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Sanborn at his best at Jazz at the Bistro show
by Calvin Wilson stltoday.com 8/17/10 Jazz has always been at the heart of David Sanborn’s sound. But in recent years, the alto saxophonist has downplayed the pop and funk influences that brought him commercial success, focusing instead on a blend of jazz and R&B that recalls …
David Sanborn at Jazz at the Bistro in St. Louis
by Terry Perkins JazzTimes.com 8/20/10 These days, it’s a rarity to catch David Sanborn in concert at an intimate jazz club. But that’s exactly what happened at Jazz at the Bistro on August 16 and 17th when the 65-year-old alto …
Only thing traditional about this trio is St. Louis gigs
By Daniel Durchholz
SPECIAL TO THE POST-DISPATCH
01/01/2010
As the Bad Plus prepares to return to Jazz at the Bistro next week, drummer David King says the progressive jazz trio is starting to think of the annual January gigs as something of a tradition.
“I think this is our fourth year,” King says from …
The Bad Plus offers jazzy, unpredictable show
By Matthew Fernandes
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
01/07/2010
Blizzard, schmizzard. Bee Gees, Schmee Gees.
As the city outside got pummeled with snow, progressive trio the Bad Plus opened its four-night stint at Jazz at the Bistro Wednesday with a set of modern jazz that was at turns charming and wildly exhilarating.
Lacking the vocalist the group …
Challenging things come in threes for inventive pianist
By Calvin Wilson ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 01/17/2010 If you’re into the same old jazz, Vijay Iyer might not be for you. Not that the pianist avoids jazz and pop standards; his well-regarded trio album last year, “Historicity,” includes one of the most cherished tunes in the Great American …
Branford Marsalis brings imaginative jazz to the Touhill
By Calvin Wilson POST-DISPATCH 02/14/2010 Jazz saxophonist Branford Marsalis isn’t the kind of artist who panders to an audience. When he ventures onto a stage, what you hear is what you get. And Friday evening at the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center, that meant an …
‘Real Kenny G’ rides into town on melody
By Calvin Wilson
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
October 18, 2009
As the Sonny Rollins concert last month demonstrated, jazz still has cultural significance. Indeed, the saxophonist put on an energetic, imaginative show for more than 1,500 fans at the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center.
But the performance, presented by Jazz St. Louis, raised …
Sonny Rollins leads divine jazz set at Touhill
By K. Curtis Lyle For The St. Louis American
Thursday, September 24, 2009
“If General George Armstrong Custer had been listening to Sonny Rollins when he went down at the Little Big Horn he would have died happy.”
That’s what I would have titled the first tune that the legendary saxophone colossus …
Review: Sonny Rollins repeatedly brought Touhill crowd to its feet
By Harper Barnes, Beacon Contributor
St. Louis Beacon
September 21, 2009
More than half a century of jazz history was on vivid display Saturday (Sept 19) as tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins and his superb quintet played almost two hours of hard bop, calypso, blues and ballads for an adoring crowd of …
Jazzman Sonny Rollins is a hit at the Touhill
By Calvin Wilson
POST-DISPATCH
September 21, 2009
Jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins has a reputation for performances of transcendent artistry, and he lived up to it Saturday evening at the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center. Leading a sextet through a program that included jazz standards and original tunes, Rollins kept an audience …
OTSL, SLSO among local groups getting NEA grants
By Sarah Bryan Miller
Post-Dispatch Classical Music, July 7, 2009
Opera Theatre of St. Louis and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra are among the local arts groups which will each receive $50,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts.
The grants are part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and intended …
Gene Dobbs Bradford
St. Louis Business Journal – by Rick Desloge
Friday, May 29, 2009
Gene Dobbs Bradford tripled the budget at Jazz St. Louis since he took over as executive director of the nonprofit a decade ago, growing it to $1.2 million last year.
Bradford is holding his breath for 2009 funding, …
10 great places to get jazzed about great jazz
USA Today, February 15, 2007
Swing your way through Black History Month with jazz. Rooted in African folk music traditions and the American soil, jazz was invented in the USA. Trumpeter/composer Wynton Marsalis shares his picks of top jazz clubs with Kathy Baruffi for USA TODAY. Marsalis is artistic director …