RASUL SIDDIK'S Now! Artet at The Luna Lounge
Saturday, September 26th, 2009This is the 2nd of our Jazz and the Visual Art performances for the 2009 season.
Direct from Paris, France, RASUL SIDDIK, Trumpet and KATY ROBERTS, Piano will perform at the Luna Lounge, accompanied by DARRELL MIXON, bass, and GARY SYKES, drums.
Rasul Siddik, a St. Louis native heard Miles Davis for the first time when he was six years old. He knew immediately that he wanted to play the trumpet and that is what he did. And plays extremely well and has built a formidable career as a renowned trumpter. As a young player in the early 1960's living here in St. Louis, Siddik was greatly influenced by Black Artist Group (BAG) musicians Julius Hemphil, Lester Bowie, Baikida Caroll, and John Hicks. Siddik has performed with Joseph Jarman, Muhal Richard Abrams and Henry Threadgill, to name a few. He also toured with Lester Bowie's "Brass Fantasy". Siddik currently lives in Paris, France where he has collaborated with David Murray, and performed and recorded with Archie Shepp, Katy Roberts, and formed a group "The Power Trio, with the bassist James Lewis and the legendary drummer Oliver, Johnson.
Katy Roberts is a pianist. She is a composer. She is an arranger and bandleader, as well. She has a Master of Music degree from the New England Conservatory of Music, and was a professor of music at Berkelee College of music, Boston. She has been living and working in Paris, France since 1990 where she is a professor of Jazz Piano at the Bill Evans Piano Academy. Roberts has performed and toured the US Europe with her own groups, and has played in Jazz festivals here and in Madagascar and Zanzibar, and she has recorded with her Septet, Quintet, and Quartet.
The performance will be Saturday, September 26th, 2009 at the Luna Bar, 13 Maryland Plaza, in the Central West End. The performance is from 8:00 to 11:00 p.m., and the admission charge is $25.00.
The Nu-Art Series is a Not-for-Profit Arts Organization.
