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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Spotlight on Tony Conrad
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, let's look at some video clips of musician, composer and multimedia artist Tony Conrad, who will be in St. Louis for a performance sponsored by New Music Circle next Saturday, December 3 at White Flag Projects. Conrad, 71, originally is from New Hampshire and has a background in math and computer programming. He has been making music and art since the 1960s. His film The Flicker (1966) is considered an important early example of the structural film movement, ...
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Order Jazz Icons 5 (6-DVD Set) - Includes Coltrane's "Ascension," Monk Solo and more!
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Michael Ricci
Mosaic Records announces the release of the Jazz Icons (Series #5) box set, containing six stunning, historically significant jazz performances from the archives of French television with superior video and audio quality. Pre-Order Now! John Coltrane—Live In France 1965 features the Classic John Coltrane Quartet at the peak of their powers. Includes the only public performance of “Ascension" as a quartet piece and of A Love Supreme which they'd recorded eight months earlier and had become an instant and influential ...
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The Rolling Stones - Some Girls: Live in Texas '78 DVD (2011)
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Something Else!
Early on, Mick Jagger told an interviewer: “We were blues purists who liked ever-so-commercial things but never did them onstage because we were so horrible and so aware of being blues purists, you know what I mean?" With Some Girls, the Rolling Stones embraced those mainstream undercurrents, moving as far as they yet had from the earthen rhythm and blues that provided a bed-rock inspiration for the band's sound. After a few years of unfocused meanderings following the druggy somnambulism ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Ramsey Lewis, then and Now
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Today, let's look at some performance videos from throughout the long career of pianist Ramsey Lewis, who will be in St. Louis with his Electric Band to perform Wednesday, November 30 through Saturday, December 3 at Jazz at the Bistro. Lewis, 76, is a Chicago native who first gained wide attention in the 1960s with a series of hit singles that included the gospel-inflected “Wade In The Water" and bluesy versions of then-current ...
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Ray Charles - Live in France 1961 DVD (2011)
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Something Else!
Ray Charles, by this point, had left Atlantic for ABC-Paramount and was well on his way to becoming one of the 20th century's most important crossover artists—dabbling in everything from country to big band to adult contemporary music. Make no mistake, though, Charles was still a musician of staggering talent in the straight-ahead jazz idiom—as lovingly underscored in these never-before-seen DVD performances from Eagle Vision filmed at the Antibes Jazz Festival in July of 1961. Charles, appearing on a bill ...
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How to Add Your Tracks to Vimeo Video Music Store
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HypeBot
Have you heard about the Vimeo Music Store where you can legally license and purchase music to add to your Vimeo videos? This is big news because Vimeo is a popular site for stylish, cool, and engaged video creators. That means that they care about the sound and the quality of the music in their videos. ...users obtain a Creative Commons license or buy licenses for non-commercial and commercial use. At the start, Vimeo is offering more than 45,000 tracks from many ...
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