StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Clark Terry and his famous friends

This year marks the centennnial of the birth of legendary trumpeter and St. Louis native Clark Terry. As we approach what would have been his 100th birthday on December 14, StLJN will be paying tribute by sharing videos of Terry, starting today with just a few of his many collaborations and encounters with other famous musicians and singers.

The first video up above shows Terry with another American musical icon, blues singer and guitarist Muddy Waters, sitting in on a version of T-Bone Walker's standard "Stormy Monday." It was recorded in July, 1977 in Nice, France, with Muddy's band, which included Bob Margolin (guitar), Guitar Junior (guitar), Pinetop Perkins (piano), Calvin Jones (bass), and Willy "Big Eyes" Smith (drums).

After the jump, you can see Terry performing his signature song "Mumbles" in 2001 with the "Queen of Soul," Aretha Franklin, backed by a band including Herbie Hancock (keyboards), Russell Malone (guitar), Ron Carter (bass), Roy Haynes (drums), and James Carter (saxophones).

In the third clip, Terry returns to his former place of employment, The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, sometime around 1980 to front the show's famous orchestra for a couple of numbers.

That's followed by a choice cameo appearance by Terry on another late night talk show, as he offers single choruses of flugelhorn and vocals on a version of Quincy Jones' "Soul Bossa Nova" recorded in 2001 for Late Night with David Letterman with Jones' orchestra and saxophonist Phil Woods, who takes the solo before Terry's.

After that, you can see a full concert from the long-running "Jazz at the Philharmonic" series, which was started by producer Norman Granz in 1944 and continued through the 1950s in the US and into the 1980s in Europe. This all-star performance was recorded in 1967 in London by the BBC, and along with Terry, the ensemble includes Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet), James Moody (alto sax, flute), Zoot Sims (tenor sax), Teddy Wilson (piano), Bob Cranshaw (bass), and Louis Bellson (drums).

The final clip shows another all-star session, billed as "A Trumpet Summit" at the 1999 edition of the Jazz in Marciac festival in France. It features Terry will fellow trumpeters Benny Bailey, Stepka Gut, Jon Faddis, Terell Stafford, Nicholas Payton, Roy Hargrove, and Wynton Marsalis, backed by pianist Mulgrew Miller, bassist Pierre Moussaguet, and drummer Alvin Queen.

Look for more videos celebrating Clark Terry in the coming weeks. You can see the rest of today's videos after the jump...

Sunday Session: July 26, 2020

Charles Tolliver

Here's this week's roundup of various music-related items of interest:

* After The All-Stars: Live At The Lighthouse 1960-1972 (WFIU)
* Of “St. James Infirmary” and COVID-19 (Jazz Times)
* Wynton Marsalis On The Future Of New York City (Gothamist.com)
* Emitt Rhodes, RIP (BrooklynVegan.com)
* Soft Machine today (TheBlueMoment.com)
* Charles Tolliver: Blowing Down The Walls Of Trump’s Jericho (AllAboutJazz.com)
* Electric Sitars of the Psychedelic Era (Reverb.com)
* Setbacks Are Not Defeats For James Carter, Regina Carter (DownBeat)
* The Force Is Still Strong with John Williams (The New Yorker)
* The Man They Called ‘Trane’, Remembering A Jazz Giant (UDiscoverMusic.com)
* Muddy Waters’ Former Chicago Home to Be Converted Into Museum (Rolling Stone)
* Q magazine's demise signals the end of the old music press (The Guardian)
* The Shifting Technique Of Kurt Rosenwinkel (DownBeat)
* Vocalist Annie Ross Dies At 89 (DownBeat)
* Sing into the funnel please: inside the Covid-19 lab hoping to declare singing safe (The Guardian)
* A Genre of Myths: A Jazz Reading List (Longreads.com)
* Annie Ross 1930–2020 (Jazz Times)
* Back To Square One, Uh, Phase Two (Offbeat)
* Lift Every Voice And Sing: Twenty Rousing #BlackLivesMatter Albums (AllAboutJazz.com)
* From a funk band to The Rex to Downbeat magazine. Jazz pianist Kris Davis won’t be pigeonholed (Toronto Star)
* Trane of No-Thought: How Meditation Inspired Jazz Great John Coltrane (LionsRoar.com)
* Gregory Porter To Perform For Launch Of NASA’S Mars 2020 Mission (UDiscoverMusic.com)
* Annie Ross, Mid-Century Jazz Icon, Dead At 89 (NPR)
* The Newport Rebels and Jazz as Protest (JStor.org)
* The Golden Age: A Newport Jazz Festival Special (NPR)
* Composer Maria Schneider Returns, With A Reckoning, On 'Data Lords' (WBGO)
* Self-Determined, Then and Now: A Focus on Charles Tolliver (WBGO)
* In Conversation: Kamasi Washington, Robert Glasper, 9th Wonder, and Terrace Martin Invite You to Their Dinner Party (FloodMagazine.com)
* We Bet You Miss Weddings. America's Greatest Wedding Band Does Too (GQ)
* ‘Sex Machine’ at 50: Bootsy Collins Recalls ‘Twilight Zone’ Origins of Funky James Brown Hit (Rolling Stone)
* How Long Can New Orleans Survive Without Live Music? (Slate.com)

