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Bill Evans: Autumn Leaves
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
It was six degrees above zero here last night, but the calendar says we have eleven more days until winter. Before autumn leaves, let's enjoy Bill Evans playing his signature arrangement of one of his favorite pieces. This was Copenhagen in 1965, with Eddie Gomez on bass and Alex Riel playing drums. There are several videos of Evans playing the song, but this one comes closest to the spirit of the version he first recorded in Portrait In Jazz, the ...
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Creating Better Youtube Videos
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HypeBot
I've been researching adding some original video to Hypebot or perhaps creating a This Week In Digital Music that's more consumer oriented and syndicating it via one of the music sites. (Anyone interested?) At the very least, expect a bit of Flip video action from MIDEM this year.
This led me down the rabbit hole of internet sites that teach about creating web videos and related topics. Many aren't very well done or are outdated, but I found some useful ...
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Recent Viewing: Art Blakey
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Art Blakey, Live in '65 (Jazz Icons). The Blakey entry in the new Jazz Icons DVD release will come as a surprise even to many of the drummer's most persistent fans. The band it presents in France was not an edition of Blakey's celebrated Jazz Messengers, but a short-lived quintet billed in the opening credits as “Les Art Blakey's New Jazzmen." Assembled for a European concert tour, it had played a few concerts by the time it appeared at the ...
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Sat Eye Candy: Velvet Underground
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JamBase
IF THEY'RE GOOD ENOUGH FOR PHISH, BECK AND THE CROWES THEN THEY'RE GOOD ENOUGH FOR US!
The Velvet Underground seems to be experiencing a bit of a resurgence these days, with indie bands returning to their brual/pretty template and big rock acts covering their tunes (sadly, no good video of “Oh! Sweet Nuthin'" or “Rock And Roll" readily available). They are one of the foundational acts to emerge from 1960s, and as with many great ideas, their power ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Miles Davis, the Electric Years
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
In recent weeks, this Saturday video feature has been focusing almost exclusively on previewing musicians who are coming to St. Louis in the near future. Today, let's change pace - it's been at least six months since we've featured any Miles Davis video here, and in that time, some interesting new things featuring the trumpeter have come online. We've also dug up a couple of older clips from Miles' electric period that ...
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Sun Spin: Bohemian Rhapsody
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JamBase
IS THIS THE REAL LIFE OR JUST FANTASY?
There are some songs that cut across time, distance, nationality and genre to touch the vast majority of people worldwide. There's no formula to it or artists would pump out such universal numbers like clockwork. But some songs, whenever and wherever they are played, trigger off a kind of happy, focusing mania. And one such uber-tune is Queen's “Bohemian Rhapsody." The culminating point of 1975's stellar, artistically vigorous A Night At The ...
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