Results for "Video / DVD"

Sat Eye Candy: Bob Weir

October 17, 2010

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BOB! Bust out your khaki short and Birkenstocks and do a happy shuffle for Bob Weir, who turns 63 today. As a member of the Grateful Dead, leader of RatDog and all the other variations like Furthur, Weir has helped navigate one of the great songbooks in American music as well as pioneering a ...

Gary Burton - "Afro Blue" (2002)

October 17, 2010

John Birks Gillespie's 93rd

October 18, 2010

This is the birthday of Dizzy Gillespie (1917-1993). In observance, here is a remarkable confluence of the talents of Gillespie and the master composer and arranger Robert Farnon (1917-2005). The piece is Gillespie's “Con Alma," orchestrated by Farnon and conducted by him at London's Royal Festival Hall in 1985. The delay between video and audio is ...

Dani Gurgel Releases "Viadutos" on DVD

October 28, 2010

Coming Soon! “Viadutos" DVD by Dani Gurgel! Singer/songwriter Dani Gurgel, one of the revelations of Brazilian music, releases her first DVD Viadutos. It includes songs that Dani has been performing on tour this past year, which demonstrates her ability to create a sound that combines Brazilian music, pop, and jazz. The album was produced and recorded ...

Video Interview with Tineke Postma

October 13, 2010

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: A Russell Malone Sampler

October 10, 2010

With a new CD coming out next month, and four night of performances scheduled Wednesday, October 20 through Saturday October 23 at Jazz at the Bistro, it seems like a good time to make guitarist Russell Malone the subject of our weekly video feature. Though there's no footage extant ...

Sat Eye Candy: John Lennon

October 10, 2010

REMEMBERING A TRUE ORIGINAL AND WORLD CHANGER John Lennon would have turned 70-years-old today if he hadn't been violently snatched away in December 1980. There's no way to encapsulate such a complex, fascinating and often entertaining person in a few words, and there's multiple encyclopedias full of Lennon lore already out there. Instead, we offer this ...

Sephane Grappelli - "Blue Moon" (1990)

October 10, 2010

Afloat Again -- On Monk's Birthday

October 11, 2010

It could have been worse—toxic red sludge, for instance. The technician just left after performing CPR on the internet connection, which was out of commission for 48 hours. The Rifftides staff will resume posting soon. Now, ears open wide and notebook in hand, we're off to The Seasons for the next concerts of the Fall Festival. ...

Another Cause for Celebration: Harry "Sweets" Edison

October 11, 2010

While October 10th is rightly honored for the birth of Thelonious Monk, I want to celebrate another jazz musician who shares his birthdate, trumpeter Harry “Sweets" Edison. Edison was born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1915, and spent part of his childhood in Kentucky, where an uncle introduced him to music. As a teenager, he played trumpet ...