RADIO/PODCAST: Jazz St. Louis Podcast Features Interview with Sonny Rollins (All About Jazz)

Jazz St. Louis has just put online a new interview in their ongoing series of podcasts, one that featurs a conversation between legendary tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins and JSL executive director Gene Dobbs Bradford. Rollins is coming to St.

JD Allen Trio: Live At The Village Vanguard

The first album recorded live at the Vanguard, and still one of the best, was made by Sonny Rollins’ piano-less trio in 1956. Noisy but soothing, simple but dense, tenor saxophonist J.D. Allen’s trio is primed to confront jazz history’s shadow on its home turf.

PERFORMANCE/TOUR: "Birdland, the Jazz Corner of the World" - - Charlie Parker (All About Jazz)

BIRDLAND JULY SCHEDULE LEW TABACKIN and TOSHIKO AKIYOSHI QUARTET Wednesday-Saturday, July 1-4 @ 8:30 and 11pm Music Charges: $30, general seating; $40, premium seating Lew Tabackin is one of the few jazz musicians who maintains a dual musical personality. As a tenor saxophonist, he is a hard-driving, tough-toned player reminiscent of Sonny Rollins or Don Byas. But as a flutist, he can also sound …

PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Harris-Stowe State University to Present Jazz Concert on August 29 (All About Jazz)

Harris-Stowe State University will present a jazz concert to benefit its Wolff Jazz Institute at 7:00 p.m. Saturday, August 29 in the Dr.

Morris in concert July 7 (New Canaan Advertiser)

The Johnny Morris Jazz All-Stars will perform the second of four programs in the St. Mark’s Episcopal Church Courtyard Concerts series at 8 p.m.