Home » Search Center » Results: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Results for "St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman"
Jazz this week: Arturo O'Farrill Sextet, Fidel Morales Trio, and more
This week's menu of live jazz and creative music in St. Louis has a bit of what Jelly Roll Morton once called “the Latin tinge," with two different touring Latin-jazz performers passing through town, plus the usual variety of local sounds, from Gypsy jazz and big band swing to funkified Beatles and New Orleans-style brass. Let's ...
Music Education Monday: Behind the score of Birdman with drummer Antonio Sanchez
The Academy Award nominated film Birdman, now playing in theaters across the US, has won acclaim for its script, cinematography, lead performance by Michael Keaton, and the musical score created by drummer Antonio Sanchez. Perhaps best known to jazz fans for his work with guitarist Pat Metheny, Sanchez (pictured) unfortunately was eliminated from consideration in this ...
StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Winter/spring 2015 jazz preview, part 5
Today, it's the fifth and final part of StLJN's winter/spring 2015 jazz preview, offering a look at the touring bands and musicians who will be be performing here during the first half of the year. (Parts one through four can be found, and here. And speaking of part four, last week in this space we were ...
Jazz this week: Stooges Brass Band, Jazz at Lincoln Center Group, Bonerama, Johanna Ballou, and more
For the middle of January, it's a comparatively busy week for jazz and creative music in St. Louis, with tastes of NYC and New Orleans on the musical menu along with plenty of home-cooked favorites. Let's go to the highlights... Wednesday, January 14 Saxophonist/clarinetist Victor Goines, one of the group of Jazz at Lincoln Center musicians ...
Music Education Monday: A jazz guitar master class with Jim Hall
This week's for “Music Education Monday," here's a master class in jazz guitar with the late Jim Hall. Recorded in 2011, the three parts of Hall's workshop and performance seen in the video windows embedded below after the jump total just over three hours of material. Hall, who died in 2013, first gained public attention in ...
StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Winter/spring 2015 jazz preview, part 4
Today, we continue with part four of StLJN's winter/spring 2015 jazz preview, covering the touring bands and musicians who will be be performing here during the first half of the year. (Parts one through three can be found here, here, and here.) For this week's edition, we turn the calendar ahead to the third week of ...
Jazz this week: The Bad Plus returns to Jazz at the Bistro, and more
Though this week in St. Louis brings unusually frigid temperatures along with the usual temporary post-holiday lull in touring activity, there still are some jazz and creative music performances happening around town that will reward those determined to brave the cold. Let's go to the highlights... Wednesday, January 7 Tonight, The Bad Plus (pictured) begin a ...
Miles on Monday: 50 years of E.S.P.
For this week's “Miles on Monday," we look back at a recording that marked another historic turn in Davis' career. It was fifty years ago this month that the trumpeter made E.S.P., the first album by what often is referred to as his “second great quintet." As recounted in this space a couple of weeks ago, ...
Music Education Monday: Free Play-Along recordings, and a free class from Gary Burton
It's time for another “Music Education Monday," the feature in which each week, we point to resources on the web that may be of particular interest to musicians, music students, and/or anyone who wants to understand the process of playing jazz. This week, we spotlight a couple of links related to improvisation, starting with a page ...
StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Winter/spring 2015 jazz preview, part 3
Today, it's part three of StLJN's preview of touring jazz and creative music performers who will be coming to St. Louis in the first part of 2015. (You can see parts one and two, covering January and the first part of February, here and here.) Our first two clips feature cellist Okkyung Lee and saxophonist Lotte ...
Showcase
Giveaway
