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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Fall 2014 Jazz Preview, Part 2
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Today, it's part two of StLJN's video preview of the touring jazz and creative music performers who will be playing in St. Louis this fall. You can find part 1, which covered the month of September, here. The first videos up above feature trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, who will be returning here on Friday, October 3 and Saturday, October 4 to re-open the newly renovated and expanded Jazz at the Bistro. These two clips ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Fall 2014 Jazz Preview, Part 1
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, StLJN presents the first part of our video preview of the fall 2014 season of jazz and creative music in St. Louis. Today's installment covers the touring bands and musicians visiting during the month of September. First up is a clip featuring Roomful of Teeth, the Grammy winning new music vocal ensemble, performing Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw's “Passacaglia" in June 2009 at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. They'll be in St. Louis for a concert next ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: 2014 Fall Jazz Preview, Part 1
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, StLJN presents the first part of our video preview of the fall 2014 season of jazz and creative music in St. Louis. Today's installment covers the touring bands and musicians visiting during the month of September. First up is a clip featuring Roomful of Teeth, the Grammy winning new music vocal ensemble, performing Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw's “Passacaglia" in June 2009 at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. They'll be in St. Louis for a concert next ...
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Jim Henson's "Drums West" Animation
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Michael Ricci
Watch How Jim Henson Animated Jazz With Tiny, Dancing Strips of Paper Before he achieved fame with the Muppets, Jim Henson, a skilled animator as well as a puppeteer, was making all sorts of innovative work out of his home studio, in Bethesda, Md. Around 1961, he made the papercut animation above, which visualized jazz drummer Chico Hamilton's “Drums West." Released last year by the Jim Henson Company, the video was only recently rediscovered. At the end you can catch ...
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Seven Women Who Could
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
After my post on Wanda Stafford yesterday, I wandered onto YouTube in search of more women in jazz. Here are six instrumentalists who could more than hold their own: Here's Beryl Booker on piano... Here's Hazel Scott with Charles Mingus on bass and Rudy Nichols on drums, circa 1955. Here's Mary Lou Williams in the 1970s... Here's Mary Osborne in 1958 on Art Ford's Jazz Party... Here's Marian McPartland on the BBC's Jazz 625 in 1964... ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: New Orleans Piano with Tom McDermott
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, let's take a look at some videos featuring pianist Tom McDermott, a St. Louis native now living in New Orleans who's coming back home to play this coming Thursday, August 14 at the Tavern of Fine Arts. (The events page on hHis website also shows a gig on Wednesday, August 13 at Joe's Cafe, but none of the three websites associated with that venue make any mention of it, and there don't seem to be any listings of ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Summer 2014 Jazz Film Festival
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
It's summertime, when the livin' is allegedly easy, and yr. humble editor needs a brief respite from the usual blogging routine. So today, in keeping with a venerable tradition that we just made up a couple of years ago, we're bringing back StLJN's online summer festival of jazz-related films, featuring a whole day's worth of documentaries about some all-time greats of jazz. . First up is On The Road with Duke Ellington, filmed in 1967 by documentarian Robert Drew and ...
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New York Worlds Fairs
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Back when Americans looked forward to a future loaded with technology designed to liberate us from the tedium of work, New York hosted two World's Fairs, one in 1939-40 and another in 1964-65. Both business to showcase what it had imagined about tomorrow and what we could expect in short order. Everyone was excited and impatient. Ironcially, both fairs came just prior to major global upheavals—World War II and the counterculture revolution. In this regard, they were World Unfairs. I ...
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