Results for "Video / DVD"

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Happy Birthday, Clark Terry!

December 12, 2010

This week, we pay tribute and wish a very happy birthday to the great trumpeter and St. Louis native Clark Terry, who's set to turn 90 this coming Tuesday, December 14. With a career in music that spans seven decades, Terry's accomplishments defy easy summary in a short blog ...

Don't Let It Bother You

December 9, 2010

Extracurricular assignments will keep me busy for a while. The Rifftides staff will supply items to inform or entertain you. There's not much information in this one, but it may lift your spirits if, say, snow collapsed your roof or Julian Assange leaked one of your cables. Fats Waller ...

Take 90: Brubeck at the Blackhawk

December 7, 2010

Dave Brubeck is spending his 90th birthday in the midst of his sizeable family and many close friends. Chances are that they will take time out to watch the documentary about his life. As they reminisce, it's almost certain that Dave will tell a Blackhawk story or two. The club in San Francisco's Tenderloin district was ...

...With a Beard On

December 8, 2010

DVD: Mikrokolektyw - Dew Point (Delmark, 2010)

December 8, 2010

Mikrokolektyw is a very interesting duet consisting of Kuba Suchar on drums and Artur Majewski on trumpet with both contributing to electronic soundscapes. For this DVD they were filmed by Raymond Salvatore Harmon, who placed the band in a position to improvise a spontaneous soundtrack to his film Sound in Motion. It turns out to be ...

Louis Armstrong - "Mack the Knife" (1959)

December 6, 2010

Cinematic Document of Germany's Most Successful Progressive Rock Band ELOY To Be Released

December 6, 2010

Germany—In celebration of their 40 year band history, a new cinematic document of Germany's most successful progressive rock band ELOY take the friends of their music on a journey through four decades of the band's fascinating history. In the 90-minute documentary Mighty Echoes (DVD 1) former and current ELOY musicians (Frank Bornemann, Klaus-Peter Matziol, Jürgen Rosenthal, ...

Weekend Extra: "Blue in Green" in Blue and Green

December 5, 2010

Someone went overboard matching the color scheme of this video to the name of the tune, and the sound is distorted, but here is an exquisite 1962 version of “Blue in Green" by Bill Evans with Chuck Israels and Paul Motian. Be patient while the YouTube poster gets his commercial out of the way.

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Zappa Plays Zappa Play Apostrophe(')

December 5, 2010

This week, let's take at look at some video clips of Zappa Plays Zappa, who will be in St. Louis next Wednesday, December 8 to play at The Pageant. This will be ZPZ's third visit to St. Louis in the last four years, and this time around, their show ...

Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey: Three New Live Clips

December 3, 2010

THE ODYSSEY CONTINUES Lovers of instrumental gold with a jazz soul know that Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey is a great fount of such richness. The relatively new incarnation of the quartet with double bassist Jeff Harshbarger joining Brian Haas (keys), Josh Raymer (drums) and Chris Combs (lap steel) earlier this year. The foursome has been busy ...