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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: St. Louis Gypsy Jazz Festival
If you dig guitarist Django Reinhardt, you'll want to have a look at the bands and musicians performing in the first-ever St. Louis Gypsy Jazz Festival, which will take place this coming Friday, October 23 through Sunday, October 25 at Evangeline's. Organized by singer Eve Seltzer and her husband, guitarist Ben Wood, both of the band ...
Pepper Adams: London, 1981
In the wake of my post on Mosaic Records' Complete Bee Hive Sessions along with all the email heat that followed from readers knocked out by the box's baritone sax sessions, let's end the week with Pepper Adams. As you'll soon see and hear, Adams was an unassuming killer on the instrument. Here he is in ...
Early Nelson Riddle
Arranger Nelson Riddle is most often associated with Frank Sinatra. Which makes sense, since Riddle scored a number of successful albums for Sinatra in the 1950s that sassed up the singer's swinging sound at Capitol. He did this with playful sectional riffs, unusual instrumental textures and bright solo tones added for punctuation. But where did Riddle's ...
Billy Eckstine and Vocal Groups
Billy Eckstine was a sex symbol in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The vocalist's movie-star looks and seductive baritone earned him a prominent place in magazines and jukeboxes, leaving black and white girls with a terrible crush on him. All were smitten by the tenderness and understanding in Eckstine's butterscotch voice. Today, Eckstine and the ...
Post-Parker String Dates
The genius of Charlie Parker's studio recordings with strings in 1949, 1950 and 1952 for Norman Granz's Cleff label wasn't in the merging of jazz and fiddles. In Parker's case, that was something of a happy accident when he turned up at a Carnegie Hall recording session at the tail end of 1947 and asked to ...
StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: A most unusual "marching band"
From the looks of things, fitting everyone on stage may be a tight squeeze when MarchFourth! comes to St. Louis to play an all-ages show on Monday, October 19 at the Old Rock House. Formed in Portland, OR for a Mardi Gras gig in 2003, the group includes stilt-walkers, acrobats and dancers, as well as up ...
Bill Evans: Last TV Show
Less than three weeks before his death on Sept. 15, 1980, Bill Evans appeared on the Merv Griffin Show. He came out in a white suit, chatted with Griffin and then played his composition Your Story. The show aired on Sept. 23. Reader Gregory Lee had told me about this appearance some time ago and yesterday ...
StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Evan Parker and Peter Evans
Today, let's spend a few minutes with saxophonist Evan Parker and trumpeter Peter Evans, who will give a duo performance to kick off New Music Circle's 2015-16 season next Friday, October 2 at Joe's Cafe. (Both men also will take part in a free workshop/Q&A at 11 a.m. the next day (Saturday, October 3) at Foam.) ...
June Christy: Funny That Way
I'm still on a June Christy kick. I just love Christy's voice. In her sunny optimism, there's so much pain and hurt. I hear volumes of regret, disappointment and insecurity but determination to get beyond all of it. I'm sure part of it was a mess of fatigue from enormous amounts of stress while recording and ...
