On this final day of 2009, 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 2009
January 2009
- Hamiet Bluiett on Freddie Hubbard
- Bailing out the arts
- More “Best Jazz of 2008" lists
- Jim Manley releases new CD
- St. Louis Jazz Club sets 2009 schedule
- “Peanuts" Whalum featured in Cincinnati's City Beat
- Free Improv Orchestra to perform Wednesday, January 21 at the Way Out Club
- Sheldon's “Visions of Sound" exhibit to feature musical instrument collection
- Jeanne Trevor to receive St. Louis Arts Award
- Jazz at the Bistro makes Down Beat's 2009 list of “100 Great Jazz Clubs"
- Catching up with Jean Kittrell
- Review: Dave Holland Quintet at the Sheldon Concert Hall
- The Pageant nominated for Pollstar's “Nightclub of the Year"
- More on the St. Louis Jazz Cafe
- Denise Thimes, Bosman Twins to receive Legend Awards
- Jazz and Blues Vespers series schedules concerts by Willie Akins, Ptah Williams, Steve Schenkel & Ashley Mason
- Bob Brookmeyer, Vanguard Jazz Orchestra to play in Columbia on February 18
- Jazz at Holmes announces spring 2009 schedule
- Freedonia Music releases Exiles KalimbaMania CD
- Clark Terry hospitalized again, but now on the mend
- Black Rep announces Sunday concert series
- Mae Wheeler tribute previewed in Playbill
- Rick Haydon, Reggie & Mardra Thomas release Eastern Central Pacific
- Missouri Botanical Garden announces 2009 Whitaker Music Festival lineup
- Benefit show for Gus Thornton to be held this Sunday, March 8 at BB's
- St. Louis Jazz Cafe to open Saturday, March 21 with Erin Bode
- Greater St. Louis Jazz Festival set for April 16-18 with guests Peter Erskine, Lou Marini, John Pizzarelli, and Jon Faddis
- Stan Hale CD release event set for Sunday, April 19
- Miles Davis Jazz Festival to open new Alton amphitheater on Saturday, May 16
- Erin Bode and band traveling to Japan to perform at Cotton Club Tokyo
- Is jazz coming back to downtown St. Louis?
- Bradford's culinary prowess featured in Post article
- Bela Fleck's Africa Project featured in RFT story
- Radio station KFUO is for sale
- April is Jazz Appreciation Month
- Jazz world going all a-Twitter
- The Sheldon sending jazz quintet to Pinckneyville
- Sheldon Concert Hall announces 2009-10 season
- Kevin Cole of Webster Groves HS featured in JazzEd Magazine
- Urban Eats Cafe hosting show of Tony Renner's jazz-inspired art
- Greg Osby featured in RFT story
- Second annual Record Store Day is this Saturday, April 18
- The Sheldon's “Coffee Concerts" to feature local jazz artists
- St. Louis Jazz Notes turns four
- Riverfront Times announces 2009 Music Award nominees
- Jazz at the Bistro announces summer schedule
- LNAC fundraiser on Sunday, May 10 to benefit music education program
- Glendale Jazz Festival to celebrate tenth year on Friday, May 22
- Don Wolff's “I Love Jazz" radio program moving to 8:00 p.m. Fridays, expanding to four hours
- SIU-E officials silent as rumors fly about possible changes at WSIE
- Edison Theatre announces 2009-10 season
- Belleville's Wine, Dine and Jazz Festival set for Friday, June 5 and Saturday, June 6
- Sonny Rollins to play at the Touhill on Saturday, September 19
- Peter Martin releases new solo piano CD Set of Five
- Live on the Levee once again snubs jazz and blues
- Sheldon Concert Hall producing concerts in downtown St. Louis and Ste. Genevieve
- Miles Davis' 1970 Fillmore East concert available as free download
- Happy birthday, Miles Davis
- Jazz at Holmes announces summer schedule
- The Nu-Art Series to present three events in June
- More road work ahead for Erin Bode
- MAXJAZZ releasing new CD from guitarist Jack Wilkins
- Jazz St. Louis announces 2009-10 season schedule for Jazz at the Bistro
