Russell Gunn to play this Saturday, May 3 at SIU-Edwardsville

Trumpeter and East St. Louis native Russell Gunn will be back in the St. Louis area this Saturday, May 3, to do a clinic and concert at Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville. The concert begins at 5:00 p.m. in the Meridian Ballroom on the first floor of SIU-E’s Morris University Center.

Gunn (pictured) is performing as part of a day-long event honoring the music of Miles Davis. At 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, local high school bands will take part in clinics conducted by Ron Carter, saxophonist and director of the jazz program at Northern Illinois University, and trumpeter and educator Anthony Wiggins, who was a student of Carter's when he taught at Lincoln High in East St. Louis. (Wiggins and Gunn, who also graduated from Lincoln, are cousins.) Gunn will conduct a clinic at 1:00 p.m., and the evening concert also will include music from members of the SIU-E jazz faculty and the SIU-E Concert Jazz Band.

The clinics, which also are being held in the Meridian Ballroom, are free and open to the public. Admission to the 5 p.m. concert is $5 per person. For more information, call the SIU-E music department at 618-650-3900.