StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: The wide world of livestreams

In recent weeks and months, with no upcoming live shows from touring musicians to preview in this weekly feature, we've instead shared compilations of free-to-view, pandemic-era livestreams from several St. Louis presenters, as well as NPR, Jazz at Lincoln Center, and others.

This week, let's expand the focus a bit for a look at some other freely available livestreams from a variety of locations, starting up above with a set from rising star vibraphonist Joel Ross that was streamed by Roulette Intermedia in New York City on January 30. "She Walks In The Spirit" is billed as "a celebration of Black women" that features Ross with an all-woman ensemble including Gabrielle Garo (flute), Brandee Younger (harp), Nappy Nina (spoken word), Mimi Jones (bass), and Savannah Harris (drums).

After the jump, you can see one of a series of videos produced by NYC's Jazz Gallery. While the club's series of weekly livestream performances are available only to paying customers," they're also releasing a series of videos featuring a combination of dialogue, prerecorded music and short live performances showcasing various combinations of musicians, like this one with saxophonists Tim Berne and Kevin Sun, pianists Gerald Clayton and Sullivan Fortner, and drummer/producer Kassa Overall.

The third video takes us to Philadelphia to showcases a solo performance by pianist Jason Moran on November 23 of last year at the Institute of Contemporary Art as part of "Milford Graves: A Mind-Body Deal," an exhibit celebrating the work of the late percussionist and professor.

THen it's on to Chicago for a set from the Chicago Soul Jazz Collective streamed on on October 1, 2020 from that city's PianoForte Studios. The collective's personnell includes co-leaders John Fournier (saxophones) and Marques Carroll (trumpet), plus Amr Fahmy (keyboards), Andrew Vogt (bass), Venice, Il native Larry Brown, Jr. (guitar), and Keith Brooks II (drums).

Next, it's down to New Orleans, where the New Orleans Jazz Museum has been showcasing the city's performers in live concerts from the museum's outdoor balcony, for a show by singer John Boutte recorded on January 15.

For today's final video, we jump across the Atlantic to London, where that city's famed jazz club Ronnie Scott's has been presenting regular "lockdown sessions" livestreams featuring their house big band, as seen in this perofrmance recorded last Sunday, February 21.

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