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Patti Page and Nat Cole
On October 29, 1958, singer Patti Page hosted Nat King Cole and Gene Krupa as well as Illinois Jacquet, her musical director Rocky Cole and other musicians on ABC's The Patti Page Oldsmobile Show, which featured the swinging Vic Schoen Orchestra. Shows like this take me back to when I was a very little kid, being ...
StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Winter/spring 2015 jazz preview, part 5
Today, it's the fifth and final part of StLJN's winter/spring 2015 jazz preview, offering a look at the touring bands and musicians who will be be performing here during the first half of the year. (Parts one through four can be found, and here. And speaking of part four, last week in this space we were ...
'A Gal in Calico': 1946-2011
In December 1946, Warner Bros. released a mess of a film called The Time, the Place and the Girl—a post-war feel-good feature with a dopey storyline on which it hung as many musical numbers as possible. Everything about the film was forgettable—except for A Gal in Calico, a song by Leo Robin and Arthur Schwartz. In ...
StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Winter/spring 2015 jazz preview, part 4
Today, we continue with part four of StLJN's winter/spring 2015 jazz preview, covering the touring bands and musicians who will be be performing here during the first half of the year. (Parts one through three can be found here, here, and here.) For this week's edition, we turn the calendar ahead to the third week of ...
Billie Holiday and Helen Merrill
Tessa Souter, whose singing voice I love (go here), sent along a lovely email the other day. Tessa knows I've interviewed Helen Merrill at length (start here) and wanted me to hear something. It was a link to a tape of Helen and Billie Holiday singing You Go to My Head at producer-writer Leonard Feather's apartment ...
Documentary: Bix Beiderbecke
In 1981, director Brigitte Berman released Bix: 'Ain't None of Them Play Like Him,' a documentary on cornetist Bix Beiderbecke. The short-sentence narration and interviews with Beiderbecke's bandmates are remarkable. You may know Berman best as the winner of an Oscar for Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got, which she shared in 1987 with Down ...
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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Winter/spring 2015 jazz preview, part 3
Today, it's part three of StLJN's preview of touring jazz and creative music performers who will be coming to St. Louis in the first part of 2015. (You can see parts one and two, covering January and the first part of February, here and here.) Our first two clips feature cellist Okkyung Lee and saxophonist Lotte ...
Video: Sad Story of Jackie Wilson
Want a sense of just how ugly and predatory the record industry could be in the 1960s, especially the smaller labels? Dig how Jackie Wilson went from being one of the biggest-selling and highly influential soul artists of his generation to penniless and incapacitated in the 1970s. Here's an ABC 20/20 segment on Wilson from the 1990s... ...
Videos: Martha Davis and Spouse
Even if you're up on past female jazz stars, odds are you've never heard boogie-woogie pianist Martha Davis. Davis came up in the 1930s playing in Chicago clubs and in 1939 married her bassist, Calvin Ponder. In the late 1940s, as the number of Los Angeles record labels proliferated following the settlement of the first musicians' ...
