StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Fall 2018 jazz preview, part one

With the start of the season just a few weeks away, it's time once again for StLJN's fall jazz preview, presenting videos featuring the jazz and creative music performers and bands who will be visiting St. Louis in the next few months.

The Fall 2018 presenting season opens with a big name, as pianist Chick Corea will be bringing his latest trio, featuring Carlitos Del Puerto on bass and Marcus Gilmore on drums, to town to perform on Tuesday, September 11 and Wednesday, September 12 at Jazz St. Louis.

You can see and hear them in the first video up above, performing Corea's signature song "Spain" last year as the encore to a set at the Blue Note Hawaii in Honolulu.

After the jump, you can see a clip featuring another talented pianist, Cuban-born Harold Lopez-Nussa, who will be here for a one-night-only show on Thursday, September 13 at Jazz St. Louis. The video captures Lopez-Nussa performance's in December 2017 at the studios of WGBH in Boston, accompanied by with his brother, Ruy López-Nussa on drums, and Gastón Joya on bass.

Next up is Big Sam's Funky Nation, who will be bringing their New Orleans funk on Friday, September 14 to the Old Rock House. Big Sam and company can be seen here performing "We Gon' Do It/Gimme Dat" in May of this year at The Funky Biscuit in Boca Raton, FL.

The following week, trumpeter and vocalist Byron Stripling will return to perform starting Wednesday, September 19 through Sunday, September 23 at Jazz St. Louis. He's shown in the third video after the jump, a recording of a set from May 2016 that has Stripling backed by a local rhythm section in Havana, Cuba.

That same week, another New Orleans favorite, Bonerama, will return for a show on Friday, September 21 at the Atomic Cowboy Pavilion, with St. Louis' own Funky Butt Brass Band opening. Bonerama can be seen in the next video, offering their take on the Allman Brothers Band's "Whipping Post" in March of this year, also at The Funky Biscuit.

The last three clips feature musicians who will be performing as part of New Music Circle's first event of the season. NMC will kick off their 60th anniversary year with a weekend of shows featuring four improvising musicians - cellist Okkyung Lee, multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee, percussionist Chris Corsano, and guitarist Bill Orcutt - combined in different duo pairings on Friday, September 21 at Joe's Cafe and Saturday, September 22 at Off Broadway.

The antepenultimate clip shows a solo performance by Lee, recorded in February 2017 at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, CA. That's followed by a video documenting a duo set by McPhee and percussionist Paal Nilssen-Love during a residency in December 2017 at Cafe Oto in London. The final video captures a duo performance by Corsano and Orcutt in January 2018 at the Hemlock Tavern in San Francisco.

Look for part two of StLJN's Fall 2018 jazz preview next week in this space. You can see the rest of today's videos after the jump...