* Jazz St. Louis is one of 13 local organizations that will share a total of $115,000 in funding from the Arts and Education Council of Greater St. Louis as part of a new program called the Arts and Healing Initiative.
JSL will use their portion of the money for Beat NF, described as "a jazz music motor therapy program for toddlers with special needs," which was developed in conjunction with the Washington University Neurofibromatosis (NF) Center and will be implemented by Jazz St. Louis educational staff and St. Louis Children’s Hospital Therapy Services practitioners.
* Jazz/fusion band Bach to the Future will provide part of the musical entertainment for "Wine and Jazz Under the Stars," a "virtual happy hour" being presented online for the benefit of radio station Classic 107.3 on Saturday, October 24.
The cost is $220 per household, which includes delivery of three bottles of wine from A. Bommarito Wines and appetizers provided by WhiteBox Catering, plus live-streamed entertainment, which also will include music from violinist Anne Akiko Myers, Americana band The Brothers Lazaroff, and more. Proceeds from the event will go to Classic 107.3 (fka Radio Arts Foundation) and its mission to support classical music programming and the arts in the St. Louis region.
* Miles Davis (pictured) is the number one jazz musician of all time, according to the "Jazz 100" poll recently conducted by ABC Jazz radio in Australia.
* If you didn't get the opportunity to see trumpeter Terence Blanchard's opera Champion when it was premiered by Opera Theater of St. Louis back in 2013, now you've got another chance. Presenting organization SFJAZZ will be streaming a video of their 2016 co-production of the work with San Francisco's Opera Parallèle for three days later this month, from Wednesday, October 21 to Saturday, October 24. You can get details and sign up at https://sfjazz.org/.
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