Articles by Rick Carroll

96 Hours in the Jazziest City on Earth: IAJE Conference in Toronto 2008

by Rick Carroll
March 9, 2008

35th Annual IAJE Conference International Association for Jazz Education Toronto, Canada January 9-12, 2008

The Jazziest City on Earth

In America's attic, a surfeit of jazz filled the bill for four days this January. In three languages and often with no words at all, the gifted young bassist Esperanza Spalding cast a spell in her Royal York Concert Hall debut. Kurt Elling channeled Old Blue Eyes. Quincy Jones wept for two lost ...