STLJN 2008 Year in Review

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

• 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

February 2008

• 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

March 2008

• 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

April 2008

• 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

May 2008

• 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

June 2008

• 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

July 2008

• 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

August 2008

• 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

October 2008

• 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

November 2008

• 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

December 2008

• 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