On this final day of 2008, let's take a look back at some of the most newsworthy, noteworthy and/or interesting items posted here on St. Louis Jazz Notes over the past 12 months:
January 2008
September 2008
January 2008
- Erin Bode says legal woes are “officially over."
- Jazz St. Louis, SIU-E to host band director academy in July
- Von Doren, Ehrlich to perform at IAJE conference
- Art exhibit inspired by Sun Ra opens February 15 at Sheldon Art Galleries
- New multi-genre club The Gramophone says they'll include jazz
- Jazz and blues mostly absent from St. Louis' Mardi Gras celebration
- Jazz at Holmes series resumes this week
- New amphitheater in Alton could be named for Miles Davis
- Owsley receives mayoral proclamation
- Denise Thimes to perform at the White House
- Washington University launching free concert series at Kemper Museum
- St. Louis Jazz and Heritage Festival set for Saturday, May 31
- Wynton Marsalis, JaLCO members sit in at Jazz at the Bistro
- LouRadio offers jazz via online stream
- The Gramophone to open Friday, March 14 with the Erin Bode Group
- Whitaker Music Festival announces 2008 lineup
- John Patitucci to perform at SLSO Guitar Festival in November
- Ella Fitzgerald musical to open March 21 at the Repertory Theatre
- Jazz St. Louis offering “Jazz 101" class
- Jeanne Trevor to receive Lifetime Achievement Award from Grand Center
- Return to Forever reunion tour coming to the Fox Theatre on June 17
- St. Louis Jazz and Heritage Festival announces 2008 lineup
- Jazz and Heritage Festival organizers defend 2008 lineup
- Critics weigh in on the Rep's Ella
- Celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month with the NEA Jazz Masters
- MAXJAZZ releases new CD by Trio da Paz and Joe Locke
- Jim Widner featured in JazzEd magazine
- The story of “Sweet Georgia Brown"
- Sheldon Concert Hall announces 2008-09 season
- Don Wolff's “I Love Jazz" coming to KFUO beginning Friday, May 9
- Anita Rosamond sings national anthem at St. Louis Cardinals game
- Exhibit of jazz photos by Herb Snitzer to open May 16 at Sheldon Art Galleries
- Cornet Chop Suey, Jean Kittrell to headline Madison jazz festival's 20th anniversary party
- Three is a magic number
- Ann Hampton Callaway to headline May 9 show to benefit Ross Gentile
- Glendale Jazz Festival set for Friday, May 23
- Miles Davis Jazz Celebration on May 18 to feature Willie Akins, Arlin Strader
- Downtown Belleville will present Wine, Dine and Jazz Festival on June 7
- Smooth jazz returning to the Pageant this summer
- Jazz St. Louis announces Bistro's summer schedule
- Wash U's Center for Humanities presenting summer jazz institute for classroom teachers
- Cabaret at Savor showcasing St. Louis singers
- Clark Terry hospitalized in Kansas City
- Live on the Levee series announces 2008 lineup
- MAXJAZZ releasing CD by bassist Ben Wolfe
- Jazz St. Louis announces 2008-09 season schedule for Jazz at the Bistro
- Jazz Cruises LLC sets 2008-09 schedule
- Memorial service for Rosa Owsley to be held June 1 at Ethical Society
- Ellington Orchestra, Manhattan Transfer coming to TouPAC next season
- Clark Terry back home after heart surgery
- UMSL fires KWMU GM
- Download of Hamiet Bluiett's S.O.S. available at Pharoah's Dance
- Jazz at Holmes announces summer 2008 schedule
- Old Webster Jazz and Blues Festival set for Saturday, September 20
- The Sheldon, Cardinals Care team up to teach young baseball players about jazz music
- Freedonia Music releases five new CDs
- Erin Bode wins Riverfront Times Music Award
- The Gramophone, Jazz St. Louis teaming up for Tuesday night series
- Saxophone museum opening this Saturday, June 14
- Jazz concert series will accompany fall exhibition at Kemper Museum
