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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Gaslight Square Remembered
More often than not, this weekly feature is dedicated to previewing upcoming concerts of jazz and creative music in St. Louis. However, talking this past week with people about the late Mae Wheeler and her long career got me thinking about both the history of jazz in St. Louis and the need occasionally to remember and ...
More About Mae
Following up on the death of the iconic singer Mae Wheeler, yesterday I talked with people who knew and worked with her for another article that's now up on the Riverfront Times website. Check it out! Update—More coverage from around town of Wheeler's passing: The Post-Dispatch's Kevin Johnson recalled the first time he met Wheeler, and ...
Mae Wheeler 1934 - 2011
Singer Mae Wheeler (pictured), known to generations of St. Louis music fans as “Lady Jazz," died this evening at her home in Maryland Heights after a long illness. She was 77. Wheeler, known for her charity fundraising efforts as well as for a musical career that spanned six decades, had been battling colon cancer since 2006, ...
Jazz at Holmes Sets Summer Series Schedule
Although there's been no formal announcement yet, the Jazz at Holmes series of free concerts at Washington University apparently has set their schedule for this summer. A recent update to their site (linked above) lists four concerts for July 2011, starting with a performance on Thursday, July 7 by Ritmo Caliente, “one of St. Louis' premier ...
Jazz This Week: Tim Cunningham and Jim Stevens, Oleta Adams, Wayne Coniglio's Live Recording, Larry Brown Jr., and More
While St. Louis no longer has a major jazz festival in June since the demise a couple of years ago of the St. Louis Jazz and Heritage Festival, that doesn't mean the local scene is completely devoid of jazz and creative music activity this time of year. Here's what's going on around town this weekend... Tonight, ...
STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Four from Richard Elliot
Whether headlining his own show, playing with the Jazz Attack package tour, teamed with trumpeter Rick Braun in the group RnR, or in some other configuration, it seems like saxophonist Richard Elliot has turned up in St. Louis every summer in recent years for a gig of some sort. ...
Jazz This Week: The Jazz Crusaders, Wine Dine and Jazz Festival, Sylvia McNair, Coco Soul, and More
Mid-summer heat has arrived in St. Louis several weeks ahead of schedule, but if you can brave the unseasonable temperatures, there are a number of jazz and creative music events worth checking out over the next few days. Today at lunchtime, the band Swing Set will play a free concert from noon to 1 p.m. at ...
Jazz St. Louis Offering Half-Price Tickets for the Jazz Crusaders Concert This Saturday
Jazz St. Louis has just announced an offer of half-price tickets to hear the Jazz Crusaders (pictured) this Saturday, June 11 at the Touhill Performing Arts Center. The offer applies to the tickets regularly priced at $50 and $35, but not to the “Gold Circle" tickets selling for $100. Half-price tickets can be purchased by calling ...
Brandt's Cafe and Red Carpet Lounge Closes
St. Louis has lost another venue for live jazz, as Brandt's (pictured), the health food deli-turned-bar and restaurant that's been a staple in the Delmar Loop for 25 years, has closed. The announcement was posted Sunday on Brandt's Facebook page, and the Post-Dispatch's Kevin Johnson has a story on the closing here. In the Post article, ...
Jazz St. Louis Adds More Performers to 2011-12 Season
Jazz St. Louis today announced several more performances by touring jazz artists that will be part of their 2011-12 season. A double bill of singer Dianne Reeves and pianist Ahmad Jamal, each appearing separately with their own group, has been booked for Sunday, November 6 at the Touhill Performing Arts Center, filling the third date in ...
