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  • B.B. King
    7:30 p.m. Wednesday February 13. Family Arena, 2002 Arena Parkway, St. Charles.
  • Chris Botti
    8 p.m. Friday January 18 and Saturday January 19. Touhill Performing Arts Center at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, One University Boulevard.
  • Smooth Operators
    Schoolhouse Rock's songwriter celebrates a few special birthdays in St. Louis while we pit Kenny G vs. Trans-Siberian Orchestra in a fight to the holiday death.
  • Preservation Blues

    Local niche labels keep the music coming.

  • Backstoppers Benefit
    7 p.m. Sunday November 4. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

National Features

If Albert Einstein's son had grown up to become a theoretical physicist, he might have faced a situation comparable to that of jazz saxophonist Ravi Coltrane. Like Einstein, Ravi's dad John Coltrane was a world-famous innovator who revolutionized his chosen field and is still an important influence on generations of followers. Such a weighty legacy would prove burdensome to most, but the younger Coltrane has upheld his family standard with grace. Like his dad, he's got an assertive tone and an impressive energy level, tempered by a more reflective side perhaps inspired by his mother (keyboardist and composer Alice Coltrane) and refined by his experiences as part of a generation that grew up listening to funk, soul and hip-hop instead of swing and bebop.

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