- Cynthia Prost to head Arts & Education Council
- Three MAXJAZZ releases nominated for 2008 International Jazz Awards
- MAXJAZZ releasing new CD from Jeremy Pelt
- Anita Rosamond releasing live CD
- Cabaret at Savor closes
- Oasis reuniting for a show tonight at the Bistro
- USPS featuring Josephine Baker in new stamp series
- Miles Davis concerts streaming for free at Wolfgang's Vault
- StLJN Saturday at the Movies: A David Sanborn master class
- Concert calendar changes
- KDHX rearranges broadcast schedule
- Kemper Museum announces fall concert series
- More on Jean Kittrell's retirement
- Brandt's schedules Whalum birthday bash, plus gigs for saxophonist Bruce Menefield
- Oliver Lake, Hamiet Bluiett to perform on Sunday, September 14 as part of “BAG and Beyond" at Metropolitan Gallery
- Mosby concert raises more than $5,000 for Nature Conservancy
September 2008
- Stamps, Owens to celebrate CD release with concert on September 9 at The Sheldon
- Singer Clea Bradford dies at age 67
- Jazz St. Louis looking for school groups, student musicians to take part in educational programs
- St. Louis Jazz Club sets fall 2008 schedule
- Jazz at Holmes Fall 2008 schedule includes concert by Dave Liebman
- New Music Circle 2008-09 season to include concerts by Vinny Golia Large Ensemble, Morton Subotnick
- After renovations, Soulard Preservation Hall reopens for concerts, parties
- Photos from “Peanuts" Whalum's 80th birthday party now online
- BAG II to cease operations at end of 2008
- Jazz St. Louis podcasts offer interviews with visiting artists
- Miles Davis estate makes donation to East St. Louis arts programs
- Riverfront Times 2008 “Best of St. Louis" winners include Carolbeth True, Jazz at the Bistro
- Jazz St. Louis to present community concerts, CD listening club
- Monday night concert series features Webster University jazz faculty
- Brunch and concert honoring Don and Heide Wolff to be held at Harris-Stowe this Sunday, October 5
- Music for Lifetime Achievement seeks donations of musical instruments
- Jazz and blues vespers series to begin Sunday, October 19 at Second Baptist Church
- Don Wolff's I Love Jazz to cablecast live from the Kemper Museum next Tuesday, October 14
- M for Mississippi premieres in Clarksdale
- Jazz St. Louis adds new podcasts, feeds
- SLSO, Branca seek guitarists for festival performance
- Erin Bode to release Christmas CD
- Steve Schenkel and Ashley Mason release Christmas CD
- David Sanborn featured in Jazz Times cover story
- New book collects Miles Davis interviews
- Bela Fleck's “Africa Project" coming to The Sheldon on April 1
- Campaign seeks musicians to play at polling places on Tuesday
- MAXJAZZ releases new CD from Dena DeRose
- More on Erin Bode's new Christmas CD
- Jazz St. Louis seeks student saxophonist to perform with Greg Osby & Willie Akins
- Jazz at the Bistro, Scott Joplin House named in article on “nine great jazz joints"
- Alton amphitheater almost finished, but not yet named
- Phillip Wilson remembered
- Jazz St. Louis announces more 2009 bookings for Jazz at the Bistro
- Film festival includes music-related movies
- KWMU moving to Grand Center
- Site news: AddThis, plus more ways to get StLJN
- St. Louis Jazz & Heritage Festival goes “on hiatus" for 2009
- Jeremy Davenport signs with Basin Street Records
- Omar Clay 1935-2008
- Lucas School House to close at the end of the month
- KWMU names new GM
- Steve Schankman gives $50,000 to UMSL jazz program
- More on Cookie's closing
- BAG II to present final event next Sunday, December 28
- Post story says downtown St. Louis will get new jazz venue in March
- St. Louis Cabaret announces shows for winter/spring 2009
- Rounding up the “Best Jazz of 2008" lists
