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Johnny Dankworth: What the Dickens!
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
One of Britain's finest jazz musicians, arrangers and composers was Johnny Dankworth. The alto saxophonist and big band leader was best known here as the husband of singer Cleo Laine. The pair married in 1958 and made the rounds of variety shows for years. But Dankworth was a giant in his own right and one of the U.K.'s most inventive arranger-composers. His recording career began in 1944 and by the late 1940s he was recording bebop. Once the 12-inch LP ...
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Documentary: Johnny Dankworth
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Jazz in Britain has a glorious and robust past. From the 1920 and '30s up until World War II in 1939, jazz in the U.K. was largely sweet and hotel in dance-band style. Bands were formal and highly accomplished. Remember, Cherokee was by Ray Noble, the English bandleader, composer and arranger who recorded it first in 1938. He also wrote The Touch of Your Lips, I Hadn't Anyone Till You and The Very Thought of You among many other songs. ...
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Jazz Guitar Master John Abercrombie Performs at Johnny D'S Uptown Club in Somerville on Friday, April 15
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MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
Master guitarist John Abercrombie is performing at Johnny D's Uptown club in Davis Square, Somerville, on Friday, April 15, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. Tickets are $22-$25 and can be ordered online. Dinner/concert tickets are also available. Born in New York and raised in Connecticut, Ambercrombie attended the Berklee College of Music and began playing in local Boston clubs like the Jazz Workshop and Paul's Mall, two clubs started by jazz impresario Fred Taylor. After graduating from Berklee he became a ...
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Riverwalk Jazz Salutes Clarinet Pioneer Johnny Dodds This Week
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Don Mopsick
Riverwalk Jazz this week pays tribute to first-generation jazzman and clarinet pioneer Johnny Dodds. Present-day New Orleans-based clarinet star Evan Christopher joins the Jim Cullum Jazz Band to perform Dodds classics like “Dippermouth Blues," “Melancholy Blues" and “Wild Man Blues." The program is distrubuted in the US by Public Radio International and XM/Sirius and can be streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website here. Johnny Dodds settled in Chicago but never strayed from his New Orleans roots. Dodds' clarinet sound, ...
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Eric Hofbauer to Celebrate New CD at Johnny D'S September 15th
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Improvised Communications
On Wednesday, September 15th, guitarist/composer Eric Hofbauer will celebrate his latest recording, American Fear (Creative Nation Music), with a hometown CD release concert at Johnny D's in Somerville, Massachusetts. The opening set will feature selections from the record, an intimate and inclusive collection of solo guitar performances that musically explore how fear is reflected and manifested in American culture. Hofbauer will then be joined by his working quartet, The Infrared Band, to preview several new original pieces from the group's ...
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Diana Krall Appears in Upcoming Michael Mann/Johnny Depp Picture "Public Enemies"
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All About Jazz
Diana Krall Dazzles With Summer Blockbusters: Cameo In Anticipated New Film Public Enemies,Quiet Nights Tour And Fundraiser With The President From the big screen to the White House, Diana Krall is everywhere this summer. Catch the GRAMMY-winning jazz musician in a cameo in the Michael Mann-directed film Public Enemies, singing “Bye Bye Blackbird", opening nationwide July 1. Krall's rendition of the jazz classic will also appear on the soundtrack for the movie, which stars Johnny Depp, Marion Cotillard and Christian ...
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American Original Johnny Dowd Completes Cruel Words, Set For July 4 Release
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All About Jazz
Guests include the Mekons' Sally Timms & Jon Langford; U.S. summer tour planned; U.K. press raving
Johnny Dowd is an American original, his vision distilled from the raw detritus of primal rock'n'roll, free jazz, swamp blues and greasy funk - all anchored by a voice channeling Johnny Cash through Chet Baker. Cruel Words, his sixth album and second for Bongo Beat Records, follows a trajectory set in motion by the self-released Wrong Side of Memphis in 1998.
At the time ...
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