So What: Local News, Notes & Links

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

* Thanks to a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Jazz St. Louis will be offering more live video streams of performances from the Bistro, starting with tonight's 7:30 p.m. set by the Mark Guiliana Quartet.

JSL experimented last season with live-streaming a handful of performances, but with the upgraded gear purchased with funds from the grant, they'll be streaming from three to six more performances this spring, and more than 20 performances during the 2019-20 season. The video streams will be accessible from JSL's Facebook and YouTube pages, as well as on a new live-streaming page on their website.

* Singer Michael Buble's performance last week at the Enterprise Center was reviewed for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch by Dan Durchholz. The Post also published online a gallery of photos from the show.

* The Bosman Twins (pictured) were interviewed on a recent episode of the web series SMilesTV.

* Organizers of the concert series promoting the release of the book St. Louis Sound have posted to Facebook a gallery of photos from last Friday's "Experience Jazz" show at the Grandel Theatre.

* The St. Louis Low Brass Collective was the subject of an HEC-TV feature by reporter Paul Schankman.

* Trumpeter Terence Blanchard's recent local appearances to promote the upcoming premiere of his opera Fire Shut Up In My Bones this season at Opera Theatre of St. Louis were covered by the St. Louis American's Kenya Vaughn and the Post-Dispatch's Sarah Bryan Miller.

Jazz this week: Cory Henry, The Bosman Twins, Doc Severinsen, Fred Wesley, Linda Presgrave, and more

It's a busy week for jazz and creative music in St. Louis, with several headliners of interest passing through the metro area for performances that, alas, may be a bit off the beaten track - unless you know just where to look.

Let's go to the highlights...

Wednesday, 
March 9
The Lindenwood University Jazz Band performs at Jazz at the Bistro, and multi-intrumentalist Chris Smentkowski and friends play at the Tavern of Fine Arts.

Thursday, March 10
Keyboardist Cory Henry of the fast-rising jazz/funk band Snarky Puppy will lead his own group, Revival, in a show at the Old Rock House, while local favorites The Bosman Twins (pictured, top left) return to Jazz at the Bistro for the first evening of a three-night stand continuing through Saturday.

Also on Thursday, trumpeter Sean Jones will be back in eastern Missouri, albeit a bit south of St. Louis proper, to perform with  his band (pianist Orrin Evans, bassist Luques Curtis, and drummer Mark Whitfield Jr.) at the Jefferson College Spring Jazz Showcase.

That same evening, the Jazz at Holmes series at Washington University presents a free concert spotlighting the talents of the university's oldest acapella group, Mosaic Whispers, along with the jazz vocal ensemble Java Jived.

Friday, March 11
The Gaslight Cabaret Festival's spring series continues with singers KT Sullivan and Jeff Harnar presenting the first of two performances of their show "Another Hundred People: A Sondheim Montage" at the Gaslight Theater.

Also on Friday, singer Wendy L. Gordon and and pianist Carolbeth True team up to play at the Tavern of Fine Arts, and the St. Louis Big Band plays for dancers at the Casa Loma Ballroom.

Saturday, March 12
Local trumpet fans can head south again, this time to St. Francois County, to catch former Tonight Show bandleader Doc Severinsen (pictured, center left), still going strong at age 88.

Severinsen will be performing with the Mineral Area College Kicks Band for the Mineral Area College Jazz Festival at the Centene Center in Farmington.

Also on Saturday, California-based pianist Carl Sonny Leyland will be in town to play boogie-woogie, stride, ragtime, and more in a solo show at Yaqui's; singer Eve Seltzer celebrates the release of her first CD with a performance at Tavern of Fine Arts; and Miss Jubilee plays for dancers at Casa Loma Ballroom.

Sunday, March 13
The St. Louis Jazz Club presents the St. Louis Stompers playing traditional jazz and swing in a matinee performance at the Moolah Temple in West County, while the Jim Widner Big Band will play music associated with several famous big bands in a matinee concert at the Touhill Performing Arts Center.

