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Bowie Scores First Ever #1, Makes Vevo History With 51M Video Views In Single Day
Just a week after his death, iconic rocker David Bowie’s final album Blackstar debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart, his first ever No. 1 album. Bowie reached a major video milestone, as well. Vevo announced that following the music icon's passing, David Bowie's catalog drew 51M views on January 11th, the most views for any ...
Tommy Tedesco: Studio Monster
One reason pop rock sounded so good in the 1960s was because many musicians who appeared on the recordings began as studio jazz musicians in Los Angeles in the late 1950s. They were brilliant sight-readers, understood swing and improvisation, and had the ability to play in any style and add their own twists to give the ...
Composers Sing Their Thing
I thought we'd do something a little different to start the week. Here are five nifty clips of composers playing and singing their own songs: Here's Joe Bushkin with Rosemary Clooney and the Hi-Lo's in 1956 singing Oh Look at Me Now. Dig Rosey's confidence and beautiful phrasing (and who knew Bushkin could sing this well!)... ...
Why Otis Redding Matters
In its heyday, soul music was powered by sheer romantic emotion that was animated by gritty riffs, a strong beat and an uninhibited determination to make audiences feel. Over time, soul evolved through artists' varied personal and regional experiences. For example, Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin brought the church to soul. James Brown gave soul a ...
StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Winter/spring 2016 jazz preview, part 3
Today, it's part three of StLJN's winter/spring 2016 jazz preview, giving you an advance look at some of the noteworthy bands and musicians who will be playing in St. Louis during the next several months. Following the chronological progression established in those first two installments, the first video up above features the Chicago-based group Spektral Quartet, ...
New Year's Day Recordings
Want to know what New Year's Day sounded like over the years? The following are studio recordings made on January 1 Here's the Varsity Eight's TNT recorded on Jan. 1, 1926... Here are the Blue Mountaineers with Fit as a Fiddle and Taboo Taboo, both recorded in London on Jan. 1, 1933.... Here's Lizzie Miles ...
Julie London: A Good Cry
Julie London sang Cry Me A River several times on TV over the years after she made the song her own in 1956. Written by Arthur Hamilton in 1953 for Ella Fitzgerald to sing in the film Pete Kelly's Blues (1955), the song was dropped in 1954 during production. Cry Me a River was then offered ...
The Death of Hideo Shiraki
Last week, I posted on Japanese drummer Hideo Shiraki, who died in 1972 at age 39. In 1962, Shiraki recorded two terrific albums, most notably Plays Horace Silver and Plays Bossa Nova. His other jazz albums are equally fabulous. Yet little is known about Shiraki in the States, since most information about him and his early ...
StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Winter/spring 2016 jazz preview, part 2
Today's installment picks up the chronological thread in late January with Bonerama, who will be back in town to play on Friday, January 22 at Broadway Oyster Bar. In the first video up above, you can see an excerpt from their set at the 2015 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in which they perform the ...
The History of Christmas
Christmas, as we know it, is a relatively modern holiday. How do we know this? The following documentary from the History Chanel does a good job of explaining. The only flaw is that it completely misses one of the most important factors in Christmas's spell over our culture—the rise of the holiday song through sheet music ...
