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News: Performance / Tour

Ernie Watts Joining Laurence Hobgood for Bistro Gig on Thursday, April 5

March 3, 2012

This just in: Veteran saxophonist Ernie Watts (pictured) will join pianist Laurence Hobgood for the latter's previously announced performance on Thursday, April 5 at Jazz at the Bistro. Watts has played with Hobgood in singer Kurt Elling's band, and also is known for his work as a solo artist and with Charlie Haden's Quartet West, the ...

News: Music Industry

Jazz at the Bistro: Marlena Shaw Postponed, Russell Malone and Cyrus Chestnut Added

March 2, 2012

This just in: Jazz St. Louis has announced that due to “circumstances beyond their control," singer Marlena Shaw's upcoming engagement at Jazz at the Bistro, scheduled for Wednesday, April 11 through Saturday, April 14, has been postponed. JSL director of operations and artistic administration Bob Bennett says they're working with Shaw's representatives to reschedule for next ...

News: Obituary

R.I.P., Eddie Fritz

March 2, 2012

Though there's been no published obituary or other official announcement, StLJN has learned that longtime St. Louis jazz pianist Eddie Fritz has died at age 70. The news of his passing comes from guitarist Steve Schenkel, who on Tuesday posted a message on Facebook with remembrances of Fritz. The pianist, who lived in Webster Groves, apparently ...

News: Performance / Tour

Jazz This Week: Freddy Cole, Claudia Quintet with Theo Bleckmann, Koplant No, and More

February 29, 2012

It's another busy week for live jazz and creative music in St. Louis, with performances from both touring and local acts ranging from ragtime, traditional New Orleans jazz, and swing to thought-provoking modern jazz influenced by a variety of contemporary genres. Let's go to the highlights... Tonight, singer and pianist Freddy Cole returns to St. Louis ...

News: Radio

STLJN Audio Archive: Oliver Lake - Ntu: The Point from Which Creation Begins

February 27, 2012

As Black History Month winds down for this year, it seems an appropriate time to revisit an historic session involving musicians from St. Louis' original Black Artists Group of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Recorded in 1971 here in St. Louis, saxophonist Oliver Lake's album Ntu: The Point From Which Creation Begins was issued in ...

News: Video / DVD

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: A Claudia Quintet Sampler

February 26, 2012

Today, let's take a look at some video clips featuring the Claudia Quintet, who will be making their St. Louis debut in a concert sponsored by New Music Circle at 7:30 p.m. next Friday, March 2 at the 560 Music Center. Formed by drummer John Hollenbeck in the late ...

News: Performance / Tour

Jack Wright to Perform Thursday, March 8 at Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center

February 25, 2012

Saxophonist Jack Wright is returning to St. Louis to perform at 8:00 p.m. Thursday, March 8 at Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center. The free-improvising reedman (and occasional pianist) has played here a number of times since the mid-1990s, both at LNAC and at various venues under the auspices of New Music Circle, but this will be his ...

News: Education

Roger Ingram to Present Master Class Saturday, March 3 at UMSL

February 25, 2012

Trumpet player Roger Ingram will be in St. Louis to present a trumpet clinic and master class at 1:00 p.m., Saturday, March 3 at the Villa Annex on the South campus of the University of Missouri—St. Louis (UMSL). Ingram is a noted jazz educator and clinician whose performing resume includes tours and recordings with the big ...

News: Performance / Tour

Jazz This Week: Chris Botti, Byron Stripling, Bill Watrous, Unt One O'Clock Lab Band, St. Louis Rivermen, and More

February 23, 2012

If there's a keyword for this weekend's schedule of jazz and creative music in St. Louis, it's “brass." The next few days will see three stellar touring brass players—two trumpeters and a trombonist—playing here as soloists or bandleaders, plus a somewhat larger-than-usual number of big band performances, and some other noteworthy shows, too. Let's go the ...

News: Recording

Sheldon, Metrotix Offering Online Presale of Tickets for Bela Fleck and the Flecktones

February 23, 2012

The Sheldon Concert Hall and Metrotix are offering online customers an advance opportunity to buy tickets for the concert by Béla Fleck & The Flecktones on Thursday, March 29 at the Sheldon. The show is part of a tour that reunites the group's original lineup for the first time in 18 years. Tickets go on sale ...