Nobody swings harder than Willie Akins. For years, St. Louis audiences have been fortunate enough to have the tenor titan in their own backyard. When touring jazz musicians come into town…they want to hear Willie Akins. Recent years have seen Akins lend his artistry to the bandstands of Greg Osby [...]
Category Archives: Experience
JazzU with Tim Warfield
May 2, 2012 – 12:44 pm
Sponsored by the Arthur & Helen Baer Foundation, Ameren Missouri, and THF Realty
One of Jazz St. Louis’s most recognizable education programs, JazzU, places talented middle and high school musicians in small jazz combos, which meet weekly between September and May. This competitive program selected 55 emerging musicians from a pool of 85 [...]
Jazz St. Louis Gala
March 1, 2012 – 3:25 pm
friday, march 9, 2012
Hilton St. Louis at the Ballpark
featuring the Jazz St. Louis All-Stars and the Funky Butt Brass Band with special guest Greg Osby
honoring Whitaker Foundationwith the Barbara Rose Memorial Award
6:30 p.m.
- cocktails and big board auction | archview ballroom
7:30 p.m.
- dinner, program and live auction | grand ballroom
9:30 p.m.
- after-party celebration
cocktail [...]
Russell Malone & the Cyrus Chestnut Trio
March 1, 2012 – 11:00 am
Sponsored by Cortland Associates Investment Counselors
Two of the most sought after and widely acclaimed musicians of our generation join forces for a show you’ll only see at Jazz at the Bistro!
Russell Malone’s lyrical guitar work has projected him into the mainstream of jazz guitar. Having dazzling technique erupt at will, as well as melodic, mellow ballad [...]
Laurence Hobgood Quartet
February 7, 2012 – 2:42 pm
Pianist Laurence Hobgood has enjoyed a multi-faceted and dynamic career. Since 1995, Hobgood has been the musical director for Kurt Elling, playing on, composing/arranging for, and co-producing all of Elling’s albums (6 for Blue Note and 3 for Concord), all of which were GRAMMY-nominated. 2009’s Dedicated To You: Kurt Elling Sings [...]
Jazz Under The Stars
January 3, 2012 – 1:46 pm
The Young Friends of Jazz St. Louis and Young Friends of the Saint Louis Science Center are teaming up once again to host the 2nd annual Jazz Under the Stars on January 26, 2012 from 6 – 9 pm. This “see-and-be-seen” event will be held in the James S. McDonnell Planetarium at [...]
Frank Vignola with Vinny Raniolo
December 6, 2011 – 4:31 pm
Frank Vignola is one of the most extraordinary guitarists performing before the public today. His stunning virtuosity has made him the guitarist of choice for many of the world’s top musicians, including Ringo Starr, Madonna, Donald Fagen, Wynton Marsalis, Tommy Emmanuel, Mark O Connor, the Boston Pops, the New York Pops, and guitar legend Les [...]
Dave Venn Trio
December 6, 2011 – 4:23 pm
Pianist Dave Venn is a hometown legend. A St. Louis native, Venn began his professional music career as a tenor saxophonist, performing with the Jazz Central group and various other local bands. In the 1960s the St. Louis jazz scene was flourishing in places like Gaslight Square, The [...]
Rick Haydon Trio
December 6, 2011 – 4:20 pm
Guitarist and educator Rick Haydon is widely respected as an authority on 7-string guitar. A student of Johnny Smith, Howard Roberts, Pat Martino, & most recently Bucky Pizzarelli, Haydon was recently named Director of Jazz Studies at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. In addition to the SIUE program, which he helped [...]