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Butch Morris -- Tonight
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Sorry for the late notice, but I just found out about this. The adventurous radio station KBOO-FM in Portland, Oregon, is broadcasting a six-part series about the musician Butch Morris. The second part is this evening—soon. For how to tune in, go to the end of this piece. Morris is not merely a composer, arranger, bandleader or conductor. Or he is all of those things and more. Our colleague Howard Mandel, a specialist on the avant-garde, says Morris's music “is ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Happy New Year with the Bad Plus
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Once again in 2011, the eclectic piano trio The Bad Plus will be the first performers of the new year at Jazz at the Bistro, where they'll appear Wednesday, January 5 through Saturday, January 8. TBP's latest CD Never Stop came out in September, and it's likely that their St. Louis sets will include ample helpings of material from that recording. So, today we've got some video clips of some recent performances of ...
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"Big Bands on the Edge-Video One"
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Brilliant Corners, a Boston Jazz Blog
By Steve Provizer In 1989, I got an irresistible urge to lose a lot of money and produced a concert called “Big Bands On The Edge" at the Emerson Majestic Theatre in Boston. The bands were: Either Orchestra (Russ Gershon, leader), Orange Then Blue (George Schuller, leader) and Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra (Darrell Katz and Ken Schaphorst, leaders). Also featured was alto sax soloist Julius Hemphill. In all, over 50 musicians participated. In this particular video, some members from each ...
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Other Matters: Ciccolini Plays Satie
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Many Rifftides readers may be familiar with Erik Satie's “Gymnopédie No. 1" because performers including Jessica Williams, Jacques Loussier, Ximo Tébar and Herbie Mann with Bill Evans have recorded jazz or near-jazz versions of that classic of French music. It has not become a jazz standard, but it has assumed a modest place in the repertoire. For those who have not heard the piece as Satie wrote it in 1888, here it is, played by the eminent Satie interpreter Aldo ...
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