Call it a classic bad news/good news scenario. The bad news, as passed along to StLJN by Jazz St. Louis operations director Bob Bennett, is that the very fine trumpeter Nicholas Payton (pictured at left) will not be appearing with the SF Jazz Collective when they perform in St. Louis at Jazz at the Bistro next spring.The good news? The adventurous and acclaimed trumpeter Dave Douglas (pictured below) will be filling the trumpet chair for the band on the entire tour, including their St. Louis dates. From the information sent to JSL by the SF Jazz Collective's booking firm, International Music Network:
"We regret to inform you that Nicholas Payton will be not be a part of the SFJAZZ Collective tour this March.
But we are pleased to announce that we have added trumpet virtuoso Dave Douglas in his place. Dave won best trumpeter this year in the Down Beat magazine readers poll. Dave Douglas is widely recognized as one of the most important and original American musicians to emerge from the jazz and improvised music scene of the last decades.
We are very excited to have Dave on the tour and look forward to his contributions to this incredible ensemble of musicians."
For me, this makes what was already a must-see gig into even more of a must-see, if that makes any sense at all. While I'll admit to being familiar with only a small fraction of Douglas' extremely large recorded output, I was most impressed with his quintet's performance at the 2005 US Bank St. Louis Jazz Festival, and look forward to the chance to see him perform live again, especially with a group of excellent musicians like those who make up the SF Jazz Collective.
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