Playlist: June 4, 2009

T. Renner, "Improvisation for Lee Konitz," 2009, acrylic on paper, 6" x 4".

Nat King Cole Trio * * * Gone With the Draft * * * Nat King Cole Vol. 5 * * * LaserLight

Dexter Gordon * * * Broadway * * * Our Man In Paris * * * Blue Note

John Coltrane * * * Alabama * * * Complete Classic Quartet * * * Impulse

Charlie Christian / Thelonious Monk * * * Swing to Bop * * * Debut/Period Original Jazz Classics Sampler * * * Original Jazz Classics

Lee Konitz & Billy Bauer * * * Duet for Saxophone and Guitar * * * Sax of A Kind * * * Quadromania

Lee Konitz * * * Subconscious Lee * * * Sax of a Kind * * * Quadromania

Lee Konitz * * * Confucius Blues * * * Sax of a Kind * * * Quadromania

Lee Konitz * * * Crosscurrent * * * Sax of a Kind * * * Quadromania

Anthony Braxton * * * Background Music * * * Seven Standards, 1987 * * * Magenta

Sun Ra, Akh Tal Ebah, Ronnie Boykins * * * I'll Get By * * * Some Blues But Not the Kind Thats Blue * * * Atavistic Unheard Music Series

Playlist: May 28, 2009

Herbie Nichols Trio * * * Beyond Recall * * * The Bethlehem Years * * * Bethlehem

Abbey Lincoln * * * Do Nothing 'Til You Hear From Me * * * Abbey Lincoln's Affair * * * Blue Note

Steve Lacy Seven * * * Wickets * * * Cliches * * * Hatology

Zoot Sims, Jim Raney, Jim Hall, Steve Swallow & Osie Johnson * * * A Primera Vez * * * Otra Vez

Horace Tapscott Quintet with Arthur Blythe * * * The Dark Tree * * * West Coast Hot * * * Novus

Osie Johnson Quintet with Benny Powell, Frank Wess, Dick Katz & Eddie Jones * * * Johnson's Whacks * * * Jazz Hall of Fame Vol. 1 * * * Showcase

Don Byron * * * Next Love * * * New York Downtown Sounds * * * Knitting Factory Works

Charles Mingus * * * Mood Indigo * * * Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus * * * Impulse

Nicholas Payton * * * The Charleston Hop (The Blue Steps) * * * Into the Blue * * * Nonesuch

Bonus Installment: May 27, 2009

Keshavan Maslak with Charles Moffett * * * Judy Jizzbow * * * Blaster Master * * * Black Saint

Allen Toussaint * * * Day Dream * * * The Bright Mississippi * * * Nonesuch

Bill Dixon * * * The 12th December * * * New Music: Second Wave * * * Savoy

Roy Hargrove Quintet * * * Mr. Clean * * * Earfood * * * Groovin' High

Matching Mole * * * Flora Fidgit / Smoke Signals * * * Little Red Record * * * Columbia

Branford Marsalis Trio with Joe Lovano * * * Sentinel * * * The Dark Keys * * * Columbia

Andrew Hill with Lee Konitz and Ted Curson * * * Spiral * * * Spiral * * * Arista Freedom

Terence Blanchard * * * I'm In the Mood for Love * * * Let's Get Lost * * * Sony

Henry Townsend * * * All My Money's Gone * * * Classic Piano Blues * * * Smithsonian Folkways

Henry Threadgill * * * Sweet Holy Rag * * * Rags, Bush and All * * * Novus

Vassilis Tasbropoulous / Anja Lechner / U.T. Gandhi * * * Tibetan Dance * * * Melos * * * ECM New Series

Oliver Lake * * * France Dance / Whap * * * Passing Thru * * * Passin' Thru

The Dixon-Rhyne Project * * * Carousel * * * Reinvention * * * Owl Studios

Clifford Brown / Max Roach with Sonny Rollins * * * Cherokee * * * Live at the Bee Hive * * * Columbia

Paul Bley / Evan Parker / Barre Phillips * * * You Will Oscar, You Will * * * Time Will Tell * * * ECM

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