StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Fall 2018 jazz preview, part five

This week, StLJN's Fall 2018 jazz preview, featuring videos of the various jazz and creative music performers who will be visiting St. Louis in the next few months, wraps up with the fifth of five installments. (You can see part one here, part two here, part three here, and part four here.)

Picking up in mid-November when last week's post left off, today's first video up above features keyboardist Jeff Lorber's Fusion, who are coming to town to play starting Wednesday, November 14 through Sunday, November 18 at Jazz St. Louis. The clip features them playing Lorber's "Night Sky" at the 2018 Java Jazz Festival in Jakarta, Indonesia.

After the jump, you can see singer and impressionist Christina Bianco, whose show "Diva Moments" will wrap up the Gaslight Cabaret Festival's fall series with performances on Friday, November 16 and Saturday, November 17 at Gaslight Theater. The video shows Bianco incorporating 25 different impressions into a version of the song "Born This Way," recorded in December 2017 in London.

Next, it's trumpeter, singer, and U City native Jeremy Davenport, who will be making his annual trip back here from New Orleans to perform on Friday, November 23 and Saturday, November 24 at Jazz St. Louis. In the video, he can be seen performing his original song "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" at the 2017 French Quarter Fest in NOLA.

That's followed by a video of bassist Christian McBride's New Jawn, who are scheduled to play Wednesday, November 28 through Sunday, December 2 at Jazz St. Louis. They're seen here performing an entire set, recorded in April 2018 at Dizzy’s Club in Jazz at Lincoln Center in NYC.

The fifth clip features artist, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Lonnie Holley, who will perform in a concert presented by New Music Circle on Saturday, December 1 at Off Broadway. Holley is seen in the video singing "Somewhere in a Dream I Got Lost," recorded in 2018 at A Ship in the Woods, an art gallery in Escondido, CA.

The next video features singer Christine Ebersole &and singer/pianist Billy Stritch, who will perform their cabaret show "Snowfall" on Wednesday, December 5 and Thursday, December 6 at Jazz St. Louis. In this clip, which is from 2014, they're dueting on the Rodgers and Hammerstein standard "Surrey With The Fringe On Top."

Saxophonist Adam Larson is featured in the penultimate clip, an excerpt from a set recorded in June 2017 at Saxquest right here in St. Louis. Larson will be back in town to play "The Music of Sonny Rollins" on Friday, December 7 and Saturday, December 8 at Jazz St. Louis.

Last but certainly not least, it's pianist Robert Glasper, who be will returning with his trio for a week of shows starting Wednesday, December 12 and continuing through Sunday, December 16 at Jazz St. Louis. Today's final video is an excerpt from a performance by Glasper and the trio in 2017 at Jamboree Jazz Club in Barcelona.

You can see the rest of today's videos after the jump...