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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Introducing Roosevelt Collier
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, let's get acquainted via video with steel guitarist Roosevelt Collier, who's coming to St. Louis to perform his first headlining shows here next Friday, June 21 and Saturday, June 22 at Jazz St. Louis. Collier grew up in Perrine, Florida, near Miami, and began playing music in the House of God Church in his hometown. He developed his “sacred steel” guitar chops performing with the Lee Boys, a family band made up of his uncles and cousins, and ...
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5 Videos: Bennie Maupin
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
On Monday, I posted about Stanley Cowell, one of jazz's greatest living pianists. Today, I'm focusing on Bennie Maupin, another living jazz legend who doesn't get the recognition he deserves. Maupin is perhaps best known for recording with Horace Silver (Serenade to a Soul Sister), Miles Davis (Bitches Brew) and Herbie Hancock (Headhunters, Thrust). Here are five videos featuring Maupin on a range of reed and woodwind instruments: Here's Maupin with pianist Horace Silver in Rotterdam in 1968 with Randy ...
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3 Videos: Lennie Tristano
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Lennie Tristano's piano had a different sound. When improvising, his left hand typically kept meticulous time with a walking bass line while his right wandered with purpose. Together, they sounded like two people on the same flight of stairs, one plodding up returning home while the other impishly skipping down briskly to get outside. Here are three videos of the blind pianist and cool-jazz innovator during his European tour in 1965: Here's Tristano in Berlin (at 18:17), on a spectacular ...
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João Gilberto: Pre-Bossa Demos
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Several months ago, I came across a superb album early bossa nova music. It's called João Gilberto: Private Session at Chico Pereira’s House in 1958. The music was recorded a year before Gilberto recorded and released Chega de Saudade in 1959, the album that launched the bossa nova sensation worldwide. The back-story is wonderful: In '58, Roberto Menescal took Gilberto to the home of Chico Pereira, who photographed album covers for Brazil's Odeon Records. According to Ruy Castro's book, Bossa ...
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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Dave Weckl to headline Chesterfield Jazz Fest
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, StLJN's video spotlight shines on drummer Dave Weckl, who will be back home to perform next Saturday, June 15 as the headlining act at the Chesterfield Wine & Jazz Festival. A native of St. Charles, Weckl undoubtedly is one of the most successful working jazz musicians from this area, first gaining international attention working in the 1980s with keyboardist Chick Corea, and subsequently parlaying that exposure into a busy career as both a bandleader and a first-call collaborator ...
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Five Videos of Bobby Hutcherson
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Bobby Hutcherson was one of the finest vibraphonists of the 1960s. His Blue Note albums remain an adventure into modal jazz and the African-American jazz perspective. Here are five videos of Hutcherson in action over the years. He died in 2016 [photo of Bobby Hutcherson by Francis Wolff (c) Mosaic Images] Here's the majestically stormy pianist McCoy Tyner and Hutcherson in 1983 performing Walk Spirit, Talk Spirit (from Tyner's 1973 album Enlightenment) and The Seeker (from Tyner's 1980 album Quartets ...
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Six Red Rodney Videos
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Trumpeter Red Rodney began his recording career with Jimmy Dorsey in 1944, moving on to Gene Krupa in 1946 just as Gerry Mulligan began writing arrangements for the band. Later that year, Rodney recorded with Dave Lambert and Buddy Stewart and then led his own bop group in 1947. After recording with Serge Chaloff that year, Rodney worked with Claude Thornhill, Benny Goodman and Woody Herman in their leading bands of the era. From 1949 to 1951, Rodney was a ...
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