City Of Gabriels

CITY OF GABRIELS

With

Vocalist Mardra Thomas

Members of the Webster Jazz Repertory Ensemble and Special Guests

An all-star line-up pays tribute to our city’s storied jazz tradition,

With a concert celebrating the exhibition St. Louis Jazz, opening tonight in the Sheldon Art Galleries along with a new book

City of Gabriels, by Dennis Owsley

Enjoy the sounds of St. Louis jazz, old and new, with Randy Holmes, Paul DeMarinis, Willie Akins, Carolbeth True, Steve Shekel, Kevin Ward,

Jay Hungerford, and Kevin Gianino

Friday September 29^th

8 pm

3648 Washington Boulevard, Saint Louis, MO 63108

314.533.9900

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Mardra & Reggie Thomas Quartet

Friday September 15^th

8:30-Midnight

Cookies Jazz

Mardra Thomas Vocalist

Reggie Thomas Pianist

Nick Jost on Bass

Alfonzo “Fonzie” Jones on Drums

#20 Allen

One Block Over From Lockwood

Webster Groves, MO

314 962-JAZZ

13th Annual Saint Louis Air Fair

Main Stage Performance

Friday September 8^th 2006

Mardra & Reggie

with

5:00-6:30pm

Rick Haydon Quartet

Rick Haydon Quartet Guitarist Rick Haydon is a Professor of Music at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, where he is head of the Guitar Program and manages the recording studio. Rick will be accompanied by Reggie Thomas, piano, Mardra Thomas, vocals, Miles Vandiver, drums and Zeb Briskovich, bass.

7:30-9:30pm

Brett Stamps, SIUE Concert Jazz Band

Brett Stamps, Director of Jazz Studies at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, will be joined by faculty Rick Haydon, Reggie Thomas, Miles Vandiver, Andy Tichenor, special guest artist Mardra Thomas and alumni Steve Wyatt, Hugh Jones and Aaron Girardeau. The concert will feature arrangements and compositions by Brett Stamps as well as some big band classics