Peanuts Whalum Scholarship Fund Benefit July 20

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Diane and Robert Lazaroff

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Peanuts Whalum and his Band

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Anthony and Shantele McCaa

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Robert Simpson, Kimberly Steele

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Gerald and Lawanda Rhodes

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Greg Smith, Ivory Bank

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Hugh “Peanuts” Whalum—the man David Sanborn called a “five-foot-five giant”—has played his saxophone alongside Miles Davis, Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald. He played for this honorary benefit at Brandt’s Cafe, too, and sang, and teamed up for sax-attack duets with his nephew Kirk Whalum. The crowd leaned back, aglow with good jazz and glad their contributions would send St. Louis musicians to college, university or other formal music education. We’re not the City of Gabriel for nothin’.

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