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Foundry Arts Centre Getting More Funding from City of St. Charles
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
The Foundry Arts Centre, which last year served as the venue for Jazz St. Louis' St. Charles concert series, is getting some financial help from the city of St. Charles. According to an article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Charles is giving the Centre $30,000 to help with operating expenses, helping to offset a fund-raising shortfall that officials say stems mostly from a dropoff in corporate donations. The city, which helped finance the redevelopment of the ...
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Other Places: John Coltrane, Bud Shank
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
John Coltrane
In the August 21 Wall Street Journal, Nat Hentoff tells of a New York second grade teacher, Christine Pasarella, who uses John Coltrane as a classroom role model in her work of drawing out the intelligence of her students. He reports Mrs. Pasarella saying that when she played Coltrane's recordings...
“...the children were drawn to the range of feelings in the songs as I gave them the backgrounds of the compositions.
“'Alabama,' for example, was about ...
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Girl Talk: Reveling in the Party
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JamBase
By: Chris Clark
Girl Talk by Christos Schizas Gregg Gillis is a music-making machine. Better known throughout the world as Girl Talk, the one-man mixing master has risen to international acclaim after the critically heralded release of 2006's Night Ripper. Everyone from Rolling Stone and Pitchfork to Beck and Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips had it on their Best Albums of the Year list, turning heads from all angles and opening the world's ears ...
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Songs for Some Jazz Fathers: Shorter, Silver and Wilson
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Night Lights Classic Jazz
More on Jean Kittrell's Retirement
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Following up on last week's post about the retirement of veteran St. Louis jazz singer and pianist Jean Kittrell, you may recall a reference in that post to a press release sent out by the Sheldon Concert Hall announcing that pianist Pat Joyce would be replacing Kittrell on a show there due to “health concerns." At the time, I expressed the wish that those concerns would be quickly resolved so that Kittrell might enjoy her well-deserved retirement after more than ...
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Jazz It up New Orleans
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All About Jazz
IT comes as a bit of a surprise to learn that a popular pastime in New Orleans is the hurricane party. As the clouds build over the Gulf of Mexico, they watch, drinks in hand, as the storm looms bigger and blacker. The preferred drink-in-hand is, of course, the Hurricane, a rum-based creeping stunner which has been a port in every storm since long before Katrina became an ugly word. The way one French Quarter barman tells it, this ritual ...
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Jazz and R&B Photography by Skip Bolen on Youtube
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All About Jazz
This video contains an impressive portfolio of Skip Bolen's music portraits from New Orleans and Los Angeles: James Brown (The Godfather of Soul), the luminous jazz vocalist Jimmy Scott, plus many other jazz and R&B musicians including Wayne Shorter, Henry Grimes, Roy Hargrove, Dave Brubeck, Herbie Hancock, Nicholas Payton, David Murray, Marcus Roberts, Terence Blanchard, Irvin Mayfield, Ellis Marsalis, Etta James, Cassandra Wilson, Donald Harrison, Jason Marsalis, Jeremy Davenport and many more seasoned performers to several new rising sensations such ...
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