StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: More from NPR's "Jazz Night in America"

This week, let's go back into the video archives of NPR's "Jazz Night In America" for a look at six more shows featuring some top jazz talent. (You can see last week's post featuring videos from "Jazz Night..." here.)

This first video up above documents a recent gig by saxophonist Joshua Redman, pianist Brad Mehldau, bassist Christian McBride and drummer Brian Blade, who first recorded together under Redman's leadership 25 years ago. The all-star quartet recently reunited for some live dates, including this one recorded September 7, 2019 at The Falcon in Marlboro, NY, in preparation for a new album, RoundAgain, which was released in July of this year.

After the jump, you can see a set by British saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings and his band Sons of Kemet recorded in March 2019 at a venue called The Mill during the annual Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN. Along with Hutchings, the band includes Theon Cross (tuba), Tom Skinner (drums), and Eddie Hicks (drums).

Next up, it's guitarist and singer Camila Meza, recorded in March 2019 at a private loft in Brooklyn, NY with musicians including Eden Ladin (keyboard, piano), Noam Weisenberg (bass), Keita Ogawa (drums, percussion), Ludovica Burtone (violin), Tomoko Omura (violin), Leonor Falcon (viola), and Brian Sanders (cello).

The fourth video documents 2019's "Monterey Jazz Festival On Tour," an all-star group recorded in March of that year at Jazz at Lincoln Center, with Cécile McLorin Salvant (voice), Bria Skonberg (trumpet, voice), Melissa Aldana (tenor saxophone), Christian Sands (piano, musical director), Yasushi Nakamura (bass), and Jamison Ross (drums, voice)

After that, you can see guitarist Nels Cline in a live big band performance recorded in June 2018 at Union Transfer in Philadelphia, PA. Along with Cline (guitar), the band includes Michael Leonhart (conductor, trumpet, flugelhorn), Ravi Best (trumpet), the leader's twin brother Alex Cline (drums), Jasper Dütz (tenor saxophone),Amir ElSaffar (trumpet), Alan Ferber (trombone),Erik Friedlander (cello),Ben Goldberg (woodwinds), Devin Hoff (bass), Yuka Honda (keyboard), Carla Kihlstedt (violin), Nicholas Millevoi (guitar), St. Louis' own JD Parran (woodwinds), Charles Pillow (woodwinds), Sara Schoenbeck (bassoon), Stacey Shames (harp), and Will Shore (vibraphone).

The final video is from all the way back in 2016, and features composer/arranger Darcy James Argue’s big band Secret Society, performing a program of music titled "Real Enemies."

In addition to Argue as conductor, the ensemble includes Dave Pietro (piccolo, flute, alto flute, bass flute, soprano sax, alto sax), Rob Wilkerson (flute, clarinet, soprano sax, alto sax), Peter Hess (tenor sax, clarinet), Lucas Pino (tenor sax, clarinet), Carl Maraghi (baritone sax), Seneca Black (trumpet, flugelhorn), Jonathan Powell (trumpet, flugelhorn), Jason Palmer (trumpet, flugelhorn), Nadje Noordhuis (trumpet, flugelhorn), Ingrid Jensen (trumpet, flugelhorn), Darius Christian Jones (trombone), Ryan Keberle (trombone), Mike Fahie (trombone), Jennifer Wharton (bass trombone), Sebastian Noelle (guitar), Adam Birnbaum (keyboards), Matt Clohesy (bass), and Jon Wikan (drum set, cajón, percussion)

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