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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Winter/Spring 2014 Jazz Preview, Part 2
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, it's part two of our winter/spring 2014 preview taking a look at some of the touring jazz and creative music performers who will be visiting St. Louis next year. Part one, published last week, covered the month of January. Today, we pick up the timeline at the start of the following month for our first clip, featuring Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, who will be returning here on Saturday, February 1 to perform at The Demo. They're seen here ...
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Anita O'Day: 1963 and 1970
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Singer Anita O'Day appeared in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1963 and Oslo, Norway, in 1970. In both cases she was in superb form—slickly wriggling into songs like a tight dress, moving above and below notes to make songs her own. As always, O'Day was in complete control and a consummate professional. Fortunately her performances were captured on film and distributed in 2009 on DVD by Naxos as part of its Jazz Icons series. Her versions of Green Dolphin Street, Lennon and ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Winter/Spring 2014 Jazz Preview, Part 1
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
As 2013 draws to a close, this week we're looking ahead to 2014 with the initial installment of a series previewing some of the touring jazz musicians who will be coming to St. Louis during the first part of next year. Once again in 2014, The Bad Plus will return to our town to be the first touring act of the year at Jazz at the Bistro, performing there starting Wednesday, January 8 and continuing through Saturday, January 11. Given ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Generations of Guitar with Bucky Pizzarelli and John Pizzarelli
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Today, our video spotlight shines on father-and-son guitarists Bucky Pizzarelli and John Pizzarelli, who will be in St. Louis to perform together Wednesday, December 18 through Saturday, December 21 at Jazz at the Bistro. Both men have headlined individually at the venue before - Bucky was there most recently in 2007, while John has been a regular visitor to St. Louis, last playing at the Bistro in November 2012 and also appearing in recent years at the Sheldon Concert Hall ...
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Even More Big Tenors
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Since I'm now tenor crazy after featuring great saxophonists all week, I went in search of video featuring even mightier reed players. How about Dexter Gordon, Budd Johnson, Buddy Tate, Illinois Jacquet and Arnett Cobb on the same stage engaging in a tenor battle? Here's the clip. Jacquet is in the cream suit, Tate is in the checked suit, Johnson is in the gray leather jacket over the brown shirt, Gordon is in the blue jacket and blue polka-dot shirt ...
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Arnett Cobb: Tough Tenor
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
It's shaping up to be tenor sax sort of week. After all that Charlie Ventura over the past bunch of days, I found myself in the mood for Arnett Cobb. Born in Houston, Cobb played in locally bands until 1942, when he joined the Lionel Hampton Orchestra. Cobb played with Hampton until 1947—a critical period during which Hampton laid track for R&B and all the excitement and showmanship that would follow. Cobb started his own band in the early '50s ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Drums Along the Mississippi, or City of Raijins
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
When Dennis Owsley wrote a history of jazz in St. Louis a few years ago, he titled his book City of Gabriels in recognition of the trumpeters from the area, including Miles Davis, Clark Terry and Lester Bowie, who have had a significant impact on jazz music, both here and around the globe. While that trumpet tradition continues through the work of nationally and internationally recognized musicians like Jeremy Davenport, Russell Gunn, Keyon Harrold, Jim Manley, and others, in recent ...
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Video: Lighthouse All-Stars, 1958
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
The Lighthouse All-Stars was the house band at the Lighthouse in Hermosa Beach, Calif., that was formed in the early 1950s by bassist Howard Rumsey, who managed the club. Many top musicians who relocated to Los Angeles in the early 1950s played in the band while “working off their card"—an expression that meant waiting the required six months before qualifying for membership in the local musicians union. The Lighthouse All-Stars made many recordings and were responsible for solidifying what would ...
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