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The Master of 3/4
I was watching the Philip Seymour Hoffman film Boating with Jack last night. In one poignant scene between the main characters an excerpt from the classic Bill Evans track “Peace Piece" was used as backing music to accentuate the drama and it worked perfectly. It reminded me of the brilliance of Bill Evans and how I ...
Eyran Records Releases Classical Meets Jazz: Pictures at an Exhibition on DVD
Eyran Records announces the highly anticipated DVD release of Classical Meets Jazz: Pictures at an Exhibition, American Premiere in Jordan Hall, a live concert by master jazz and classical pianists, Eyran Katsenelenbogen (Boston, United States) and Andrei Ivanovitch (Saint Petersburg, Russia) (Eyran Records 9009; release date: May 2, 2011). Eyran and Andrei's two-piano onstage dialogue weaves ...
Closeted with the MJQ
Blogging is going on the back burner—or maybe a side burner—for a few days while I wrap up an assignment. I am writing the essay and program notes for a seven-CD Mosaic box of the Modern Jazz Quartet's Atlantic studio recordings from 1956 to 1964. It involves a lot of listening, a lot of interviewing, a ...
STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Gettin' Dirty with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band
This week, we shine our video spotlight on New Orleans' Dirty Dozen Brass Band, who will be back in St. Louis to perform next Saturday, February 26 on a double bill with singer/pianist Jon Cleary at the Sheldon Concert Hall. The DDBB have played here numerous times in recent ...
Sat Eye Candy: Smokey Robinson
HAPPY 71ST BIRTHDAY, MR. ROBINSON R&B and soul music would be a much different thing without Smokey Robinson. Since the late 1950s Robinson has been shaping American music, and in turn influencing music around the world. He's produced almost 40 Top 40 Hits in his career, and has shown a rare tenacity in his field, continuing ...
Jason Parker Quartet / Nick Drake / Jay-Z Mash-up by Hip-Hop Producer Spekulation - "Can't Knock The Hustle"
Seattle's Jason Parker Quartet has recorded their latest album Five Leaves Left: A Tribute To Nick Drake, due out next month. Parker sent the mixes to his friend, hip-hip producer Spekulation for his input, and in return got back a 6 tracks cut up and remixed with Jay-Z lyrics! “Can't Knock The Hustle" is the first ...
Vintage Dizzy
Dizzy Gillespie: Livein '58 & '70 (2006), part ofthe Jazz Icons series of DVDs, presents another gem with these two concerts ofDizzy Gillespie. In the earlier date from Belgium, Gillespie is in a smallgroup setting—a fantastic quintet with Sonny Stitt on sax, Lou Levy on piano,Ray Brown on bass, and Gus Johnson on drums. The hip ...
George Shearing, Ebullient Jazz Pianist, R.I.P.
George Shearing, the ebullient jazz pianist who wrote the standard “Lullaby of Birdland" and had a string of hits both with and without his quintet, has died. He was 91. Shearing, blind since birth, died early Monday morning in Manhattan of congestive heart failure, his longtime manager Dale Sheets said. Shearing had been a superstar of ...
"Strange Fruit" - Billie Holiday's Ugly Song
Written by a Jewish communist called Abel Meeropol, Strange Fruit was not by any means the first protest song, but it was the first to shoulder an explicit political message into the arena of entertainment. Unlike the robust workers' anthems of the union movement, it did not stir the blood; it chilled it. “That is about ...
