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Wednesday Dec 16 | All About Jazz

CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Blossom Dearie's Daffodil Records Partners with amazon.com

Blossom Dearie's Daffodil Records has a very full catalog available Amazon.com's webstore service! Rare products like Blossom's 'Positively" LP featuring Grady Tate and Phil Woods, Blossom's 45" single of 'Winchester In Apple Blossom Time" with Ron Carter, Jack Sheldon and the Hollywood strings are available in very limited quantities You will also ...

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Related Topix: Blossom Dearie, Jazz, Amazon.com, Grady Tate, Ron Carter, Jack Sheldon

Wed Nov 25, 2009

Philly.com

Singer Nellie McKay, sweetness and fight

Nellie McKay has three loves - animals, the Poconos, and Doris Day. She's penned her share of songs with pithy social criticism on subjects such as gay marriage and feminism.

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Related Topix: Easy-Listening, Doris Day, Animal Rights, Activism, Bob Dorough, Jazz

Tue Nov 24, 2009

Connect Savannah

Jody Espina, Georgia Kyle

A relatively recent arrival in Savannah, Espina is a respected saxophone, clarinet and flute player from New York, who - for reasons known only to him - opted out of prestigious recording, touring and teaching gigs to move his mouthpiece-making business to the Creative Coast.

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Related Topix: Savannah, GA, Savannah Metro, Berklee College of Music, Jazz, Spain, World News, The Big Band

Fri Nov 20, 2009

All About Jazz

Steely Dan at Wells Fargo Theater in Denver

Going to a Steely Dan concert is like riding in a luxury car; you know just what you're going to get: a smooth, comfortable ride.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Steely Dan, Theater, Arts, Jazz, Ray Brown, Plas Johnson, Ernie Watts

Thu Nov 05, 2009

Pocono Record

Library Alive lives on at Sherman

Libraries are not dead. They're quite alive if you ask some local jazz musicians.

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Related Topix: Libraries, Theater, Arts, Delaware Water Gap, PA, Jazz, Al Cohn

Mon Nov 02, 2009

The Morning Call

Hear COTA jazz festival replay on WVIA radio

Bob Dorough performed at the COTA Jazz Festival in September. November 2, 2009 If you missed -- or loved -- the 32nd annual COTA Jazz Festival in Delaware Water Gap, you can hear all the music on the radio.

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Related Topix: Bob Dorough, Jazz, Delaware Water Gap, PA, Entertainment

Fri Oct 23, 2009

All About Jazz

EVENT: Cota Festival Orchestra Featuring Sax Legend Phil Woods to Perform on November 12th

Imagine a place where youngsters learn to play jazz at the feet of world-class professionals; a camp where kids have fun with other kids while developing mentoring relationships with nurturing jazz elders.

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Related Topix: Jazz, The Orchestra, Big-Band, Al Cohn, Delaware Water Gap, PA, East Stroudsburg, PA, Stroudsburg, PA

Sun Oct 18, 2009

All About Jazz

Benny Reid: Escaping Shadows

Woody has been a jazz fan for about 30 years, starting with the diverse sounds of Maynard Ferguson's bands of the 1970s.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Maynard Ferguson, Pat Metheny, Sonny Rollins

Sun Sep 13, 2009

MergeDigital

Delaware Water Gap's COTA Fest to be held this weekend

The sour economy is forcing the closure of jazz festivals around the world, from Great Britain to Dingo Creek, Australia.

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Related Topix: Delaware Water Gap, PA, Jazz, Bob Dorough, Dave Liebman, Music, Entertainment

Fri Sep 11, 2009

Pocono Record

Young musicians carry the tune of annual Jazz Fest traditions

Hard to say if Delaware Water Gap missed a chance at being the Branson, Mo., of the East some 60 years ago.

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Related Topix: Delaware Water Gap, PA, Theater, Arts, Bob Dorough, Jazz, David Liebman, Brian Lynch

Tue Sep 01, 2009

All About Jazz

Gary Smulyan: Low Man Aims High

A baritone saxophonist who plays like Bird? And harvests more than a half-dozen Grammy awards in the process? That seeming contradiction characterizes the great successes of Gary Smulyan, one of today's most in-demand jazz performers, educators, and recording artists.

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Related Topix: Charlie Parker, Jazz, Gerry Mulligan, Seaford, NY

Tue Aug 11, 2009

All About Jazz

RADIO/PODCAST: Baby, It's Hep Jazz on Freedom Jazz Dance

Archived shows uploaded at freedomjazzdance.net two days after each live broadcast.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Marty Ehrlich

Fri Aug 07, 2009

All About Jazz

RADIO/PODCAST: Baby, It's Hep Jazz on Freedom Jazz Dance

Archived shows uploaded at freedomjazzdance.net two days after each live broadcast.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Marty Ehrlich

Tue Aug 04, 2009

All About Jazz

The Lanny Morgan Sextet: "6"

Years ago a jazz critic of the Hong Kong press referred to Lanny Morgan as the "old master," and the moniker has stuck ever since.

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Related Topix: Lee Konitz, Jazz, Bud Shank, Maynard Ferguson, The Big Band

Fri Jul 31, 2009

Pocono Record

Camp Jazz kids featured at gazebo concert in Delaware Water Gap

Young musicians from Camp Jazz willl perform Sunday in Delaware Water Gap. July 31, 2009 The Church of the Mountain Gazebo Concert Series presents the young musicians from Camp Jazz in concert at 6 p.m. Sunday.

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Related Topix: Delaware Water Gap, PA, Jazz

Tue Jul 28, 2009

All About Jazz

Vic Juris: Tension and Release

Vic Juris is one of the premier jazz guitarists in the business today. Perhaps less known than some of his peers, he is nevertheless admired by all of them and has accumulated, since his emergence on the scene in the 1970s, an impressive portfolio of live performances and recordings.

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Related Topix: Vic Juris, Jazz, Black Entertainment, Dizzy Gillespie, Jimmy Smith, Michel Legrand, Sarah Vaughan

Sun Jul 26, 2009

Columbus Dispatch

Concert review: Wess 'Warmdaddy' Anderson builds on jazz classics

Those arrangements have likely not been duplicated since Parker performed them for a handful of live recordings soon thereafter.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Columbus Metro

Fri Jul 17, 2009

WCPN-FM Cleveland

European Jazz Stage: Woods and Strings

Celebrating a career that spans five and a half decades, we brought you alto master Phil Woods.

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Related Topix: Jazz, John Surman

Sat Jun 27, 2009

Cumberland Times-News

Don Redman concert today in Harpers Ferry

Harpers Ferry National Historical Park will host the eighth annual Don Redman Heritage Awards and Concert today, featuring jazz drummer Charli Persip and saxophonist Phil Woods.

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Related Topix: US National Parks, Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, Jazz, Boston Conservatory, Entertainment

Thu Jun 25, 2009

Herald-Mail

Wind and Skins

Saxophonist Phil Woods and drummer Charli Persip had met at jazz events, but really got to know each other in 1956 when they went on tour to the Middle East and South America with the Dizzy Gillespie Band.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Black Entertainment, Dizzy Gillespie, Delaware Water Gap, PA, The New School

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