StLJN Saturday at the Movies: Greg Osby plays "Sanctus", plus Luther Thomas live in Copenhagen

This week's videos spotlight a couple of alto saxophonists with St. Louis roots, both of whom have found their own way to incorporate influences from jazz, funk and more experimental approaches into their own music.

First up is Greg Osby, performing guitarist Jim Hall's composition "Sanctus" in what's described as an outtake from an electronic press kit giving an inside look at the sessions for Osby's Invisible Hand CD, which came out back in 2000. Hall also performs on the CD and in this video, as does the late, great pianist Andrew Hill, and this track is one of just two cuts from the CD on which both men appear. Scott Colley is the bass player, Terri Lynn Carrington's on drums, and Gary Thomas contributes a brief passage on flute. This track is more laid back than most of Osby's own compositions, but it's still interesting and entertaining to watch these very fine musicians at work.

As for the second video, after posting earlier this week about a new album from Luther Thomas, I poked around the online video sites looking for something from him. This short clip was recorded last fall, and shows Thomas performing in a club in Copenhagen, Denmark, where he now resides. (For what it's worth, I also found that Thomas now has a MySpace page, albeit one with an eye-bleedingly awful color scheme, that seems to be much more up to date than the "official" site linked above.)