The Sheldon Concert Hall and Metrotix are offering discounted tickets to online buyers for the concert by trumpeter, singer, and U City native Jeremy Davenport(pictured) at 2:00 p.m. this Sunday, June 5 at The Sheldon.
With the discount, remaining tickets for the show are just $25. (Regular prices for the concert were $40 for orchestra level and $35 for the balcony.)
To get the ticket discount, go to the Metrotix site, and when prompted, enter the promo code TRUMPET16.
Salvant (pictured) is considered one of the fastest rising stars in jazz, already earning comparisons to classic singers like Sarah Vaughan, Betty Carter and Carmen McRae, and getting a Grammy nomination in 2014 for her debut album Womanchild.
With the discount, tickets for her show, regularly priced at $45 for orchestra seats or $35 for the balcony, can be purchased for just $25 each.
To take advantage of the offer, use the promotional code CECILE15 when ordering your tickets online at www.metrotix.com/promotions, by phone at 314-534-1111, or in person at any Metrotix outlet or at the Fox Theater box office, 531 N. Grand Blvd.
Led by Gillespie's former bassist John Lee and featuring percussionist Machito, Jr., the namesake and son of Gillespie's famed collaborator, the six-piece group (pictured) performs a variety of material associated with the legendary trumpeter who helped invent bebop and pioneered the combination of jazz and Latin rhythms.
With the discount, tickets for the show, regularly priced at $45 for orchestra seats or $40 for the balcony, can be purchased for just $25 each.
To take advantage of the offer, use the promotional code DIZZY25 when ordering your tickets online at www.metrotix.com/promotions, by phone at 314-534-1111, or in person at any Metrotix outlet or at the Fox Theater box office, 531 N. Grand Blvd.
If you've been holding off on getting tickets to see pianist Marcus Roberts and his trio (pictured) this Saturday at the Sheldon Concert Hall for budgetary reasons, you may be in luck (even if you don't win Wednesday's big Powerball drawing).
That's because The Sheldon and Metrotix today announced a "buy one, get one free" offer on tickets to see Roberts, who's making his first St. Louis appearance in many years. (For more about Marcus Roberts, see this post from a couple of weeks ago.)
Tickets are priced regularly at $40 orchestra, $35 balcony, but with the promotional offer, you'll get two for the price of one. (Student tickets, which are priced at $15, are not included in the promotion.) To access the offer, go online to Metrotix.com and enter the promo code "MARCUS12" (without the quote marks) in the designated field. The offer also is available by phone at 314-534-1111 or 800-293-5949 and in person at the Fox Theatre box office.
(Edited 11/28/12 to correct info about student tickets.)
Tickets for the concert are $45 orchestra, $40 balcony, and the pre-sale begins at 10:00 a.m. this Friday, April 20, one day before the general on-sale date. To purchase tickets then, go to www.metrotix.com/promotions and enter promotional code MP12.
Peyroux's concert is being presented by the Friends of the Sheldon as a benefit for the hall's educational programs, which reach more than 20,000 students each year. Patron tickets still are on sale for $125 and $75 and include preferred seating, a pre-concert wine and dessert reception, and a tax deduction; the $125 tickets also include complimentary parking. To purchase patron tickets, call The Sheldon at 314-533-9900.
Jazz St. Louis is offering two tickets for the price of one for sets by guitarist Russell Malone and pianist Cyrus Chestnut's trio this Wednesday and Thursday at Jazz at the Bistro, and for the shows on Wednesday, April 25 and Thursday, April 26 at the Bistro by saxophonist Tia Fuller's quartet.
Single tickets for Malone and Chestnut are priced at $30, while tickets for Fuller (pictured) are $25.
To get the two-for-one discount, purchase your tickets by calling Jazz St. Louis at 314-289-4030 and using the promo code FCAPR12. The discount applies only to tickets for Wednesday and Thursday for these two shows.
