Video / DVD News

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: A Kurt Elling Sampler

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
November 29, 2009

This week, our video lens is trained on singer Kurt Elling, who will be in town starting Wednesday, December 2 through Saturday, December 5 to perform at Jazz at the Bistro. Elling's sets during this trip to St. Louis will focus on material from Dedicated to You, his recent CD revisiting material from the famed 1960s collaboration between singer Johnny Hartman and saxophonist John Coltrane. The first video ...

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On the Plus Side...

Source: Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
November 22, 2009

After all of the angst and financial mess following the Festival Productions-Festival Network LLC transaction nearly three years ago, one positive has emerged. Ben Ratliff had the details this month in the New York Times in his article Historic Sounds of Newport, Newly Online.Before Festival Network essentially collapsed from its self-inflicted financial woes, the short-lived new ownership of the Newport Jazz Festival empire sold its audio archives to San Francisco-based Wolfgang's Vault. It may have been its only ...

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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Party Time with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
November 15, 2009

This week, we turn our spotlight on New Orleans' Dirty Dozen Brass Band, who will return to St. Louis this Thursday, November 19 to perform at the Broadway Oyster Bar. The DDBB have been frequent visitors to St. Louis since the 1980s, with this appearance coming as part of what's being billed as the group's 25th anniversary tour. Today's clips provide four examples of the band's signature sound, an updated ...

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Wolfgang's Vault, Now the Home of Newport Jazz, Features Count Basie & His Orchestra

Source: Michael Ricci
November 14, 2009

New York, November -- Wolfgang's Vault, longtime home of the rarest archive of live music recordings for free streaming and for download, has announced the addition of the Newport Jazz collection and posted Count Basie and His Orchestra, the first release among them. Beginning with the swinging big band performance of Count Basie and His Orchestra at Newport Jazz 1959, Wolfgang's Vault teases the release of nearly 30 total 1959 performances scheduled to be released next week. The Newport Jazz ...

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Marco Benevento | Live in NYC: The Sullivan Hall Residency

Source: Calabro Music
November 13, 2009

MARCO BENEVENTO & FRIENDS Live In NYC: The Sullivan Hall Residency

The New DVD release featuring Marco Benevento, Andrew Barr, Billy Martin, Bobby Previte, Brad Barr, DJ Olive, G. Calvin Weston, Reed Mathis, Joe Russo, John Ellis, Kaki King, Marc Friedman, Skerik, Stanton Moore and Steven Bernstein

At the outset of 2008, Marco Benevento took over New York City's then brand new Greenwich Village music venue, Sullivan Hall, for a month-long residency. He would call it home for five Thursday ...

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Historic Sounds of Newport, Newly Online

Source: Michael Ricci
November 13, 2009

As the future of the Newport Jazz and Folk Festivals continues to unfold, its recorded past has suddenly been thrown open. Recently the festivals themselves almost disappeared, amid the financial collapse of their producing company, the Festival Network LLC. They returned last summer in a new guise, at their usual site, once George Wein, the founder of both festivals, regained the right to hold music events there. Its a complicated story. But if you want to know why the Newport ...

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2009: Another Momentous Year for Dave Brubeck

Source: Michael Ricci
November 10, 2009

JAZZ MASTER DAVE BRUBECK CAPPING TIME OUT'S 50TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR WITH THREE-NIGHT NOVEMBER RUN AT NEW YORK'S BLUE NOTE & 2009 KENNEDY CENTER HONORS IN WASHINGTON IN DECEMBER

Critically-Acclaimed 50th Anniversary 3-Disc (2CDs + 1DVD)

Legacy Edition of Landmark Jazz Album Available Everywhere Now

Declared a Living Legend by the Library of Congress, jazz pianist and composer Dave Brubeck will be capping off a banner year in his extraordinary career with a three-night run of six shows (8pm & 10:30pm) ...

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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Spotlight on Christian McBride

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
November 8, 2009

This week, we've got some video footage of bassist Christian McBride, who will be in St. Louis from Wednesday, November 18 through Saturday, November 21 to perform with his new band Inside Straight at Jazz At the Bistro. As McBride explains in a short promotional video made for the band's record label - a clip that, alas, has had the embedding feature disabled - Inside Straight was formed as an ...

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