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Sat Eye Candy: Bob Weir
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JamBase
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BOB! Bust out your khaki short and Birkenstocks and do a happy shuffle for Bob Weir, who turns 63 today. As a member of the Grateful Dead, leader of RatDog and all the other variations like Furthur, Weir has helped navigate one of the great songbooks in American music as well as pioneering a live music style that will continue to inspire forever. Here's a few tidbits from Bobby's vast repertoire in celebration of his natal day. We ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: The Max Weinberg Big Band
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, let's take a look at some clips of the Max Weinberg Big Band, who will be in the St. Louis area to perform at 7 p.m. this Thursday, October 21 at the Argosy Alton Casino. Known both for his long tenure as the drummer for singer, guitarist and songwriter Bruce Springsteen, and as the bandleader for late-night TV host Conan O'Brien, Weinberg debuted the 15-piece group last year while on hiatus ...
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Another Cause for Celebration: Harry "Sweets" Edison
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Riffs on Jazz by John Anderson
While October 10th is rightly honored for the birth of Thelonious Monk, I want to celebrate another jazz musician who shares his birthdate, trumpeter Harry “Sweets" Edison. Edison was born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1915, and spent part of his childhood in Kentucky, where an uncle introduced him to music. As a teenager, he played trumpet in local bands in Columbus. “Sweets" joined the Count Basie Orchestra in 1937 and stayed for 13 years. One can hear the Basie influence ...
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Afloat Again -- On Monk's Birthday
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
It could have been worse—toxic red sludge, for instance. The technician just left after performing CPR on the internet connection, which was out of commission for 48 hours. The Rifftides staff will resume posting soon. Now, ears open wide and notebook in hand, we're off to The Seasons for the next concerts of the Fall Festival. This afternoon,Tom Harrell's quintet and pianist Bill Mays are performing Harell, Antheil and Gershwin with the Yakima Symphony Chamber Orchestra. Tonight, it's the Mays ...
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Sat Eye Candy: John Lennon
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JamBase
REMEMBERING A TRUE ORIGINAL AND WORLD CHANGER John Lennon would have turned 70-years-old today if he hadn't been violently snatched away in December 1980. There's no way to encapsulate such a complex, fascinating and often entertaining person in a few words, and there's multiple encyclopedias full of Lennon lore already out there. Instead, we offer this tiny celebration of an innovator who not only advanced rock 'n' roll a huge amount but also showed that one could live completely honestly ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: A Russell Malone Sampler
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
With a new CD coming out next month, and four night of performances scheduled Wednesday, October 20 through Saturday October 23 at Jazz at the Bistro, it seems like a good time to make guitarist Russell Malone the subject of our weekly video feature. Though there's no footage extant of Malone fronting his own trio—something he's doing for the first time on record on his new disc, Triple Play—we did manage to find ...
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