The Fox Theatre is conducting an online promotion to give away free tickets to the concert by Return to Forever IV (pictured) and Zappa Plays Zappa on Thursday, August 25. The winner gets a pair of tickets and also will receive "an autographed Return to Forever set list."
To enter, go here, read the rules and complete the online form, which asks for contact info and the name of your favorite RTF album. The contest ends at 11:59 p.m. on Monday, August 8, and the winner will be chosen at random and notified by email on Tuesday, August 9. (Various other conditions apply, see the rules for details.)
The advertised ticket price is $20 each, but with the discount, ticket buyers get two seats for twenty bucks. The discount is available for both the 8:30 p.m. and 10:15 p.m. sets. To get it, call 314-289-4030 and use coupon code JLG2011.
A California native, Lage was mentored early in his career by vibraphonist Gary Burton, and also is a musical associate of the much-hyped young pianist Taylor Eigsti. Lage's 2009 debut CD Sounding Point was nominated for a Grammy Award, and he's just released the follow-up, Gladwell. With influences including modern jazz, chamber music, newgrass, and various world music traditions, Lage is a bit hard to pin down stylistically, but he's clearly a talented player with potential appeal beyond a hardcore jazz audience. You can hear three sample tracks from Gladwell in the embedded audio player below.
Via a local email list, Jazz St. Louis is offering two tickets for the price of one for a performance of "The Genius of Eddie Jefferson" next week at Jazz at the Bistro. The tribute to the late jazz singer Jefferson (pictured), who is credited as one of the inventors of vocalese, will feature pianist Eric Reed and singers Carla Cook and Allan Harris, and runs next from Wednesday, April 1 through Saturday, April 4 at the Bistro.
Tickets are $30, and the 2-for-the-price-of-1 deal is available ONLY for the performance at 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 2. To get the discount, buy your tickets in advance by calling 314-289-4030 and mentioning promotional code FC0901 when you place your order.
The Sheldon Concert Hall is offering online buyers a $10 discount on tickets for the concert by the Dave Holland Quintet next Saturday, January 24.
Regular ticket prices for the show are $45 and $40, but you can get $10 off by purchasing tickets online. To get the discount, go to www.metrotix.com/promotions and use the promotional code DAVE10.
From the Department of "Because Everyone Likes Free Stuff": STLtoday.com and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch are giving away tickets to see Return to Forever's concert next Tuesday, June 17 at the Fox Theatre in St. Louis. The winner of the promotional giveaway will receive a "VIP Package for 2 to the Return to Forever Show that Includes access to Pre-Show Party, Meet and Greet, and Merchandise!".
You have to have (or be willing to create) an STLtoday.com ID to enter the drawing, which closes at 5:00 p.m. this Friday, June 13. You can see the rules and submit your entry here.
Down Beat magazine is giving away a free trip for two to one weekend of the Montreal Jazz Festival, which takes place from June 26-July 2.
The festival is billed as "the largest in North America" and offers performances at a variety of venues by a diverse roster of musical artists including Return to Forever, Al Green, Hank Jones, McCoy Tyner, Dave Brubeck, Omara Portuondo, Cassandra Wilson, Charlie Haden's Quartet West, Leonard Cohen, Steely Dan, Aretha Franklin, Woody Allen, Saxophone Summit with Joe Lovano, Dave Liebman and Ravi Coltrane, and many more.
The prize package include two round-trip flights from the U.S., for either festival weekend; three pairs of tickets for selected concerts at the festival; two nights luxury hotel accommodation at the Hyatt Regency Montreal, which is right on the festival site; two official festival T-shirts and programs; and two meals in restaurants on the festival site. As with most such contests, you've got divulge some personal info to enter, but assuming you're OK with that, you can submit your entry here.
Ever wish you could play Buddy Rich's drums? Well, the acerbic master percussionist and bandleader may be yelling at his sidemen on that Great Band Bus In The Sky, but Drum Workshop has a new Buddy Rich signature kit coming to market, and they're giving one away free as part of a promotion with Jazz Times magazine.
