StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: The BAG legacy, part 6

Today, it's the sixth and final post of a series spotlighting music made by former members of St. Louis' Black Artists Group. You can see part one of the series, including some basic background information about BAG, here; part two here; part three here; part four here, and part five here.

Today's post pulls together some interviews-on-video related to BAG, starting up above with the first of three parts of "BAG and Beyond: Old and New Friends," which was recorded on September 14, 2008 at George Sams' Metropolitan Gallery here in St. Louis under the auspices of his Nu-Art Series, and features a conversation/group interview with former BAG members and associates.

The group includes Sams and fellow trumpeter Rasul Siddik, saxophonists Oliver Lake and Hamiet Bluiett, drummer Charles "Bobo" Shaw, visual artists Oliver Jackson and Giuseppe Pirone, and poets and writers Michael Castro, Eugene Redmond, Quincy Troupe, and Shirley LeFlore.

After the jump, you can see the second and third parts of that program, followed by another group interview, "Shared Exploration: Music and the Visual Arts," recorded last September at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. The panel for this included Lake, Jackson, multi-instrumentalist and U. City native Marty Ehrlich, and Harry Cooper, the National Gallery's senior curator and head of modern art, and was moderated by poet and critic A.B. Spellman.

That's followed by an extended solo interview with Hamiet Bluiett, recorded in October 2016 at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem and conducted by saxophonist Bruce Williams, one of several musicians who helped continue the World Saxophone Quartet after the death of founding member (and former BAG member) Julius Hemphill.

Last, but not least, it's the (so far as we can tell) latest trailer for "Black Artists' Group of St. Louis: The Documentary," the release status of which seems to be "pending" at this time.

That release date is something StLJN will be looking into soon, but in the meantime, you can see the rest of today's videos after the jump...