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Sunday Session: April 14, 2019

Amina Claudine Myers

Here's a roundup of various music-related items of interest that have shown up in one of StLJN's various inboxes or feeds over the past week:

* Nenette Evans: My Life With Bill (AllAboutJazz.com)
* The Eclectic Mr. Klein (Jazz Times)
* Harold Danko: His Own Sound, His Own Time (AllAboutJazz.com)
* ECM @ 50 (AllAboutJazz.com)* “The most in depth concert in over 35 years”: Rod Stewart and Jeff Beck to reunite on stage (NME.com)
* Ed Palermo Enjoys a ‘Lousy Day’ with New Album (DownBeat)
* Alan Lomax’s Massive Music Archive Is Online: Features 17,000 Historic Blues & Folk Recordings (OpenCulture.com)
* Interview: Pianist Amina Claudine Myers (JazzRightNow.com)
* Knocking on doors in search of Philadelphia’s jazz history (WHYY)
* Jazz Heavyweights Herbie Hancock And Kamasi Washington Announce Joint Tour (NPR)
* Keystone Korner Club Revived in Baltimore (Jazz Times)
* Emmet Cohen Wins American Pianists Association Competition (DownBeat)
* Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks Dig Deep (DownBeat)
* George Benson talks back (Offbeat)
* Inside the Barry Harris Method (Jazz Times)
* Ambient in Outer Space: Seven Artists Exploring the Final Frontier (Bandcamp.com)
* Works of Wadada Leo Smith Celebrated at Third CREATE Festival (DownBeat)
* Four-year legal battle over estate of legendary blues musician Muddy Waters continues in DuPage courtroom (Chicago Tribune)
* AIM’s Gee Davy on the future of generative Artificial Intelligence in music (MusicBusinessWorldwide.com)
* Angel of Harlem: How a patron saint to a forgotten generation of musicians came to face her greatest challenge yet (ABC News)
* Space for the Wrong: An Interview with Frederic Rzewski (Atavist.com)
* Jazzman Dave Douglas finds inspiration in Dizzy Gillespie (Houston Chronicle)
* Hi-Fi Cocktail Bars Aren’t Just for Tokyo Anymore (Bloomberg.com)
* Holographic Frank Zappa Plays Guitar Solo in New Tour Promo (Rolling Stone)
* Berklee's Institute Of Jazz And Gender Justice Aims To Combat Sexism In Jazz (WBUR)
* The Songsmiths of Sesame Street (The Atlantic)
* Spotify, the Decline of Playlists and the Rise of Podcasts (Music Industry Blog)

Sunday Session: October 28, 2018

Melvin "Wah Wah Watson" Ragin

Here's a roundup of various music-related items of interest that have shown up in one of StLJN's various inboxes or feeds over the past week:

* When David Bowie Became a Superstar: ‘It Was the Happiest I’d Ever Seen Him’ (The Daily Beast)
* Is your business streaming music for customers? That's breaking the law (The Guardian)
* Kandace Springs Motors Forward (DownBeat)
* Reconsidering Composer Raymond Scott, From Cartoons to the Cutting Edge, in Deep Dive (WBGO)
* Live Review: 2nd October Revolution in Philadelphia (Jazz Times)
* The Velvet Revolution of Claude Debussy (The New Yorker)
* Did Muddy Waters’ First UK Tour Launch The British Blues Boom? (UDiscoverMusic.com)
* Here’s how horror film scores have evolved to scare us over the years (AV Club)
* City Hall lets KC’s American Jazz Museum languish with no permanent director or board (Kansas City Star)
* The Top 100 Albums Of The Quietus' Existence, As Picked By tQ's Writers (TheQuietus.com)
* The Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition Returns (NPR)
* The Strange World Of... Awesome Tapes From Africa (TheQuietus.com)
* My Teenage Son and I Went to the Same Music Festival. Our Experiences Were Totally Different (Observer.com)
* What crisis? Why music journalism is actually healthier than ever (The Guardian)
* The Music of “Doctor Who” Makes a Glorious Return to Form (The New Yorker)
* Wah Wah Watson, Guitarist for Marvin Gaye and Michael Jackson, Dead at 67 (Rolling Stone)
* Randy Weston 1926–2018 (The Wire)
* Makaya McCraven Isn’t Interested in Saving Jazz (Rolling Stone)
* Opinion: Apple Music’s human curation falls apart when it comes to less mainstream tastes (9To5Mac.com)
* In Ann Arbor, Edgefest Showcases Chicago Avant-Garde (DownBeat)
* Monk Institute Piano Competition Set for Dec. 2 and 3 (Jazz Times)
* Photos: 2018 BRIC JazzFest (Jazz Times)
* David Bowie: the day I pulled the plug on his Glastonbury comeback (The Guardian)

