Cannonball Adderley News

It's 11 p.m. on a pleasant early May evening at Havana Hideout in downtown LDub and Tom Regis and his boys are hitting a slow, bluesy version of "Mercy Mercy Mercy," the Joe Zawinul tune made famous by Cannonball Adderley.

Taking a page from Cannonball Adderley, who had a remarkable ability to take the complex and make it feel approachable, Christian McBride's new album is as relatable as it is intense, as ebullient as it is substantive.

Jutta Hipp is not a name that means much to most jazz fans. A talented German pianist, she seems to have had a very short enigmatic career, a moment or two of fame and then she was gone.

The Radio Arts Foundation - St. Louis has added more jazz programming to the schedule of their new classical station, as 'Somethin' Else," a new hour-long weekly broadcast hosted by Calvin Wilson, has joined the lineup at 8:00 p.m. on Saturdays.

The Radio Arts Foundation - St. Louis has added more jazz programming to the schedule of their new classical station, as "Somethin' Else," a new hour-long weekly broadcast hosted by Calvin Wilson, has joined the lineup at 8:00 p.m. on Saturdays.

If you're a fan of the jazz bebop era of the 1950s and '60s when saxophonists like Cannonball Adderley and Phil Woods were blowing listeners' minds, then Inside Out by The Bill Harris Quintet is right up your alley.