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Jazz St. Louis Announces Winter/Spring Bookings for Jazz at the Bistro
Jazz St. Louis has announced additional bookings for this winter and spring at Jazz at the Bistro. Singer-songwriter Javier Mendoza's Latin Jazz Experiment will be the first local/regional act to play the Bistro in 2013, returning on Friday, January 11 and Saturday, January 12. Two weeks later, multi-instrumentalist Lamar Harris and singer/trumpeter Dawn Weber will team ...
Touhill Offering Pre-Sale of Tickets for 2013 Greater St. Louis Jazz Festival
The Touhill Performing Arts Center this week is offering a special pre-sale of tickets for the 2013 Greater St. Louis Jazz Festival, which go on sale to the general public next Monday, December 3. The GSLJF's featured performers will be the Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour 55th Anniversary tribute show on Friday, April 19, and trumpeter ...
STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: 50 Years with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band
This week, let's take a look at some videos featuring the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, who will be in St. Louis to perform their “Creole Christmas" show on Sunday, December 9 at the Sheldon Concert Hall. This is the seventh year PHJB has done “Creole Christmas," though the first ...
Marcus Baylor to Perform Thursday, December 27 at the Bistro at Grand Center
Drummer and St. Louis native Marcus Baylor is coming home for the holidays to perform on Thursday, December 27 at the Bistro at Grand Center, 3536 Washington Ave. St. Louis jazz fans will recognize the address as the home of Jazz at the Bistro, of course, and Baylor (pictured) knows the room well, having played there ...
Jazz This Week: Jeremy Davenport, Dave Dickey Big Band, Tim Cunningham, and More
Though the holiday weekend means minimal activity from touring musicians over the next few days, St. Louis' local players will be serving up plenty of home-cooked jazz and creative music, both before and after the traditional turkey dinners and football games. Let's go to the highlights... The weekend's headline attraction is trumpet player, singer and University ...
STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Deep in the Shed with Marcus Roberts
More so than many jazz pianists of his generation, Marcus Roberts shows the distinct influence of pre-WWII piano players such as Jelly Roll Morton, James P. Johnson, Fats Waller and others who helped shape the music's first few decades. St. Louis jazz fans will get a chance to experience ...
Dan Hicks to Perform Wednesday, March 13 at the Wildey Theatre
Singer-guitarist Dan Hicks (pictured) and His Hot Licks will be returning to the St. Louis area next year for a performance at 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, March 13 at the Wildey Theatre in Edwardsville. Hicks, who's been combining jazz, Western swing, folk, Gypsy music, blues and rock with wry humor since the late 1960s, played here most ...
John King to Record Live DVD on Friday, December 21 at BB's Jazz, Blues and Soups
Bassist John King (pictured), known for his work with Good 4 The Soul, saxophonist Jim Stevens, and numerous other St. Louis musicians and groups, will launch his new solo project with the recording for DVD of a live performance at 7:00 p.m. Friday, December 21 at BB's Jazz, Blues and Soups. The gig, billed as “John ...
Dave Weckl Using Crowdfunding to Finance New Recording with Jay Oliver
Drummer Dave Weckl is teaming up again with his old friend, keyboardist and fellow St. Louis expat Jay Oliver, and using “crowd funding" to raise money for their new project. Friends since high school, Oliver and Weckl worked together on Weckl's early solo albums Master Plan, Heads Up, and Hard Wired and the Dave Weckl Band ...
Jazz This Week: Joey Defrancesco, Dan Thomas, Harry Miller, Montez Coleman, Genesis Jazz Project, and More
This week's lineup of jazz and creative music performances in St. Louis is headed by organist Joey DeFrancesco (pictured), who this evening will open a four-night gig continuing through Saturday at Jazz at the Bistro. DeFrancesco, considered by many to be the reigning champ of the blues-drenched jazz organ style pioneered by the late Jimmy Smith, ...