Sunday Session: June 18, 2017

Ornette Coleman

Here are some interesting music-related items that have landed in StLJN's inbox over the past week:

* Trombone Shorty: Living for the Crescent City (Jazz Times)
* 10 Musicians Look Back on the Albums They Don’t Remember Recording (SPIN)
* Web Exclusive: Hal Blaine (Modern Drummer)
* Tom Oberheim On The Art Of Synthesizer Design (Synthtopia.com)
* After 7 Decades, Sonny Rollins Can't Get Music Off His Mind (NPR)
* Charlie Parker's Yardbird review – beauty, anger and poetry, but the jazz great's genius eludes us (The Guardian)
* Do Androids Dream of Electric Guitars? Exploring the Future of Musical A.I. (Pitchfork.com)
* Interview: Airto Moreira (RedBullMusicAcademy.com)
* National Endowment for the Arts Announces 2018 Class of NEA Jazz Masters (Arts.gov)
* Gregg Allman: The Wild Times, Lost Years and Rebirth of a Southern-Rock Legend (Rolling Stone)
* Transcending genre labels, Vijay Iyer leads the Ojai Music Festival toward bold new territory (Los Angeles Times)
* Go-Go Forever - The rise, fall, and afterlife of Washington, D.C.’s ultimate rhythm (MTV.com)
* Steve Earle: 'My wife left me for a younger, skinnier, less talented singer' (The Guardian)
* This interracial couple endured discrimination and bullying — but loved each other until the end (Washington Post)
* All That Jazz: The Business Of Over 35 Years At The Blue Note Jazz Club (Forbes)
* Guest Editorial: Why Musicians Don’t Get Paid—A New Orleans Musician’s View (Offbeat)
* A new generation of jazz comes to the fore at Tokyo Lab (Japan Times)
* Who killed the contemporary Christian music industry? (The Week)
* 2 guitars returned to Muddy Waters' heirs in ongoing estate battle (Chicago Tribune)
* Gibson Brands transforms guitar-making into diverse 'music lifestyle' firm (Los Angeles Times)
* Celebrate Ornette Coleman: Artists pay homage to the legendary avant-garde saxophonist (TheVinylFactory.com)

Sunday Session: January 15, 2017

Alice Coltrane

Here are some interesting music-related items that have landed in StLJN's inbox over the past week:

* Cuba Is the Missing Link in Jazz History (The Daily Beast)
* The Quiet Failure of Sony’s Giant Cassette Tape (Atlas Obscura)
* Tiny Desk Concert: Donny McCaslin (NPR)
* Naxos Launches Jazz-Only E-Commerce Site, ArkivJazz: Exclusive (Billboard)
* Thoughts While Attending the First Symphony in the Series My Wife Wanted to Buy (The New Yorker)
* Stage Oddity: The Story of David Bowie’s Secret Final Project (GQ)
* Kamasi Turns Bay Residency into Party (DownBeat)
* Why Manassas Was Stephen Stills' Best Band (MusicAficionado.com)
* WJF Artists Address Social Justice (DownBeat)
* Benny Reeves, a Motown original, is still hustlin’ — in between Uber gigs (Detroit Metro Times)
* Why Unreleased Marvin Gaye, Supremes, Beach Boys Tracks Are Suddenly Appearing: EU Copyright Law (Billboard)
* 130 Bands In Five Days: Highlights From Winter Jazzfest NYC 2017 (NPR)
* Meet Yolanda ‘Yo Yo’ Baker, America’s last disco ball maker (FactMag.com)
* Music's Weird Cassette-Tape Revival Is Paying Off (Fast Company)
* Muddy Waters' heirs still seeking answers about blues legend's estate (Chicago Tribune)
* Groovy vintage ads for classic guitars (DangerousMinds.net)
* Transfiguration and Transcendence: The Music of Alice Coltrane (Pitchfork)
* John Snyder & the Meaning of Production (Jazz Times)
* What Happens When Algorithms Design a Concert Hall? The Stunning Elbphilharmonie (Wired)
* Closing time: Why some of Canada's music clubs are losing the fight to stay open (LocalXpress.ca)
* La La Land Is Clueless About What’s Actually Happening in Jazz (Vulture.com)
* A Young Jazz Pianist Remembers His Biggest Champion: Nat Hentoff (Village Voice)

