A video preview of this year's St. Louis Jazz and Heritage Festival

As promised, here are some videos featuring some of the musicians who will be performing at this year's St. Louis Jazz and Heritage Festival, which takes place from noon to 10 p.m. on Saturday at Shaw Park in Clayton.

Up top, you'll find a clip of George Benson doing his version of what has become one of his signature songs, "On Broadway". This performance is from a 1998 appearance on the UK television program Later.

Down below is a "vintage" clip of Ramsey Lewis performing one of his first big hits, a very brief version of the McCoys' pop tune "Hang On Sloopy," from some time in the mid-1960s on the TV show Hullabaloo. If you can ignore (or be amused by) the goofy antics of the go-go dancers, this is a pretty good example of the hard-driving, blues- and gospel-influenced style that launched Lewis' career.

Below that is a clip featuring percussionst Poncho Sanchez, in some sort of all-star session that also involved the late vocalist Celia Cruz and the great Tito Puente on timbales, performing "Quimbara". Sanchez is actually third-billed on this clip, but given that Puente and Cruz are two of the all-time greats of salsa music, one can surmise that he probably didn't mind too much.

As for the local musicians performing at the Festival, thanks to the producers of Jazz @ Cookie's, there are complete half-hour programs online featuring both singer Jeanne Trevor and Latin-jazz group SL Son.

Each program is divided into three parts, so embedding all those windows might prove overly cumbersome. Instead, you can see the three parts of Jeanne Trevor's Jazz @ Cookie's episode here, here and here, and you'll find the three parts of SL Son's episode here, here and here.