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News: Video / DVD

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: "Sax for Stax" with Gerald Albright and Kirk Whalum

July 19, 2009

This week, let's take a look at some video clips of performance excepts from the “Sax For Stax" tour featuring saxophonists Gerald Albright and Kirk Whalum. The tour, named after Albright's recent CD of songs made famous by the legendary Memphis R&B label, comes to the St. Louis ...

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News: Music Industry

Jazz This Week: Peter Martin, Jim Manley, Tim Cunningham, and More

July 17, 2009

While there are no major touring jazz headliners passing through St. Louis this week, there are several noteworthy shows from locally based musicians coming up over the next few days.Tonight, trombonist/bassist Wayne Coniglio will do a free concert for the Jazz at Holmes series at Washington University, while guitarist Tom Byrne's trio performs at ...

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News: Performance / Tour

A Jazz Heaven to Evoke Billie, Ella and Miles on Saturday, August 8 at the Kranzberg Arts Center

July 17, 2009

Via email, singer Wendy Gordon shares the news that that she'll be presenting a new show called A Jazz Heaven (When Billie & Ella Met Miles & Friends) at 5:00 p.m. Saturday, August 8 at the Kranzberg Arts Center, 501 N. Grand (at Olive).The cabaret-style performance, set in the late 1940s at the Savoy ...

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News: Social Gathering

Jazz St. Louis CD Listening Club on Vacation Until September

July 15, 2009

Jazz St. Louis has announced that their CD Listening Club will be “on vacation" for the months of July and August, but will return for a second year at 7 p.m., Tuesday, September 8 at Borders Books and Music, 1519 S. Brentwood Blvd. in Brentwood. Subsequent meetings of the CD Listening Club will be ...

News: Festival

St. Louis American's Chris King Reporting from Montreal Jazz Festival

July 15, 2009

Via email, St. Louis American editor Chris King has alerted StLJN to the fact that he was in Montreal for that city's just-concluded jazz festival, and filed a series of online dispatches for the paper, including an account of Ornette Coleman's concert and the saxophonist's acceptance of the fest's Miles Davis Award. You can ...

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News: Festival

St. Louis Stompers Headed to Iowa for Bix Fest

July 15, 2009

The St. Louis Stompers once again will be one of the featured bands at the Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival, which is scheduled this year for Thursday, July 23 through Sunday, July 26 in Beiderbecke's hometown of Davenport, Iowa. The event is one of the longest-running and best-known traditional jazz festivals in the country, ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Dr. John Coming to the Pageant on Tuesday, August 4

July 15, 2009

New Orleans pianist and singer Dr. John and his band the Lower 911 will return to St. Louis to play a concert at The Pageant on Tuesday, August 4.The good Doctor has been a frequent visitor to the Gateway City over the years, dispensing his musical gumbo of blues, jazz, R&B and funk most ...

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News: Video / DVD

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Spotlight on Peter Martin

July 12, 2009

This week, we feature a couple of videos with pianist Peter Martin, a St. Louis native who has worked with internationally known jazz musicians such as Dianne Reeves, Chris Botti, Christian McBride and many others. Martin will be playing a free solo concert at 7:00 p.m. next Friday, ...

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News: Festival

Old Webster Jazz and Blues Festival Set for Saturday, September 19

July 11, 2009

The ninth annual Old Webster Jazz and Blues Festival will take place from noon to 11:00 p.m., Saturday, September 19 along Gore, Allen and Lockwood avenues in the business district of the St. Louis suburb of Webster Groves. Admission is free.Performers on the event's two stages will include Wild, Cool & Swingin', Two Times ...

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News: Festival

Jazz This Week: The Cunninghams, Monterey Jazz Festival's Next Generation Jazz Orchestra, St. Louis Ragtimers, Dawn Weber, Erin Bode, and More

July 10, 2009

Though summer vacation season is officially underway, the next few days will offer St. Louis jazz fans a pretty fair number of musical choices during what's usually a relatively slow time of year.Tonight, the Monterey Jazz Festival's Next Generation Jazz Orchestra (pictured at left), a select ensemble of mostly teenage musicians from the West ...