StLJN Saturday at the Movies: Fly featuring Mark Turner,plus the Pat Metheny Trio

Today's videos preview a couple of concerts that are coming to St. Louis in the first part of 2007, and they also help trace the interconnections among a certain set of musicians. The first video features the band Fly playing "State of the Union" at the Sunside Jazz Club in Paris, exact date unknown but recent .Fly is a three-piece outfit made up of saxophonist Mark Turner, bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jeff Ballard. They'll be doing a four-night engagement at Jazz at the Bistro during the second week in January.

Grenadier and Ballard also serve as the current rhythm section for pianist Brad Mehldau, and all three are touring this spring with guitarist Pat Metheny in support of the recently issued CD Metheny/Mehldau. That show is coming to the Sheldon Concert Hall in April, but since the tour hasn't started yet, there's really no footage of them playing together - at least, not any I could find. However, I did run across a clip that shows Metheny playing in a trio situation with Bill Stewart on drums and Grenadier on bass, and that's today's second featured video. The composition is called "Lone Jack," and the video was made in 1999 at the Montreux Jazz Festival. For a bit more on the Metheny/Mehldau tour, see the next post.