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See The Music Of Laurie Antonioli and Richie Beirach
A short improvisational piece from master pianist Richie Beirach and song stylist Laurie Antonioli taken from their Duo Session recording is a gorgeous series of brush strokes and images that capture the feeling and sound of this song. Laurie is the Director of the Jazzschool Institute Vocal program and her student, Susana Pineda created this video ...
Gene Rodgers: Lost Pianist
One of jazz's most enduring hits is Coleman Hawkins' October 1939 recording of Body and Soul. The rendition ranks pretty near the top of every jazz fan's list of favorites in terms of daring and influence. The tenor saxophone came into prominence after Hawk's recording and its sound would never be the same. [Pictured above, Gene ...
Stan Kenton: Germany, 1953
Between 1949 and 1951, Stan Kenton led a 39-piece band known as the Innovations in Modern Music Orchestra. The band's dreamy, Wagner-esque jazz arrangements were hip for a brief period but soon took on the characteristics of a wobbly truck transporting too much fine furniture. The orchestrations didn't click with young audiences and Kenton's musicians grew ...
STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Winter/Spring 2014 Jazz Preview, Part 4
This week, we continue with part four of StLJN's winter/spring 2014 jazz preview, featuring bands and musicians who will be coming to our town in the first few months of this year. (Here are part one, part two and part three.) Today's first clip features guitarist Pat Metheny and his Unity Band, with saxophonist Chris Potter, ...
LH&R: 'Playboy's Penthouse,' '59
In October 1959, Dave Lambert, Jon Hendricks and Annie Ross appeared on Hugh Hefner's new TV variety show, Playboy's Penthouse. The show, hosted by Hefner, actually was taped in the Chicago studios of WBKB-TV, with the set designed to appear as though the viewer were attending a hip, late-night adult party at Hefner's rooftop apartment with ...
STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Winter/Spring 2014 Jazz Preview, Part 3
This week, it's an extra-large part three of StLJN's video preview of jazz musicians and bands coming to St. Louis in the first part of 2014. (In case you missed them, here's part one and part two.) Today's first clip features singer Marissa Mulder, who will make her St. Louis debut as one of the headliners ...
Young Coleman Hawkins Speaks and Plays
After Coleman Hawkins left Fletcher Henderson in 1934, he spent nearly five years touring in Europe. Having established the saxophone as a serious jazz instrument, he provided significant inspiration among European musicians as jazz took a solid foothold on the continent and in the British Isles. Hawkins appeared with bands in England, Switzerland, France and Holland, ...
A Bill Evans Rehearsal
Rifftides reader Mike Harris (more about him later) alerts us to a little-known piece of video catching Bill Evans in rehearsal for a 1966 Danish television broadcast. The 21-minute sequence lets us see and hear Evans and his trio preparing pieces he frequently included in his playlists: “Very Early,” “Who Can I Turn To,” “If You ...
No Christmas is Complete Without Bird
Sixty-five years ago today in the early hours of the morning, Charlie Parker and his quintet were close to wrapping up their broadcast from the Royal Roost in New York City when someone requested a Christmas song. Parker obliged. Christmas 1948 with Charlie Parker, Kenny Dorham, Al Haig, Tommy Potter and Max Roach. I hope that ...
