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Brubeck and Company in Belgium, Part 1
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Concert videos from out of the past continue to materialize on the internet. Recent emanations include several pieces from a 1964 appearance in Belgium by the classic Dave Brubeck Quartet. The excellent picture and sound quality and the absence of applause suggest that the performances were in a television broadcast. Over the next few days, we will bring you several of the clips, beginning with “Three to Get Ready." It has a couple of rough edges, but with a band ...
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Joya Sherrill
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Joya Sherrill, the singer who died in late June at the age of 85, joined Duke Ellington and his Orchestra in 1942 following her high school graduation. One of her features through the mid-forties was the Billy Strayhorn-Rex Stewart collaboration “Kissing Bug." The song received a good deal of radio air play and in its V-disc version became a favorite of the troops as World War Two wound down. Here is the V-disc performance, followed by a brief take on ...
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Sat Eye Candy: Bela Fleck
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JamBase
HAPPY 52nd BIRTHDAY, MR. FLECK!
No one has done more to innovate and expand the language of the banjo in the past 50 years than Bela Fleck. From his early rise with New Grass Revival to the truly alien invention of Bela Fleck and the flecktones to his international exploration with Toumani Diabate to his flirtation with jazz alongside Chick Corea to his more subtle recent adventures with Edgar Meyer & Zakir Hussan and with his wife Abigail Washburn and ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Spotlight on Keyon Harrold
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, let's look at some clips of trumpet player, arranger/composer, producer and St. Louis native Keyon Harrold, who's coming back home on Friday, July 30 and Saturday, July 31 to lead his quintet at Jazz at the Bistro.Touted by Wynton Marsalis in an interview a few years back as “the future of the trumpet," Harrold has amassed some impressive credits, both as a jazz player and as a sideman, ...
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Video: Tom Conrad of Pandora Speaks at Digg
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HypeBot
At the end of June, Tom Conrad, the CTO of Pandora, held a talk at Digg, where he outlines the difficulties and windfalls that the company experienced during their transition onto mobile devices. As Blogger Kent Rahman writes, the talk details 5 broad lessons the company learned in this time period, and how they affected Pandora's foray into mobile:
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Correspondence: On "Take Five" (Illustrated)
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Rifftides reader John Fielding writes from Australia:
I am currently reading and enjoying your book about Paul Desmond. I am a lifelong DB and PD follower after seeing them play in Brisbane, Australia, in 1960.Congratulations on a great contribution to jazz history and the stories and colors of the era of the 50's.
Amazing that 'Take Five' has been so widely recorded. I thought you might be interested to know that I recently heard 'Take Five' on a stay ...
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