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News: Performance / Tour

Jazz This Week: Kenny Barron and Mulgrew Miller, Jonathan Butler, Phil Perry, and More

September 23, 2010

This week's schedule of jazz and creative music in St. Louis includes several shows featuring keyboard players, starting tonight when pianists Kenny Barron and Mulgrew Miller (pictured) begin a four-night engagement at Jazz at the Bistro. Both men are considered to be among the top piano players in mainstream jazz , and being able to hear ...

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News: Obituary

Buddy Collette (1921-2010)

September 23, 2010

Buddy Collette, a much in-demand Hollywood jazz and studio musician who appeared on 325 known recording sessions and courageously risked his burgeoning career to spearhead the merger of Los Angeles' segregated musicians' union locals in the early 1950s, died in L.A. on September 19. He was 89. When I spoke to Buddy in July for my ...

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Article: Interview

Kane Mathis: Kora Meets Jazz

by AAJ Staff
September 22, 2010

Seattle's Kane Mathis is one of the world's leading performers on the kora, the distinctive (usually) 21-stringed West African harp instrument that is the major instrument of the Mandinka people of Mali; the Malian equivalent of the Western keyboard. Mathis has studied the instrument since the age of twenty, making several trips to The Gambia to ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Peter Dragotta

by AAJ Staff
September 21, 2010

Meet Peter Dragotta: Peter Dragotta is a trumpeter, wind synthesist, composer and producer who performs under the name pharmacopia. For over 20 years he has connected his jazz origins with ambient, house, electronica and break beats, as well as elements from hip hop, rock, pop, and classical music melding them into soundscapes of deep intensity.

News: Performance / Tour

Photos: Kora Band at Tula's

September 20, 2010

On Thursday Sept 9th. The Kora Band celebrated the release of their newest album “Cascades“ which covers a variety of West African pieces, modern repertoire from Congo and Cameroon, as well as originals by Mathis and Oliver with some subtle influences of jazz. Tula's was crowded for the first two sets and the music was a ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Bobby Ramirez, Enrique Sendra Mix Jazz and Art This Saturday at WDNA Concert

September 21, 2010

WDNA 88.9 FM Fine Arts Concert series celebrates National Hispanic Heritage Month with live Latin jazz this Saturday, September 25 featuring renowned flutist, saxophonist and Bata drummer Bobby Ramirez and his group Pan con Bistec together with a vibrant and surreal exhibition by Cuban visual artist Enrique Sendra. The works of the talented Cuban-born visual artist, ...

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Reminder: David S. Ware Trio at the Blue Note October 4th

September 21, 2010

Two weeks from tonight, on Monday, October 4th, eminent saxophonist David S. Ware will celebrate his new release, Onecept (AUM Fidelity), with a two-set performance at the Blue Note in New York. As on the record, which marks his 50th anniversary as a saxophonist, Ware (saxello, stritch and tenor saxophone) will be joined by William Parker ...

News: Performance / Tour

Stanton Moore Trio to Play Saturday, October 2 at 2720 Cherokee

September 21, 2010

Drummer Stanton Moore, who was just in St. Louis with Garage A Trois last week to play at the Old Rock House, will return with his own eponymous trio to perform on Saturday, October 2 at 2720 Cherokee. The New Orleans-based Moore (pictured) divides his time among Garage A Trois, the funk band Galactic, and the ...

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News: Education

Saxquest to Present Free Master Classes with Eric Mandat, Dick Oatts, Jeff Coffin and Victor Goines

September 21, 2010

The St. Louis woodwind sales and repair shop Saxquest will host a free recital and master class featuring clarinetist Eric Mandat at 2:00 p.m., Saturday, October 2. Mandat (pictured) will perform solo works with piano for about an hour, then give a master class for an hour. Consider a leading composer and performer of contemporary clarinet ...

News: Performance / Tour

Kdtu and Maceo Parker: Fall Tour

September 21, 2010

“REVOLUTION OF THE SOUL" TOUR STARTS NOVEMBER 17 IN BOSTON, MA Karl Denson's Tiny Universe will be joining up with legendary James Brown sideman Maceo Parker for the “Revolution of Soul" Tour this fall. The tour will feature a full set by Maceo Parker and his band followed by a set of KDTU and an all ...