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Denise Thimes to Perform at Benefit for United Way on Saturday, September 17
Singer Denise Thimes (pictured) will perform for the third annual “Chocolate, Wine and All That Jazz" event kicking off this year's annual campaign for the Tri County Division of United Way. The fundraiser will take place starting at 6:30 p.m., Saturday September 17 at the Grand Opera House, 311 N. Main St in St. Charles. In ...
Bonerama to Play at the Sheldon on Sunday, July 31
The Sheldon Concert Hall and The Gramophone are joining forces to present the New Orleans band Bonerama (pictured) in a performance at 7:30 p.m., Sunday, July 31 in the Sheldon's upstairs ballroom. Founded by trombonists Mark Mullins and Craig Klein, both veterans of Harry Connick, Jr's band, Bonerama features a front line of four trombones and ...
Riverfront Times Announces 2011 Music Awards Winners
The Riverfront Times announced the winners of the paper's 2011 Music Awards at a ceremony held Tuesday night at the downtown rock club, the Firebird. Guitarist Dave Black (pictured) was named “Best Jazz Artist" in the RFT's online reader poll, while the combo platter of singer Roland Johnson and the Voodoo Blues Band snagged this year's ...
Jazz This Week: Norman Brown and Richard Elliot, Denise Thimes, Monterey County All-Star Band, and More
It's jazz festival season in many parts of the US and Europe, so touring jazz groups are bit thin on the ground this time of year in non-festival cities like St. Louis. Still, with many local summer free concert series underway and local musicians at the usual venues, there's a pretty decent variety of live jazz ...
Webster University Jazz Combo Camp Set for July 11 to July 15
Webster University will present a jazz combo camp for high school, college and adult students starting Monday, July 11 through Friday, July 15 on its campus in Webster Groves, 470 E. Lockwood Ave. Campers will meet daily from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. for a curriculum that includes master classes for specific instruments; ensemble rehearsals; classes ...
Jazz St. Louis Offering Half-Price Tickets for the Jazz Crusaders Concert This Saturday
Jazz St. Louis has just announced an offer of half-price tickets to hear the Jazz Crusaders (pictured) this Saturday, June 11 at the Touhill Performing Arts Center. The offer applies to the tickets regularly priced at $50 and $35, but not to the “Gold Circle" tickets selling for $100. Half-price tickets can be purchased by calling ...
Jazz St. Louis Adds More performers to 2011-12 Season
Jazz St. Louis today announced several more performances by touring jazz artists that will be part of their 2011-12 season. A double bill of singer Dianne Reeves and pianist Ahmad Jamal, each appearing separately with their own group, has been booked for Sunday, November 6 at the Touhill Performing Arts Center, filling the third date in ...
STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Gaslight Square Remembered
More often than not, this weekly feature is dedicated to previewing upcoming concerts of jazz and creative music in St. Louis. However, talking this past week with people about the late Mae Wheeler and her long career got me thinking about both the history of jazz in St. Louis and the need occasionally to remember and ...
More About Mae
Following up on the death of the iconic singer Mae Wheeler, yesterday I talked with people who knew and worked with her for another article that's now up on the Riverfront Times website. Check it out! Update—More coverage from around town of Wheeler's passing: The Post-Dispatch's Kevin Johnson recalled the first time he met Wheeler, and ...
Mae Wheeler 1934 - 2011
Singer Mae Wheeler (pictured), known to generations of St. Louis music fans as “Lady Jazz," died this evening at her home in Maryland Heights after a long illness. She was 77. Wheeler, known for her charity fundraising efforts as well as for a musical career that spanned six decades, had been battling colon cancer since 2006, ...
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