StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Winter/spring 2020 jazz preview, part five

Today, it's time for the fifth and final installment of StLJN's winter/spring 2020 jazz preview, featuring videos of noteworthy bands and musicians who will be coming to St. Louis to perform over the next few months. You can see part one here, part two here, part three here, and part four here.

Resuming in chronological order where last week's post left off, the first video features percussionist Claire Rousay and saxophonist Michael Foster, who will perform in a concert presented by New Music Circle on Friday, April 24 at the Urb Arts gallery. You can see them in the video embed up above performing a duo show last April in San Antonio, TX.

Next, it's swing and jump blues band Davina and the Vagabonds, who will be back in town on Saturday, April 25 for their first performance ever at Blue Strawberry. They can be seen in the first video after the jump, which documents a full set of music recorded in February 2018 at Knuckleheads Saloon in Kansas City.

After that, it's pianist Connie Han, who will make her St. Louis debut with shows starting Wednesday, April 29 and continuing through Sunday May 3 at Jazz St. Louis. She is featured in today's third video performing her original composition "Grüvy" from her debut album Crime Zone in September 2018 at the Dirty Dog Jazz Cafe in Grosse Pointe, MI.

That same weekend, multi-instrumentalist Brian Culbertson will return to play on Saturday, May 2 at The Pageant. Video number four is an excerpt from Culbertson's DVD Colors of Love Tour - Live in Las Vegas that shows him performing "Feelin' It/Funkin'".

The following week, singer Paulo Szot will make his St. Louis cabaret debut with performances on Wednesday, May 6 and Thursday, May 7 at Jazz St. Louis, wrapping up their series of co-presentations this season with Cabaret Project of St. Louis. Szot is featured in today's fifth video, singing "This Nearly Was Mine" from the musical South Pacific in May 2018 at at Feinstein's/54 Below in New York City.

Video number six features singer Nicole Henry, who will be performing on Wednesday, May 13 through Sunday, May 17 at Jazz St. Louis, and shows her singing "Teach Me Tonight" in Bovember 2017 at at the Dirty Dog Jazz Cafe.

The penultimate clip spotlights pianist Orrin Evans of The Bad Plus, who will return with his own trio to perform Wednesday, May 20 through Sunday May 24 at Jazz St. Louis. Since recent footage of Evans' trio seems relatively hard to come by, you can see him here in a clip from September 2013 with bassist Eric Revis and drummer Karriem Riggins perform his original composition "The Answer" at the Jazz Standard in NYC.

The final video features percussionist Poncho Sanchez, a frequent visitor and local favorite here who will return to perform Wednesday, May 27 through Sunday, May 31 at Jazz St. Louis. Sanchez and his band are seen performing the title song from his new album Trane's Delight during a show in September 2019 at Spaghettini in Seal Beach, California.

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