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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Introducing Shana Tucker
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Today, let's get acquainted via video with singer, cellist, and guitarist Shana Tucker, who will be making her St. Louis debut sharing a bill with R&B singer Kenya McGuire Johnson at 7:30 p.m. next Saturday, July 19 at the Kranzberg Arts Center. Originally from Amityville, NY, Tucker studied music at Howard University and Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music and got her professional start playing around DC and NYC with the string trio Hue. That group opened for acts including Hamiet ...
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Videos: Art Tatum at the Piano
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Speaking of jazz piano, fans may be unaware that videos of Art Tatum in action exist and that the piano master also appeared in a couple of movies. There's also tape of Tatum's voice, which turns a name on a record label into a warm and charming guy... Here's Tatum at New York's 3 Deuces, at 72 W. 52nd St.... Here's Tatum playing Yesterdays... Here's Tatum in The Fabulous Dorseys. The personnel can be seen in the first ...
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Bill Evans on Video: 1965-66
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
My favorite years for Bill Evans were 1965 and '66. There's a maturity, elegance and confidence in his playing that reached a peak then, as well as an innocence and humility that makes the music endearing. Songs were chosen well and explored with swinging depth at each playing. Yesterday I came across three new Bill Evans videos from this period at YouTube that you may have missed, with Danish drummer Alex Riel on two of them... Here's Evans in 1965 ...
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Wolfgang's Vault Bringing 12,000 More Concert Videos to Youtube Channel
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HypeBot
Wolfgang's Vault is a memorabilia and merch store that has long included streaming audio of live shows via its Concert Vault. In the spring they added Music Vault, a YouTube channel that features both full concerts and single live songs from the late 70s to today. While their website tends to focus on the late 60s through the 70s, Music Vault reveals what appears to be a larger range of related music. Now Music Vault is adding 12,000 more live ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Celebrating Louis Armstrong
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
As the USA celebrates Independence Day this weekend, today StLJN pays tribute to the legendary trumpeter and vocalist Louis Armstrong, who throughout his lifetime claimed to have been born on July 4, 1900. Though researchers in the 1980s uncovered information showing that Armstrong's true date of birth was in fact August 4, 1901, the tradition of celebrating his birthday along with the nation's on the Fourth of July continues to this day. Of course, Armstrong's legacy would be worth honoring ...
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Independence Day with Fischer and Cohn
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Today, the United States of America is celebrating the 238th anniversary of its independence. Rifftides observes the 4th of July with two versions of the song that many Americans wish was the national anthem. Pianist Clare Fischer arranged the first for his 1967 album Songs For Rainy Day Lovers. The second version is by tenor saxophonist Al Cohn with Barry Harris, piano; Sam Jones, bass; and Leroy Williams, drums. footnote: Al Cohn recorded “America The Beautiful” in 1976 as part ...
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Russ Freeman: West Coast Poet
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Russ Freeman was one of the most recorded ensemble pianists on the West Coast in the 1950s and one of the most poetic. His first recording was with Charlie Parker at a Los Angeles club in 1947, but once the LP made inroads in the early 1950s, Freeman recorded steadily with Chet Baker, John Graas, Shorty Rogers, Maynard Ferguson, Shelly Manne and many other artists. Freeman died in 2002 at age 75. Here are a few clips of Freeman's pretty ...
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How to Write a Hit Pop Song: Comedian Offers Funny, Sadly Accurate Formula [video]
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