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Johnny Hodges and Will Bill
Exceptional jazz musicians win us over with a warm tone, lyrical lines, a feel for the blues, respect for space, sheer speed or stamina—to name just a handful of winning traits. But not all exceptional jazz musicians work well together and only a bunch of couplings have produced dazzling results. Perfect partnerships that come to mind ...
STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Six from Poncho Sanchez
Today, let's check out some videos of percussionist Poncho Sanchez, who will be bringing his band to St. Louis to perform Wednesday, April 16 through Saturday, April 19 at Jazz at the Bistro. Last seen here in 2012 at the Greater St. Louis Jazz Festival, Sanchez and his band could be considered the standard-bearers for small-group, ...
Video: Johnny Hodges, 1969
Johnny Hodges was an alto saxophonist who joined Duke Ellington in 1928 and developed a sweet, high-vibrato sound popularized in the 1930s by Benny Carter. He also was one of the smoothest swing improvisers on the instrument, praised by reed masters from Benny Goodman to Charlie Parker. Yesterday, I spent a few hours listening to “Rabbit," ...
STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: A Few Minutes with Cyrus Chestnut and Russell Malone
This week, let's spend a little time with pianist Cyrus Chestnut and guitarist Russell Malone, who will be returning to St. Louis to join forces for a series of performances Wednesday, April 2 through Saturday, April 5 at Jazz at the Bistro. Both men are quite familiar to St. Louis audiences, as they first teamed up ...
Videos: Around the World
Today, let's take a video break and travel around the world. Here are four clips of foreign singers who are new to you or, in the case of one, you probably weren't aware she was around before her big mid-'60s hits... Here's France's Jacqueline François in 1969 singing Frank Foster's Shiny Stockings... Here's Britain's Petula ...
STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Claire Chase and Ice
This week, let's check out some videos of flautist Claire Chase and the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), who are coming to St. Louis to perform in a concert presented by New Music Circle at 7:00 p.m. Friday, April 4, at the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts. Chase, who's 36 and based in Chicago, has premiered more ...
STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Spotlight on Mwata Bowden
This week, let's get acquainted with Chicago multi-instrumentalist Mwata Bowden, who's coming to St. Louis to perform with the trio Low End Theory for Washington University's Jazz at Holmes series on Thursday, March 27. Bowden plays a variety of saxophones and clarinets, flute and didgeridoo, and he'll be joined for the performance by bassist and Wash ...
Art Ford's Jazz Party: Remastered
For years, many of the Art Ford's Jazz Party videos at YouTube have been miserable. The sound of the TV show broadcast in New York in 1958 and featuring jazz greats was fuzzy and there was a disconnect between what you saw and heard. Now, Jimi Mentis in Athens has brought them up to snuff with ...
