Chiara Civello
It may be a very steamy mid-summer week in St. Louis, but there are a number of jazz shows happening that, depending on your musical proclivities, may be worth a trip out into the inferno-like conditions.
For starters, one of St. Louis' favorite multi-stylistic guitar players, Dave Black, will have a release party Thursday night at Finale Music and Dining for his new CD Destinations. Haven't heard it yet, but whether he's playing jazz, blues, rock, classical or his own genre-confounding compositions, just about everything Black does is worth a listen. I'm sure his new recording is no exception.
On Friday night, the Rendezvous All-Stars smooth jazz show plays The Pageant. This is another of the package tours so popular among smooth jazz fans, featuring saxophonist Kirk Whalum, bassist Wayman Tisdale, guitarist/singer Jonathan Butler and keyboard player Brian Simpson. The common denominator is that all are signed to saxophonist Dave Koz' Rendezvous label, as is Kirk Whalum's uncle, St. Louis' own Hugh "Peanuts" Whalum, who will be making a guest appearance at the show.
Also on Friday, vocalist/pianist Chiara Civello will be making her St. Louis debut, opening a two-night stand at Jazz at the Bistro that will wrap up the club's summer series of female vocalists. A native of Rome who studied at Boston's famed Berklee College of Music, Civello has received good notices for Last Quarter Moon, her debut album on Verve Forecast.
And if those two shows aren't for one night, Friday is also when guitarist Goran Ivanovic will be bringing his "Balkan fusion" sound to Finale for two shows. Ivanovic isn't a big name yet, but take the influx of Bosnian and other eastern and central European immigrants to St. Louis in recent years, and combine them with our town's base of jazz fans, and he may have a potential audience here bigger than one might expect.
As usual, this is just a sampling of what's out there for St. louis jazz fans this week. To see more, please visit the St. Louis Jazz Notes Calendar.
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