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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: In the Tradition with Catherine Russell
Today, let's get acquainted with singer Catherine Russell, who will be making her St. Louis debut as a headliner next Saturday, April 19 at the Sheldon Concert Hall. Russell is from New York, born in 1956 to Luis Russell, a pianist, composer and longtime bandleader for Louis Armstrong, and Carline Ray, a bassist and vocalist who ...
Jazz This Week: The Wee Trio, Take 6, J.D. Parran and George Sams, Scott Kirby, Charlie Hunter and Scott Amendola, and More
With spring appearing finally to have sprung here in St. Louis, it should be a fine weekend to get out and hear some live jazz and creative music, and fortunately, our local stages will be filled with intriguing possibilities. Let's go to the highlights... Tonight, Good 4 The Soul plays their monthly gig at BB's Jazz, ...
STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Six from Poncho Sanchez
Today, let's check out some videos of percussionist Poncho Sanchez, who will be bringing his band to St. Louis to perform Wednesday, April 16 through Saturday, April 19 at Jazz at the Bistro. Last seen here in 2012 at the Greater St. Louis Jazz Festival, Sanchez and his band could be considered the standard-bearers for small-group, ...
Jazz This Week: Cyrus Chestnut and Russell Malone, Claire Chase and Ice, St. Louis Stompers, and More
This week's jam-packed calendar of jazz and creative music in St. Louis offers something for listeners of just about any stylistic preference, from ragtime and traditional New Orleans style to straight-ahead modern jazz to free improvisation and contemporary chamber music. Let's go to the highlights... Tonight, pianist Cyrus Chestnut and his trio will team up with ...
STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: A Few Minutes with Cyrus Chestnut and Russell Malone
This week, let's spend a little time with pianist Cyrus Chestnut and guitarist Russell Malone, who will be returning to St. Louis to join forces for a series of performances Wednesday, April 2 through Saturday, April 5 at Jazz at the Bistro. Both men are quite familiar to St. Louis audiences, as they first teamed up ...
Jazz This Week: Mwata Bowden, a David Sanborn Tribute, "Newport Jazz Festival: Now 60," Alarm Will Sound, and More
Events have conspired to make this week's preview of jazz and creative music shows in and around St. Louis both rather terse and somewhat behind schedule. so let's go straight to the highlights.... Tonight, multi-instrumentalist Mwata Bowden of Chicago's Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, performs a free concert with bassist Paul Steinbeck and drummer ...
STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Claire Chase and Ice
This week, let's check out some videos of flautist Claire Chase and the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), who are coming to St. Louis to perform in a concert presented by New Music Circle at 7:00 p.m. Friday, April 4, at the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts. Chase, who's 36 and based in Chicago, has premiered more ...
Jazz This Week: Rudresh Mahanthappa, Miles Davis Memorial Project Fundraiser, and More
This week brings both the official start of spring and an assortment of jazz and creative music music performances in and around St. Louis, including the local debut of a fast-rising saxophone star; a couple of big band concerts; a benefit to raise money for a statue honoring Miles Davis, and much more. Let's go to ...
STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Spotlight on Mwata Bowden
This week, let's get acquainted with Chicago multi-instrumentalist Mwata Bowden, who's coming to St. Louis to perform with the trio Low End Theory for Washington University's Jazz at Holmes series on Thursday, March 27. Bowden plays a variety of saxophones and clarinets, flute and didgeridoo, and he'll be joined for the performance by bassist and Wash ...
Jazz This Week: Kevin Eubanks; Garfield, Ligertwood and Stevens; Emily Bergl; a Tribute to Miles Davis; and More
While some revelers this weekend no doubt will be wearing green in anticipation of St. Patrick's Day, your StLJN staff would like to remind you that one doesn't have be Irish, or indeed of any particular national origin or ethnicity, to enjoy jazz, either. You just have to know where to go and when, and to ...
