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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: A birthday tribute to Miles Davis
With the 91st anniversary of Miles Davis' birth coming up next Friday, May 26, it's time for StLJN's annual tribute to the most famous and influential jazz musician ever to come from this area. In an encore post from last year's celebration of the trumpeter's 90th natal date, here are nine videos from throughout his career—one ...
StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: The Soul Rebels' brass band revolution
This week, StLJN's video spotlight shines on the Soul Rebels, who are coming to St. Louis to perform on Thursday, May 25 at the Old Rock House. Described by Village Voice as “the missing link between Public Enemy and Louis Armstrong," the group was founded in the early 90s in New Orleans by percussionists Lumar LeBlanc ...
Singer/Spoken Word Artist Tony Adamo Releases "Rain Man" Video
By Dick Metcalf, editor, Contemporary Fusion Reviews Look—up in th' sky; it’s a BIRD… it's a PLANE… ah, naw, mang, it’s just the “Rain Man”, my pal Tony Adamo, performin’ some of the absolutely COOLEST original music/lyrics he’s done to date! & I know, man… ’cause I’ve reviewed 100’s of his “hip- spoken-word” songs—most recently in ...
StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Spotlight on Joey DeFrancesco
This week, StLJN's video spotlight shines on organist Joey DeFrancesco, who's returning to St. Louis to perform Wednesday, May 10 through Saturday, May 13 at Jazz at the Bistro. Back here for the first time since playing in December 2014 at the Bistro, DeFrancesco on this visit is supporting a new recording, Project Freedom, released in ...
Ella Fitzgerald at 100
Ella Fitzgerald was born 100 years ago today and died on June 15, 1996. By any measure, she was easily the most important singer of the 20th century. By the time she was 21 in 1938, she had completely transformed pop singing, dragging the vocal into the Swing Era by giving it more relaxed, jazz-influenced feel. ...
StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: SFJAZZ Collective plays Miles Davis
This week, it's time to check out some videos of the latest iteration of the SFJAZZ Collective, who will be here in St. Louis to perform starting next Wednesday, April 26 through Saturday, April 29 at Jazz at the Bistro. Founded in 2004 as a sort of ever-evolving, all-star house band for the San Francisco presenter ...
Ben Webster + Ahmad Jamal
Jazz From Studio 61 was a CBS show hosted by Robert Herridge that aired on February 15, 1960. It was part of the network's Herridge-produced Robert Herridge Theater series. For this half-hour jazz program, Herridge brought together two groups—one led by tenor saxophonist Ben Webster and the other by pianist Ahmad Jamal. In the past, I've ...
Joe Farrell Plays the Flute
Recently, I was e-chatting with saxophonist Bill Kirchner about jazz flutists. I think it was just after my post on Harold McNair. At any rate, Bill noted that Joe Farrell (1937-1986) was one of the finest jazz flutists. Said Bill, “If there's a better sounding alto flute on a jazz record, I haven't heard it." [Photo ...
StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Grégoire Maret's harmonica jazz
Harmonica players are rare in jazz. Many fans could recognize and name the late Jean “Toots" Thielemans (who also played guitar) and Howard Levy, who first earned fame playing harmonica and keyboards with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones (and St. Louis music fans in the know might tout our town's Sandy Weltman as deserving of being ...
Freddie Hubbard: Three Videos
Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard came up at the height of the hard bop movement in the late 1950s and became instrumental in free jazz movement in the 1960s and fusion in the '70s. His second recording was on John Coltrane's The Believer in late 1958, and from then on Hubbard was in strong demand. His critical recordings ...
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