John Stevens News

Buffalonians must have been very nice, not naughty, this year. Because we have the best Holiday Pops show this weekend in Kleinhans Music Hall.

December 15, 2009, 6:52 AM / The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra's Holiday Pops is the sequined stuff of which memories are made.

One night in the early '70s, saxophonist Trevor Watts and drummer John Stevens were playing a concert in West Berlin.

O'Connell & Company Productions invites you to Swing into the Holidays with ...HOME FOR CHRISTMAS featuring JOHN STEVENS and the Colored Musicians Club's George Scott Big Band George Scott, Director with Muhammad School of Music Chamber Players under the direction of Maestro The Henri L. Muhammad & Mary Kate O'Connell November 27, 28, 29, 2009 ...

In the instances that European and American improvisers have commingled and produced concerts and recordings, especially in the halcyon days of European free improvisation , a significant number of these situations resulted from expatriation.

One imagines that there must be literally thousands of sessions like this, live gigs by groups that only a small handful of people got to enjoy.

Art of Life Records is pleased to present a previously unreleased recording by three legendary British musicians.