Hanukkah's already come and gone, and Christmas and Kwanzaa are fast approaching, but StLJN never takes a holiday from bringing you the latest links to news, reviews and more about jazz and creative musicians from St. Louis, recent visitors and coming attractions:* Let's start this installment with yet another review of Miles Davis' Complete On The Corner Sessions box set.
* Meanwhile, Downbeat magazine has compiled all their coverage of Davis over the years, including news, reviews, interviews and more, into a new book, The Miles Davis Reader.
* As mentioned in our last installment, Toronto trumpeter Nick "Brownman" Ali recently mounted a series of five concerts, each paying tribute to a different period of Miles Davis' career. For a look at how Ali instructed his sidemen to capture the spirit of Miles' mid-1960s ensemble, check out this thread from rec.music.bluenote.
* Downtown Music Gallery has a bunch of photos from a couple of recent Marty Ehrlich gigs. (Scroll down the page to the entries from November 25.)
* AllAboutJazz.com has reviews of saxophonist Oliver Lake's CD Zaki, as well as two recordings from hometown label Mel Bay Records, Frank Vignola's Vignola Plays Gershwin and Jonathan Kreisberg's The Sound of Everywhere.
* Blogcritics has a review of guitarist Joe Friedman's Cup O' Joe.
* From the "recent visitors" file, drummer Roy Haynes led an all-star band to open the new San Francisco location of Yoshi's jazz club, previewed here and reviewed here. AAJ.com also has reviews of Haynes' CDs The Sound of Sonny and We Three here.
* Saxophonist and clarinetist Anat Cohen of Waverly Seven is profiled by AAJ.com here and by the Associated Press (via the International Herald Tribune) here. Also, the 3 Cohens CD Braid is reviewed here.
* Guitar and singer John Pizzarelli, a frequent visitor to St. Louis in recent years, just did a gig at NYC's Birdland, reviewed here.
* Turning to coming attractions, trumpeter Chris Botti, who's playing in January at the Touhill Performing Arts Center, just did a gig at NYC's Blue Note (with St. Louis native Peter Martin on piano) and was reviewed by the New York Times here.
* Here's another review of pianist Cyrus Chestnut's recent CD of songs associated with Elvis Presley. Chestnut (pictured) returns to Jazz at the Bistro on March 7 and 8.
* Pianist Ahmad Jamal, who's performing at the Sheldon Concert Hall on January 26, recently did a concert in San Diego and was interviewed by the San Diego Union Tribune here.
* Lastly, productivity site Lifehack had an interesting post on how the skills of a jazz improvisor may also be useful in many non-musical situations.
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