We're convening a Jazz Roundtable made up of journalists, critics and other observers of the local scene for a sort of online panel discussion of jazz in St. Louis. The idea is that we'll pick a topic, discuss it via email, and post the resulting exchange of messages here for all to enjoy, contemplate, agree with, or dispute.
It's a real pleasure to have such a smart bunch of folks taking part in this Roundtable. In alphabetical order, they are:
Dennis Owsley has been a jazz broadcaster on 90.7 KWMU since 1983. His show "Jazz Unlimited" is heard Sunday nights from 9:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. On the program's Web site, you can view some of his photographs of jazz musicians (47 were on exhibit at the Sheldon Art Gallery from September 2005 through January 2006), playlists, jazz history notes and recommendations of jazz recordings. His book City of Gabriels: The Jazz History of St. Louis (1890-1973) will be available in late September 2006..Oh, yeah, I'll be chipping in to the discusssion, too. So, just for the record:
Terry Perkins is a freelance writer based in St. Louis, Missouri. Terry has been writing about jazz for more than two decades for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Downbeat magazine, AllAboutJazz.com, JazzStandards.com and many other publications and websites. He also writes and produces corporate communication videos. When he isn't listening to music or writing about it, you can usually find Terry somewhere near a trout stream, at a Cardinals baseball game or rooting for his alma mater, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Steve Pick is a freelance writer who's been blabbin' about music in print since the early Eighties for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, No Depression, the Riverfront Times, St. Louis magazine, Jet Lag, and some other places he's forgotten. He hosts "Sound Salvation" on KDHX-FM 88.1 Friday mornings from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m.
Rene Spencer Saller writes Sound Patrol, a weekly record-review column for the Illinois Times. In 2005 she won first place in the music-criticism category (for papers with circulations of less than 50,000) of the Association of Alternative Weeklies annual awards. Her three winning essays - on Wilco, Ike Turner, and Eminem - were reprinted in the book Best AltWeekly Writing and Design 2005. In addition to the Illinois Times, Saller's music criticism has appeared in many publications, including St. Louis magazine, Playbill, Sacramento News and Review, the Colorado Springs Independent, the Anchorage Press, eMusic.com, and various affiliates of the New Times/Village Voice Media chain. She also hosts the music program "Suffragette City" every Tuesday from 10 p.m. to midnight on KDHX
Dean Minderman is editor of St. Louis Jazz Notes and a contributing writer for the Riverfront Times. His music journalism has also been published by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Playbill, Spotlight, the Bluesletter, and several papers owned by New Times/Village Voice Media. Dean plays keyboards and sings with his own jazz trio and with other local performers including Renee Smith, Uvee Hayes, the Oliver Sain Review, Kim Massie, and the JJ Band. He is also a freelance writer for businesses and not-for-profits, and has worked in marketing, communications and administration for a number of St. Louis area performing arts groups, including New Music Circle, Circus Flora, The New Theatre and the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra.Our first discussion will center on the topic of jazz festivals. We'll talk about St. Louis' local festival offerings - what they are, what they could be, and what they'd be like if we running the show - and who knows what else, for as long as we all feel like there's something to say. However long it lasts, we hope it makes for a lively dialogue and some interesting reading, and we're getting started tomorrow, so please join us then.
(Edited immediately after posting to correct some busted HTML.)
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