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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: The Return of Boney James
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, we've got some clips of smooth jazz saxophonist Boney James, who will be back in the St. Louis area next Thursday, July 8 to perform at the Ameristar Casino's Bottleneck Blues Bar.James is no stranger to St. Louis--he's played both at the Bottleneck and The Pageant in recent years--but this show marks more than just a return to the Gateway City. It also will be just the second ...
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Gorillaz Video: "Journey to Plastic Beach"
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JamBase
PLASTIC BEACH OUT NOW
Fresh off their triumphant headlining slot at Glastonbury, which featured half of The Clash (Mick Jones and Paul Simonon) as part of the backing band and guest appearances by Snoop Dogg (check out the band performing “Clint Eastwood" with Snoop Dogg below), Lou Reed, Shaun Ryder, Mark E. Smith, Kano, De La Soul, and Bobby Womack, Gorillaz have unleashed a short film which includes both Plastic Beach videos “Stylo" and “Melancholy Hill." Narrated by fictional Gorillaz ...
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Spartacus' Score Gets Upgrade
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All About Jazz
This year marks the centenary of Alex North, the composer of “A Streetcar Named Desire," “Cleopatra" and nearly 60 other scores, and the first composer ever to be awarded an honorary Oscar for his body of work.
“Spartacus," the 1960 score for the Kirk Douglas classic that is widely perceived to be North's finest, is about to be issued in a deluxe package that also happens to be the 1,000th album of film music produced by Robert Townson of soundtrack ...
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Happy Birthday, Canada
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Groove Notes
Today is Canada Day, the celebration of the anniversary of the Constitution Act from 1867, which united two British colonies and a province of the British Empire into the single country of Canada.
Thanks to Canada for providing us with several jazz musicians, including Diana Krall, Oliver Jones, Renee Rosnes, Michael Buble, Holly Cole, Maynard Ferguson, and of course, Oscar Peterson.
Lionel Ferbos at 99
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
The man who may well be the world's oldest performing jazz musician is approaching his 99th birthday. Fittingly for a man nearly the age of the music itself, he's from New Orleans. Lionel Ferbos was born July 17, 1911. He played trumpet in the 1920s with bands led by Walter “Fats" Pichon and Sidney Desvigne and in the 1930s with Harold Dejan and the quintessential New Orleans alto saxophonist Captain John Handy. In demand for his reading ability and lead ...
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