Kendrick Smith's Open Jam for Composers, Vocalists and Instrumentalists - Every Wednesday
Start Date/Time:
November 27, 2024 at
9:30 PM
End Date/Time:
November 28, 2024 at
12:30 AM
Location: Blue Strawberry STL
The Kendrick Smith Trio Comes to Blue Strawberry Wednesday Late Nights!
From 9:30pm to 12:30am on Wednesdays, Kendrick Smith hosts Wednesday Late Night at Blue Strawberry. The Kendrick Smith Trio kicks the evening off. Interested composers, players, vocalists and students are invited to stop by every week and join in the music making. “I’m excited to serve as host of Wednesday Late Nights at Blue Strawberry,” says St. Louis’s own jazz standout. “With all the talent we have around town and coming through, there is a lot of music to be made.”
Saxophonist, composer, and educator Kendrick Smith was born and raised in East St. Louis. His love and gift for music was realized as a child during his grade school years, where a whirlwind musical career would begin. Kendrick attended Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville (SIUE) on scholarship, where he began studying Jazz Performance under soulful pianist and educator Reggie Thomas. Kendrick has played as a solo act, and with his group, the Kendrick Smith Trio, all over the St. Louis Metropolitan Area. His first residency was at the Premier Lounge in St. Louis, where he played a weekly jazz matinee. As indication of his growing notoriety, he was featured and compared to jazz giant Charlie Parker in local newspaper, The St. Louis American, in an entitled, “Baby Bird Stretches Jazz Wings”. Other stages and venues he has graced include The Fat Cat and Smalls, both of New York City, Jazz at the Bistro, Sheldon Concert Hall, and Blueberry Hill, and Thurman’s Bar and Grill.