- Bosman Twins, Denise Thimes named among “100 Most Inspiring St. Louisans"
- MAXJAZZ to release new CD by John Proulx in July
- Erin Bode wins “Best Jazz Artist" in Riverfront Times' 2009 Music Awards
- Touhill Performing Arts Center announces 2009-10 season
- The Sheldon, Cardinals Care teaching young baseball players about jazz
- Jim Widner receives award from Down Beat magazine
- Harris-Stowe State University to present jazz concert on August 29
- Greg Worzel launches new label with debut CD from teen singer
- Old Webster Jazz and Blues Festival set for Saturday, September 19
- St. Louis American's Chris King reporting from Montreal Jazz Festival
- St. Louis Jazz Cafe closes
- Phil Dunlap's Afghanistan adventure
- MAXJAZZ to release new CDs from pianists Manuel Valera and Jeb Patton
- Jeremy Davenport releases new CD
- St. Louis jazz presenters get NEA stimulus funds
- Bassist/educator Jim Widner elected to Jazz Education Network board of directors
- Robbie's House of Jazz to open Friday, August 14 with Hamiet Bluiett
- City sponsoring free jazz concerts Wednesdays in O'Fallon Park
- Funky Butt Brass Band releases debut CD
- Board of directors to debate KFUO sale this week
- History Museum schedules fall Twilight Tuesdays concerts
- New book by Kevin Belford chronicles pre-WWII history of St. Louis blues
- Emmy nomination in hand, Don Wolff's I Love Jazz is ready for a second season on HEC-TV
- More on the potential sale of KFUO, changes at WSIE
- #jazzlives Twitter campaign to draw attention, demonstrate support for live jazz
- Jazz at Holmes series sets schedule for Fall 2009
- Site news: A new look for St. Louis Jazz Notes
- New Music Circle announces 2009-10 season schedule
- Nu-Art Series to present concerts by Trio 3, Rasul Siddik
- Luther Thomas 1950-2009
- Gene Dobbs Bradford wins leadership award from St. Louis Business Journal
- Jazz Education Network to hold first conference next May in St. Louis
- Arch City Chronicle story says sale of KFUO will happen in October
- St. Louis Jazz and Blues Vespers to begin second season on Sunday, October 18
- Riverfront Times announces 2009 “Best of St. Louis" winners
- Sale of radio station KFUO finalized
- More coverage of KFUO sale
- More on the KFUO sale
- Zimbabwe Nkenya releasing new CD, performing in-store at Vintage Vinyl
- on Monday, October 26
- Site news: St. Louis Jazz Notes now on Twitter and Facebook
- Lloyd Bartlett, jazz pianist and former St. Louisan, dead at age 85
- SIUE chancellor Vandegrift says WSIE will keep jazz format
- Memorial service for Leanne Butts to be held Thursday, October 29
- KFUO files application for license transfer
- 2009 St. Louis International Film Festival to screen Chops and Icons Among Us, plus more music-related movies
- Site news: StLJN goes mobile, plus a map of St. Louis jazz venues, and more
- Site news: StLJN post #2,000
- Peter Martin to present new jazz concert series
- More on the new Peter Martin Music series
- Petitioners challenge KFUO sale
- Jazz St. Louis announces more bookings for Jazz at the Bistro
- Ross Gentile files suit against SIUE
- Brian Owens releases new CD/DVD
- Site news: Help compile a St. Louis jazz list on Twitter
- Police investigating shooting, robbery outside Spruill's
- Cabaret St. Louis announces benefit gala, more shows for 2010
- Bob Borgestede memorial concert set for Friday, January 15
- Larry Johnson CD release event set for Tuesday, December 29 at the Sheldon
- Riverfront Times wraps up 2009 in St. Louis music
- Eight more cabaret shows coming to Kranzberg Arts Center
- Buyers raising funds for KFUO purchase, responding to petitions
- Rounding up the “Best Jazz of 2009" lists
