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Diversion: Johnny Wittwer
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
During my early development as a listener, I was immersed in the works of Charlie Parker, Bud Powell and Miles Davis when along came Johnny Wittwer. Wittwer was a Seattle pianist who had been been important in the traditional jazz revival on the west coast in the 1940s. Early in that decade he had a trio with clarinetist Joe Darensbourg and drummer Keith Purvis. Later, he was active in San Francisco and worked with Kid Ory and Wingy Manone, among ...
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Whatcha Say: The Alternative Video Revolution
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HypeBot
This is the second essay by Hypebot intern Mike Pineau (@mikejpineau). For years now, multi-million dollar music videos have been a staple of the budgets that major labels set aside for artist releases. Iconic performances by artists like Michael Jackson and Madonna pushed videos past traditional lip sync numbers into full fledged musical movies. The pop boom in the late 90s took these videos to the next level, as they became massive promotional platters served up by shows like MTV's ...
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Brian Wilson: Songwriter 1962-1969 out on DVD 11/23
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JamBase
FEATURES AN IN-DEPTH REVIEW OF WILSON'S SONGS THROUGH THE 60'S The songs Brian Wilson wrote for and recorded with The Beach Boys during the 1960s are re-assessed throughout Brian Wilson: Songwriter 1962-1969 which runs over three hours in length across two discs. The DVD will be released on November 23. There are exclusive contributions from fellow Beach Boys, Bruce Johnston and David Marks; Wrecking Crew musicians Carol Kaye and Hal Blaine; friend and Beach Boys manager Fred Vail; producers Russ ...
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Albert King/Stevie Ray Vaughan 'In Session' Summit Now on DVD on Stax
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conqueroo
Guitar titans' one and only meeting to be released as a deluxe CD/DVD November 9th on Stax LOS ANGELES, Calif.—On December 6, 1983, legendary blues guitarist Albert King joined his disciple Stevie Ray Vaughan on a Canadian sound stage for the live music television series In Session. Magic happened. The highly sought after video footage from that one- time legendary summit becomes available for the first time ever on November 9 with the release of Stax Records' deluxe two-disc CD/DVD ...
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Watch Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey rearrange Beethoven w/ a 50 piece orchestra
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After years of labor, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey's reinterpretations of Beethoven's 3rd & 6th Symphonies premiered in June as a project entitled “Ludwig." The project, which rearranged Beethoven's 3rd & 6th symphonies, was premiered alongside a 50 piece orchestra on June 12th as a headline performance at the OK Mozart Festival. Downbeat is calling 'Ludwig' “a tour de force of jazz melded with classical." Now you can catch a glimpse of the premier by watching the LUDWIG promotional short (below). ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: The Stanton Moore Trio's "Groove Alchemy"
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
The subjects of our video scrutiny this week are the Stanton Moore Trio, who will be in St. Louis next Saturday, October 2 to play at 2720 Cherokee. Underpinned by Moore's hopped-up New Orleans-style grooves, the trio seems to draw considerable inspiration from NOLA's funk standard-bearers The Meters as well as from the 20th century tradition of jazz organ trios generally. You can definitely hear those influences at work in the first video ...
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Weekend Extra: Joan Stiles
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
The pianist, composer and teacher Joan Stiles runs one of the hippest sextets in New York. Her circle of insider admirers encompasses many of the best-known musicians injazz today and is widening to include a substantial number of listeners in the general audience. Stiles achieves identifiable individuality in her own compositions and in her arrangements of songbook standards and pieces by Mary Lou Williams, Thelonious Monk, Fats Waller, Jimmy Rowles and Duke Ellington, among others. Stiles was the most recent ...
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