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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Helen Sung, Marcus Strickland and the Metta Quintet
This week, we've got a grab-bag of videos related to the Metta Quintet, who will be in St. Louis next week to do an educational residency for Jazz St. Louis, culminating in performances at Jazz at the Bistro on Friday, October 31 and Saturday, November 1. As the ...
Sat Eye Candy: Bill Graham
HE CHANGED LIVE MUSIC FOREVER AND LEFT A MARK ON AMERICAN CULTURE THAT'LL NEVER FADE On this day in 1991 one of music's most influential, charismatic and volatile individuals, Bill Graham, died in a helicopter crash in Concord, California. Just 60 years old, Graham was, in many ways, the epitome of '60s Boomer ...
Making Connections Through Essential Outreach: Latin Jazz Vocalists on Video
The American public often sees jazz as an insider’s art; an exclusive music that plays to the hip crowd while leaving the general public cold. Jazz lovers talk about things like personal expression and individual identity, concepts that don’t always resonate with the greater population. Jazz lovers speak with familiarity about artists like “Bird,” “Trane,” or ...
STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Les McCann and Javon Jackson
This week's videos feature keyboardist Les McCann and saxophonist Javon Jackson, who will be in St. Louis next week to perform Wednesday, October 22 through Saturday, October 25 at Jazz at the Bistro. Their team-up is billed as “Swiss Movement Revisited," a reference to McCann's collaboration with the late saxophonist ...
Playboy Yanks DVDs; Will Focus Exclusively on Web
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Playboy Enterprises Inc, which publishes the world's most widely read adult entertainment magazine, will stop making DVDs to save about $12 million a year, and focus on distributing its content online, the company said in a regulatory filing. Shutting its DVD operations will cost 80 jobs and $2 million in restructuring charges, ...
STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Two from the St. Louis Rivermen
This week, let's take a look at a couple of videos featuring the traditional jazz band the St. Louis Rivermen. These two clips are from the 37th annual Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival held in July 2008 in Davenport, Iowa.First up is a video of the Rivermen playing ...
Eagle to Release "The Crusaders Live at Montreux 2003" DVD on DVD October 14
Eagle Eye Media, the wholly-owned subsidiary of Eagle Rock Entertainment, will release The Crusaders Live At Montreux 2003 on DVD October 14. Originally The Jazz Crusaders, this American Institution has recorded and released over 40 albums since 1961. Coming out of Houston and relocating to Los Angeles, the original band started out in a hard bebop ...
Oktawia's Premiere Video for "Leave My Sorrow Behind"
Young Polish jazz singer Oktawia is to release her debut album called simply “Oktawia" in Poland on October 25 2008. The album includes modern jazz arrangements of songs composed by top Polish authors- starting from Chopin, Bronislaw Kaper and finishing with Michal Urbaniak. The project has already gained much attention from Polish media, being played by ...
STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Meet the Godfathers of Groove
This week, we've got four very short video clips featuring the Godfathers of Groove, who are coming to St. Louis to appear at Jazz at The Bistro starting next Wednesday, October 8 through Saturday, October 11. With the well-seasoned veteran Reuben Wilson on organ, legendary session man Bernard “Pretty" Purdie ...
