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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Jacky Terrasson Plays "Caravan," "NY Slick," and "Les Chemins de L'amour"
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, we turn the video spotlight on pianist Jacky Terrasson, who will be in St. Louis next week to perform Wednesday, December 17 through Saturday, December 20 at Jazz at the Bistro. Terrasson, 42, was born in Germany to an American and French father. He studied at Berklee College of Music, and first gained wide public attention as the winner of the 1993 Thelonious Monk Piano Competition. He worked ...
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DVD: Bobby Shew
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
The Bobby Shew Story (Skyhigh Films). The great trumpeter talks about his career -- stumbling into a jam session at age fifteen and discovering that he had the gift of improvisation -- deciding to give up studio work: “I realized I was on a chain like a pet monkey" -- the joy of losing his fear of playing incorrectly: “I'm not afraid of sticking my neck out any more." Interspersed with the interview segments are sequences of Shew performing at ...
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Youtube, Hulu Improve Web Video Share
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PC Magazine
YouTube reached 100 million viewers in October, up from 92 million in July, according to data released Tuesday by comScore. In total, more than 147 million Americans watched online video in October – two-thirds of which were viewed on YouTube. Fox Interactive, which includes MySpace and Fox Sports Interactive, came in second with 60.8 million viewers, followed by Yahoo with 45.2 million and Microsoft with 30.7 million. In terms of total videos viewed, Internet users watched 13.5 billion videos during ...
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Flutist, Bill McBirnie, with James Brown!
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All About Jazz
The subject line may appear to be incredible. Nonetheless, Bill has uploaded an interesting video on YouTube playing with a classic James Brown track, “Give It Up or Turnit a Loose". Of course, those of you familiar with Bill's flute work will recognize that he also likes to swing. So, in addition, he has uploaded a video of him playing with a classic Oscar Peterson track, “C Jam Blues". This clip is also about 4 minutes in length and it ...
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Sat Eye Candy: Peter Buck
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JamBase
R.E.M. AXE MAN TURNS 52 TODAY
Outside of a perhaps a few flight attendants, there's not many who have an unkind word to say about R.E.M. guitarist, composer and all around good guy Peter Buck. Despite a high profile career that stretches back to the early '80s, Buck retains a certain degree of gratitude and surprise about how things have turned out, including playing sideman to other artists (notably Robyn Hitchcock) and working with new bands on a regular basis. ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Anticipating "A Soulful Christmas"
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, we've got some video clips featuring the performers in “A Soulful Christmas," the smooth jazz holiday show that's coming to The Pageant next Sunday, December 14. The show features singers Will Downing and Lalah Hathaway and saxophonist Gerald Albright, and though I couldn't find any videos online of them doing holiday-related material, these clips at least offer samples of their respective sounds, the better to inform those who don't already ...
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Flickr Adds Video Playback to Mobile Site
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PC Magazine
Yahoo-owned Flickr on Friday rolled out a revamped mobile Web site that now allows users to play Flickr videos on their phones. Flickr added video capability to m.flickr.com in April, and while users could upload short videos from their cell phones, they could not actually watch them from their mobile devices. The offering has been available in beta to select iPhone users since October and will open to all iPhone and iPod Touch users on Friday. Support for additional handsets ...
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Myspace Offers Streaming Video on Cell Phones
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PC Magazine
Need more videos on-the-go? MySpace announced Wednesday that it now testing a streaming video service for mobile phones. The video beta for MySpace Mobile is now being rolled out globally, with support for streaming-enabled phones like the BlackBerry Bold, Palm Centro, Motorola Q9, LG Voyager, Nokia N95, and Samsung Instinct. Users that access the site at m.myspace.com on their phones will be able to view videos they have uploaded or marked as favorite. Content will also be available from TMZ, ...
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