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John Pizzarelli Live Webcast Interview: December 3 at 4:30PM EST
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Sortiesjazznights.com PR
Correspondence: About Freddie Schreiber
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Cindy (Schreiber) Scontriano writes from California:
I just heard your NPR interview about Vince Guaraldi. I really enjoyed it and then I had a flash from the past and wanted to ask you a few questions. I think I met Vince as a little girl. My uncle played the stand-up bass in Cal Tjader's band in the sixties and seventies. His name was Freddie Schreiber, from Seattle. I have his most famous LP, Saturday/Sunday Night at the Blackhawk. Did you ...Continue Reading
British Woodwind Multi-Instrumentalist/Composer Tim Garland Interviewed at AAJ
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All About Jazz
Composer, arranger and multi-reed virtuoso Tim Garland is a treasure the nation of the UK has yet to fully recognize. Having recorded a dozen albums in his own name, and arranged for and played in the groups of Chick Corea and Bill Bruford, Garland's pedigree as one of the leading jazz saxophonist/composers of his generation is unquestionable. In addition, his collaborations with the country's finest musical institutions, including the London Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, set him apart ...
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Under Your Skin Interviews: Carla Bley, Jack DeJohnette, Dave McMurray, Mari Boine, Lydia Lunch and Baaba Maal
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Michael Ricci
Under Your Skin is an exploration on the cultural diversity of music and artists from around the globe - from Popular Music to Jazz, Hip Hop, Reggae, Avantgarde, Experimental, Afrobeat, Drum & Bass, Metal, Electronic, DJ-ing/Turntablism, Folk, Classical and more. Carla Bley Jack DeJohnette Dave McMurray Mari Boine Lydia Lunch
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Josh Rager, in His Own Words
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Jazzblog.ca by Peter Hum
The Gloucester-raised, Montreal-based pianist Josh Rager has previously appeared in the blog on several occasions, proving his way with words as the interviewee here and here, for example, and as the incisive commenter, here. Recently Rager decided that he didn't need my half-baked ideas as points of departure anymore, and he launched his own X...Y...Jazz blog. Rager's not even 10 posts into his blogging career, but he's already defined one niche -- sharing what he knows about playing ...
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Composer/Pianist/Singer Amina Claudine Meyers Inteviewed at AAJ
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All About Jazz
Composer, pianist and singer Amina Claudine Myers is a part of the first generation of the famed Chicago collective the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). Coming north from her native Blackwell, Arkansas, she was an unusual presence in the organization--not just as one of the few female members, but as a singer and songwriter willing to, at times, employ traditional song structures. Outside of the AACM, Myers has played in bands led by Gene Ammons, Dexter Gordon, ...
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Photostory11: Lester Young
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Lester Young was the first jazz musician photographer Herb Snitzer captured with his camera. In fact, the image you see here of Young outside the Five Spot in New York is the first jazz photograph Herb ever took. Writer Nat Hentoff has called this image by Herb “the quintessential Lester Young photograph." This photo and the ones that follow were made in October 1958 by Herb on assignment for Metronome magazine.
All of Herb's photos of Young are at once ...
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Take Eighty-Five
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
If Paul Desmond had lived, he would be 85 years old today. The last birthday he celebrated fell on Thanksgiving, 1976. For the occasion, Devra Hall cooked a turkey dinner for Desmond and her parents, Jim and Jane. She took the photograph that afternoon. Here's the story of the end of that part of the day, told by Devra in Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond.
“It was a very quiet dinner. Paul was not feeling ...Continue Reading
