Playlist: April 16, 2009

Charles Bell * * * Stage 13 * * * Contemporary Jazz Quartet * * * Columbia

Eugene B. Redmond * * * Angel of Mercy * * * Blood Links and Sacred Places * * * IKEF

Archie Shepp * * * Come Sunday * * * The Cry of My People * * * Impulse

Charles Mingus and John LaPorta * * * Abstractions * * * Jazzical Moods * * * Period

Shirley LeFlore * * * Dream Eaters * * * Keep On: The Influence of the Last Poets * * * Trackstar the DJ Presents

Herbie Nichols * * * Love, Gloom, Cash, Love * * * Bethlehem Years * * * Bethlehem Records

Langston Hughes * * * The Weary Blues * * * Poetry Speaks * * * Sourcebooks MediaFusion

George Crevoshay * * * 7PTPC * * * Music from the Once Festival * * * New World Records

Matthew Herbert Big Band * * * Yessness * * * There's Me and There's You * * * K7!

Philip Jeck, Otomo Yoshihide & Martin Tetreault * * * Untitled #1 * * * An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music * * * Sub Rosa

William S. Burroughs * * * Present Time exercises * * * An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music * * * Sub Rosa [Note: Played simultaneously with the last 2+ minutes of previous track]

Dizzy Gillespie

T. Renner, "Dizzy Gillespie," 2008, linoleum print on paper, 10" x 10".

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Celebrate Jazz with Live music, Art and New Orleans Food
AT THE URBAN ARTS COLLECTIVE, CELEBRATING ART IN THE CITY

St Louis, MO- The Urban Arts Collective presents a collection of work in honor of Jazz Appreciation Month by Tony Renner. Come enjoy great jazz, great art and a touch of New Orleans with us this Sunday, April 19.

The Brunch and Art event is open to the public from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM, Sunday, April 19, 2009 in the Urban Arts Collective space adjacent to the Urban Eats Café, at 3301 Meramec Street, St Louis, Missouri 63118

Renner’s work is delightfully exuberant and vibrant. Check out his tributes to some of the Jazz greats you know and love.

Lovely live jazz piano with Curt Landes, known as Gaptoof to some, will be featured on the /Urban Eats stage. Live music will run from 12:00 to 2:00 PM.

In conjunction with the Art show, Urban Eats Café will offer a specially priced menu items: we'll be tipping our hats to New Orleans with some Red Beans, Rice and Cornbread and Bread Pudding with Meringue & Chocolate Sauce, ala Emeril Lagasse.

Top it off with a Glamour Girl Cocktail (Apricot Brandy, Sauvignon Blanc, and Pomegranate-Cran Juice) and you' be floating in the Big Easy, right here in St Louis. It’s first come, first served, no reservations are required.

The Urban Arts Collective Project is an ongoing partnership with rotating artists who display their work in the Urban Arts Collective space, adjacent to the Urban Eats Café. The goal is to create awareness for both the artists, the development of the Urban Eats Café as a community reinvention project and the historic Dutchtown South City neighborhood.

More information and directions to the Urban Arts Collective can be found at http://www.urbaneatscafe.com.

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Playlist: April 9, 2009

Matthew Herbert Big Band -- Rich Man's Prayer -- There's Me & There's You -- K7!

Paul Serrano Quintet -- Dream of Igor -- Blues Holiday -- Riverside

Charles Ives (The Lydian String Quartet) -- Quartet No. 2 (2nd Movement: Arguments) -- The String Quartets -- Centaur

Israel Citkowitz (James Joyce, verse) -- Five Songs from "Chamber Music" -- But Yesterday Is Not Today" -- New World Records

Lionel Loueke -- Naima -- Karibu -- Blue Note

Ted Curson -- Searchin' for the Blues -- Flip Top -- Arista Freedom

Eugene B. Redmond -- Invasion of the Noise -- Blood Links & Sacred Places -- IKEF

Hampton Hawes -- Now's The Time -- A Little Copenhagen Night Music -- Arista Freedom

Shirley LeFlore -- Wasabi Dream Eaters -- The Influence of the Last Poets -- Trackstar the DJ Presents

Frank Lowe -- Mysterioso -- Fresh -- Arista Freedom

John Cage (LaSalle Quartet) -- String Quartet in Four Parts (Movement 2: Slowly Rocking -- Lutostawski - Penderecki - Cage - Mayuzumi String Quartets -- Deustch Grammophone

Arnold Schoenberg (New Viena String Quartet & Evelyn Lear, soprano) -- String Quartet No. 2, Op. 10 (Movement 3: Litanei (Langsam)) -- The Complete String Quartets -- Philips

[Note: today's episode aired from 8:30 to 10:00 a.m.]

