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Linda, Slim and David
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
This week in The Wall Street Journal, I interviewed retired singer Linda Ronstadt for my “House Call" column in the Mansion section (go here). We talked about growing up in Arizona, singing around her family house, Linda's fondness for Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney, and her new diagnosis (it's not Parkinson's). Here's Linda singing Tracks of My Tears in 1975... Jan Menu. Following my post on 10 Gerry Mulligan tribute albums, readers wanted to know a little more about baritone ...
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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Jazz documentary film festival, part 2
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
With the schedule of touring jazz and creative musicians visiting St. Louis looking sparse for the next couple of weeks, this feature once again is back in “lazy summer" mode, setting aside the usual custom of previewing an upcoming concert to offer a mini-festival of jazz-related documentary films. First up is Love You Madly, a documentary about Duke Ellington produced in 1965 for San Francisco public TV station KQED by famed jazz journalist, critic and author Ralph J. Gleason. You ...
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Get Out and Get Under the Moon
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
I was 12 on July 20, 1969. We had just moved to the Town of Cortlandt, a wooded hamlet an hour north of New York. The public schools were becoming too rough and classes too crowded in northern Manhattan, and my artist parents didn't have the means for private school. So on that Sunday, I was in my room with my father's reel-to-reel recorder taping the audio of CBS anchor Walter Cronkite coming out of a small white portable TV ...
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Video: Bill Evans Plays Nardis, '78
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
On July 19, 1978, Bill Evans performed at the Umbria Jazz Festival in Perugia, Italy, with Marc Johnson on bass and Philly Joe Jones on drums. What's fascinating about the following clip of Nardis is how fractured and percussive Evans's playing is. Was it the uncomfortable stool? Disgust with the piano? Drugs? Or the sheer tedium of the song? Or all of the above? What we see and hear on this video is a different Evans—an artist distraught, exceedingly aggressive ...
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Black Keys Film Funny Or Die Musicians 'MasterCourse' [VIDEO]
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“Every song on a record is trying to accomplish something,” Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys quips at the start of a new 'MasterCourse filled for Funny Or Die. “That song, in particular, was trying to get me a new pool.” “It means a lot to be a drummer," says Black Key drummer Patrick Carney. “One of the things it means is that you’re not a good guitarist – or as good as someone else that you know who’s in ...
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10 Tributes to Gerry Mulligan
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Gerry Mulligan's contributions to jazz are monumental. As an arranger, the baritone saxophonist pulled drummer and bandleader Gene Krupa into the bebop era in the mid-1940s, gave bandleader Claude Thornhill a hip sound in the late 1940s, made major contributions to the Miles Davis “Birth of the Cool" recording sessions at the tail end of the '40s, created a revolutionary pianoless quartet with Chet Baker in Los Angeles in 1952, influenced arrangers Bill Holman and Shorty Rogers on the West ...
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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Charlie Hunter Trio with Lucy Woodward
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, let's take a look at some videos featuring guitarist Charlie Hunter's latest trio with singer Lucy Woodward and drummer Keita Ogawa, who are coming to St. Louis to perform on Sunday, July 28 at Off Broadway. Hunter, whose distinctive technique on the seven-string guitar lets him play leads, bass lines and accompaniment more or less simultaneously, has played St. Louis a number of times in recent years with various configurations of musicians. And while he's frequently used the ...
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Rose Max: Bossa Nova 2013
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
On March 21 and 22, 2013, Brazilian vocalist Rose Max was in Costa Rica with guitarist Ramatis Morais, pianist Michael Orta, bassist Jamie Ousley and drummer Carlomagno Araya. They were backed by Costa Rica's National Symphony Orchestra at the National Theatre of Costa Rica in San José. The orchestra was arranged and conducted by Jeremy Fox, who lives in Miami along with Rose Max and Ramatis Morais. Since today is Friday, kick back and enjoy the concert. I wish I ...
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