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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: New Orleans Piano with Tom McDermott
This week, let's take a look at some videos featuring pianist Tom McDermott, a St. Louis native now living in New Orleans who's coming back home to play this coming Thursday, August 14 at the Tavern of Fine Arts. (The events page on hHis website also shows a gig on Wednesday, August 13 at Joe's Cafe, ...
STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Summer 2014 Jazz Film Festival
It's summertime, when the livin' is allegedly easy, and yr. humble editor needs a brief respite from the usual blogging routine. So today, in keeping with a venerable tradition that we just made up a couple of years ago, we're bringing back StLJN's online summer festival of jazz-related films, featuring a whole day's worth of documentaries ...
New York Worlds Fairs
Back when Americans looked forward to a future loaded with technology designed to liberate us from the tedium of work, New York hosted two World's Fairs, one in 1939-40 and another in 1964-65. Both business to showcase what it had imagined about tomorrow and what we could expect in short order. Everyone was excited and impatient. ...
Tony Bennett's Almost Birthday
Tony Bennett's birthday is on August 3 (he'll be a majestic 88), but I couldn't wait until then to celebrate. While roaming YouTube the other night, I dipped into Tony's 1960s TV appearances. If you like what you see below, I'll tell you at the end of this post where you can see much more if ...
Dave Lambert: Voice of Reason
If you want to truly understand the kind side of jazz—the side that reveres other artists, wants everyone to love the music and views improvisation as way to bring people together—you need to dig the music of Dave Lambert. Before World War II, Louis Armstrong was the chief bridge between jazz and everyday life, largely because ...
Videos: Peggy Lee
Last night, while doing some research on YouTube, I got hung up on Peggy Lee. First I started studying how the left corner of her mouth drops slightly when she sings. Then I watched her eyes, which always seem to be soaring back and forth on a swing. At any rate, let me share with you ...
Weekend Extra: Brownie Speaks
Until recently, admirers of the great trumpeter Clifford Brown heard him speak only a few words on the album The Beginning and the End. Recently, however, a YouTube contributor who identifies herself as Nespasisi posted a segment of Brown being interviewed by Willis Conover of The Voice of America. Nespasisi explains that she found the fragment ...
STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Alan Evans' Playonbrother
Today, let's spend a little video time with drummer Alan Evans and his band Playonbrother, who will be in St. Louis next week to perform on Thursday, July 24 at the Gramophone. Made up of Evans, a co-founder of the funk-jazz trio Soulive, plus Danny Mayer on guitar and Beau Sasser on keyboards, Playonbrother was formed ...
Videos: Charlie Haden
In the wake of Charlie Haden's death on Friday and my tribute post yesterday, I thought I'd share with you three videos of Haden being interviewed along with a previously unseen concert with Pat Metheny in 2005... Here's Charlie being interviewed by Democracy Now's Amy Goodman in 2006... Here's Haden in 2009... Here's Haden in ...
Drone-Shot Music Videos Attracting Attention and Driving Chart Positions
Drones are being adopted in all sorts of areas to sometimes literally give a new look at things. Which means they eventually will show up in music videos. One video using a GoPro/drone combo used Sarah Brightman and Andrea Bocelli’s “Time To Say Goodbye" as background music and drove it up the charts. Another takes a ...
