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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Spotlight on Red Baraat
This week, let's turn our video spotlight on Red Baraat, who are returning to St. Louis to play this coming Thursday, August 29 at The Gramophone. Based in Brooklyn and led by drummer Sunny Jain, Red Baraat is a nine-piece group with an instrumentation similar to a New Orleans brass band (two reeds, three percussion, four ...
Jazz This Week: Jon Wirtz and Nuskool, Darin Gray with Mars Williams and Tyler Damon, Dave Dickey Big Band, and More
Along with the return of something resembling more typical St. Louis weather for this time of year, this late-summer weekend offers an eclectic selection of live jazz and creative music in and around St. Louis. Let's go to the highlights... Tonight, the Denver based pianist Jon Wirtz and his trio Nuskool will be in town to ...
STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: The Mars Explorer
Today, let's look at some videos featuring saxophonist Mars Williams, who's coming to St. Louis to team with bassist Darin Gray and drummer Tyler Damon for an concert at 7:00 p.m. Friday, August 23 at the St. Louis Art Museum. The event is sponsored by SLAM and New Music Circle. Williams, who grew up in the ...
Jazz This Week: Fumee Gypsy Project, T.J. Borden, Tuesday Night Swing Dance, and More
This week's jazz and creative music visitors to St. Louis include a gypsy jazz band from Chicago and an experimental cello player from New York. Add in a busy lineup of gigs from local musicians, and the calendar for the next few days includes plenty of options for the discerning listener. Let's go to the highlights: ...
STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Remembering George Duke
Today, we keep our usual St. Louis-centric format on pause for one more week to pay tribute to keyboardist George Duke, who died this past Monday, August 5 at age 67. Though Duke, a native Californian, had no direct personal connection to our town, he played many gigs here over the years, the last being two ...
Jazz This Week: Snarky Puppy, a Tribute to Marvin Gaye, Route 66 Jazz Orchestra, Don Schroeder's Happy Go Lucky Jazz Band, and More
Though the “dog days" of summer have arrived in St. Louis so far mostly without the traditional blistering heat and soupy humidity, they still bring the usual annual slowdown in the number of touring jazz musicians passing through St. Louis. However, there's still live jazz and creative music out there to be found all over the ...
STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Newport Jazz Festival Moments
With the 2013 Newport Jazz Festival happening this weekend, this edition of our video showcase pays tribute to one of jazz's longest-lived and best-known events by looking at some choice performances given there by various jazz greats over the years. The first video is actually a full-length movie: Jazz On A Summer's Day, the film about ...
Jazz This Week: St. Louis Cabaret Festival with Marilyn Maye, American Music Showcase, Kelley Hunt, and More
This weekend may mark the beginning of the dog days of summer, but it's one of the busiest times of the year for Cabaret Project St. Louis, as the organization presents its annual St. Louis Cabaret Festival and conference this week. In addition to a week's worth of educational programs for prospective singers, there are four ...
STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Jazz Film Festival Summer 2013, Part 2
This week, we continue our summer festival of jazz films with five documentaries looking at the lives of legendary musicians, plus a vintage TV special from the 1970s featuring performances from a stellar lineup of musicians still active then. First up is Art Tatum: The Art of Jazz Piano, the only documentary portrait of the great ...
Jazz This Week: Kermit Ruffins, Nora Germain, Good 4 the Soul, All That Tap XXI, Dave Dickey Big Band, and More
The weekend starts early for fans of jazz and creative music in St. Louis, as Kermit Ruffins - trumpeter, singer, entrepreneur, bon vivant and ambassador of New Orleans music - will be playing at The Gramophone tonight and again on Thursday evening. While he's in town, Ruffins also will be doing a meet-and-greet and signing copies ...
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