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Jets Overhead 'Heading for Nowhere' Video Premiere on Spinner
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1888 Media
Victoria, B.C. quintet Jets Overhead announces the world premiere of their video Heading for Nowhere on Thursday, September 3 via AOL's Spinner.
The video will also be added to rotation on Canada's MuchMoreMusic video channel this weekend. Heading for Nowhere is the second video supporting the band's current Vapor Records album, No Nations.
Known for their scenery driven videos (a clip for the album's title track was shot in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen while on a mini-tour of China) and ...
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Lives Washed Away in Katrina Remembered in Song
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Just Roots PR
Lives devastated by Hurricane Katrina are remembered in the song and video presentation of Washed Away The Ballad of Eddie Garrison by Philadelphia area based singer-songwriter Ray Adkins, bringing to the fore the challenges still faced in New Orleans due to blight, unaffordable housing, and vulnerable flood protection four years after the catastrophic storm. The
Adkins was inspired to write The Ballad of Eddie Garrison during a trip to the New Orleans Jazz Festival in the Spring of 2006, when ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Three Views of Chris Botti
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, we've got three videos featuring trumpeter Chris Botti, who's returning to St. Louis to perform on Friday, September 18 at the Fox Theatre. First up is an undated clip of “Streets Ahead," the sort of pop/funk tune that was a mainstay for Botti early in his career. More recently, the trumpeter has turned to jazz standards and the Great American Songbook, resulting in performances like the version of ...
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An Elis Regina Trove
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
The world may have known about it, but I just stumbled upon a rich cache of Elis Regina video clips on YouTube. They come from a 1973 Brazilian television special. The program seems to have been available on a DVD that quickly disappeared from the market. Amazon, CD Universe, Netflix and several other sources say it is currently unavailable and, according to Amazon, “we don't know when or if this item will be back in stock." That is a pity, ...
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Legendary Vintage Jazz Icons DVD Series October 27th
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Michael Ricci
FOURTH SERIES OF AWARD-WINNING JAZZ ICONS DVDS TO BE RELEASED
“Jazz Icons is doing for jazz what the Criterion Collection has done for classic and important films." -Jazz Times
“The sound quality is first rate, and the performances are extraordinary." - Newsweek
“I can't say enough about the presentation of these DVDs. Not only have the producers gotten the best possible picture and sound from the original films and videotapes, but they've packaged them with taste ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Previewing "A Night of Jazz Greats"
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, let's look at video clips featuring some of the musicians who will be in St. Louis next Saturday, August 29 to perform in “A Night of Jazz Greats" at Harris-Stowe State University. The concert, a benefit for the Wolff Jazz Institute at Harris-Stowe, will be headlined by St. Louis native Clark Terry and emceed by Don Wolff, for whom the Wolff Jazz Institute is named. Joining Terry on ...
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Getz Leans In
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
No one ever accused Stan Getz of phoning in a solo. Not infrequently, however, he gave the appearance of detachment as he played while surveying the audience with eyes wide open. When he closed those cool blue eyes and leaned into a solo, something special was likely to happen. In Italy in 1961, cameras caught an instance of Getz fully committed. Video of the event surfaced not long ago. The tune is Dizzy Gillespie's “Woody 'n You." Ray Brown is ...
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