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Sat Eye Candy: Tangerine Dream
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JamBase
A NOD TO ONE OF LIVE-ELECTRONICA'S GREAT GRANDFATHERS Germany's Tangerine Dream are one of the least name-checked yet most pervasively influential bands of the late 20th century. Without their pioneering work in the 1970s, alongside kindred spirits like Can and Faust, it's hard to imagine STS9, Lotus and many of today's revered livetronica acts coming into being. Tangerine Dream injected hemoglobin into modernist sounds, a breathing ghost inside the rising machine world around them. What they helped get rolling continues ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: They've Got It Covered...
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Rather than featuring a single artist, this week's video showcase is loosely organized around the idea of St. Louis musicians covering well-known songs. First up is singer Jeanne Trevor with a rendition of Duke Ellington's “It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)," taken from a performance of fellow singer Wendy Gordon's songbook musical/cabaret show “A Jazz Heaven" at the Kranzberg Arts Center. Down below, the St. Louis Low Brass ...
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Four Maynard Ferguson Clips
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Sadly, Maynard Ferguson does not get nearly enough credit for being a bandleader and brass player of the highest order. Though somewhat commercially successful in his latter years and increasingly excitable on stage, Ferguson struggled to create a sound in the rock and disco eras that made sense. He found it in material that scorched everything he touched and that today is largely forgettable. But back in the late '50s and '60s, Ferguson was at the top of his game ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: A Stanley Clarke Sampler
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Today, we shine our video spotlight on bassist Stanley Clarke, who will be back in St. Louis to play a duo gig with pianist Hiromi Uehara starting Wednesday, February 2 through Saturday, February 5 at Jazz at the Bistro. Clarke has been in St. Louis a couple of times recently, teaming up with keyboardist George Duke in 2006 at the St. Louis Jazz and Heritage Festival, and during Return to Forever's reunion tour, ...
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Marcus Shelby's "Soul of the Movement" - New Video Now Available
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Braithwaite & Katz Communications
Check out the new video of the Marcus Shelby Orchestra live in concert, presenting snippets of an electrifying performance at Yoshi's in San Francisco, CA. It features the music of Shelby's acclaimed project, “Soul of the Movement: Meditations on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." For Marcus Shelby, history breathes music. Over the past decade, the San Francisco bassist/composer has created a series of captivating large-scale works that illuminate the accomplishments, spiritual fortitude and tribulations of African-Americans. In his debut recording ...
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