StLJN Saturday at the Movies: Previewing the Greater St. Louis Jazz Festival

Today's deluxe super-sized video post features six of the seven guest artists who will be appearing at the Greater St. Louis Jazz Festival this week. Alas, footage of trombonist Paul McKee was nowhere to be found online, but I did manage to locate clips featuring the other six musicians who will be taking part in the GStLJF.

From the top down, the featured videos are:

* Pianist Shelly Berg playing at the 2007 International Association of Jazz Educators convention in NYC;

* Saxophonist Tom Scott performing "Say You Love Me";

* Trumpeter Wayne Bergeron playing a blues at the Yamaha booth at the 2007 National Association of Music Merchants convention;

* Drummer Gregg Field performing the Count Basie chart "Whirly Bird" with the 2007 Disneyland All-American College Band, which features musicians from colleges and universities around the country;

* Bassist Chuck Berghofer playing "Zoot's Theme" at Dante's, a Los Angeles club, with saxophonist Zoot Sims, pianist Roger Kellaway and drummer Larry Bunker. (Fun fact: Berghofer, a veteran of LA studios and stages for five decades, is the guy who played the famously funky bass lick that kicks off the theme song for the television sitcom Barney Miller.)

* Clarinetist Buddy DeFranco in a vintage performances of "One O'Clock Jump" with a small group led by Count Basie. DeFranco gets the first solo, followed by St. Louis' own Clark Terry on trumpet and Wardell Gray on tenor sax.

The Greater St. Louis Jazz Festival is presented by the University of Missouri - St. Louis and Jazz St. Louis, with events at Jazz at the Bistro on Wednesday and Thursday and at the Touhill Performing Arts Center on Friday and Saturday. More than 750 students from 30 different St. Louis area schools will take part in the festival's educational programs. Public performances will include a Wednesday night small-group session at Jazz at the Bistro, and big band concerts with the UMSL Jazz Orchestra on Friday and Saturday at the TouPAC. For ticket information, call 800- 516-4949 or 800-239-5949.