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The Staxx Brothers: Corn Rows for Christmas
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JamBase
HEY, SANTA GOTTA FIT INTO COMPTON, TOO! Just when one thinks they've discovered all there is to adore about Seattle's premiere funkanauts The Staxx Brothers, they turn up with a holiday corker like this. The video was recorded at our producer Scott Colburn's studio and filmed by Nakean Wickliff. Merry Christmas, y'all! Staxx will embark on a West Coast with fellow soul-ders The Pimps of Joytime in January. Here's the dates: Jan 19 ...
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Sat Eye Candy: 'Tis the Season
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JamBase
IT BEATS A STOCKING FULL OF COAL Christmas music is what it is. Here's some for you! ...
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Holiday Cheer(S)!: Here's Somethingelse for Christmas
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Something Else!
By Something Else Reviews After a long winter's nap, let's rock a while to some of our Yuletide favorites—from the jazzy (Ramsey Lewis and Joe Pass) to the downhome (Koko Taylor and Kermit Ruffins), from the offbeat (the Temptations tearing up “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer") to the undiscovered (Erwilian, a terrific new find) ... Click through the album titles for more—and to all a good night! JOE PASS—SIX STRING SANTA (1992): Christmas ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Christmas with the Funky Butt Brass Band
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Today, in keeping with the season, we feature four clips of St. Louis' Funky Butt Brass Band having fun with some holiday-themed material. First up is a video recorded earlier this month at the Blues City Deli, featuring a medley that incorporates “Jingle Bells," “Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer," “The Little Drummer Boy," “Here Comes Santa Claus" and “When St. Nick Comes Marching In," a Santa-fied version of “When The Saints Go Marching ...
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Ten for 2010: Year's Best Included Field Music, Ted Leo, Band of Horses and Mike Patton
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Something Else!
By Tom Johnson Every year I start out thinking that I have a feeling what album is going to ride high on my year end list, and more often than not I'm surprised by so many other things that the album in question may not even register. This year's victim is Corinne Bailey Rae's The Sea, a beautiful, heartfelt album by any measure, one I was excited to hear after gradually falling in love with her 2006 self-titled album. So ...
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Jazzwax List: 5 Video Clips
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Rather than post prose today, I've decided to share with you some of my favorite video clips viewed over the past week. As my friends know, I'm a YouTube junkie, trawling the site daily for little-known and hidden jazz, rock and soul videos. Below are five favorites: Here's acordionist Mat Mathews from July 1997... Here's Nina Simone singing The Look ...
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DVD: Michael McDonald - This Christmas (2010)
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Something Else!
By Nick DeRiso The Doobie Brothers' ex-frontman sneaks in a few of his former band's more popular tunes during a new Eagle Rock Entertainment DVD, “This Christmas: Live in Chicago." Thankfully, though, Michael McDonald leaves behind the treacly synth-soaked production values of those old records. I'd often wondered what it would have been like if McDonald had been able to tear through those blue-eyed soul sides with a smart, straight-ahead R&B band, not to mention some juking backup singers. That's ...
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DVD: Dave Brubeck
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Dave Brubeck, Brubeck Returns to Moscow (Koch Vision). This 2005 film about Brubeck's 1997 visit to Russia for a performance of his mass To Hope is a beautifully crafted documentary. It incorporates Brubeck's quartet with a symphony orchestra and chorus performing the mass and a rousing “Blue Rondo ala Turk." We see Brubeck's informal encounters with the Russians, including a spirited impromptu duet with a young violinist, and conductor Russell Gloyd amusingly overcoming the language difference to rehearse the dozens ...
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