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2020: The Year in Jazz
by Ken Franckling
The COVID-19 pandemic put the jazz world in a tailspin, just like the world at large, in 2020. And there is plenty of uncertainty going into the new year about what “new normal: might emerge from the darkness. International Jazz Day, like so many other things, became an online virtual event this time around. Pianist Keith ...
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Adesh Balraj
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Adesh Balraj- (Trumpet) is currently a member of the FSU Jazz Ensemble at Florida State University where he studies under Scotty Barnhart. Adesh won a Maestro Award for best jazz solo performance at the Orlando Heritage Festival in April 2012, and helped the Dreyfoos School of the Arts Jazz Ensemble 1 (JE)1 take top honors at the festival. He was a key player in the JE1's top prize at the Jazz and Swing Preservation Society of South Florida’s Battle of the Bands in 2012. He was also featured in the top combo of the Juilliard Summer Workshops in West Palm Beach last summer, working under professor and SNL tenor saxophonist Mr
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Gary Farr
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Pianist, composer, producer, arranger and founder of Secret Formula Records and GF Creative Music. In 1999 he recorded and released his first two CD's on SFR label. Lost, the first jazz CD that put him on the map, as a recording artist. Gary and his jazz quintet debuted the LOST CD at Sunfest in Palm Beach Florida on May 1, 1999. The original jazz band started recording "Deep as the Night" in 1995. One of Gary's latest projects as producer and musician is Ron Fattorusso's successful smooth jazz CD "Up All Night" released in 2004. 'Fresh Brew' was released in November 2004 and Movin' Thru LA was released in April 2007
About Randall "Big Daddy" Webster
Instrument: Vocals
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Randall "Big Daddy" Webster
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Randall "Big Daddy" Webster's Bluesography Growing up in Wheaton, Illinois (also home to Jim and John Belushi), he snuck into the Windy City’s most notorious Blues clubs. They soaked in the music of Muddy Waters, Otis Span, Junior Wells, Big Joe Turner, and other Blues legends holding school on stage. Webster would often jump the “L” (elevated train) to Maxwell Street where itinerant Bluesmen plied their trade on the corner. Webster’s first guitar, a Harmony Stratatone, came from Duke’s pawnshop north of the old market. He scavenged record bins for vintage vinyl from his new Blues heroes
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