When I saw Rich play in the mid-1970s, I think he was endorsing and playing Slingerland drums at the time. Cosmetically, this new drum set looks remarkably like the one Rich used at that concert (and the ones I've seen subsequently in various photos), though presumably there have been some advancements in materials and manufacturing since back in the day.
The Jazz Times prize package includes the five–piece DW Buddy Rich Signature Set, a six–piece Armand Zildjian Series cymbal set-up, plus limited edition bag, and a DW hardware and pedal package. As usual with these sorts of things, you've got to give your contact info to enter the drawing, but assuming that's not a problem for you, you can register online here.
If you missed hearing Roy Haynes perform at Jazz at the Bistro last week, you've still got a chance to see him open the new San Francisco branch of the famed Bay Area jazz club Yoshi's - if, that is, you're the lucky winner in a promotional giveaway currently being sponsored by Down Beat magazine.
DB is giving away a trip to the grand opening of Yoshi's second location in San Francisco on November 28th, when the club will feature a double bill of Roy Haynes and the Yoshi's Birds of a Feather Super Band with Gary Burton, Ravi Coltrane, Nicolas Payton, Kenny Garrett, David Kikoski and John Patitucci.
One grand prize winner gets roundtrip airfare for two (via Southwest Airlines), an overnight stay at the Hotel Kabuki, two tickets to the grand opening night, and a signed copy of a A Life In Time--The Roy Haynes Story, a four-disc boxed set. To enter, go here.
A while back, StLJN noted that single tickets for all the series in the Sheldon Concert Hall's 2007-08 season would go on sale this Saturday, August 11. However, the Sheldon also is offering an online presale of single tickets for the upcoming year beginning at 10 a.m. on Thursday, August 9.
To purchase tickets during the presale, go to metrotix.com/promotions and enter the promotion code SHE07.
If you'd like to see Diana Krall in concert, and just can't wait until the singer/pianist's tour with trumpeter Chris Botti comes to St. Louis' Fox Theater on August 29, Verve Records currently has a promotion going that may interest you.
The label is giving away three free trips for two to see Krall perform next month in Las Vegas, and anyone can enter. (A caveat to those concerned with privacy of personal data: As often happens with this sort of thing, you do have to give up your contact information and complete a brief survey to enter the drawing.) You can sign up for a chance to win here.
The Sheldon Concert Hall and Metrotix are offering online buyers first chance to purchase single tickets for the St. Louis debut of singer Madeleine Peyroux at the Sheldon on Sunday, May 20.
Jazz St. Louis is offering two tickets for the price of one for sets by guitarist Russell Malone and pianist Cyrus Chestnut's trio this Wednesday and Thursday at Jazz at the Bistro, and for the shows on Wednesday, April 25 and Thursday, April 26 at the Bistro by saxophonist Tia Fuller's quartet.
The Fox Theatre is conducting an online promotion to give away free tickets to the concert by Return to Forever IV (pictured) and Zappa Plays Zappa on Thursday, August 25. The winner gets a pair of tickets and also will receive "an autographed Return to Forever set list."
Jazz St. Louis is offering a 2-for-1 special on tickets for guitarist Julian Lage (pictured), who's playing this Friday, March 25 at Jazz at the Bistro.
Via a local email list, Jazz St. Louis is offering two tickets for the price of one for a performance of "The Genius of Eddie Jefferson" next week at Jazz at the Bistro. The tribute to the late jazz singer Jefferson (pictured), who is credited as one of the inventors of vocalese, will feature pianist Eric Reed and singers Carla Cook and Allan Harris, and runs next from Wednesday, April 1 through Saturday, April 4 at the Bistro.
If you'd like to see Diana Krall in concert, and just can't wait until the singer/pianist's tour with trumpeter Chris Botti comes to St. Louis' Fox Theater on August 29, Verve Records currently has a promotion going that may interest you.
