Here's StLJN's weekly wrap-up of assorted links and short news items of local interest: * St. Louis music venues this week continu...

Tuba and sousaphone player David "Red" Lehr , a mainstay of traditional jazz in St. Louis since the early 1960s, died Tuesday, Jan...

Here's StLJN's weekly wrap-up of assorted links and short news items of local interest: * St. Louis-based luthier Chris Kroenlein...

Here's StLJN's latest wrap-up of assorted links and short news items of local interest: * The new documentary The Black Artists’ ...

Here's StLJN's latest wrap-up of assorted links and short news items of local interest: * With no new relief from the government t...

Here's StLJN's latest wrap-up of assorted links and short news items of local interest: * Guitarist and singer Tommy Halloran was...

Here's StLJN's latest wrap-up of assorted links and short news items of local interest: * Trumpeter Russell Gunn (pictured) has l...

Hugh "Peanuts" Whalum, a pianist, singer, and tenor saxophonist who was part of the St. Louis music scene from the late 1940s in...

Here's StLJN's latest wrap-up of assorted links and short news items of local interest: * Shirley Bradley LeFlore, St. Louis poet ...

Here's StLJN's latest wrap-up of assorted links and short news items of local interest: * Michael Castro, the well-known St. Lou...

Richard Henderson , the well-known St. Louis jazz enthusiast who in 2017 was named a "Jazz Hero" by the Jazz Journalists Associa...

The jazz world and the St. Louis area both suffered a big loss last week with the death of Hamiet Bluiett, one of the greatest baritone sa...

Hamiet Bluiett, a native of Brooklyn, IL who co-founded the World Saxophone Quartet and redefined the capabilities of the baritone sax in...

Trombonist Joseph Patrick "Pat" Arana of the St. Louis Stompers died of cancer last Wednesday, August 22 in St. Charles, MO. Ara...

Pianist and singer Jean Kittrell, who performed traditional jazz, swing and ragtime in St. Louis and around the world from the 1960s into ...

St. Louis jazz pianist Nathan Jatcko, who went missing last week and inspired a search that has received extensive media coverage in the a...

Pianist Jeter Thompson, whose leadership of the groups Quartette Trés Bien and Trio Trés Bien made him a significant figure on the St. Lou...

Funeral services are set for Mark O'Shaughnessy, founder and co-owner of the St. Louis venue BB's Jazz, Blues and Soups . O...

Today, let's take a break from previewing upcoming performances here in St. Louis to look at some videos of the late drummer Charles ...

Charles Wesley "Bobo" Shaw, a St. Louis drummer who helped found the Black Artists Group, co-led the Human Arts Ensemble, and pl...