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Music Video Premiere From Northwest Crooner George A. Santino, “Come Fly With Me”
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Sarah Biggerstaff
Northwest crooner George A. Santino releases music video for title single “Come Fly With Me,” which reached the number one position on Amazon’s Hot New Releases in Swing Jazz and is being well received by jazz, swing and big band music fans and media alike, including the Jazz Music Examiner, Northwest Prime Time, Woodinville KOMO and Redmond KOMO. The vintage-inspired music video for “Come Fly With Me” is directed by Erich Benedict for With an H Media, a Bothell-based music ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: The Return of Charlie Hunter
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
After a couple of Saturdays presenting historic videos, this week we're back on the straight-up “coming attractions" tip, and the featured artist is guitarist Charlie Hunter, who's returning to St. Louis next week to perform Friday, June 22 and Saturday, June 23 at Jazz at the Bistro. Hunter's been a relatively frequent visitor here in recent years, appearing at the Bistro in January, 2009 and again in January, 2011. (You can see more ...
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Count Basie and Fred Astaire
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In 1960, Fred Astaire hosted Astaire Time, a TV special, during which he danced in several segments to Count Basie's band. Bret Primack sent along a YouTube link to the entire show. If you're solely in the market for Basie-Astaire, however, move the space bar up to 9:49 (the band) and again to 32:08 (the band plus Joe Williams). But don't quit after Williams is done. The show is just getting started. In the next segment, Astaire dances to a ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: The Joint is Jumping with Fats Waller
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, let's take a look at some clips of pianist, singer and songwriter Thomas “Fats" Waller, whose work inspired the hit musical Ain't Misbehavin', currently being revived by Stages St. Louis. Waller made his first recordings in 1922 at the age of 18, and in just a few years became one of the most popular entertainers in the United States, performing in nightclubs and theaters, on the radio, and eventually in films. ...
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Historic Jimi Plays Berkeley Concert Documentary Now on Blu-Ray/DVD and Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Child Blu-Ray Both Coming July 10
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Sony Music Entertainment/Legacy
EXPERIENCE HENDRIX LLC & LEGACY RECORDINGS RELEASING RESTORED & NEWLY EXPANDED EDITION OF HISTORIC JIMI PLAYS BERKELEY CONCERT DOCUMENTARY ON BLU-RAY AND DVD Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Child Blu-ray Also Coming Tuesday, July 10 Experience Hendrix LLC and Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, will release a restored and newly expanded edition of Jimi Plays Berkeley, on Blu-ray and DVD, on Tuesday, July 10. An historic documentary film chronicling the two concerts Jimi Hendrix performed ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: The Genius of Louis Armstrong
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, in anticipation of Byron Stripling's gig next Saturday, June 9 at Powell Hall in which the trumpeter and singer will join forces with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra to deliver a tribute to Louis Armstrong, we're going back in time to check out some clips of Armstrong himself. (For more about Stripling, check out this Saturday video post from back in February, when he performed at Jazz at the Bistro.) The ...
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Why Most Music Startups Fail - Hypebot Sessions @ NARM
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HypeBot
Earlier this month, Hypebot hosted a series of panels during NARM's Music Biz 2012 in L.A. One, hosted by Kyle Bylin, examined of why most music startups fail and but others succeed. Why Most Music Startups Fail There is no shortage of startups working to transform how we discover, market and monetize music, but most of them will fail. Are licensing issues defeating them, or are these technologists trying to fix problems that most consumers don't really have? Moderator: Kyle ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Happy Birthday, Miles Davis!
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Today is the 86th anniversary of the birth of Miles Davis, the most famous and historically significant jazz musician to come from the St. Louis area. In tribute, today we've got six extended-length performance videos of Davis for your listening and viewing enjoyment over the holiday weekend. Representing four different decades of the trumpeter's career, some of these videos have been excerpted here before, but this is the first time they're being presented ...
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