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

This week, it's part three of StLJN's Fall 2018 jazz preview, featuring videos of jazz and creative music performers who will be visiting St. Louis between now at the end of the year. You can see part one here, and part two here.

First up is a clip that, chronologically speaking, should have been in last week's installment but was inadvertently left out due to a clerical error. It features multi-instrumentalist Anthony Braxton, who will be performing on Monday, October 8 at St. Louis University's Xavier Hall in a concert presented by New Music Circle.

A major figure in creative music since the 1960s, Braxton has recorded and performed solo and with ensembles ranging from small combos to multiple orchestras, combining improvisation with complex theoretical and compositional concepts to produce a truly unique body of work. He'll be performing in St. Louis with harpist Jacqueline Kerrod, but in the first video up above, he's playing solo in an excerpt from a show in October 2017 at Fringe Arts in Philadelphia.

After the jump, you can see videos featuring singers Jillian Louis and William Michals, who will present their show "Broadway's Greatest Hits of All Time" on Friday, October 19 and Saturday, October 20 at the Gaslight Theater as part of the Gaslight Cabaret Festival.

Louis is seen singing “This Day Each Year” in the first clip, recorded last year at Feinstein’s/54 Below in NYC, followed by Michals' performance of "The Impossible Dream," recorded in 2015 at Broadway Sessions, also in NYC.

Next up, it's keyboardist Jon Batiste, New Orleans native and bandleader for CBS' The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, who's coming here to perform on Saturday, October 20 at the Sheldon Concert Hall. The video shows him performing "What A Wonderful World" in 2016 at the Montreux Jazz Festival.

The fourth clip after the jump features singer Darius de Haas, who will perform his cabaret show "A Bernstein Thing" on Wednesday, October 24 and Thursday, October 25 at Jazz St. Louis. It's a promotional clip that features short excerpts from several songs in the show, plus some brief comments from de Haas.

The final three videos today show off the talents of, respectively, bassist Reuben Rogers, drummer Ulysses Owens Jr. and saxophonist John Ellis, who will join forces to cap off a week-long educational residency with performances on Friday, October 26 and Saturday, October 27 at Jazz St. Louis.

You can see Rogers with pianist Helen Sung, dueting on Chick Corea's "Armando's Rumba" in 2016 at the Festival Internacional de Jazz de Punta del Este in Uruguay, followed by Owens soloing on a drum kit augmented with various percussion goodies manufactured by LP, who made the video in 2014. In the final clip, Ellis gets a juicy solo spot with pianist and St. Louis native Lawrence Fields' quartet on a tune called "Parachute," recorded last year by WBGO radio's "The Checkout" at Cafe 939's Red Room in Boston.

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