So What: Local News, Notes & Links

Ulysses Owens, Jr

Here's StLJN's weekly wrap-up of assorted links and short news items of local interest:

* The Kranzberg Arts Foundation this week announced that they'll be taking applications for their 2021-22 artist-in-residency program starting Tuesday, June 15. The program is open to all individual artists - visual arts, writers, filmmakers, etc - as well as musicians. The deadline to apply is August 1; for more information or to submit an application, go to https://www.kranzbergartsfoundation.org/residencies/.

* The Sheldon's Peter Palermo discusses the hall's immediate post-pandemic plans and next season in an interview with the St. Louis American's Danielle Brown..

* Drummer and educator Henry Ettman will be teaching a jazz course online next month via the Washington University Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. "New Sounds, New Artists, New Scenes: Jazz in the 21st Century" will explore "new and evolving artists and groups, changing jazz styles from mainstream to avant-garde, and the impact of external forces such as technology, political/cultural turbulence and the pandemic." The course will meet (online) from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Wednesdays starting July 7, continuing through July 28. To register, go to https://osher.wustl.edu/course-registration-2/ or call (314) 935-4237.

* The connections between Miles Davis' late-period electric music and "punk jazz" are elucidated in a review of the trumpeter's album Dark Magus newly published on the swesite PunkNews.org.

* Asleep at the Wheel's Ray Benson was interviewed by Daniel Durchholz for the Post-Dispatch in advance of the band's gig tonight at the Fox Theatre.

* Pianist Peter Martin's company Open Studio is introducing another weekly webcast, this one starring drummer Ulysses Owens Jr. in "a journey through all things #DRUMS with various guest drummers, musicians, artists, and music industry professionals." The program will air live at 5:00 p.m. Wednesdays on the company's Facebook page, starting next week with drummer Lewis Nash as the featured guest/interviewee.

So What: Local News, Notes & Links

Here's StLJN's latest wrap-up of assorted links and short news items of local interest:

* Trumpeter Jim Manley appeared Wednesday on KTVI-FOX2's morning newscast to promote his show "A Very Manley Christmas," happening this Friday, December 21 and Saturday, December 22 at Jazz St. Louis.

* If you missed pianist Geoff Keezer's concert last week at fellow pianist Peter Martin's Open Studio (or want to watch it again), you can see the whole thing via the archived video live stream on Open Studio's Facebook page.

* Also now available for your viewing and listening enjoyment: a video of the "holiday" half of Route 66 Jazz Orchestra's "Half a Holiday" show last week at The Sheldon.

* Speaking of The Sheldon, they're holding a reception to welcome new executive director Peter Palermo from 4:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, January 10. The event is open to the public, but those wishing to attend are asked to RSVP to sdo@thesheldon.org by Thursday, January 3.

* And also new on YouTube, a "free jazz Christmas album" from Jazz Soup, the experimental student jazz group at Lindenwood University.

* Award alert: Pianist and St. Louis native Lawrence Fields (pictured) is co-composer of several tracks on trumpeter Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah's album The Emancipation Procrastination, which is nominated for a Grammy in the "Contemporary Instrumental Music" category. The Grammy Awards ceremony is set for February 10, 2019 at Staples Center in Los Angeles and will be broadcast in part on CBS.

* Low Key Music in Hazelwood is looking for saxophone, trombone, trumpet, and guitar teachers. For details, call them at 314-764-2222.

* An anecdote about Miles Davis figures prominently in an interview with San Francisco jazz pianist and radio host Dick Conte on last week's episode of Joe Dimino's Kansas City-based "Neon Jazz" program.

So What: Local News, Notes & Links

Here's StLJN's latest wrap-up of assorted links and short news items of local interest:

* The Sheldon Concert Hall and Art Galleries has named Peter Palermo as its new executive director, replacing Paul Reuter, who retires next year. Palermo comes to the Sheldon from the Hettenhausen Center for the Arts at McKendree University in Lebanon, IL.

* Author, poet and Miles Davis biographer Quincy Troupe will speak and sign copies of his new book Miles & Me (pictured) on Sunday, November 4 at Left Bank Books.

* Pianist and St. Louis native Dred Scott's new album Rides Alone was reviewed by LucidCulture.com.

* As part of the BRIC Jazz Festival in NYC, trumpeter Keyon Harrold this week took part in a panel discussion about the evolution of jazz with trumpeter Terence Blanchard, guitarist and singer Camila Meza, and journalist Nate Chinen. Video of the discussion is said to be forthcoming...

* And speaking of panel discussions, on Wednesday, November 7 the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles will host "a special listening experience and discussion of the new box set Miles Davis & John Coltrane—the Final Tour: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 6." The panel will include Coltrane's daughter Miki Coltrane, Miles' son Erin Davis and nephew Vince Wilburn, Jr, and Steve Berkowitz, who produced the box set.

* Radio station WSIE and Trusty Chords Record Shop in Edwardsville are teaming up to put together an endcap display in the store featuring local and regional music played on the station. If you're a musician or indie label with a recent or upcoming release and would like to be considered for inclusion, contact WSIE general manager Jason Church at jaschur@siue.edu.

* Lastly, if you've ever wondered what the various venues in the Grand Center Arts District would look like if they were recorded on video in a time-lapse style, with the resulting footage then set to an EDM soundtrack to make a two-and-a-half minute music video, wonder no more.