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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Six from Harry Connick, Jr.
This week, let's check in via video with singer and pianist Harry Connick Jr., who will be performing in St. Louis this coming Tuesday, July 28 at the Peabody Opera House. If you're enough of a jazz fan to have found your way here, you're likely already familiar with Connick, as he's among the most prominent ...
Erroll Garner in Paris, 1972
On May 29, 1972, the Erroll Garner Quartet was in Paris on tour when they appeared on Jazz Land, a 30-minute French TV show that was taped without an audience and captured jazz artists with multiple cameras and in living color. There's no better way to end this week than to hear Garner's grunts and history-soaked ...
Dick Hyman in Concert
Last Friday, I drove down to Princeton University to hear jazz pianist Dick Hyman perform and review the concert for today's Wall Street Journal (go here). Dick, at 88, remains astonishing. If you're unfamiliar with him, Dick is a one-man Smithsonian when it comes to playing jazz keyboard styles. Jazz, today, is hardly easy music, but ...
Cal Tjader’s 90th
This is the 90th birthday of Cal Tjader (1925-1982). Tjader may have been best known for his pioneering Latin jazz, but in the late 1940s and early ‘50s with the Dave Brubeck Trio, he was respected for his mainstream drumming. Pianist Hank Jones told me that when he played on Tjader’s 1953 record session for Savoy, ...
Sassy and Ronnell Bright
I had a lovely phone chat with Ronnell Bright last week. As is the case whenever we talk, the conversation turned to Sarah Vaughan. Ronnell accompanied Sassy in the late 1950s and early '60s before working with Nancy Wilson. As readers of this blog know, Ronnell is my favorite accompanist. I love his chord voicings and ...
Weekend Extra: Horace Silver
In the course of his career as a leader, Horace Silver (1928-2014) included in his band many of the most prominent young jazz musicians of the twentieth century. The quintet he took to Denmark in 1968 for the Jazz Omkring Midnat (Jazz Around Midnight) series was not together long, but the chemistry they developed made it ...
StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Remembering Ray Kennedy
Next Friday, July 17 at the Sheldon Concert Hall, musical colleagues of the late pianist Ray Kennedy will present a concert paying tribute to the St. Louis native, who died in May after a long bout with multiple sclerosis. With proceeds benefiting Kennedy's widow and two young daughters, the show will be headlined by singer-guitarist John ...
How Rock 'n' Roll Happened
Sixty years ago today, Bill Haley's Rock Around the Clock hit #1 on all three of Billboard's pop charts at the time. It was the first time an R&B song accomplished that feat, and it signaled the birth of rock 'n' roll. Not the music, the attitude. As I write in today's Wall Street Journal (go ...
Jon Armstrong Jazz Orchestra, An Ensemble Linked To LA’s Burgeoning Jazz Scene, Are Set To Release A Cinematic Music Video
Twenty two piece ensemble, Jon Armstrong Jazz Orchestra will release their first music video. “The gifted Los Angeles tenor saxophonist,” (The Sydney Morning Herald) teamed up with Los Angeles based multimedia company Producciones Con Sal to produce and direct the music video for “Dream Has No Friend” off their debut album Farewell. The cinematic Jazz music ...
StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Ken Burns' Jazz
This week, celebrate the nation's birthday with a screening of Jazz, the ten-part history of the music directed by famed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and originally aired on PBS back in 2001. Although the series was acclaimed by some as the most comprehensive filmed treatment of jazz history to date, many fans and critics also found ...
