Results for "Video / DVD"

Researchers Claim That Releasing Youtube Music Videos Reduces Album Sales

April 12, 2014

A new report on the relationship of posting videos on YouTube and album sales claims that posting on YouTube reduces album sales. Taking the Warner Music YouTube blackout period in 2009, researchers apply advanced statistical methods to find causation and then total up losses using a “rough back-of-the-envelope calculation." This innovative use of mixed methods leads ...

Johnny Hodges and Will Bill

April 9, 2014

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 ...

Duke Ellington: Diminuendo

April 8, 2014

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Six from Poncho Sanchez

April 6, 2014

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

April 4, 2014

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

March 30, 2014

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

March 27, 2014

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

March 23, 2014

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

March 16, 2014

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 ...

The History of Recorded Music in 90 Seconds

March 13, 2014