StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Fall 2019 jazz preview, part five

This week, it's time for the fifth and final part of StLJN's Fall 2019 preview, featuring videos of noteworthy jazz and creative music performers who will be coming to St. Louis before the end of the year. (This installment was preceded by parts one, two, three, and four.)

Picking up where last week's edition left off, today's first video features keyboardist Marco Benevento, who will be returning to perform on Wednesday, November 13 at the Old Rock House. Benevento, whose most recent recordings have found him exploring more concise, pop-oriented material, can be seen performing a complete set at a gig in November 2018 at Brooklyn Bowl.

After the jump, you can see a video featuring trumpeter Terence Blanchard, who will be playing Wednesday, November 20 through Sunday, November 24 at Jazz St. Louis. The video shows a full set by Blanchard and his band, the E-Collective, recorded in November 2018 at New Morning in Paris.

Next up, it's saxophonist Jeanette Harris and flute player Althea René, who will share a bill on Saturday, November 30 at the Sheldon Concert Hall.

Harris is featured in the second video after the jump, performing "Just Keep Holding On" in 2013 at Spaghettini's in Los Angeles, followed by René playing "Gypsy Soul" at a gig in 2018 in Chicago.

The following week, singer and St. Louis native Alicia Olatuja returns home for a series of shows starting Wednesday, December 4 and continuing through December 8 at Jazz St. Louis. She can be seen singing "Child of The Moon" from her most recent album Intuition: Songs from the Minds of Women, recorded in March of this year in the Studios of TSFJAZZ radio in Paris.

The next weekend, guitarist Fred Frith will return to St. Louis for the first time in nearly 30 years for a concert presented by New Music Circle on Saturday, December 14 at Joe's Cafe. He can be seen in today's penultimate video, which documents a full set of music performed at a gig in April 2019 in Torino, Italy.

The final video of the Fall 2019 jazz preview features drummer Nate Smith and his band Kinfolk, who will make their St. Louis debut starting Wednesday, December 18 and continuing through Sunday, December 22 at Jazz St. Louis. The clip shows them playing a piece called “Rambo” in May 2019 at Dazzle Jazz in Denver, CO.

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