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Jim Ketch

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Jim Ketch - Director of Jazz Studies - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Summit Records Recording Artist - Faculty Jamey Aebersold Summer Jazz Workshops - Artist/Clinician and Consultant Savannah Music Festival's Swing Central Program - Artist/Clinician for Bach Trumpets/Conn-Selmer Corporation - Music Director North Carolina Jazz Repertory Orchestra - President, Jazz Foundation of North Carolina, Inc. - Artistic Director - Carolina Jazz Festival

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Article: Big Band Report

Buddy Rich: In a Zone of His Own

Read "Buddy Rich: In a Zone of His Own" reviewed by Jack Bowers


One of the channels that came with my Dish Network package is Classic Arts Showcase, which is a treasure trove of film clips documenting classical, ballet, folk, pop and other forms of music that one is unlikely to see anywhere else (although some footage is presumably available on YouTube, which more and more seems to encompass ...

Album

A Distant View

Label: Summit Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: Not at This Time; Grace; Long Ago and Far Away; My One and Only Love; Graham's Blues; A Distant View; You Won't Believe Me When I Tell You; Sail Away; Savannah's Swinging; Beatitudes; Dewey's Tune; Strasbourg/St. Denis.

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Article: Big Band Report

Bob Brookmeyer: Jack of All Trades, Master of Valves

Read "Bob Brookmeyer: Jack of All Trades, Master of Valves" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Bob Brookmeyer, a Renaissance man among jazz musicians who died December 15, 2011, four days before his eighty-second birthday, will be remembered as many things: composer, arranger, musician, educator, outspoken arbiter who brooked no nonsense and wasn't shy about letting others know when he believed they were not giving the music he loved the best they ...

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Article: Album Review

Jim Ketch: A Distant View

Read "A Distant View" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello


A Distant View delivers intelligent music performed by highly involved players across a dozen diverse selections ranging from straight-ahead hard bop, calypso, an obligatory standard and a Chuck Mangione-esque soft rock tidbit thrown in for dessert. Incorporating a classic Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers quintet formula, these outstanding players share a common interest here in ...

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Article: Big Band Report

Strike Up the (Unsung) Bands

Read "Strike Up  the (Unsung) Bands" reviewed by Jack Bowers


The big band era is known for producing a number of enormously successful ensembles whose leaders were household names: Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Jimmie Lunceford, Fletcher Henderson, then on through Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, the brothers Jimmy Dorsey and Tommy Dorsey, Charlie Barnet, Artie Shaw, Harry James, Cab Calloway, Lionel Hampton, Dizzy Gillespie and, ...


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