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Tony Bennett's Almost Birthday
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Tony Bennett's birthday is on August 3 (he'll be a majestic 88), but I couldn't wait until then to celebrate. While roaming YouTube the other night, I dipped into Tony's 1960s TV appearances. If you like what you see below, I'll tell you at the end of this post where you can see much more if you're in New York on Aug. 4... Here's Tony with Andy Williams... Here's Tony on Andy Williams' TV show singing Johnny Mandel's The ...
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Dave Lambert: Voice of Reason
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
If you want to truly understand the kind side of jazz—the side that reveres other artists, wants everyone to love the music and views improvisation as way to bring people together—you need to dig the music of Dave Lambert. Before World War II, Louis Armstrong was the chief bridge between jazz and everyday life, largely because he stood for happiness and togetherness as well as magnificent artistry. After the war, Lambert took on that role, becoming something of a Johnny ...
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Videos: Peggy Lee
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Last night, while doing some research on YouTube, I got hung up on Peggy Lee. First I started studying how the left corner of her mouth drops slightly when she sings. Then I watched her eyes, which always seem to be soaring back and forth on a swing. At any rate, let me share with you the clips that I found deep into her YouTube category... Here's Peggy Lee and Judy Garland... Here's Lee in 1954 at the Hollywood ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Alan Evans' Playonbrother
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Today, let's spend a little video time with drummer Alan Evans and his band Playonbrother, who will be in St. Louis next week to perform on Thursday, July 24 at the Gramophone. Made up of Evans, a co-founder of the funk-jazz trio Soulive, plus Danny Mayer on guitar and Beau Sasser on keyboards, Playonbrother was formed a couple of years ago as the Alan Evans Trio. They've released three albums, debuting in 2012 with Drop Hop and this year putting ...
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Weekend Extra: Brownie Speaks
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Until recently, admirers of the great trumpeter Clifford Brown heard him speak only a few words on the album The Beginning and the End. Recently, however, a YouTube contributor who identifies herself as Nespasisi posted a segment of Brown being interviewed by Willis Conover of The Voice of America. Nespasisi explains that she found the fragment “on one of my dusty old cassette tapes.” The discussion was shortly before Brown died in an automobile accident on June 27, 1956, four ...
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Drone-Shot Music Videos Attracting Attention and Driving Chart Positions
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HypeBot
Drones are being adopted in all sorts of areas to sometimes literally give a new look at things. Which means they eventually will show up in music videos. One video using a GoPro/drone combo used Sarah Brightman and Andrea Bocelli’s “Time To Say Goodbye" as background music and drove it up the charts. Another takes a fairly simple concept and capitalizes on the odd movement qualities of drones. In another tale of the charts likely to infuriate Om Malik, multiple ...
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Videos: Charlie Haden
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In the wake of Charlie Haden's death on Friday and my tribute post yesterday, I thought I'd share with you three videos of Haden being interviewed along with a previously unseen concert with Pat Metheny in 2005... Here's Charlie being interviewed by Democracy Now's Amy Goodman in 2006... Here's Haden in 2009... Here's Haden in the free jazz section of Ken Burns' Jazz documentary (thanks Greg Lee)... And here's a full performance by Haden and guitarist Pat Metheny ...
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Jazz Piano Workshop, 1965
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
The following concert in Berlin in 1965 may well be the greatest piano jazz summit ever documented on film. It featured Earl Hines, Teddy Wilson, John Lewis, Lennie Tristano, Bill Evans and Jaki Byard. I have no idea why the sound goes dead when Evans comes out, but I snooped around and found the segment elsewhere and posted it below. Just stop the first clip and start the second one, resuming the other when it's over (moving past the dead Evans ...
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