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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Spotlight on Jimmy Cobb
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, we train our video spotlight on the veteran drummer Jimmy Cobb, who will be in St. Louis next week to perform on Friday and Saturday at Jazz at the Bistro. He'll be playing with saxophonist Javon Jackson, pianist Cedar Walton and bassist Buster Williams in a group billed as the Jazz Collective. Cobb, who turned 82 in January, has been the subject of renewed public attention the past couple of years ...
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A Musicares Tribute to Neil Young DVD out May 31
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JamBase
FEATURING PERFORMANCES BY CROSBY, STILLS & NASH, ELVIS COSTELLO, JOHN FOGERTY, ELTON JOHN, LADY ANTEBELLUM, DAVE MATTHEWS, JAMES TAYLOR, AND MORE In January 2010, legendary singer-songwriter-performer, philanthropist and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Neil Young was honored as the MusiCares Person of the Year. The prestigious gala featured superstar artists like Dave Matthews, James Taylor, Elton John and Lady Antebellum among other notables paying tribute to the performer with inspired renditions of some of his most memorable songs. On ...
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"Take Five" a la Pakistan
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
When Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond took time out for tips from Indian musicians during their 1958 State Department tour, the exchange worked both ways. The Brubeck Quartet's tour was an important component of the cultural diplomacy the United States practiced during the Cold War. Among other inspirations Brubeck picked up on the international road more than half a century ago was the 9/8 Turkish rhythm that became the basis for his “Blue Rondo a la Turk." Desmond had long ...
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DVD: Peter Gabriel - Growing up Live (2003)
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Something Else!
By Tom Johnson Perhaps it was a reaction to claims by fans and detractors alike that Peter Gabriel's previous live offering, Secret World Live, was really more “live" than live, that Gabriel decided to both offer up untouched soundboard recordings of each show on his summer tour and to quickly release a live DVD documenting a night on this European tour. It would make sense—release the most raw audio footage in order to refute those who claimed Gabriel had to ...
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Astronaut Cady Coleman and Ian Anderson - A Flute Duet out of This World
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MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
American astronaut Catherine “Cady" Coleman and Scottish flutist Ian Anderson from the band Jethro Tull played the first-ever flute duet between Earth and space. The duet played the tune Bourree in E minor by Johann Sebastian Bach. It was in honor of Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gargarin, who became the first man to enter outer space fifty years ago today, on April 12, 1961. On that day, President Kennedy congratulated Russian Premier Khrushchev by telegram, and it marked the race between ...
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CD/DVD: Kronos Quartet - Rainbow: Music of Central Asia Vol. 8 (2010)
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Something Else!
Volume 8 in the Smithsonian Folkways series on the music of Central Asia paired the Kronos Quartent with Afghan rubâb virtuoso Homayun Sakhi and Azerbaijani father-daughter singing duo Alim and Fargana Qasimov. The results of the collaborations were almost too good to be believed. The stories of how the compositions were put together are fascinating. In the case of Quasimov, the vocalist arranged five Azerbaijani songs, adding sections for improvised vocals and instrumentals. Kronos arranger Jacob Garchik then took the ...
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Steely Dan Sunday: "Kings" (1972)
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Something Else!
Here's an early indication that Steely Dan wasn't going to dwell on romantic themes in their lyrics; songs about love in fact soon became the exception, not the rule. But a rock song about a late 12th century English ruler? Before you think that maybe the references to Richard the Lionhearted's foreign military adventures was meant to draw a parallel to the Vietnam War still raging on at the time this song came out, there's a short note about it ...
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