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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Spotlight on Dianne Reeves
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, let's check out some videos featuring singer Dianne Reeves, who will perform next Saturday, February 9 at The Sheldon. Reeves, who last year was named an NEA Jazz Master, appeared here most recently in December 2016, presenting a Christmas show at the Touhill Performing Arts Center. She's considered one of the top jazz vocalists working today, having won five Grammy Awards for “Best Jazz Vocal Album," served as the first-ever creative chair for jazz for the Los Angeles ...
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7 Videos of French Vocal Groups
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
I love French vocalese groups that take on jazz of the 1950s. There's something about hearing the lyrics (in many cases written by Jon Hendricks) with a Parisian feel. Here are seven video clips of formidable French vocal groups in the style of Lambert, Hendricks & Ross: Here are the Blue Stars in 1956 singing George Shearing's Lullaby of Birdland, with Christiane Legrand in front at the opening singing the high notes... Here's Les Doubles Six in 1960 singing Quincy ...
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Harry Edison: The Swinger
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Trumpeter Harry “Sweets" Edison is perhaps best known for providing chrome-tinged obbligatos behind jazz-pop singers. His muted trumpet can be heard playing tightly wound touches on the albums of singers such as Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald. When they paused between verses, arrangers had Edison fill the space. At times, he mirrored the vocalist's phrasing before disappearing back into the band. But Edison was much more than a colorist or sideman. He recorded a wealth of leadership albums that provide ...
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Pianist Romain Collin Releases Fourth Video In #Taurussesh Series
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Braithwaite & Katz Communications
Romain Collin releases another new video in #TaurusSesh, a series of intimate videos in which he explores the vast musical possibilities offered by his unique combination of acoustic piano, vocal loops and textures, and the bass synthesizer Moog Taurus. The Collin original “Clockwork“ features Collin with producer Jeremy Loucas on drum programming. Videos showcase spontaneous collaborations with special guests including Sachal Vasandani, Grey McMurray, Christina Courtin, Gregoire Maret and Yosvany Terry. In addition to the #TaurusSesh project, Collin's forthcoming trio ...
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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Introducing Jaimie Branch
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, let's take a look at some videos featuring trumpeter Jaimie Branch, who will be making her St. Louis debut in a concert with cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm and drummer Ståle Liavik Solberg to be presented by New Music Circle on Saturday, February 9 at The Stage at KDHX. Branch, who's 34 years old, grew up in Brooklyn, NY and Chicago and studied at the New England Conservatory of Music and Towson University. She has gained significant national attention since ...
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Videos: Nine Live Sax Solos
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
This week, the weather in New York has been all over the place. On Monday, the temperature was in the single digits. Yesterday it was 60 and pouring rain. In celebration of the thermometer's versatile range, let's end the week with nine live smokin' saxophone solos: Here's Sonny Rollins playing On Green Dolphin Street... Here's Joe Henderson playing Recorda-me... Here's Harold Land playing Invitation... Here's Sonny Stitt playing Everything Happens to Me... Here's Stan Getz playing Desafinado... Here's Zoot Sims ...
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Perfect Album: Newport Message
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Over three days in May 1958, Maynard Ferguson's band was in New York to record an album for Roulette. The result was A Message From Newport, one of the most powerful big band albums ever recorded. That July, the Ferguson band performed at Freebody Park in Newport, R.I., at the Newport Jazz Festival. The band played a brief set for the CBS radio network early in the evening and then returned to open the second part of the concert. The ...
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Hubert Fol: Bebop Minstrels
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
French musicians in Paris were among the first in Europe to catch on to bebop's nuances in the mid-1940s. Which is somewhat remarkable, considering what France went through during World War II. Among the Parisian musicians first to pioneer bebop was Hubert Fol, an alto saxophonist and bandleader. Now, a collection of Fol's leadership sides for France's Swing label between 1947 and 1954 has been issued as Hubert Fol and His Be-Bop Minstrels on Fresh Sound. The two-CD album features Americans ...
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