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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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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Four Views of Oliver Lake
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, let's take a look at some video featuring saxophonist and former St. Louisan Oliver Lake, who recently created a YouTube channel for his work and has been posting all sorts of clips online.A member of the Black Artists Group and a co-founder of the World Saxophone Quartet, Lake now lives in New Jersey but has performed in St. Louis in recent years with the WSQ, Trio 3 (with ...
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Brubeck, Rotterdam, Part 6
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
As long as the YouTube benefactor in Holland keeps posting new segments from that 1972 Dave Brubeck concert in Rotterdam, Rifftides will keep bringing them to you. The piece that just popped up, “Someday My Prince Will Come," was a staple in the classic Brubeck quartet's repertoire before it disbanded in 1969. Paul Desmond reaches into what he would no doubt refer to as his bag of tricks for a brilliant use of repetition (which amuses Alan Dawson), one of ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Four from Michael Buble
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, let's take a look at some videos featuring singer Michael Buble, who will be in St. Louis next Friday, June 25 to perform at the Scottrade Center. Undeniably influenced by Frank Sinatra and, to a lesser extent, Tony Bennett, Dean Martin and other tuxedo-clad crooners of the 1950s and 1960s, Buble doesn't really fit the textbook definition of a jazz singer, primarily because he rarely seems to improvise. Think of ...
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