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Jerry González Is Gone
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
It is sad to hear of the death of Jerry González, the extraordinary bandleader, trumpeter and Latin percussionist. He died of heart failure at 69 after being overcome by smoke in a fire in his home in Madrid, Spain on Monday. He had lived in Madrid since 2000. In the late 1970s, González and his bassist brother Andy established The Fort Apache Band, which quickly became one of the leading groups combining jazz and Latin music. Their album Rumba Para ...
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Jerry Garcia Music Arts Launches Indie Record Label, Celebrates His Birthday
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HypeBot
Jerry Garcia Music Arts LLC, a new mission-based music and arts entertainment services company, is commemorating the August 1st birthday of the late great Grateful Dead founder Jerry Garcia. To celebrate, the company is releasing a remastered live recording of “Ripple” from the acclaimed guitarist’s 1982 solo acoustic performance at the Capitol Theater in Passaic, New Jersey. The free single will be made available to fans via iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, Deezer, iHeartRadio, Napster, MediaNet, VerveLife, Tidal, Gracenote, Shazam, and 7Digital. ...
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Drummer Jerry Granelli Reunites with Guitar Greats Bill Frisell & Robben Ford After 25 Years for Blues-Soaked Repertoire on "Dance Hall"
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DL Media
Back in 1992, veteran drummer-composer Jerry Granelli went to studios in Seattle and San Francisco with an all-star cast, including trombonist Julian Priester, alto sax great Kenny Garrett, bassist Anthony Cox and guitarists Bill Frisell and Robben Ford, to record a set of blues-based tunes that resonated with his youth. The resulting album, A Song I Thought I Heard Buddy Sing, inspired by Michael Ondaatje's haunting novel “Coming Through Slaughter" about the life of the legendary New Orleans cornetist Buddy ...
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Jerry Lewis: (1926-2017)
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Jerry Lewis, whose geeky, high-strung brand of humor starting in the late 1940s made him a national sensation and early TV star while still in his 20s and whose seemingly ad-libbed routines as a befuddled jerk in '60s films influenced several generations of improv comics, died on Aug. 20. He was 91. Personally, I was never a huge fan. His nerdy comedy bits with Dean Martin always seemed grating and juvenile (a generational thing?), and most of his movies with ...
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Jerry Donato and Pete Jolly
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
At the end of April, my dear friend and arranger Bob Freedman sent along the following email about the late pianist Pete Jolly: “A few years ago, I wrote a few arrangements for a CD being recorded by Jerry Donato, a wonderful Phoenix-area reed player. Among the other local players was a pianist named Pete Jolly. Pete was very ill the entire time he was here, but he played typically beautifully throughout the three days of recording, and his spirits ...
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Jerry Coker: Modern Music
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Jerry Coker should have been a household name (and hopefully after this post he will be). A composer, arranger and tenor saxophonist from Indiana, Coker in the 1950s had a beautiful ear and was a gifted musician. But Coker recorded only one album and a few tracks as a leader in 1955. He also recorded as a sideman in small groups led by Mel Lewis and Nat Pierce and a big band led by Rudy Salvini. In the early 1950s, ...
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Young Sounds Of Arizona Announces Free Concert & Master Class With Renowned Tenor Saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi
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Marisa Arellano
Young Sounds of Arizona is pleased to announce that renowned tenor saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi will be joining our ensembles on Monday May 8th at the Kerr Cultural Center in Scottsdale for a free performance that is open to the public. “Jerry Bergonzi is a fantastic saxophonist and truly understands jazz at its core. We are thrilled that he will be working with our students and performing with them as well. This is such a unique opportunity for Young Sounds members”, ...
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Jerry Granelli Holds A One-Week Residency At John Zorn's The Stone On January 3-8, 2017
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
Born in 1940, and now in his late 70s , Drummer / Composer / Professor / Sound Painter Jerry Granelli has enjoyed an incomparable career in music from the inside out... way out! The winner of the last NEA Grant awarded ascended from playing with the great pianist Vince Guaraldi at the height of his popularity while simultaneously exploring Free Jazz on San Francisco's thriving after hours sets in the early `60s to establishing academic arts curriculums to indoctrinate and ...
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New England Conservatory Artist In Residence: Jerry Bergonzi
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Ann Braithwaite
Jerry Bergonzi knows all about the struggles that used to face aspiring jazz musicians. The Boston native withdrew from the liberal arts college he was attending after being continually thrown out of practice rooms “so somebody serious about music” could use the space. The young saxophonist also found that many veterans of the period were not inclined to mentor newcomers. “Back then, if somebody knew, they weren’t going to tell you,” he recalls. “`Learn tunes’ and `listen to records’ was ...
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Jerry Fielding: 'Fielding's Formula'
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
When the 12-inch LP was relatively new in the mid-1950s, jazz labels needed as much content as they could get their hands on to fill production quotas. So they were willing to take chances with artists who had bright ideas and proven track records. After all, even though magnetic tape had dramatically reduced recording overhead, time was still money. An especially fruitful year for these hip small-group and big band recordings was 1956, when many labels dropped the 10-inch album ...
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