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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: The Basics of Basie
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
With the Count Basie Orchestra set to close out the 2014 Greater St. Louis Jazz Festival with a concert on Saturday, April 26 at the Touhill Performing Arts Center, our mission here today is a simple one: To share performances of a half-dozen of the most famous and enduring arrangements from the Basie band's repertoire. Although the band's appearance here will mark 30 years to the day since Basie himself passed away, a series of musicians steeped in the Count's ...
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First Ancient Future Studio Video Released On Earth Day
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Matthew Montfort
Ancient-Future.Com Records Presents: Yearning for the Wind By Ancient Future Yearning for the Wind is the first brand new Ancient Future studio recording released to the general public since 2002's Planet Passion. It isn't that Ancient Future hasn't been active. Indeed, Ancient Future has recorded over three hours of music in this period, much of it live. But rather than release it all in a market where a low value is placed on music while ...
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Benny Goodman: Denmark, 1981
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In 1981, Benny Goodman appeared at the Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen. It was billed as his last performance, but it wasn't. His final concert was held at the State University of New York in Purchase, N.Y. in January 1986. Goodman was joined at the Tivoli by Sven Osmussen, Chaly Antolini, Don Hass, Jimmy Maxwell, Harry Pepe and Peter Witte. [Photo of Benny Goodman above in 1981 by Ebet Roberts/Redferns] Here's Goodman in Denmark, with a special thanks to John Cooper ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: In the Tradition with Catherine Russell
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Today, let's get acquainted with singer Catherine Russell, who will be making her St. Louis debut as a headliner next Saturday, April 19 at the Sheldon Concert Hall. Russell is from New York, born in 1956 to Luis Russell, a pianist, composer and longtime bandleader for Louis Armstrong, and Carline Ray, a bassist and vocalist who performed with Mary Lou Williams and the International Sweethearts of Rhythm. While she's been active in the music business for many years, Russell's career ...
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Researchers Claim That Releasing Youtube Music Videos Reduces Album Sales
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HypeBot
A new report on the relationship of posting videos on YouTube and album sales claims that posting on YouTube reduces album sales. Taking the Warner Music YouTube blackout period in 2009, researchers apply advanced statistical methods to find causation and then total up losses using a “rough back-of-the-envelope calculation." This innovative use of mixed methods leads them to conclude that lots of sales of top-charting albums are being missed by labels who post on YouTube. Here's the title I should ...
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Johnny Hodges and Will Bill
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Exceptional jazz musicians win us over with a warm tone, lyrical lines, a feel for the blues, respect for space, sheer speed or stamina—to name just a handful of winning traits. But not all exceptional jazz musicians work well together and only a bunch of couplings have produced dazzling results. Perfect partnerships that come to mind include Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, Billie Holiday and Lester Young, Max Roach and Clifford Brown, John Coltrane and McCoy Tyner, Blue Mitchell and ...
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