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Award-Winning Drummer Tatsuya “Tat” Yoshinaga Performs At Saloon In Davis Square With The Anthony Crescente Quartet
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Tat Yoshinaga
Multi-Instrumentalist and award-winning drummer Tatsuya “Tat” Yoshinaga will be performing at Saloon in Davis Square featuring the Anthony Crescente Quartet. They will perform on December 31, 2018, from 10:00 PM-2:00 AM at the Saloon, 255 Elm St, Somerville, MA. The ensemble features Anthony Crescente on guitar, Tatsuya “Tat" Yoshinaga on drums, Alex Peabody on saxophone, and Shourin Sen on bass. Anthony Crescente is a jazz guitarist, composer, and educator from the Boston area. Graduating from UMass Boston in 2015, and ...
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A fine ambassador for the Great American Songbook - and more
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
To many fans, Danny Sinoff is a crooner for the new millennium. But to savvy jazz listeners, his piano chops are just fascinating. Maybe more so. He underscored his talent on both fronts on Friday, December 21, in a matinee concert for the South County Jazz Club in Venice FL with his regular trio-mates, bassist Scott Smith and drummer Patrica Dean. The program included a wide array of Broadway and movie soundtrack material. Five of the standards were written by ...
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In the holiday spirit, jazz style.
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
Guitarist Nate Najar’s Jazz Holiday has become a seasonal tradition in Southwest Florida. He started the concert in St. Petersburg, where the 13thannual edition was held last night at The Palladium Theater's Hough Hall. Ex-Ellington bassist John Lamb, drummer Mark Feinman and trumpet marvel James Suggs are regulars in this event, with Nate drawing on an array of visiting talent to expand the group. This year's special guests were tenor saxophonist/clarinetist/flutist and singer Adrian Cunningham, an Aussie jazz musician now ...
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Honoring the creativity and spirit of a key jazz era
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
The late 1950s and the 1960s were fertile years in the development of the hard-bop style. That incubation was so dominated by the players of one jazz record label that it has become known as The Blue Note Era because the Blue Note label’s bands and future bandleaders had an indelible impact on modern jazz. Trumpeter Dan Miller and tenor saxophonist Lew Del Gatto celebrated that style and spirit on Monday, December 10, performing with their rock-solid quintet for the ...
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Digging into the boisterous side of the tenor sax
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
Saxophonist Paul Duffy has been influenced mightily by the “Texas tenor" style of saxophone- the brawny, honking, at-times boisterous R&B-tinged sound made famous by Illinois Jacquet, Arnett Cobb, Buddy Tate, David “Fathead" Newman and King Curtis. That's quite a stretch for a versatile musician who grew up- and developed his passion for jazz- in Dublin, Ireland. That sound was on fine display on Friday, December 7, in the South County Jazz Club's matinee concert series in Venice FL. Duffy's quartet ...
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The Grand Union Orchestra at Shoreditch Town Hall on December 9th at 8pm
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All About Jazz
Uncharted Crossings- The Backstory of the Windrush Generation Uncharted Crossings may well be Grand Union Orchestra’s most powerful and politically committed show in its thirty-year history. The music traces the contribution to British culture of the people who came to these shores from the Caribbean from the late forties onwards. In many ways, theirs was just a chapter in a story that had begun five centuries earlier on the slave ships that crossed the Atlantic carrying human cargo to the ...
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Keyboard artistry on parade
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
You'd have to look far and wide to find anyone matching Bobby van Deusen's talents at the piano. He's a master of a wide range of jazz styles, possesses fine classical chops and astonishing technique. All of that- and then some- was on display Friday, November 23 at the South County Jazz Club's matinee season concert opener in Venice FL. Pensacola-based van Deusen, a former member of the Barbary Coast Dixieland Band who also paid his dues backing trumpeter Al ...
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Mangia e Jazz at Chris' Jazz Cafe in Philadelphia
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All About Jazz
November is a celebration of Italian American jazz artists at Chris’ Jazz Café and their favorite dishes that reflect their heritage. “All month long we’re showcasing musicians with Italian roots,” said Chef/Owner Mark DeNinno. “We thought it would be fun to tie in their favorite dishes, so guests can actually eat what the artists enjoy.” The lineup launches this Saturday, November 3rd and the Italian menu items will only be available on the evening of the performances noted below: November ...
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