ...
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