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Jazz this week: Jeremy Davenport comes home, Althea Rene & Elan Trotman's "Holiday Winds," and more
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
If you'd like some jazz and creative music to go with this year's Thanksgiving turkey and trimmings, here's what's happening on local stages over the next few days... Wednesday, November 22 The weekly “Grand Center Jazz Crawl" will feature guitarists Jake Weisman and Eric Slaughter at Squatters Cafe/The Stage at KDHX, along with the weekly jam session led by bassist Bob Deboo at the Kranzberg Arts Center, and trumpeter Kasimu Taylor and band at The Dark Room. Friday, November 24 ...
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Bud Leeds goes Bob-Bob-Bobbying along
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
Clarinetist Bud Leeds was in fine company—and good spirits—for the South County Jazz Club's first concert of the 2017-2018 season on Monday, November 20. His quartet included multi-instrumentalist Bob MacInnis, Bob Leary on banjo, rhythm guitar and occasional vocals, and piano marvel Bobby van Deusen. (Leeds could have named the band Three Bobs and a Bud.) Together, they delved deeply into ragtime, Louis Armstrong fare and other classic jazz staples.The free-and-easy repertoire included “Struttin' With Some Barbecue," cornetist Wild Bill ...
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Tapping into the lingering love for swing jazz
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
Johnny Varro played with the elder statesmen of classic swing jazz in the 1950s, ‘60s and ‘70s, working with Eddie Condon, Bobby Hackett, Roy Eldridge and Pee Wee Russell to name but a few. Now at 87, he is one of the elder statesmen. Pianist Varro returned to Port Charlotte with the Florida edition of his Swing Seven band on Monday, November 13. It was the band’s third appearance in five years in the Charlotte County Jazz Society’s concert series. ...
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Jazz this week: Russell Gunn's "Blackhawk Revisited," Cécile McLorin Salvant, and more
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
There's some interesting jazz and creative music on local stages this week in St. Louis, including only the second local performance ever by a highly acclaimed young singer, and a re-examination of music from an oft-overlooked period of Miles Davis' career, courtesy of a trumpeter raised in Davis' hometown. Let's go to the highlights... Wednesday, November 15 Trumpeter Russell Gunn, who grew up in East St. Louis and now lives in Atlanta, will be back home with his “Blackhawk Revisited" ...
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Jazz this week: John Wiese, "Duke Ellington and Film," Weather Forever, 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 concert of music written for the movies by one of the greatest composers and bandleaders in jazz; a tribute to two of the most successful bands in jazz/fusion; a brand-new work created by a St. Louis expat for more than 20 local musicians, and more. Let's go to the highlights... Wednesday, November 8 Jazz St Louis presents “Duke Ellington and Film," a free event at Jazz ...
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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, November 2017
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
November is not starting out in a gentle fashion, but perhaps that merely means there will be plenty of musical heat. A number of guest artists will add fuel to the fires— Lizz Wright, Phil Markowitz and Zach Brock, Ann Hampton Callway, Catherine Russell, Pat Mallinger and more; ongoing local talent showcases at the Black Dog, Jazz Central, Dunsmore Room, Boom Island, and Vieux Carre' among others; and a November kickoff featuring talented Minneapolis Schools jazz students celebrating the annual ...
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Jazz this week: Houston Person, Nevermore Jazz Ball, Eric Marienthal, 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 includes one of the most popular swing dance festivals in the Midwest, a couple of stellar saxophonists, and more. Let's go to the highlights... Wednesday, November 1 Veteran tenor saxophonist Houston Person returns to lead a quartet for the first of four nights at Jazz at the Bistro. Person, who will turn 83 in November, remains a canny master of bop, blues and ballads, and still works as ...
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Jazz this week: John Pizzarelli, Sammy Miller and the Congregation, a tribute to Thelonious Monk, 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 St. Louis debut of an up-and-coming young band; a tribute to a distinctive jazz composer and pianist; the return of a longtime local favorite for a benefit performance; and more. Let's go to the highlights... Wednesday, October 25 Pianist Adam Maness, bassist Bob DeBoo and drummer Montez Coleman will salute one of the greatest composers in jazz in the first of two nights of a “Thelonious Monk ...
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