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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: They've Got It Covered...

January 30, 2011

Rather than featuring a single artist, this week's video showcase is loosely organized around the idea of St. Louis musicians covering well-known songs. First up is singer Jeanne Trevor with a rendition of Duke Ellington's “It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)," taken from a ...

Sat Eye Candy: Tangerine Dream

January 30, 2011

A NOD TO ONE OF LIVE-ELECTRONICA'S GREAT GRANDFATHERS Germany's Tangerine Dream are one of the least name-checked yet most pervasively influential bands of the late 20th century. Without their pioneering work in the 1970s, alongside kindred spirits like Can and Faust, it's hard to imagine STS9, Lotus and many of today's revered livetronica acts coming into ...

Four Maynard Ferguson Clips

January 26, 2011

Sadly, Maynard Ferguson does not get nearly enough credit for being a bandleader and brass player of the highest order. Though somewhat commercially successful in his latter years and increasingly excitable on stage, Ferguson struggled to create a sound in the rock and disco eras that made sense. He found it in material that scorched everything ...

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: A Stanley Clarke Sampler

January 23, 2011

Today, we shine our video spotlight on bassist Stanley Clarke, who will be back in St. Louis to play a duo gig with pianist Hiromi Uehara starting Wednesday, February 2 through Saturday, February 5 at Jazz at the Bistro. Clarke has been in St. Louis a couple of times ...

Happy Birthday, J.J. Johnson!

January 23, 2011

New Miles Davis Audio and Video at Wolfgang's Vault

January 20, 2011

Marcus Shelby's "Soul of the Movement" - New Video Now Available

January 20, 2011

Check out the new video of the Marcus Shelby Orchestra live in concert, presenting snippets of an electrifying performance at Yoshi's in San Francisco, CA. It features the music of Shelby's acclaimed project, “Soul of the Movement: Meditations on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." For Marcus Shelby, history breathes music. Over the past decade, the San ...

SOLOS: The Jazz Sessions DVDs with Matthew Shipp and Erik Friedlander

January 19, 2011

SOLOS: the jazz sessions is a 39 part television music profile/performance series. Each episode features complete musical pieces, interviews and behind-the-scenes footage with some of today's most notable jazz artists. Shot in HDTV with multiple moving cameras and a medley of elegant, cinematic lighting designs, SOLOS: the jazz sessions showcases an exciting and dynamic variety of ...

Correspondence (Illustrated): Bird and Desmond

January 19, 2011

Rifftides reader John Bolger writes with a suggestion:Somebody has posted the legendary interview between Paul Desmond and Bird on YouTube. I had a seen transcript of this before but never heard the interview. Rare and wonderful! Thought you might like to know—might be worth piece in Rifftides. It might, indeed. In the spring of 1954, Desmond ...

Oscar Peterson Trio - "A Gal in Calico" (1958)

January 19, 2011