Oct 12, 2009 | All About Jazz
Roberta Gambarini: Making Listeners Fall 'So In Love'
R.J. DeLuke is an indefatigable jazz fan and arbiter elegantiarum who aspires to ultimate hipness; also an upstate NY freelance writer for various media.
Gerald Clayton isn't like the average young jazz musician. He was immersed in music studies for a long time , while gaining experience playing duo piano concerts with Barron, Benny Green and Mulgrew Miller and also performing as a sideman with the legendary Clark Terry.
Local jazz singer is hitting all the right notes
Denise Thimes photo album looks a little different than yours and mine, but then her voice is also a little different than ours.
Jazz this week: "A Night of Jazz Greats" with Clark Terry; Eastern...
Jazz this week: "A Night of Jazz Greats" with Clark Terry; Eastern Blok; free outdoor concerts; and more Vacation season is winding down, and there are a number of noteworthy jazz and creative music performances over the next few days in St.
Jewish Classics Live Again, Set To Latin Beats
The album Mazel Tov, Mis Amigos dates from a time in the late 1940s through the mid-'60s when Latin music was hugely popular in this country's Jewish community.
'Mazel Tov, Mis Amigos' at Lincoln Center
Tito Puente never had a bar mitzvah, but if he did, the celebration might have looked a little like the scene outside Lincoln Center on August 23, during the grand finale of the center's summer Out of Doors festival .
DVD/VIDEO: STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Previewing "A Night of Jazz Greats"
STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Previewing "A Night of Jazz Greats" SOURCE: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman This week, let's look at video clips featuring some of the musicians who will be in St.
StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Spotlight on Clark Terry
This week's videos feature the great trumpeter and flugelhorn player Clark Terry , a St.
I'm sure I'd feel much worse if I weren't under such heavy sedation. Saturday, July 25, 2009 Lillian Boutte On the music scene for more than 30 years Lillian is a monument to Jazz, Gospel and R&B. She has performed and recorded with a myriad of legendary musicians including Harry 'Sweets' Edison, Dr.
Frank Wess Nonet: Once Is Not Enough
Known affectionately as "Magic" to his professional colleagues, saxophonist/flautist Frank Wess is a living legend in the jazz world.
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Cynthia Holiday :: Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz:: Sunday, July...
"A soulful singer, Cynthia Holiday reaches highs and lows with ease. She swings, teases, moans and seeks to continue the tradition of jazz women who sing the Blues.
CD review: Scotty Barnhart's Say It Plain
Long time ago, back in the days of JazzCharlotte, a British PR agent gushed over the talent of trumpeter Scotty Barnhart and gave me a bootleg cassette tape to bolster her boasts.
StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Remembering Oliver Nelson
The nearly ubiquitous Miles Davis notwithstanding, which jazz musician from the St.
EVENT: Harris-Stowe State University Presents "A Night of Jazz Greats"
Harris-Stowe State University, home of the Don and Heide Wolff Jazz Institute, will host a benefit concert of jazz greats on Saturday, August 29, 2009, at 7 p.m., in the Dr.
KC jazz vocalist Deborah Brown reflects on the influence of her hometown
Deborah Brown is one of the finest jazz vocalists in the business, a singer’s singer with a magnificent voice and mind-boggling technique.Nevertheless, despite being very possibly one of the greatest jazz singers of all time, she is less well-known in the U.S. than in Europe and elsewhere.Perhaps the reason for her missing in action status is ...
Scotty Barnhart Prefers to Say it Plain on New Jazz Release
After 17 years as a featured soloist with the Count Basie Orchestra it was time to make his own statement.
PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Lewis Nash Quintet at Dizzy's Club (NYC) on June 9th thru 14th, 2009
Drummer & Bandleader Lewis Nash will be performing with his Quintet at Dizzy's Club Coca Cola in NYC - June 9th thru 14th 2009.
CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Scotty Barnhart Prefers to "Say It Plain" on New Jazz Release
Scotty Barnhart has released his first solo offering Say It Plain . After 17 years as a featured soloist with the Count Basie Orchestra it was time to make his own statement.
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Culture Project's 'The Cat Who Went To Heaven' Plays at Harlem School of the Arts Theater 5/13 - 6/3
Culture Project , who brought to the stage the successful, seven season run of the children's show Maya the Bee, has announced a special, six-performance run of the acclaimed children's jazz puppet show The Cat Who Went to Heaven at The Harlem School of the Arts Theater .
Following in Bechet's Footsteps
Bob Wilber has been on the jazz scene for ages, once a student of Sidney Bechet .
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