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Videos: Martha Davis and Spouse

January 2, 2015

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' ...

Videos: Sonny Stitt, London 1964

December 31, 2014

When I was a kid in the '70s, Sonny Stitt was my favorite saxophonist. I loved his lyricism, aggression and intensity. Then I tried to collect him and found it impossible. There were simply too many recordings, and back then albums cost real money, which didn't come easy to teens. I'm still collecting Stitt all these ...

Video: Cafe Montmartre, '59-'76

December 30, 2014

Oscar Pettiford was one of the great jazz bassists on the New York recording scene in the 1940s and '50s. Sadly, his name today is slipping into obscurity. In 1958, Pettiford moved to Copenhagen, where he died in 1960 at age 37. He was the first to play jazz cello in 1949, and few could match ...

Chet Baker: Belgium, 1964

December 30, 2014

Video: Stan Kenton, 1962

December 29, 2014

In October 1962, Stan Kenton and his Mellophonium Orchestra appeared on Jazz Scene USA, hosted by Oscar Brown Jr. The spectacular band featured Conte Candoli, Marvin Stamm, Bob Behrendt, Dalton Smith and Keith LaMotte (tp); Bud Parker, Tom Ringo and Bob Fitzpatrick (tb); Jim Amlotte (b-tb); Dave Wheeler (b-tb, tuba); Dwight Carver, Joe Burnett, Lou Gasca ...

StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Winter/spring 2015 jazz preview, part 2

December 28, 2014

Today, we continue with part two of StLJN's winter/spring 2015 jazz preview, this time covering musicians and groups who will be visiting St. Louis during the first part of February. (To see part 1, which covers January, go here.) The month will begin with a series of performances featuring pianist Kenny Barron and vibraphonist Stefon Harris, ...

8 Jazz Clips for XMAS Eve

December 24, 2014

Jazz musicians and singers always provide a little something extra to any holiday song. Perhaps it's a bit of blues. Or maybe just a keen sense of how to give a commercial melody a soulful spin. Here are eight you may not know: Here's Bill Evans singing and playing Santa Claus Is Coming to Town...   ...

Mills Brothers Christmas

December 23, 2014

What better way to usher in the hushed, mellow holidays ahead than with the Mills Brothers singing a series of Christmas songs. Vocal groups don't get much better than this... Here's I Believe in Santa Claus...   Here's I'll Be Home for Christmas...   Here's On This Christmas Eve...   Here's My Christmas Song for You... ...

StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Winter/spring 2015 jazz preview

December 21, 2014

Today, it's the first part of StLJN's winter/spring 2015 jazz preview, in which we bring you music videos from jazz and creative music performers who will be visiting our city in the first part of next year. First up are The Bad Plus, who will be back in St. Louis from Wednesday, January 7 through Saturday, ...

Videos: Frank Sinatra, 1943

December 17, 2014

On September 3, 1942, Frank Sinatra left the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra after nearly three years as its star vocalist. On his own as a solo act, Sinatra signed with Columbia. The problem was, however, that the American Federation of Musicians' ban was still on, forcing Sinatra to record a cappella with backup singers for the label. ...