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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: A Lake Weekend
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Having spent last Saturday looking at the latest project from saxophonist David Sanborn, today we're checking in on another alto player from St. Louis, Oliver Lake. This particular weekend, the former member of the Black Artists Group and co-founder of the World Saxophone Quartet is out in Oakland at a venue called Duende, doing four shows in four days with four different configurations of musicians. More generally, Lake has been staying active both in the physical world, where he gigs ...
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10 Transistor Radio Hits
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
When I was a kid growing up in New York in the 1960s, July 4th meant playground sprinklers, visits to Palisades Amusement Park, nok-hockey, stickball, fathers wearing plaid shirts and shorts with black socks and shoes, and the brown radio in my bedroom. Listening to that radio, day and night, in July and August, I came to equate the rites of summer with specific singles. To this day, whenever I hear them, a powerful feeling sweeps over me—the sound of ...
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Watch Vocalist Alma Micic's New Music Video "Tonight"
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Alma Micic
New York based, Belgrade born jazz vocalist and songwriter Alma Micic has released her 2nd music video for the single “Tonight" from her upcoming third studio album. The video was filmed by acclaimed NYC cinematographer Joseph Zizzo who directed and edited it as well. The song was produced by guitarist Doug Wamble who also plays on it, mixed by James Farber at Island Shelter Studios and mastered by Greg Calbi of Sterling Sound. Her highly anticipated third album Tonight is ...
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JazzVid: Woody Shaw
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Between Woody Shaw's Muse albums in the '70s and '80s, he recorded for Columbia. One of his albums for the label was Stepping Stones, recorded live at the Village Vanguard in August 1978. On there was a song called Seventh Avenue, that captured the sounds of frantic traffic, harried pedestrians and a decaying city that was running out of money. Here's the sizzling Woody Shaw Quintet—Woody Shaw (tp), Carter Jefferson (ss), Onaje Allan Gumbs (p), Stafford James (b) and Victor ...
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Weekend Extra: Dizzy Gillespie and Red Mitchell
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
The image to the left captures a moment in a short, happy period in thehistories of two major figures in the jazz of the late twentieth century. In 1970 bassist Red Mitchell joined Dizzy Gillespie’s quintet for a European tour that included concerts in Holland and France. When I recently visited Mike Longo in New York, he recalled the tour as one of the highlights of his eight years as Gillespie’s pianist and music director. Guitarist George Davis and drummer ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: David Sanborn and Bob James Team up Again for Quartette Humaine
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
With a paucity of touring jazz musicians coming to St. Louis for the next couple of weeks, and thus no upcoming shows to preview in this space, this seems like an opportune time to take a closer look at Quartette Humaine, the latest album from saxophonist and St. Louis native David Sanborn. The collaborative effort with keyboardist Bob James (who grew up in the northwest Missouri town of Marshall) is the first time the two have recorded together since their ...
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Dinah Washington on Video
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Of all the many female jazz singers, Dinah Washington remains the most contemporary. Her voice was always cocked and loaded, her phrasing was akin to the sound of a getaway car, and her attitude told you she was not only charge but that you didn't really have a say. Washington was the embodiment of the crossover singer-storyteller—sliding effortlessly between R&B, jazz and pop without ever giving up her soul. Unfortunately, too few of her performances exist on film. The problem ...
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