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Dennis Owsley Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from Kwmu
St. Louis jazz DJ, historian, photographer and author Dennis Owsley (pictured), who hosts the Jazz Unlimited program at 9:00 p.m. Sundays on KWMU (90.7 FM), last week received the 2010 Millard S. Cohen Lifetime Achievement Award from the station.The award was created in 2006 “to honor individuals who, like Millard, serve public radio in ...
The Pageant Announces Three Summer Smooth Jazz Concerts
The Pageant today announced a series of three smooth jazz shows this summer, including the Guitars and Saxes show first mentioned here on StLJN last month and now officially scheduled for Friday, August 13.The 2010 Guitars and Saxes tour features Kirk Whalum, Gerald Albright, Peter White and Jeff Golub. The Pageant's summer smooth jazz ...
Alton Museum Establishes Miles Davis Scholarship
The Alton Museum of History and Art has established a scholarship named after trumpeter Miles Davis, who was born in the Southern Illinois river town. According to an article by Jill Moon published in Monday's Alton Telegraph, the museum is now accepting applications for the scholarship, which is an award of $250 for a graduating high ...
Amazon Offering Free Downloads of Jazz Sampler Albums
As part of its Spring Jazz Sale, Amazon.com is offering free .MP3 downloads of several jazz sampler albums.There's a compilation of remastered tracks from Concord Music's Original Jazz Classics (OJC) series, with music from Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, Dave Brubeck and more, and a sampler from Mack Avenue Records featuring tracks from Christian McBride, ...
Jazz St. Louis Announces 2010-11 Season Schedule for Jazz at the Bistro
Jazz St. Louis has the announced the touring acts who will perform as part of the 2010-11 season at Jazz at the Bistro, as well as two concerts to be presented next season at the Touhill Performing Arts Center.Some big names will be making their Bistro debuts. Saxophonist and former St. Louisan David Sanborn, ...
STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: James Carter Organ Trio
Our video spotlight shines this week on the versatile multi-instrumentalist James Carter, who will be in St. Louis next Wednesday, May 12 through Saturday, May 15 to perform at Jazz at the Bistro. Carter also will present a free saxophone clinic and master class from 11:00 a.m. to ...
K. Curtis Lyle Presenting Benefit for Zimbabwe Nkenya on Tuesday, May 11
Poet K. Curtis Lyle and collaborators will present “Barackutopia," a performance piece paying tribute to and benefiting bassist Zimbabwe Nkenya, at 8 p.m. this Tuesday at the Kranzberg Arts Center. Lyle will perform his own poetic text, accompanied by sound designer, musician and multimedia artist David A.N. Jackson, bassist Josh Weinstein, and a score by Baikida ...
Ethan Iverson Interviews Gerald Early
When he's not playing piano with The Bad Plus, Ethan Iverson has developed a reputation for doing some interesting interviews with jazz musicians for his blog Do The Math, and he's just published a conversation with St. Louis' own Gerald Early, the Washington University professor who frequently writes and speaks about jazz, popular music and African-American ...
FCC Approves KFUO Sale
Bad news for St. Louis area fans of classical and jazz music: According to an item by Post-Dispatch music critic Sarah Bryan Miller on the Culture Club blog at STLtoday, the Federal Communications Commission has given final approval to the sale of radio station KFUO (99.1 FM). The blog post, in its entirety:“The Federal Communications ...
Jazz This Week: Pat Metheny, Jazz St. Louis All-Stars, Denise Thimes with Rickey Woodard, and More
Though fall-to-spring academic and not-for-profit presenting schedules are winding down, and summer won't be here for a few weeks yet, there are still some noteworthy shows coming up over the next few days in St. Louis for fans of jazz and creative music.The big news of the week is guitarist Pat Metheny's Orchestrion tour, ...
