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Sat Eye Candy: Roxy Music
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JamBase
TIME TO DANCE AWAY YOUR HEARTACHE, DANCE AWAY YOUR PAIN WITH A TRUE MODERN ROCK PIONEER
While the '80s continue to reemerge in today's crop of young bands, we thought we'd lean back to a major influence on these influencers, Roxy Music. Arty, sensual, clever and quirky with a capitol “Q," Roxy emerged in 1971, a very English, very post-60s, very freedom embracing singularity. By injecting rock with bits of cabaret, musique concrte, doo-wop and proto-electronica, they made ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: A Few Minutes with Ronnie Laws
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, let's take a look at some video clips featuring saxophonist Ronnie Laws, who will be in town this coming Wednesday, June 17, to perform at the Sheldon Concert Hall in a show benefiting the National Black MBA Association - St. Louis Chapter's college scholarship fund.The Houston, Texas native is from a musical family, and his siblings include the fine jazz flute player Hubert Laws. His first break was ...
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Sat Eye Candy: Stevie Wonder
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JamBase
NO PLAYS, WRITES OR DRESSES QUITE LIKE THIS WONDER-FUL ARTIST
Sparked by Phish's performance of “Boogie On Reggae Woman" last evening in Jones Beach, we offer up a hearty compendium of funk-did-li-upmtious Stevie Wonder clips to uplift yo' soul and land y'all on the good foot for the weekend ahead.
We begin with one of Motown's killer time capsule videos for 1975 soundtracked by Stevie's original “Reggae Woman."
Here's Wonder getting' ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Spotlight on Peter Brotzmann
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, we've got some video clips featuring saxophonist Peter Brotzmann, who will be coming to St. Louis next week to perform on Friday, June 12 at the Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center.Brotzmann has been a significant force on the free jazz and creative music scene in Europe since the late 1960s, winning a small but enthusiastic following in the USA as well. In recent years, he's been a frequent visitor ...
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Lester Young, 1950
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
For a project connected with his Jazz At The Philarmonic operation, the impresario Norman Granz filmed Lester Young with trombonist Bill Harris, Pianist Hank Jones, bassist Ray Brown and drummer Buddy Rich. Although they bypass the melody, the piece is “Pennies From Heaven." For decades, there has been speculation, but no proof, that because of technical audio requirements, they are lip-synching to a performance they previously recorded. That could account for the general amusement and for a couple of what ...
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Sat Eye Candy: Ronnie Lane
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JamBase
REMEMBERING A BRILLIANT ROGUE THAT INFLUENCED PETE TOWNSHEND, RON WOOD, IAN MCLAGAN AND MANY MORE
She said there's dust and cobwebs on your north star There's no more fussing the campfires in your hair I'll see the wheels there rusted in the backyard I know we're not going anywhere We used to roam so freely. It's been so long I took my dreams to bed now where they ...
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