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Video Showcase: Singin' and Swingin' with Tony Bennett
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
While these Saturday video posts often serve as a way to present musical samples from brand new artists or those making their first trip to St. Louis, today's subject, by virtue of both his longevity and his musicianship, really needs no extended introduction. The great Tony Bennett will be in town this Thursday to perform at the Fox Theatre, and so today seemed like an opportune time to present some video clips ...
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Wolfgang's Vault Releases the Ash Grove Recordings
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Wolfgang's Vault
New York, NY: Wolfgang's Vault has released the first 16 restored and digitized performances frm the Ash Grove blues collection. The releases, including Merle Travis, Mississippi John Hurt, Maybelle Carter and more are available to stream free online on Concertvault.com, or can be downloaded as MP3 or CD quality FLAC files. The 16 shows available here. Bessie Jones and the Georgia Sea Singers, June 20, 1963 Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys, May 19, 1967 Bukka ...
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Live Moody Blues DVD Release May 26
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All About Jazz
Eagle Vision, the wholly-owned subsidiary of Eagle Rock Entertainment, will release The Moody Blues: Live At The Isle Of Wight Festival 1970 on DVD for the first time May 26 (pre-book order date May 5, This is the legendary much talked-about 79-minute 11-song performance that The Moody Blues‹at the height of their popularity and creative powers‹totally entranced the hippie audience with on a hot night in August off the coast of England. Bonus material includes a 20-minute documentary keying in ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: The Yellowjackets with Mike Stern
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week's videos feature the Yellowjackets and Mike Stern, who will be returning to St. Louis to perform at Jazz at the Bistro starting this coming Wednesday, April 29 and continuing through Saturday, May 2. Both Stern and the 'Jackets played separate weeks at the Bistro last year, but these will be their first St. Louis shows together. They joined forces in 2008 to record the CD Lifecycle and tour ...
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Eye Candy: Jeff Beck and Rod Stewart
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JamBase
OLD WARHORSES REUNITE FOR FIRST TIME IN 25 YEARS
A quarter of a century is a long time between gigs, but happily Rod Stewart and Jeff Beck appeared live together this past week when His Blondness made a surprise appearance at Beck's El Rey Theater performance in Los Angeles. The pair performed “People Get Ready" and “I Ain't Superstitious" for the lucky audience. Originally good mates in the original Jeff Beck Group, the pair haven't appeared live together since the ...
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Paul Simon: Live DVD
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JamBase
Paul Simon and Friends Debuts on DVD May 19
Paul Simon In May of 2007 the Library of Congress gathered an unprecedented group of musicians together in Washington, D.C., to honor Paul Simon as the first recipient of the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. Alison Krauss, Stevie Wonder, Lyle Lovett, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Marc Anthony, Art Garfunkel and a host of others joined Paul onstage in a multicultural tribute to the music of a great American artist and a great ...
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Lenny Breau & Brad Terry-"Live at the Maine Festival" DVD Video on Art of Life Records
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All About Jazz
Lenny Breau & Brad Terry-Live at the Maine Festival Art of Life Records DVD Video Now available.
This rare video performance, which was recorded live at the Maine Festival at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine on August 2nd, 1980, features the only known existing video footage of Lenny Breau playing his acoustic seven-string guitar.
Lenny and Brad perform two popular Jazz standards, “Emily" by Mercer & Mandel and “Autumn Leaves" by Prevert, Mercer & Kosma. The DVD Bonus Features include ...
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