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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Zappa Plays Zappa Play Apostrophe(')
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, let's take at look at some video clips of Zappa Plays Zappa, who will be in St. Louis next Wednesday, December 8 to play at The Pageant. This will be ZPZ's third visit to St. Louis in the last four years, and this time around, their show will center around playing Frank Zappa's 1974 album Apostrophe(') in its entirety. I wrote a short preview of the concert for this week's Riverfront ...
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Weekend Extra: "Blue in Green" in Blue and Green
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Someone went overboard matching the color scheme of this video to the name of the tune, and the sound is distorted, but here is an exquisite 1962 version of “Blue in Green" by Bill Evans with Chuck Israels and Paul Motian. Be patient while the YouTube poster gets his commercial out of the way. There was a time when the big three television networks had programs that presented music of quality. CBS-TV's Camera ...
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Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey: Three New Live Clips
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JamBase
THE ODYSSEY CONTINUES Lovers of instrumental gold with a jazz soul know that Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey is a great fount of such richness. The relatively new incarnation of the quartet with double bassist Jeff Harshbarger joining Brian Haas (keys), Josh Raymer (drums) and Chris Combs (lap steel) earlier this year. The foursome has been busy building their road legs and diving into a new batch of exciting studio recordings since debuting Ludwig! this past June (JamBase review). JFJO's recent ...
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Dave Brubeck at 90: Was He Cool or What?
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
With Dave Brubeck's 90th birthday five days away, anticipation of the event is materializing in news stories, interviews, radio airplay, web tributes and accolades from colleagues and admirers. Marc Myers' piece in The Wall Street Journal includes this paragraph:Clean living, a happy marriage and global popularity have made Mr. Brubeck a media darling—and a target of envy. “Even in the '50s I'd hear critics and musicians say, 'Oh, Brubeck, he's different'—meaning separate from the rest," Mr. Brubeck said. “Others described ...
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"Albert King with Stevie Ray Vaughan - In Session" Scheduled for November Airing on PBS
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conqueroo
Deluxe DVD of historical blues summit released on Stax Records LOS ANGELES, Calif.—PBS has announced that the Albert King with Stevie Ray Vaughan — In Session program will air as a special on its stations beginning November 27 and throughout the month of December (check local listings). Grammy Award winning bluesman Robert Cray will serve as special fundraising host on the public television broadcasts. In 1983, when legendary blues guitarist Albert King, then age 60, was joined by his disciple ...
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