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