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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Old and New Standards from John Pizzarelli
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Once again, this week we're taking a look at some fresh video footage of a musician very familiar to St. Louis fans. That's guitarist and singer John Pizzarelli, who's coming back at the end of the month to perform Wednesday, November 28 through Saturday, December 1 at Jazz at the Bistro. Pizzarelli, the son of jazz guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli, has played St. Louis numerous times in recent years, appearing previously at the Sheldon ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Six from Joey Defrancesco
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Today, we're checking in once again with organist Joey DeFrancesco, who will be back in St. Louis to perform Wednesday, November 14 through Saturday, November 17 at Jazz at the Bistro. At this point, most St. Louis jazz fans likely are familiar with DeFrancesco, who's played here numerous times over the years, most recently in August 2011 as part of an extended tour backing David Sanborn. His more recent local gig as a ...
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Henry Jacobs and Shorty Petterstein
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
With Hurricane Sandy bearing down on New York, I thought it only fitting to visit with another Sandy—Henry Sandy Jacobs. He's a sound artist and humorist who in the 1950s all but invented the hipster comedy album on the West Coast. His Wide Weird World of Shorty Petterstein featured funny fictional conversational encounters between clueless squares and all-knowing hipsters. The point was to poke gentle fun at both the middle-brow inquisitor and the eccentric jazz musician. For more on Jacobs, ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: A Terell Stafford Sampler
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
As mentioned earlier here in this space, it's been a good fall season in St. Louis for fans of jazz trumpet, with gigs from the likes of Terence Blanchard, Wynton Marsalis, Christan Scott and Mike Metheny already completed and more to come. More specifically, last week we featured some videos of the sextet of Taylor Ho Bynum (technically a cornetist, not a trumpeter), who will be here next Saturday to perform at Luminary ...
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Nat King Cole in the U.K. (1963)
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Make yourself a nice cup of tea, grab a few cookies and get comfortable. You're about to be transported back 50 years to a different era, when only talented, optimistic entertainers had access to television and their charm was a welcome guest in your home. The following clip runs about 40 minutes and features An Evening With Nat King Cole, a BBC-TV show that aired in the U.K. in 1963. Cole was backed by the superb Ted Heath Orchestra and guest ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Meet the Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, let's get acquainted with the Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet, who will be making their St. Louis debut in a concert presented by New Music Circle on Saturday, November 3 at Luminary Center for the Arts. Bynum, a 37-year-old cornet and trumpet player from Boston, first became widely known in the jazz world for his association with multi-instrumentalist and composer Anthony Braxton, with whom he studied while attending Wesleyan University in the ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Wynton Marsalis' "Swing Symphony"
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, we're taking take a look at, and a listen to, a single extended composition: Wynton Marsalis' “Swing Symphony," written by the trumpeter to be performed by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra plus a full symphony orchestra. Completed in 2010, the work was premiered by Marsalis, JaLCO and the Berlin Philharmonic in June of that year. That concert was broadcast by PBS here in the USA, and “Swing Symphony" subsequently has ...
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