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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: King Sunny Ade and His African Beats
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
The subjects of this week's video feature are King Sunny Ade & His African Beats, who will be in St. Louis this coming Tuesday, April 20 to perform at the Old Rock House. Since visa problems forced the band to cancel the first several dates of their tour, their St. Louis show now is the kickoff for the band's jaunt across the United States. Ade's style of Nigerian juju music ...
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Fred Anderson - 21st Century Chase (2009) (CD/DVD)
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Something Else!
By Pico Birthday parties are almost always such fun events and nowadays, they all get captured on video. When someone marks their eightieth birthday, that's a real cause for celebration. And when the birthday boy celebrates it by ripping it up making some great music, that's just icing on the birthday cake. Delmark Records, a Chicago institution as the town's leading documenter of its pride and joy jazz and blues artists, shot some footage of Fred Anderson's 80th ...
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The Second Installment of Masters of American Music Released on DVD
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All About Jazz @ Spinner
By Tad Hendrickson
As someone who has never been a big jazz video guy, I seem to be finding more and more time for the format. One of the holdbacks for me has traditionally been the concept of sitting down to watch recorded music: I generally have the stereo on as I do various things around the house. Some would regard this passive music listening or using music as background noise, but I like integrating music into my day-to-day life ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Four from Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
It's been a while since we've highlighted any big band clips for this weekly feature, and so today let's take a look at some videos of pianist, saxophonist and arranger/composer Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band, who are coming to town to play next Saturday, April 17 at the Touhill Performing Arts Center as part of the Greater St. Louis Jazz Festival.Formed in 2000 and based in Los Angeles, the 17-piece ...
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Weekend Extra: Farmer, Konitz, Persson
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
I have no idea how Sharkey Bonano (see the April 9 item below) felt about Art Farmer's playing or, indeed, whether he was aware of Farmer. They were from different eras and different styles. My guess is that Farmer's lyricism would have appealed to Bonano, whose own playing carried a trace of Bix Beiderbecke DNA.
In this video from a 1966 program on the Dutch TV station NCRV, Farmer collaborates on “Just Friends" with alto saxophonist Lee Konitz and the ...
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