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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Spotlight on Gregory Porter
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, let's get acquainted with singer Gregory Porter, who will be making his St. Louis debut with performances starting next Thursday, January 4 through Sunday, January 7 at Jazz at the Bistro. Porter's 2010 debut album Water created something of a sensation in the jazz world and beyond, and the response to Be Good, the follow-up record released earlier this year, only has helped fuel the buzz. At a time when plenty of male jazz singers are content to ...
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Nat King Cole: Italy 1960
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
The other day I received a fabulous YouTube link from Dick LaPalm, Nat King Cole's record promoter. [Photo above: Nat King Cole with wife Maria] Before you watch, here are Dick's notes ... “The song Non Dimenticar [Do Not Forget] was written in 1950 by Italy's Michele Gladieri and Paulo Redi. Originally titled T'ho Voluto Bene, the song first appeared in the 1951 classic Italian film Anna, starring Silvana Mangano. The new title and English lyric is the work of ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Winter/Spring 2013 Jazz Preview, Part 3
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Today, it's part 3 of our video preview offering samples of some of the touring jazz and creative musicians who will be coming to St. Louis during the first part of 2013. (Part 1 of the preview is here and part 2 is here.) Most of the musicians spotlighted in this week's installment may need little introduction to St. Louis jazz fans, as they've all played here at some point in the recent past, some multiple times. For example, the ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Winter/Spring 2013 Jazz Preview, Part 2
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, we continue with part 2 of our look at some of the touring jazz and creative musicians who will be coming to St. Louis during the first few months of 2013. (You can see part 1 of the preview here.) Today's first clip features Sachal Vasandani singing “Take The B Train" in a show this past April at Joe's Pub in NYC. Vasandani, acclaimed as one of the top young male vocalists in jazz, will come to St. ...
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Eddie Palmieri, Jazz Master
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
On January 14, the pioneering Latin jazz artist Eddie Palmieri will be among those honored by the National Endowment for the Arts as 2013 NEA Jazz Masters. The others are pianist, singer and songwriter Mose Allison; alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson; Owner Lorraine Gordon of New York’s Village Vanguard; and writer A. B. Spellman. Tonight and tomorrow night, Palmieri is being recognized by Jazz at Lincoln Center in concerts reprising the 76-year-old pianist’s career. From the JALC announcement: On this evening, ...
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Brubeck: Things Ain't What They Used to Be
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
With Dave Brubeck’s passing, interesting bits of arcana about his life and music are rising to the surface. BBC Radio 4 replayed a portion of an interview from 2000 on the network’s Front Row program with John Wilson. Brubeck tells Wilson about the role of vitamin B-6 in saving his hands and the unusual use of a bungee cord in his exercise routine. He illustrates polytonalityby playing a bit of Duke Ellington’s “Things Ain’t What They Used To Be” in ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Winter/Spring 2013 Jazz Preview
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
As we head into the final weeks of 2012, let's take a look at some of the touring jazz and creative musicians who will be coming to St. Louis during the first part of 2013. Though there will be more extensive previews here of many of these performances as we go along, this post and its sequels over the next couple of weeks should help give you a quick overview of what's coming up next. We start up above with ...
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Americana Artist Shows Humorous Side On New Video
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Eric Taylor
It was merely three years ago that indie-folk artist Agnes Ingarra decided to enter the fitness world. She lost nearly 40 pounds and won fifth place at the Washington State Iron Man in 2011. Since then, Ingarra has used YouTube to offer advice and inspiration to everyone who is having difficulties getting in shape; with her engaging personality and witty lines, Ingarra has taken what many feel to be an impossible task into a realistic and, perhaps more importantly, fun ...
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