Eddie Henderson
"The Music of Miles Davis" tour, featuring Eddie Henderson, Jimmy Cobb, Gary Bartz and others, was recently in Wisconsin, and will continue through the spring. No St. Louis date yet, though....Village Voice jazz critic Francis Davis reviews Miles' Cellar Door Sessions box set here, while One Final Note offers another Cellar Door review and their take on former Black Artists Group member James "Jabbo" Ware's latest....Clark Terry was one of the participants in a symposium at the recent International Association of Jazz Educators convention in NYC. Among other things, the article notes that Terry has an unpublished autobiography and that a new music building at William Paterson University in Wayne, N.J., will be named for him and will be the repository for his collection of jazz artifacts...Oliver Lake, due here in two weeks to perform with the World Saxophone Quartet at Jazz at the Bistro, recently gave a benefit performance to raise money for the art museum in Montclair, NJ, where he currently resides.
Pianist Cyrus Chestnut, always a crowd-pleaser in his appearances here in St. Louis, has a new CD....Another frequent visitor and local favorite, trumpeter Maynard Ferguson, continues his relentless roadwork with a stop in Oklahoma....And drummer Matt Wilson's Arts and Crafts band is performing in NYC after their recent visit to Chicago, St. Louis and Columbia.
Back here in St. Louis, the Arts and Education Council's awards this year will honor veteran jazz pianist Herb Drury and the Jazz at the Bistro/Jazz St. Louis organization, among others...From the "When Woofers are Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Have Woofers" file: The St. Louis Board of Aldermen recently passed a new law allowing them to seize cars that are playing music loud enough to violate local noise ordinances. According to the story in the Post-Dispatch, the law also "outlaws possessing or installing any car stereo with a speaker over a foot in diameter; having more than one speaker 10 inches in diameter; more than 10 speakers overall; more than two amplifiers; and any amplifier over 300 watts." As a city resident, I appreciate the efforts to keep the noise levels in our neighborhoods to a manageable level. But don't our cops have have better things to do than arrest people simply for possessing a big car stereo? If someone is violating the noise ordinance, sure, bust them for them for that, but criminalizing the mere possession of certain types of mobile audio equipment seems silly and unfair.
And finally: The New York Times had an interesting piece about new electronic musical instruments that also recounts a bit of the history of non-keyboard synthesizers...And Science News has an article about about new research into bird songs that documents "the first four-part, synchronized chorus with alternating parts recorded outside human music." What's next - birds jamming like Bird?
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