Also on Sunday afternoon, trombonist Fred Wesley, famed as a progenitor of funk for his work with James Brown and George Clinton, will present a master class sponsored by the St. Louis Low Brass Collective. The class will be followed that evening by a concert featuring Wesley (pictured, bottom left) and the StLLBC, with both events taking place at Kirkwood High School's Keating Center.

Monday, March 14
Speaking of master classes, pianist and former St. Louisan Linda Presgrave will be back in town on Monday to lead a jazz master class at the Community Music School of Webster University in the afternoon. Presgrave and her band then will headline the university's annual "Suzy Shepard and Donald O. Davis Scholarships Concert" that evening at Winifred Moore Auditorium.

For more jazz-related events in and around St. Louis, please visit the St. Louis Jazz Notes Calendar, which can be found on the left sidebar of the site or by clicking here. You also can keep up with all the latest news by following St. Louis Jazz Notes on Twitter at http://twitter.com/StLJazzNotes or clicking the "Like" icon on the StLJN Facebook page.

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Fred Wesley to perform Sunday, March 13 with St. Louis Low Brass Collective

Trombonist Fred Wesley, known as a master of funk and jazz for his work with James Brown, George Clinton's groups Parliament and Funkadelic, the Count Basie Orchestra, and many more, is coming to St. Louis to perform with the St. Louis Low Brass Collective.

The concert will take place at 7:00 p.m. Sunday, March 13 at the Keating Center on the campus of Kirkwood High School, 801 West Essex.

Wesley (pictured) also will present a master class at 4:00 p.m. that day at the same location. Both events are free and open to the public, though StLLBC says that a suggested donation of $10 will be "gratefully accepted."

So What: Local News, Notes & Links

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

* Trumpeter Bobby Shew was interviewed by the Alton Telegraph about his upcoming appearance in Alton on Saturday, September 12 in conjunction with the unveiling of the Miles Davis memorial statue.

* You can take a look back at last Saturday's Hermann Wine and Jazz Festival via a short video posted on Facebook this week by the Hermann Advertiser-Courier.

* Also on Facebook, some photos of saxophonist Oliver Lake's big band's performance at last weekend's Charlie Parker Jazz Festival in NYC.

* Saxophonist Greg Osby has a new entry up on his blog, offering some back story and a reappraisal of  his 1998 album Banned in New York, which began as a Mini-Disc field recording and wound up being issued as an "official bootleg" by Blue Note .

* The Jazz at Holmes series of free concerts at Washington University has announced their schedule for Fall 2015, starting with a return appearance from Italian pianist Antonio Figura (pictured) on Thursday, September 10. The series continues most Thursdays until the semester finale on December 10, featuring students from Wash U's jazz performance program. You can see the whole schedule here.

* Pianists Peter Martin and Adam Maness and The 442s will be among the featured performers at the "Soul of Ferguson Community Festival" on Sunday, September 6 on the grounds of Ferguson Heights Church of Christ.

* The St. Louis Low Brass Collective is organizing a fund-raising "trivia night" on Saturday, September 12 at Shrewsbury City Center. For details or to reserve a spot, visit http://www.stllbc.org/trivia.

So What: Local News, Notes & Links

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

* Saxophonist Oliver Lake was interviewed on the Free Improv Pod podcast.

* Guitarist Todd Mosby has posted video of a new solo guitar composition, "Joni's Song," on YouTube and Vimeo.

* The St. Louis Low Brass Collective has turned to Kickstarter to finance the recording of an upcoming album featuring commissioned works by Kim Portnoy, Barbara Harbach, John Cheetham, Matt Harris, and Jim Pugh. As of this writing, they've raised $4,070 toward a goal of $6,000. The deadline for the campaign is Monday, August 31

* Trumpeter Keyon Harrold is one of the featured musicians on Revive Music Presents Supreme Sonacy, Vol. 1, a compilation album released last week on Blue Note. Harrold performs with fellow trumpeter Maurice Brown and saxophonist Jaleel Shaw on a version of Lee Morgan's "The Procrastinator" and a remix/interlude called "Playing Catch Up."

