StLJN Saturday at the Movies: The SF Jazz Collective's Josh Redman and Dave Douglas

This week, let's take a look at a couple of musicians who will be in St. Louis next Wednesday and Thursday to perform at Jazz at the Bistro with the SF Jazz Collective.

The first video features saxophonist Joshua Redman, who serves as the artistic director of the SF Jazz organization. It's a performance clip of Redman fronting his electric band Elastic, with Sam Yahel on organ and Brian Blade on drums, on a version of the tune "Jazz Crimes."

The other two clips - a single performance split into two parts due to YouTube's time limits on user uploads - spotlight trumpeter Dave Douglas, who's making his first tour with the Collective this year after replacing trumpeter Nicolas Payton in the lineup. This video is of Douglas' own quintet in a show last October in Belgrade, with Uri Caine on Rhodes electric piano, James Genus on bass, Clarence Penn on drums and Donny McCaslin on tenor sax.

Alas, there seems to be no video of the Collective itself readily available on any of the online sharing services, but the SF Jazz Web site does offer a very short performance clip recorded in February, which can be launched from the home page via a pop-up window, or downloaded in .mov format here.