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Jane Morgan: C'est Si Bon
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
I'm on the road this week, but I have lots of goodies planned for you. Today, a fabulous video featuring Jane Morgan, who first became popular singing in France in the late 1940s. Her career in Paris was so successful that she had trouble breaking back into the U.S. market in the late 1950s. Audiences pegged her as an ex-pat French club singer. Here she is in the mid-1960s, swinging C'est Si Bon with a French bossa beat. Dig that ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Spotlight on Straight Ahead
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, we turn our video spotlight on the group Straight Ahead, who will be in St. Louis to perform next Saturday, March 25 at the Sheldon Concert Hall. The group was formed in 1989 in Detroit by bassist Marion Hayden, drummer Gayelynn McKinney, and pianist Alina Morr to back singer Miche Braden on a weekly local gig. They quickly attracted the attention of former Motown executive Sylvia Moy, who helped them get ...
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Interview: Larry Greene (Part 1)
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Back in the late 1950s, Larry and Toni Green created a series of radio jingles for WNEW-AM in New York. Larry wrote the jingle's melody line and his wife Toni wrote the lyrics. At the time, 1130 was one of the country's oldest and most loved big-band and pop stations on the dial. The jingle the Greenes had created remained a part of the station until its shuttering in 1992. The theme's breezy longevity is directly related to its carefully ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: A Herbie Hancock Retrospective
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, our featured artist is pianist and composer Herbie Hancock, who's coming to St. Louis to play next Sunday, March 18 at the Touhill Performing Arts Center. The concert is presented by Jazz St. Louis as part of their “Legends of Jazz" series at the TouPAC. Hancock is one of the few living jazz musicians who has enjoyed significant commercial success while also retaining a full measure of artistic credibility. Since his ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Catching up with Vijay Iyer
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, let's catch up with the latest on pianist and composer Vijay Iyer, who will be returning to St. Louis with his trio to perform Wednesday, March 14 through Wednesday, March 17 at Jazz at the Bistro. This will be the second time headlining at the Bistro for Iyer, who's one of the most talked-about and critically acclaimed jazz musicians of recent years. He made his St. Louis debut there in January ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: A Claudia Quintet Sampler
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Today, let's take a look at some video clips featuring the Claudia Quintet, who will be making their St. Louis debut in a concert sponsored by New Music Circle at 7:30 p.m. next Friday, March 2 at the 560 Music Center. Formed by drummer John Hollenbeck in the late 1990s to play his small group compositions with some of his favorite collaborators, the Claudia Quintet also includes Chris Speed (clarinet, tenor saxophone), Matt ...
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Tony Adamo's New Video: "Nine Miles of Blu"
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Tony Adamo
In his latest video and MP3 “Nine Miles of Blu," Tony Adamo runs the voodoo down with legendary drummer Mike Clark, and references to being in the middle of a happening jazz scene, tipping his verse to Miles' and Coltrane's “Giant Steps." Guitarist Steve Holman lays down a solid comping on this jazz trio's post-bop, with Clark sparking the track with great rhythmic ideas. The esteemed Clark also produced “Nine Miles of Blue," in which Adamo pays a verbal homage ...
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