StLJN Saturday at the Movies:The Art Ensemble of Chicago

This is one of those good news/bad news posts. The bad news is that, for the time being anyway, our series of Saturday cartoons featuring jazz soundtracks has ended. The good news is that today is the first installment of a brand new weekly feature spotlighting videos of jazz performances culled from the ever-increasing vaults of online services like YouTube, Google Video, and the like.

To kick things off, I've found several short jazz videos that have a St. Louis connection, though that won't necessarily be an absolute requirement for all future posts in the series. Today's offering features the Art Ensemble of Chicago, with St. Louis' own Lester Bowie on trumpet. It was recorded February 25, 1982 in Cagliari, Italy for an Italian TV broadcast.