Sunday Session: October 2, 2016

Some interesting music-related items that have landed in StLJN's inbox over the past week:

* TV and Film Music Supervisors Are Killing Real Songwriting (LA Weekly)
* The greatest record sleeves – as chosen by the designers (The Guardian UK)
* Hill & Trumpet Peers Offer Captivating Set at FONT (DownBeat)
* INTERVIEW: Mark Wingfield (Specialist Mixing and Mastering Service for Jazz at Heron Island Studio) (London Jazz News)
* Female Composers in Games Industry See Gender-Based Pay Penalty, New Study Finds (Billboard)
* When jazz stopped being cool (CNN)
* The Story of AllMusic, the Internet’s Largest, Most Influential Music Database (Vice.com)
* Listen to this AI-composed song in the style of The Beatles (DigitalTrends.com)
* Vienna’s Vegetable Orchestra is more than just a memorable gimmick (AV Club)
* From Audio, To 3D Printed Sculpture, And Back Again (HackADay.com)
* Hyde Park Jazz Fest Offers Diverse, Progressive Program (DownBeat)
* 1966 Vs. 1971: When 'Rock 'n' Roll' Became 'Rock,' And What We Lost (NPR)
* How Seasick Steve turned out to be Session Man Steve (The Guardian UK)
* Scofield Gets ‘A Little Bit Country’ for New Jazz Album (DownBeat)
* Inside Stevie Wonder's Epic Magnum Opus 'Songs in the Key of Life' (Rolling Stone)
* Hear, kitty kitty: With ‘Music for Cats,’ is a new industry born? (Charleston Post and Courier)
* Cuba: While The Politicians Argued, The Musicians Jammed (NPR)
* Mutate, don’t stagnate: Mark Mothersbaugh in conversation (Detroit Metro Times)
* All 88 Diamond-Certified Albums Ranked From Worst to Best: Critic's Take (Billboard)
* The Fight Over Prince’s Estate Continues to Be a Purple-Tinged Nightmare (Vulture.com)
* Martin Scorsese: When Muddy Waters met my Last Waltz (The Guardian UK)
* Newlywed Composer Christopher Rouse On His Encoded Musical Love Letters (NPR)

Sunday Session: September 18, 2016

George Coleman

Some interesting music-related items that have landed in StLJN's inbox over the past week:

* Jazz pioneer Buddy Bolden and the Louisiana mental asylum band (NOLA.com)
* Record Bin: How Muddy Waters fused folk music and the blues on "Folk Singer" (Nooga.com)
* TIFF Review: ‘I Called Him Morgan’ is a Moody, Melancholic Study of the Late Trumpeter, Lee Morgan (ShadowAndAct.com)
* From 'Stairway to Heaven' to 'Damn Girl': 'Raging Bull' Remains Center Stage in Copyright Fights (Billboard)
* Metheny Quartet Plays SFJAZZ, Extends Guitarist’s Reach (DownBeat)
* Defeating The Jazz Zombies: America’s Music Is Alive & Well — These 7 Artists Are Proof (Stereogum.com)
* Interview: Sun Ra Commander Marshall Allen (Austin Chronicle)
* How Afrobeats Became Pop Music’s Next Big Thing (Buzzfeed)
* Artifact / Diagramming: An Interview with Mark Fell (Avant.org)
* Music with a Capital "M" - An Interview with Ethan Iverson of the Bad Plus (PopMatters.com)
* Donny McCaslin Takes 'Blackstar' Collaborators Beyond Bowie on New Album 'Beyond Now' (Billboard)
* Steve Buscemi and Elliott Sharp Talk William S. Burroughs, the 80s New York Scene, and the Creative Influence of Exhaustion (BlouinArtInfo.com)
* Fresh Pairings, Familiar Faces Delight at Chicago Jazz Fest (DownBeat)
* The Link Between Whitney Houston and the Rise of Auto-Tune in North Africa (Pitchfork.com)
* Why Apple is anything but the future of music (EricGarland.co)
* Heath, Weston, DeJohnette Shine in NYC Salute to Keepnews (DownBeat)
* The Summer in Jazz Releases (Bandcamp.com)
* Harmolodics: the truth at last (TheBlueMoment.com)
* ‘Play something they can enjoy,’ says jazz saxophone great George Coleman (Memphis Commercial Appeal)
* Q&A: Nels Cline - The guitarist and sonic provocateur invents a new brand of mood music on his Blue Note Records debut (Jazz Times)
* Hidden in plain sight: a global underground dance music scene with millions of fans (Medium.com)
* How Blockchain Startups Are Disrupting The $15 Billion Music Industry (Forbes)
* 8 Artists Exploding the Concept of Native American Music (Paste)
* Don Buchla, modular synthesizer pioneer, dies aged 79 (The Guardian UK)