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Perfection: Bird - Almost Like Being in Love (1952)
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In March 1952, producer Norman Granz had Charlie Parker record with a big band for his Clef label. He assembled a stunning collection of New York talent: Jimmy Maxwell, Carl Poole, Al Porcino and Bernie Privin (tp); Bill Harris, Lou McGarity and Bart Varsalona (tb); Charlie Parker, Harry Terrill and Murray Williams (as); Flip Phillips and Hank Ross (ts); Danny Bank (bar); Oscar Peterson (p); Freddie Green (g); Ray Brown (b) and Don Lamond (d), with Joe Lippman conducting his ...
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Rochester International Jazz Fest Club Passes On Sale Friday, October 25 At Early Bird Prices
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Dalmath Associates Inc.
Club Passes for the 2025 Rochester International Jazz Festival 22nd Edition, June 20 to 28, go on sale at the lowest prices this Friday, October 25, at 10 a.m. only at rochesterjazz.com. The Club Pass is the Festival's popular and unique value pass to discovery, giving patrons unlimited access to up to 171 Club Pass shows at 10 Club Pass venues – at significant savings over individual show tickets. This year, the price of a 9-Day Club Pass is $50 ...
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Backgrounder: Bird With Strings: The Masters
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In yesterday's post, I looked at Ken Peplowski's new album, Unheard Bird, featuring arrangements for Charlie “Bird" Parker with strings that were never recorded by the alto saxophonist. The natural followup for today's Backgrounder is the complete Charlie Parker With Strings: The Master Takes. This album gathers together all of the master takes of Bird's string sessions, which are still are remarkably beautiful and sensual. They also became the template that producer Norman Granz would use for his American songbook ...
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Rochester Jazz Fest Club Passes On Sale At Early-bird Prices
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Dalmath Associates Inc.
Club Passes for the 2024 CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival (RIJF) 21st Edition, June 21 to 29, 2024, are on sale now at RochesterJazz.com or by calling (585) 454-2060. The Club Pass is RIJF's unique and popular value pass to discovery, providing unlimited access to 216 Club Pass shows this year – 24 more shows than last year – at 12 Club Pass venues. The Pass offers significant savings over individual Club Pass show entry of $35 for Kilbourn Hall ...
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Backgrounder: Sonny Rollins Plays for Bird, 1957
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Sonny Rollins idolized Charlie Parker, as did all saxophonists in the late 1940s. But for Sonny, Parker was more of a mentor, someone to impress and seek his approval. Sonny achieved that in 1953, when he recorded with Parker and Miles Davis for Prestige. At the time, Parker was under contract to Norman Granz's Norgran label, so he recorded on tenor saxophone instead of alto and was listed as Charlie Chan on the session and recording. Parker would die two ...
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Princeton University Jazz Festival 2023 Features Artemis, Rudresh Mahanthappa And Bird Calls, and Rufus Reid on April 15
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Braithwaite & Katz Communications
Jazz at Princeton University, helmed by acclaimed saxophonist/composer Rudresh Mahanthappa, presents the annual Princeton University Jazz Festival on Saturday, April 15. The festival features Artemis, Jazz at Princeton’s chair Rudresh Mahanthappa and his Bird Calls ensemble, jazz greats playing with Princeton’s exceptional student groups, and the legendary Rufus Reid with the Creative Large Ensemble. Free daytime performances, to be held outdoors on Richardson Lawn in front of Princeton’s Richardson Auditorium, begin at noon. A ticketed event with the Creative Large ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Jay McShann
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Jay McShann's birthday today!
“The Last of the Blue Devils” Jay “Hootie” McShann landed in Kansas City in the 1930s, and along with fellow pianist and bandleader Count Basie, established what came to be known as the Kansas City sound: blues rooted jazz driven by swinging horns laid over a powerful but relaxed rhythmic pulse. James Columbus McShann was born in Muskogee, Okla., on Jan. 12, 1916. He learned to play piano as a young ...
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CGI Rochester International Jazz Fest Club Pass On Sale Now At Early Bird Prices - One Ticket For Unlimited Access To 192 Club Pass Shows
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Dalmath Associates Inc.
Club Passes for the 2023 CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival 20th Edition are on sale now at early bird prices. To buy visit RochesterJazz.com or call (585) 454-2060. The Club Pass is the festival's unique and popular value pass to discovery, providing access to 192 Club Pass shows at 11 Club Pass venues at significant savings over individual show tickets. The three and nine-day passes allow music fans to experience unlimited access to concerts in the Club Pass Series featuring ...
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Bop Masters Pay Tribute to Bird
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In Westerns, they're cool-handed lawmen who get off the noon train to save the town with lightning-fast reflexes and not a flick of apprehension. The equivalent in the Land of Oo-Bla-Dee were these guys, who appeared on the U.K.'s BBC2's TV showcase Jazz 625 in October 1964: trombonist J.J. Johnson, alto saxophonist Sonny Stitt, trumpeter Howard McGhee with Walter Bishop Jr. on piano, Tommy Potter on bass and Kenny Clark. All six artists were major contributors to bop's initial success ...
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Pianist-Composer Armen Donelian Debuts New Trio, With Jay Anderson & Dennis Mackrel, On 'Fresh Start,' Due April 1 From Sunnyside Records
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Pianist-composer Armen Donelian reemerges from the COVID-inspired shutdowns with a newly refined conception on both instrument and pen on Fresh Start, to be released April 1 on Sunnyside Records. The album is the recorded premiere of Donelian’s new trio featuring bassist Jay Anderson and drummer Dennis Mackrel. Sidelined like all musicians by the worldwide pandemic, Donelian was further removed from performing when a shoulder injury left him temporarily unable to play the piano. Ever resourceful, the 71-year-old simply wrote new ...
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