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Brubeck and Company in Belgium, Part 3
From a DBQ television appearance in Europe, we have the piece that served as the quartet's concert opener for more than a decade. First, a couple of observations, one from me, one from Eugene Wright: From me: Whoever decreed that white men can't play the blues never really listened to Desmond and Brubeck personalize the idiom ...
Joya Sherrill
Joya Sherrill, the singer who died in late June at the age of 85, joined Duke Ellington and his Orchestra in 1942 following her high school graduation. One of her features through the mid-forties was the Billy Strayhorn-Rex Stewart collaboration “Kissing Bug." The song received a good deal of radio air play and in its V-disc ...
Brubeck and Company in Belgium, Part 1
Concert videos from out of the past continue to materialize on the internet. Recent emanations include several pieces from a 1964 appearance in Belgium by the classic Dave Brubeck Quartet. The excellent picture and sound quality and the absence of applause suggest that the performances were in a television broadcast. Over the next few days, we ...
Moses Oakland: Bluesman DVD
MINNEAPOLIS--Big Notes Productions and Winterland Studios have teamed up to produce a performance DVD featuring the music of blues musician Moses Oakland. The video was shot at Famous Dave's BBQ & Blues Club in Uptown Minneapolis, where Oakland has played every Sunday night for the past 10 years, and continues this tradition. He has become a ...
Brubeck and Company in Belgium, Part 2
This time, Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond, Gene Wright and Joe Morello play “In Your Own Sweet Way." Because of the quality of the song, the quartet's popularity and the Miles Davis seal of approval, by the time of this performance in 1964 it was a jazz standard. Attention, tune detectives: Brubeck's Matt Dennis quote suggests that ...
STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Spotlight on Keyon Harrold
This week, let's look at some clips of trumpet player, arranger/composer, producer and St. Louis native Keyon Harrold, who's coming back home on Friday, July 30 and Saturday, July 31 to lead his quintet at Jazz at the Bistro.Touted by Wynton Marsalis in an interview a ...
Sat Eye Candy: Bela Fleck
HAPPY 52nd BIRTHDAY, MR. FLECK! No one has done more to innovate and expand the language of the banjo in the past 50 years than Bela Fleck. From his early rise with New Grass Revival to the truly alien invention of Bela Fleck and the flecktones to his international exploration with Toumani Diabate to his flirtation ...
Video: Tom Conrad of Pandora Speaks at Digg
At the end of June, Tom Conrad, the CTO of Pandora, held a talk at Digg, where he outlines the difficulties and windfalls that the company experienced during their transition onto mobile devices. As Blogger Kent Rahman writes, the talk details 5 broad lessons the company learned in this time period, and how they affected Pandora's ...
