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A Striking "Golden Striker"

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
March 30, 2011

Rifftides readers who responded enthusiastically to the video we posted on February 22 in connection with a piece about the Modern Jazz Quartet may be absolutely delirious when they see—and hear—this one. Again, the music is John Lewis's “The Golden Striker." The video is from the same 1982 MJQ tour that produced the version recorded in Holland. This time, they were at the Alexandra Palace in London. Now, there is more than the mere suggestion of a smile from Milt ...

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Frank Sinatra: Concert Collection 7-DVD Box Set

Source: Michael Ricci
March 28, 2011

FRANK SINATRA'S GREATEST TELEVISON AND CONCERT PERFORMANCES FEATURING AN INCREDIBLE ARRAY OF GUEST STARS AND PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED MATERIAL Los Angeles, CA—Shout! Factory celebrates one of the most important and beloved entertainers of our time with the release of the 7-DVD box set Frank Sinatra: Concert Collection, which contains over 14 hours of television and concert performances from the '50s through the '80s, including four previously unreleased specials, a box-set exclusive compilation of vintage performances, and a 44-page book featuring rare ...

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Steely Dan Sunday: "Do It Again" (1972)

Source: Something Else!
March 28, 2011

The first song from the first album, and their first hit (#6, Billboard Hot 100 in 1973). The theme of people succumbing to their worst tendencies again and again is the theme that will get many return visits from the Boys of Bard. But in some ways, it's a little unlike typical Steely Dan songs: it reverbs heavily, with a shimmering electric piano and Fagen's double-tracked vocals that's recorded in a sort of evocative way. And then there's the ritualistic ...

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Music of the South

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
March 28, 2011

You are about to see a video clip of an important jazz film that hasn't been viewed by the general public in about 50 years. It's at the bottom of this post. Most people aren't even aware that the film exists, and the clip was put up yesterday on YouTube by Raymond De Felitta [pictured], director of Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris, City Island and other superb films. The video clip is one of six parts from Music ...

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Sarah Vaughan - "You're Not the Kind" (1951)

Source: Riffs on Jazz by John Anderson
March 27, 2011

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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Four from Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
March 27, 2011

Today we've got a musical video journey courtesy of Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, who will return to St. Louis for the first time in ten years this Thursday, March 31 to play at Cicero's. Formed in the early 1990s in Tulsa, JFJO originally was a funk-influenced eight-piece outfit with horn players and MCs. By 1999, they had gotten down to a trio, later becoming a quartet and weathering more personnel changes, including the ...

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Why Kenny Dorham?

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
March 26, 2011

Because it has been too long since you've heard him, and because these two videos are—by all accounts—the only ones in existence that show him playing. His rhythm section at the Golden Circle in Stockholm in 1963 was Goran Lindberg, piano; Goran Peterson, bass; and Leif Wennerstron, drums. Please disregard the lead-in advertisement and the dreadful picture quality. Let us simply be grateful that these films exist. Dorham's solo in this brief second clip is some of his most astonishingly ...

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Something Else! Featured Artist: Earth Wind and Fire

Source: Something Else!
March 25, 2011

Boasting focused, soul-lifting horns, sunburst harmonies and a thrilling propensity for shaken-up textures and rhythms, Earth Wind and Fire could do almost no wrong for a period of time in the early- to mid-1970s. The group notched eight Top 10 pop albums and eight No. 1 R&B singles to go with eight Grammy Awards. EWF was so profoundly talented, in fact, that it almost—almost—saved the Bee Gees' staggeringly wrong-headed all-star disco reinterpretation of the Beatles' “Sgt. Pepper's." That fiery creative ...

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