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A Video Reminder of Why I Miss Record Stores

Source: HypeBot
August 3, 2010

I used to love independent record stores. Still do. There just aren't any in my adopted home of Roanoke, Virginia.  Sure there are more great ways than ever to discover great music online, but for me none have replaced the pleasure of flipping through stacks of vinyl and CD's with something obscure playing in the background. Then there were the clerks who after sizing you up could simultaneously insult, educate and sell you something that you'd never heard of, but ...

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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: The David Sanborn Trio with Joey Defrancesco

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
August 1, 2010

This week, our video spotlight shines on alto saxophonist and St. Louis native David Sanborn, who's coming back to his hometown on Monday, August 16 and Tuesday, August 17 to play at Jazz at the Bistro for the benefit of Jazz St. Louis' education programs.It's something of a coup for the Bistro to present Sanborn, who usually plays much larger venues; his most recent St. Louis gigs were at the ...

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Desmond a la Francais

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
August 1, 2010

The French jazz critic Alain Gerber is also a novelist, or vice versa. He published a book in 2007 that may be a biography, a novel, or both. Its title in French is Paul Desmond et le côté féminin du monde, or Paul Desmond and the Feminine Side of the World. That is the extent of my ability to translate from French to English, and I owe it to Google. I'm the guy who gets by in France for two ...

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Super Bad Sunday: Derek and the Dominos

Source: JamBase
July 25, 2010

40 YEARS ON AND STILL FLIPPING WIGS

Few albums of any genre possess the undying resonance of Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs. Captured during a tumultuous period in Eric Clapton's life where he was lusting after the wife of a good friend, descending into drug addiction and struggling with the pressures of mega-stardom, the album remains arguably his single strongest work outside of Cream and one of the finest amalgamations of blues rock ever captured. Clapton, Bobby Whitlock (keys, ...

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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: The Guitarists of Guitars and Saxes 2010

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
July 25, 2010

This week, let's take a look at some video clips featuring guitarists Jeff Golub and Peter White, the two men doing the six-string thing for this year's edition of the long running smooth jazz package tour Guitars and Saxophones. They'll be at The Pageant on Friday, August 13, along with saxophonists Gerald Albright and Kirk Whalum, who played in the St. Louis area together last year at the Ameristar Casino's Bottleneck Blues ...

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Connee Boswell, 1934: "Isn't It a Shame?"

Source: Jazz Lives by Michael Steinman
July 25, 2010

Even though Ella Fitzgerald insisted that Connee Boswell was her first and perhaps greatest influence, Connee hasn't been given her due. Perhaps because there hasn't been a proper reissue of her solo recordings (as opposed to the well-deserved attention given to the recordings she made with her sisters) listeners don't pay enough attention to her solo work. For me, she is the poet of yearning--consider the first chorus of this recording and of IN A LITTLE SECOND-HAND STORE--and then she ...

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Weekend Extra: Fun with Chet and Paul

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
July 24, 2010

Someone who identifies himself on YouTube as “liveacid" went to painstaking trouble to manufacture a video of Chet Baker and Paul Desmond playing “Autumn Leaves." The music track is from Baker's 1974 album She Was Too Good To Me. It was later reissued on the compilation Chet Baker & Paul Desmond Together. From disparate sources, the editor rounded up shots of Baker, Desmond, pianist Bob James, bassist Ron Carter and drummer Steve Gadd. You'll hear Hubert Laws' flute, but “liveacid" ...

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Ray Vega and Thomas Marriott Talk About New CD

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
July 23, 2010

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