In a bit of a departure from their usual booking policies, Jazz St. Louis has just announced that the Average White Band (pictured) will perform at Jazz at the Bistro on Thursday, September 27, 2007.AWB, best known for their 1970s hits such as "Pick Up The Pieces" and "Cut The Cake", will play two sets at the usual times, 8:30 p.m. and 10:15 p.m. Tickets will be $25 each for all seats (no discounts, coupons or special offers will be honored) and go on sale to the general public at 10 a.m. next Tuesday, September 4 via Metrotix and the Jazz St. Louis box office.
While the AWB is usually categorized as a funk/soul band, they do improvise, and have appeared at plenty of jazz clubs and festivals over the years. Jazz purists may not find this show to be their particular cup of tea, but given that it's a relatively last-minute booking that is not displacing any jazz acts from the Bistro's schedule, I'm inclined to see it as a way for JSL to put a few bucks in its coffers presenting a band that many jazz fans of a certain age will remember fondly. You can see and hear a bit of the present-day Average White Band in the video window below, a performance of "Pick Up The Pieces" recorded at last year's Jazz In The Woods Festival in Kansas City.
2 comments:
Please keep the updates coming! Thanks for including these jems! I see no reason to leave these groups out. Jazz, Fusion, Funk, Blues overlap in so many ways. Good instrumentals with quality talent is what floats my boat and appears to yours as well... Congratulations on the 1000th post!
Thank you for performing this valuable service to the St. Louis Jazz community! Looking forward to the next thousand!
Gene Dobbs Bradford
Jazz St. Louis
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