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Dinah Shore: A Ton of Fun
Dinah Shore has long been discounted as a '50s pop bore, which is terribly unfair. Part of the problem with her image is her sunny mass-market appeal and girl-next-door personna. But in truth, she was highly regarded by all of the major singers and could swing with the best of them. Few could beat her natural ...
STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Winter/Spring 2014 Jazz Preview, Part 2
This week, it's part two of our winter/spring 2014 preview taking a look at some of the touring jazz and creative music performers who will be visiting St. Louis next year. Part one, published last week, covered the month of January. Today, we pick up the timeline at the start of the following month for our ...
Anita O'Day: 1963 and 1970
Singer Anita O'Day appeared in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1963 and Oslo, Norway, in 1970. In both cases she was in superb form—slickly wriggling into songs like a tight dress, moving above and below notes to make songs her own. As always, O'Day was in complete control and a consummate professional. Fortunately her performances were captured on ...
STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Winter/Spring 2014 Jazz Preview, Part 1
As 2013 draws to a close, this week we're looking ahead to 2014 with the initial installment of a series previewing some of the touring jazz musicians who will be coming to St. Louis during the first part of next year. Once again in 2014, The Bad Plus will return to our town to be the ...
STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Generations of Guitar with Bucky Pizzarelli and John Pizzarelli
Today, our video spotlight shines on father-and-son guitarists Bucky Pizzarelli and John Pizzarelli, who will be in St. Louis to perform together Wednesday, December 18 through Saturday, December 21 at Jazz at the Bistro. Both men have headlined individually at the venue before - Bucky was there most recently in 2007, while John has been a ...
Even More Big Tenors
Since I'm now tenor crazy after featuring great saxophonists all week, I went in search of video featuring even mightier reed players. How about Dexter Gordon, Budd Johnson, Buddy Tate, Illinois Jacquet and Arnett Cobb on the same stage engaging in a tenor battle? Here's the clip. Jacquet is in the cream suit, Tate is in ...
Arnett Cobb: Tough Tenor
It's shaping up to be tenor sax sort of week. After all that Charlie Ventura over the past bunch of days, I found myself in the mood for Arnett Cobb. Born in Houston, Cobb played in locally bands until 1942, when he joined the Lionel Hampton Orchestra. Cobb played with Hampton until 1947—a critical period during ...
STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Drums Along the Mississippi, or City of Raijins
When Dennis Owsley wrote a history of jazz in St. Louis a few years ago, he titled his book City of Gabriels in recognition of the trumpeters from the area, including Miles Davis, Clark Terry and Lester Bowie, who have had a significant impact on jazz music, both here and around the globe. While that trumpet ...
Video: Lighthouse All-Stars, 1958
The Lighthouse All-Stars was the house band at the Lighthouse in Hermosa Beach, Calif., that was formed in the early 1950s by bassist Howard Rumsey, who managed the club. Many top musicians who relocated to Los Angeles in the early 1950s played in the band while “working off their card"—an expression that meant waiting the required ...
STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Spotlight on Pat Martino
This week, we spotlight the stylings of guitarist Pat Martino, who will be back in St. Louis next month to perform Wednesday, December 4 through Saturday, December 7 at Jazz at the Bistro. The Philadelphia native, now 69 years old, has played here numerous times over the years, most recently in December 2010 at the Bistro. ...
