Eldar Djangirov, a jazz pianist who will perform at the Salt Lake City International Jazz Festival, is not a college student. A story in Sunday's Utah Living was wrong on that point.
Don't know the difference between bebop, hard bop and neobop? Don't understand what separates funk from fusion?
Don't worry: You don't have to be a jazz die-hard to appreciate the offerings of the 2007 Salt Lake City International Jazz Festival.
Now in its seventh year, the festival's focus is broader than ever. Jazzers still will get their musical fix from performances by legendary sax-man David “Fathead" Newman, Luther Hughes and the Cannonball/Coltrane Project, Grammy-winning vocalist Dianne Reeves and others. But, there will be a large helping of pop crossover music for people who don't know a riff from a tag.
The hot touring band Big Bad Voodoo Daddy is back to celebrate the swinging music - and clothing - of the Big Band Era. Zone Azul adds Brazilian flair to the line-up. Decades of pop standards are celebrated by Great American Songbook. Then, there's singer and musical impersonator Bob Anderson, who appears in the prime time slot of the festival's last night, singing the enduring music of Frank Sinatra and friends.
Festival director Jerry Floor said the “jazz umbrella" is a big one, and the great tunes of Sinatra, Martin, Bennett and the rest fit neatly underneath.
“We've never really done any focus on the Rat Pack," said Floor. “I thought it would be kind of fun to touch on Frank Sinatra and that whole gang... This is not necessarily a jazz purist kind of thing, but it's a very entertaining, fun show."
Anderson was 22 when he first appeared on the Merv Griffin show as a musical impersonator of Sinatra, Dean Martin, Tony Bennett, Sammy Davis Jr., Johnny Mathis, Nat King Cole, Bobby Darin and many others - singers he idolized as a youth. He became a staple of the talk-show circuit during the 1970s and '80s, and a mainstay of the Las Vegas club-show scene.
As a Las Vegas insider, Anderson had plenty of opportunity to observe and get to know the singing stars he impersonated.
Continue...
Don't know the difference between bebop, hard bop and neobop? Don't understand what separates funk from fusion?
Don't worry: You don't have to be a jazz die-hard to appreciate the offerings of the 2007 Salt Lake City International Jazz Festival.
Now in its seventh year, the festival's focus is broader than ever. Jazzers still will get their musical fix from performances by legendary sax-man David “Fathead" Newman, Luther Hughes and the Cannonball/Coltrane Project, Grammy-winning vocalist Dianne Reeves and others. But, there will be a large helping of pop crossover music for people who don't know a riff from a tag.
The hot touring band Big Bad Voodoo Daddy is back to celebrate the swinging music - and clothing - of the Big Band Era. Zone Azul adds Brazilian flair to the line-up. Decades of pop standards are celebrated by Great American Songbook. Then, there's singer and musical impersonator Bob Anderson, who appears in the prime time slot of the festival's last night, singing the enduring music of Frank Sinatra and friends.
Festival director Jerry Floor said the “jazz umbrella" is a big one, and the great tunes of Sinatra, Martin, Bennett and the rest fit neatly underneath.
“We've never really done any focus on the Rat Pack," said Floor. “I thought it would be kind of fun to touch on Frank Sinatra and that whole gang... This is not necessarily a jazz purist kind of thing, but it's a very entertaining, fun show."
Anderson was 22 when he first appeared on the Merv Griffin show as a musical impersonator of Sinatra, Dean Martin, Tony Bennett, Sammy Davis Jr., Johnny Mathis, Nat King Cole, Bobby Darin and many others - singers he idolized as a youth. He became a staple of the talk-show circuit during the 1970s and '80s, and a mainstay of the Las Vegas club-show scene.
As a Las Vegas insider, Anderson had plenty of opportunity to observe and get to know the singing stars he impersonated.
Continue...
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