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John King to Record Live DVD on Friday, December 21 at BB's Jazz, Blues and Soups

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
November 17, 2012

Bassist John King (pictured), known for his work with Good 4 The Soul, saxophonist Jim Stevens, and numerous other St. Louis musicians and groups, will launch his new solo project with the recording for DVD of a live performance at 7:00 p.m. Friday, December 21 at BB's Jazz, Blues and Soups. The gig, billed as “John King - The Story of My Life," will showcase King's new band, featuring drummer Kevin Kelley, keyboardist Kyle Kelley and guitarist Steve Johnson, as ...

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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Old and New Standards from John Pizzarelli

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
November 11, 2012

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

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
November 4, 2012

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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Herb Ellis + Barney Kessel (Late '80s)

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
October 30, 2012

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Henry Jacobs and Shorty Petterstein

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
October 29, 2012

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

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
October 28, 2012

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)

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
October 26, 2012

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

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
October 21, 2012

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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