* Saxophonist Ben Reece this week released a new recording with his Unity Quartet.
Titled Hard Times, the album (pictured) features 12 original compositions performed by Reece and Rob Nugent on saxophones, Cody Henry on sousaphone and Ron Sikes on drums. It was recorded "live in the studio" at Midtown Sound House in St. Louis, with Dan Merhmann engineering.
Hard Times is available now via Reece's Bandcamp page and the usual outlets for digital music.
* British drummer Moses Boyd offered his in-depth take Miles Davis’ mid-Sixties album Nefertiti on the latest episode of the web series "Classic Album Sundays."
* By way of commemorating the 14th anniversary of the demise of Mississippi Nights, the Post-Dispatch republished Daniel Durchholz's look back at the history of the eclectic riverfront music venue.
* The first development of artists' housing from the St. Louis Art Place Initiative, located in the Gravois Park neighborhood on the south side, is now accepting applications. The program is intended to build "wealth and equity through homeownership for low to moderate-income artists of all disciplines." Find out more at http://stlartplace.org/.
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