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New Book by Former St. Louisan Examines Relationship Between Jazz and Photography
Former St. Louisan Benjamin Cawthra, who curated the 2001 exhibition “Miles: A Miles Davis Retrospective" for the Missouri History Museum, has just published a new book called Blue Notes in Black and White: Photography and Jazz via the University of Chicago Press. Cawthra, now an associate professor of history and associate director of the Center for ...
Jazz This Week: Jeff Lorber, Project/Object, Lowdown Brass Band, TKT Scholarship Benefit, and More
Beyond the usual challenges of performing, the jazz and creative musicians playing in St. Louis over the next week have a tough task: drawing a crowd of attentive listeners while the Cardinals are competing in the World Series. But while this admittedly is a baseball-crazy town, one would hope it's also big enough and diverse enough ...
Rebirth Brass Band Returning to the Gramophone on Sunday, October 30
New Orleans' Rebirth Brass Band (pictured) is coming back to town to play at 5:00 p.m. Sunday, October 30 at The Gramophone, sharing a bill with St. Louis' own Funky Butt Brass Band. The RBB's last visit to the Gateway City was in July of this year for a concert at Bandwagon Hall in South County ...
Billy Valentine to Join Denise Thimes for Benefit Concert on Thursday, November 3 at the Sheldon
Singer Denise Thimes will present her seventh annual concert benefiting the Mildred Thimes Foundation for pancreatic cancer research at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 3 at the Sheldon Concert Hall. Thimes' special guest for evening will be singer Billy Valentine (pictured), who's perhaps best known for singing the theme and providing funky vocal effects for the ...
STLJN Audio Archive: Clark Terry and Bob Brookmeyer - The Power of Positive Swinging
For this week's Audio Archive post, we once again visit the extensive catalog of trumpeter and St. Louis native Clark Terry for The Power of Positive Swinging, a 1965 album that teams him with Kansas City native Bob Brookmeyer. Originally was issued on the Mainstream label and preserved online via the music sharing blog Musica des ...
STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Jeff Lorber's Fusion, Revisited
For today's video showcase, let's check out some clips of keyboardist Jeff Lorber, who will be in St. Louis to perform next Wednesday, October 19 through Saturday, October 22 at Jazz at the Bistro. Though Lorber has played St. Louis before—most recently in 2008 at The Pageant as part ...
Jazz This Week: Matthew Shipp, Trombone Shorty, Christian Howes, Jazz in Pink, Anita Jackson, and More
While many St. Louisans understandably will be preoccupied with cheering for the Cardinals in this week's National League baseball championship series (and possibly hoping for a return appearance from the infamous Rally Squirrel), there's plenty of good jazz and creative music happening around town over the next seven days, too. Let's go to the highlights: Tonight, ...
Jazz at Holmes to Present Free Concert by Ralph Towner on Thursday, October 27
Washington University's Jazz at Holmes series today announced that they will present a free solo concert by guitarist Ralph Towner (pictured) at 8:00 p.m. Thursday, October 27 in Holmes Lounge in Ridgley Hall on the Wash U campus. The concert by Towner replaces the previously announced performance by guitarist Scott Jones. Towner is known mainly as ...
Music for Lifelong Achievement (MFLA) Seeking Musical Instruments, Cash Donations
Once again this fall, Music for Lifelong Achievement (MFLA) will be seeking donations of musical instruments for its annual drive, which will take place from Monday, October 17 through Sunday, November 20. MFLA is a not-for-profit organization based at the Sheldon Concert Hall in St. Louis that donates used and new musical instruments to school and ...
MAXJAZZ to Release David Budway's a New Kiss on Tuesday, November 8
MAXJAZZ has set Tuesday, November 8 as the offical release date for A New Kiss, pianist David Budway's debut recording for the St. Louis-based independent label. A veteran performer and educator who plays classical and rock as well as jazz, Budway has played and/or recorded with many well-known musicians over the course of his career, including ...