Playlist: April 2, 2009

Dave Brubeck and Eugene Wright * * * Fatha * * * Time In Outer Space * * * Columbia-Legacy

Anthony Braxton Ensemble * * * Composition No. 142 * * * (Victoriaville) 1988 * * * Victo

Dave Brubeck Quartet * * * It's A Raggy Waltz (live) * * * Time Further Out * * * Columbia-Legacy

Cow Cow Davenport * * * Atlanta Blues * * * Mama Don't Allow No Easy Riders Here * * * Yazoo

Charles Mingus * * * Alice's Wonderland * * * Wonderland * * * Solid State

Gordon Mumma * * * Meanwhile, A Twopiece * * * Music from the Once Festival 1961-1966 * * * New World

Dave Holland Quintet * * * Gridlock (Opus 8) * * * Seeds of Time * * * ECM

Dave Brubeck Quartet * * * Unisphere * * * Time Changes * * * Columbia-Legacy

Celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month

T. Renner, "Portrait of Dave Brubeck," 2008, acrylic on paper, 10.5" x 13.5".

April is Jazz Appreciation Month, and to celebrate I will be displaying a bunch of my jazz orientated pieces at Urban Eats Cafe, 3301 Meramec Avenue, in the Dutchtown neighborhood of St Louis.

On Sunday, April 19, you can join me for brunch at Urban Eats from 10:00 a.m. 'til 2:00 p.m. Not sure exactly what the special menu items will be but think New Orleans....

I will also have work on display at Urban Eats in May and June, with accompanying Sunday brunches. Stay tuned for further details.

By the way, this portrait of Dave Brubeck was my first attempt at a portrait. I used the cover of the January 2008 issue of DownBeat magazine as my model. Click on the thumbnail to see a full-size version!

Playlist: March 26, 2009

Shugo Tokumaru * * * La La Radio * * * Exit * * * Almost Gold

Skip James * * * Hardtime Killing Floor Blues * * * Hardtime Killing Floor Blues * * * Biograph

John Coltrane * * * The Last Blues * * * The Classic Quartet -- Complete Impulse Studio Recordings * * * Impulse

Wise In Time * * * Nine * * * 20 Ways to Walk Through Walls * * * Crammed Discs

Animal Collective * * * Summertime Clothes * * * Merriweather Post Pavilion * * * Domino

Andrew Hill * * * Dedication * * * Point of Departure * * * Blue Note

Ted Gioia Trio * * * All The Things You Are * * * The End of the Open Road * * * Quartet Records

Erik Satie (Roman Schwaller, tenor sax, Woody Schabata, vibes) * * * Vexations 1801 * * * Vienna Art Orchestra: the Minimalism of Erik Satie * * * Hatology

Charley Patton * * * Prayer of Death (Part 1) * * * King of the Delta Blues * * * Yazoo

Anthony Braxton and Dave Holland * * * You Stepped Out of A Dream * * * Five Pieces 1975 * * * Arista

Ornette Coleman and Charlie Haden * * * Soap Suds * * * Soap Suds, Soap Suds * * * Verve Harmolodic

Gastr del Sol * * * Eight Corners * * * Mirror Repair * * * Drag City

Nathaniel Bartlett * * * Silhouettes * * * Precipice: Modern Marimba * * * Albany

(Note: Today's show ran from 9:50 to 10:20 a.m.)

Playlist: March 19, 2009

dot tape dot * * * Slow Birds for Mayo T. * * * Tomavistas * * * Electracities

Oliver Messiaen (Carl-Axel Dominique, piano) * * * Le Traquet rieur * * * The Complete Bird Music for Solo Piano * * * BIS

Cecil Taylor * * * Indent: second layer, part one * * * Indent * * * Arista Freedom

Wolfgang Rihm (Ensemble Recherche) * * * Kolchis (for harp, piano, violin, double-bass * * * Wergo 40 Years * * * Wergo

Charles Ives (William Parker, baritone; Dalton Baldwin, pinao; Ani Kavafian, violin) * * * Sunrise * * * Nine Songs by Charles Ives * * * New World

Anthony Braxton * * * Scene One * * * Composition No. 173 * * * Black Saint

Archie Shepp * * * Epitaph of a Small Winner * * * Black Gypsy * * * Prestige

[Note: today's show ran from 9:00 a.m. to 10:20 a.m.]