


Louis debut in October of that year at the now defunct Finale Music and Dining. She released her first album, Yours, in 2005, and made her St. Louis to perform next Saturday, May 5 at the Sheldon Concert Hall.īorn in Seattle, Washington, Gazarek studied music at the University of Southern California, winning the Downbeat Student Music Award for Best Collegiate Vocalist in 2003. Today, we're going to look at some video clips featuring singer Sara Gazarek, who's coming to St. Louis jazz artists, and we urge you to support them (or their estates) by purchasing authorized recordings and merchandise and, whenever possible, attending live performances. The purpose of the Audio Archive is to encourage discussion, appreciation and knowledge of St. The StLJN Audio Archive links only to recordings that are out-of-print or that never have been commercially available. You can download a copy of Ofamfa: Children of the Sun here. The tracks are "Sweet Street Song," "Uu-Twee," "After Jeremiah's Wed," "Sounds of Scorpio," "Trane Songs," "Rent Man," "A Little Tom is a Dangerous Thing" and "Echos (O Susanna)." The comple te personnel for the album (pictured) includes Raju Áten (conga, small instruments), Oliver Lake (soprano sax, alto sax, flute, poems, small instruments), Floyd LeFlore (trumpet, small instruments), Ishac Rajab (trumpet), Arzinia Richardson (bass, small instruments), Vincent Terrell (cello), Charles "Bobo" Shaw (drums, small instruments), and Bruce "Ajulé" Rutlin (poet, arrangements, small instruments, drums). Even Arista avoided it when they raided the catalog to re-release “Under the Sun” and “Whisper of Dharma.” Hence, this is another entry in this blog’s catalog of un-loved recordings that still haven’t seen a proper digital release."Īnd indeed, Ofamfa seems never to have made it to CD, which, considering the relatively small quantities of LPs pressed for its original issue, makes it a genuine collector's item as well as a key document of the evolution of BAG. It makes John Coltrane sound like “Get on the Good Foot.” R-A-W. One thing is for sure, there’s a good reason nobody else would release this. I always think to myself, I could just listen to the amp hum from an anonymous location in St.

"Depending on your state of mind, it is either brilliant next-level sound art, or an incomprehensible and bumbling train wreck.
