A big band doing free improvisation is a rare occurrence in St. Louis, so it's worth making note of tonight's gig by the fifteen-member Stone-Zelenka-Ota Free Improv Orchestra at the Way Out Club.Jay Zelenka, who also runs Freedonia Music, and Dave Stone organized the show to celebrate a visit this week by Takanori Ota, a graduate of Webster University's music program who now lives back in his native Japan.
A bit late, but below the jump you'll find links to as many blogposts we've run with MP3s -- and the occasional MySpace page and embedded tune -- of each nominated band. Whew. Chime in with any URLs that have tunes in the comments, of course. I think I have everyone. The music showcase blurbs/information is out today in the paper. All 10,000 words of it.
Lifetime Achievement
Bunnygrunt
Trip Daddys
Murder City Players
Bottle Rockets
Kim Massie
It's Mardi Gras this weekend, so be careful, kids. Don't drink and drive.Friday, February 20*Traindodge/Jovian Chorus/Gold Tooth, Firebird*The Parlor Mob, Duck Room*Nato Caliph, Gargoyle*A Bit Shifty, The Wedge*Alvin Jett and Phat Noiz, Beale on Broadway*Big Smith, The Gramophone*Cowboy Mouth, VooDoo Lounge*Adam Lee/The Union Blue/Amanda Kofron/New Madrid, Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center*Jim Brickman, The Sheldon*Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Powell Symphony Hall*Pat Martino Trio, Jazz at the Bistr
At 8:30 p.m. tonight at Open Lot (1310 South 18th Street), Brooklyn's ambient noise sculptors Mountains are performing. Ghost Ice and Raglani (together! just to further prove that they're not the same person) and Dave Stone are also on the bill. Tickets are just $6. I wanted to post an MP3 from Mountains' new disc, Choral, but it's twelve minutes long and 30 MB, so no dice although its label, Thrill Jockey, has the LP streaming here.
Jon Leone
Mountains, hanging out in the