* Washington University graduate Sarah Plovnick has received a 2015-16 Fulbright-mtvU Fellowship to study combinations of jazz and Dominican music and their influence on music education in the Dominican Republic. Plovine is one of five recent U.S. college graduates selected to participate in the joint effort by the U.S. Department of State and mtvU, MTV’s 24-hour college network, which seeks "to explore the power of music to influence culture and engage audiences overseas on topics of global importance."

* The St. Louis Public Library's free public recording studio (pictured) is featured in an article on the website of Pro Sound News. More than 2,000 people have used their library cards to book free time in the SLPL's studio since it opened in May, 2014.

So What: Local News, Notes & Links

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

* The Funky Butt Brass Band (pictured) was profiled by Terry Perkins for the St. Louis Beacon in advance of their gig tonight at Jazz at the Bistro.

* Also in the Beacon, a look at how the re-opening of the Wildey Theatre has affected downtown Edwardsville.

* Over at the Post-Dispatch, Kevin Johnson notes the "official" opening of Troy's Jazz Gallery in an article that otherwise mostly rehashes information already covered months ago here at StLJN and last week in the Beacon.

* Legacy Recordings has announced that they'll re-release original mixes of Miles Davis' albums Round About Midnight, Milestones, and Someday My Prince Will Come on 180-gram vinyl for Record Store Day 2013 on Saturday, April 20.

* The St Louis Low Brass Collective has posted on YouTube some videos from last month's concert featuring trombonist Jim Pugh at Maryville University. You can see Pugh and an ensemble of local trombonists playing "Cogent Caprice" here, and Pugh, the trombonists, and a rhythm section performing "Sea Song" here.

* From publicist Dawn DeBlaze comes word that singer and pianist Alicia Cunningham of vocal duo The Cunninghams currently is battling cancer, and would welcome cards and letters from friends and fans. Alicia and her husband, multi-instrumentalist and St. Louis native Don Cunningham, live in Las Vegas but have performed here several times in the past few years, most recently in September 2012 at the U City Jazz Festival. You can send mail to Don and Alicia Cunningham at 3740 S. Garden Drive, Las Vegas, NV, 89121 or contact them via email at thecunninghamsda @ hotmail.com.

* Lastly, just a reminder that if you haven't voted yet to elect St. Louis' own Clark Terry to Jazz at Lincoln Center's Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame, you've got until March 31 to cast your ballot at http://jalc.org/2013-jazz-hall-of-fame-vote.

So What: Local News, Notes & Links

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

* Singer and former East St. Louisan Phil Perry (pictured) has a new album called Say Yes on Shanachie Records.

* Drummer and St. Louis native Mark Colenburg, now working with acclaimed pianist Robert Glasper's band, is starring in a new promotional video for Vater drumsticks.

* While in town last week to perform at Jazz at the Bistro, singer Kurt Elling was interviewed on KWMU's "Cityscape" program.

* The St Louis Low Brass Collective has posted on Facebook an album of photos from trombonist's Jim Pugh's performance last week here at Maryville University.

* St. Louis' new classical music radio station, founded by a group of former KFUO staffers, supporters and others known as the Radio Arts Foundation, has received FCC approval to begin broadcasting on Monday, April 8. The station will be available via a low-power signal at 107.3 FM; on HD radio at KIHT-HD2 (96.3 FM); and as an online audio stream. The Post-Dispatch's classical music writer Sarah Bryan Miller has more here.

* Also in the Post, pop music writer Kevin Johnson notes the five-year anniversary of music venue The Gramophone.

* At a meeting at The Sheldon on Monday night, the Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis announced the results of last year's Artists Count survey and some new grant programs for individual artists. Starting later this year, RAC will award 10 $20,000 fellowships per year to area artists, hoping to provide "a financial endowment and investment in the careers of the selected artists and in the cultural vibrancy of the region." RAC also will invest another $75,000 into support grants of $500 to $3,000 to fund specific projects and needs of individual artists. Read more in the agency's news release here (.pdf file).

* And speaking of surveys, the Arcade Building downtown at 812 Olive St is being restored as live/work space for artists, and the developer, Dominium, Inc, is working with a group called PLACE (Projects Linking Art, Community & Environment) to conduct a survey of local creative types, which you can take online here.