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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Six from Poncho Sanchez
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Today, let's check out some videos of percussionist Poncho Sanchez, who will be bringing his band to St. Louis to perform Wednesday, April 16 through Saturday, April 19 at Jazz at the Bistro. Last seen here in 2012 at the Greater St. Louis Jazz Festival, Sanchez and his band could be considered the standard-bearers for small-group, mainstream Latin jazz. Though the personnel has changed over the years, the group's instrumentation - three percussionists, bass, keyboards, and a three- or four-member ...
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Video: Johnny Hodges, 1969
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Johnny Hodges was an alto saxophonist who joined Duke Ellington in 1928 and developed a sweet, high-vibrato sound popularized in the 1930s by Benny Carter. He also was one of the smoothest swing improvisers on the instrument, praised by reed masters from Benny Goodman to Charlie Parker. Yesterday, I spent a few hours listening to “Rabbit," as Hodges was known, so I thought I'd share a few terrific video clips from 1969 with you... Here's Hodges with Ellington in Berlin ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: A Few Minutes with Cyrus Chestnut and Russell Malone
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, let's spend a little time with pianist Cyrus Chestnut and guitarist Russell Malone, who will be returning to St. Louis to join forces for a series of performances Wednesday, April 2 through Saturday, April 5 at Jazz at the Bistro. Both men are quite familiar to St. Louis audiences, as they first teamed up for a series of dates at the Bistro back in April 2012, and each has led their own band there several times before that. ...
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Videos: Around the World
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Today, let's take a video break and travel around the world. Here are four clips of foreign singers who are new to you or, in the case of one, you probably weren't aware she was around before her big mid-'60s hits... Here's France's Jacqueline François in 1969 singing Frank Foster's Shiny Stockings... Here's Britain's Petula Clark in 1958 singing Alone... Here's Italy's Mina Mazzini in 1966... And here's Italy's Caterina Valente, who not only could sing but ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Claire Chase and Ice
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, let's check out some videos of flautist Claire Chase and the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), who are coming to St. Louis to perform in a concert presented by New Music Circle at 7:00 p.m. Friday, April 4, at the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts. Chase, who's 36 and based in Chicago, has premiered more than 100 new works for flute, many of which were composed specifically for her. A California native who attended Oberlin College, she founded the ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Spotlight on Mwata Bowden
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, let's get acquainted with Chicago multi-instrumentalist Mwata Bowden, who's coming to St. Louis to perform with the trio Low End Theory for Washington University's Jazz at Holmes series on Thursday, March 27. Bowden plays a variety of saxophones and clarinets, flute and didgeridoo, and he'll be joined for the performance by bassist and Wash U faculty member Paul Steinbeck and drummer Gary Sykes. Bowden is associated closely with the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, having been ...
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