There's a nice range of stylistic diversity on St. Louis' jazz stages this week, from free form, experimental sounds to mainstream to smooth jazz. Tonight at Jazz at the Bistro, it's an evening of international avant garde jazz from pianist Satoko Fujii, trumpeter Natsuki Tamura, bassist Tamaz Kurashvili and pianist Zurab Ramishvili. This is a free show presented in conjunction with the Summer Jazz Institute at Washington University funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
On Thursday, the Bistro presents a tribute to singer Mae Wheeler, featuring "Lady Jazz" herself along with the Adaron Jackson Trio and various special guests. Also on Thursday, Washington University's Jazz at Holmes organization continues its summer series with a free concert by the Curt Landes/Vince Martin group.
On Friday night, the smooth jazz package show Jazz Attack plays the Pageant. This year's edition, presented once again by radio personality and impresario Rick Sanborn, includes trumpeter Rick Braun, saxophonist Richard Elliot (pictured), guitarist Peter White and singer/guitarist Jonathan Butler.
On Friday and Saturday, guitarist Russell Malone celebrates the release of his new MAXJAZZ CD Live at the Jazz Standard Volume 2 by headlining two nights at Jazz at the Bistro. I've got a Critic's Pick on this show in this week's edition of the Riverfront Times, which you should be able to read online here as soon as it goes live on the Web.
Some other noteworthy gigs this weekend include a comparatively rare Friday night appearance at Brandt's by Hugh "Peanuts" Whalum; saxophonist Rod Tate at Finale Music and Dining on Saturday; and Trio Tres Bien with Danita Mumphard at Cookie's Jazz and More, also on Saturday.
As usual, those pesky limitations of the space-time continuum mean that we can only discuss a small sampling of the jazz sounds around town this week. So, for a more extensive list of St. Louis area jazz-related events, please visit the St. Louis Jazz Notes Calendar
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One note about tonight's free show at the Bistro. The musicians from Japan, Satoko Fujii (composer, big band leader) and Natsuki Tamura (trumpeter)will be more avant-garde.
The musicians from the former Soviet Republic of Georgia, Tamaz Kurashvili (bass) and Zurab Ramishvili (piano) are straight-ahead players. They will be joined by Alfonzo Jones on drums for a trio set.
Thanks Dean, Bob Bennett
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