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Jazz this week: Benny Green Trio, "Superheroes of Blackness," Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, and more
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week's calendar of jazz and creative music in St. Louis includes a visit from a stellar straight-ahead jazz pianist, some adventurous electronic sounds, shows mixing music with poetry and video animations, and more. Let's go to the highlights... Wednesday, February 21 Pianist Benny Green eturns with his trio for the first of four nights at Jazz at the Bistro. Notably influenced by Bud Powell and especially Oscar Peterson, Green (like Cyrus Chestnut, who played the Bistro earlier this year) ...
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Jazz this week: Alicia Olatuja, jazz for Valentine's Day, and more
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
For the second consecutive week, the calendar of live jazz and creative music in St. Louis features performances by a local expat making a triumphant return home after earning national acclaim. For more about that and the other jazz shows happening around town, let's go to the highlights... Wednesday, February 14 Singer Alicia Olatuja performs for the first of four nights at Jazz at the Bistro. Known by her maiden name Alicia Miles while growing up in St. Louis, Olatuja ...
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Jazz this week: Keyon Harrold, a tribute to Michael Jackson, Mardi Gras, and more
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week's calendar of jazz and creative music in St. Louis includes the return of a favorite local son, a tribute to the late “King of Pop," various Mardi Gras festivities, and more. Let's go to the highlights... Wednesday, February 7 Trumpeter Keyon Harrold returns home to perform for the first of two nights at Jazz at the Bistro Harrold currently is riding high thanks to the critical and commercial success of The Mugician, his second album as a leader, ...
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Jazz this week: Cyrus Chestnut; Peter Martin, Brian Owens & Terence Blanchard; and more
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week's calendar of live jazz and creative music in St. Louis features a couple of first-call piano players- one visiting, one home-grown- plus the usual assortment of performances in a variety of musical styles from the city's talented contingent of local players. Let's go to the highlights... Wednesday, January 31 Pianist Cyrus Chestnut returns with his trio for the first of four nights at Jazz at the Bistro. Chestnut has applied his virtuoso technique to all sorts of material ...
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California-based jazz singer builds his fan base one gig at a time
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
Jazz singer Kenny Washington has it all, musically. The diminutive vocalist, based for more than two decades in Oakland, California, has range, fluidity and a natural sense of swing. He grew up singing gospel music as a child in New Orleans- and that music's passion fuels his soulful artistry. His creativity- singing, scatting and even whistling- was on full display on Saturday, January 27 when he was the featured guest with the Dan Miller-Lew DelGatto quintet at the Sidney and ...
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Drummer Extraordinaire Ronnie Burrage's Artist In Residence / Masterclass / Performance Schedule
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
Ronnie Burrage has performed with Wayne Shorter, Sonny Rollins, Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorius, McCoy Tyner... Holographic Principle Tour Thursday Jan. 25th: Masterclass at Berklee- Ryles Jazz Club (Cambridge, MA) Friday Jan. 26th: Side Door (Old Lyme, CT) Sunday Jan. 28th: Baby Grand Jazz (Hartford, CT) Feb. 2nd: Sixth Street Community Center (New York, NY) Feb 3rd: The Beanrunner (Peekskill, NY) Feb. 4th: Sixth Street Community Center afternoon workshop & evening concert (New York, NY) Feb. 9th: News Spires Spaces (Frederick, ...
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Jazz At Atlas Presents New Standard Trio To Kick Off 2018 Concerts On March 24
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James Keepnews
“Over a career now spanning nearly thirty years, Jamie Saft has established himself as one of the visionaries of contemporary American music. As a composer, pianist and keyboard innovator, and collaborator of music icons such as Bad Brains, Beastie Boys, the B-52s, Donovan, John Adams and John Zorn, he has been fearless in his pursuit of spiritual elevation through music that both seeks to embrace the whole American canon, and also transcend it, by seamlessly assimilating genres, traditions, idioms and ...
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An All-Star Evening Of Exuberant Swing
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
Tenor saxophonist Harry Allen and trombonist Wycliffe Gordon headlined an evening of exuberant swing Monday night at the Venice FL Performing Arts Center and their all-star band delivered the goods. The horn players were joined by the terrific rhythm section of Eddie Metz Jr. (drums), Nicki Parrott (bass and vocals) and Rosanno Sportiello (piano), plus special guest Stephanie Nakasian on vocals. Gordon shifted with ease between trombone, gritty vocals and slide trumpet throughout the night in this, his first appearance ...
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