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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: You Can Call Him Al
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
With more than 35 years as a top recording artist and a number of radio hits to his credit, singer Al Jarreau likely needs no introduction to most readers of this site. Jarreau, who turns 71 next month, has performed in St. Louis many times, and he'll be back here next Friday, February 11 to play the Touhill Performing Arts Center under the auspices of Jazz St. Louis. To mark the occasion, today ...
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Joey Defrancesco Trio - "Fly Me to the Moon" (1999)
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Riffs on Jazz by John Anderson
Al Di Meola: Tour Dates; Video w/Rodrigo Y Gabriela
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JamBase
TOUR STARTS FEBRUARY 17 IN AGOURA, CALIFORNIA Legendary guitar virtuoso Al Di Meola joined rising young stars Rodrigo y Gabriela onstage in Paris for an intimate performance. The Mexican guitar duo sat down before the show to talk about what playing with guitar master Di Meola meant to them. Check out the video below. Fans can catch Di Meola this Winter and Spring, as he tours behind his upcoming release, Pursuit of Radical Rhapsody, out March 15 on Telarc International, ...
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Striding Ahead with Monk
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Following Stephanie Link's performance in the January 31 exhibit, perhaps you were wondering about stride piano's influence on modern jazz. Wonder no more. Kindly pay attention to Thelonious Monk's left hand. Monk was a busy fella at the Berlin Jazztage in 1969. He played several pieces by Duke Ellington and some of his own. The Berliners also teamed him Joe Turner, not the singer but one of the last of the authentic masters of the first stride generation. Monk and ...
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Neat Trick
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Leave it to the piano players to know who the piano players are. Slightly more than a year ago, Alan Broadbent introduced Rifftides readers to Chris Dawson. Now, Alan alerts us to Stephanie Trick of St Louis, Missouri. She studied classical piano from the age of five. When she was 10, her teacher introduced her to ragtime and stride. She fell in love with the genre and mastered it, and now the worldwide network of stride enthusiasts is in love ...
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