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Ella Fitzgerald Foundation Included Todd Gordon's Story Of Off- And On- Stage Encounters With Ella
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Zzzing Agency
Todd Gordon tells the story... Preface I became a fan of Ella's music shortly after 'discovering' Frank Sinatra. I had been an avid Beatles fan as a young child, and loved music. One evening - I was 11 years old at the time - my mother said, “You've been listening to your music, I want to listen to one of my records" and she played one of the two Sinatra albums she possessed, “Songs for Swingin' Lovers!" The fact that ...
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Interview: Ernie Felice
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
The accordion's post-war popularity in America starts with Ernie Felice in 1946. Though George Shearing had recorded on the instrument in London in '39 followed by Art Van Damme on two sides in '45 and Joe Mooney in mid-'46, it's not until after Ernie's success with the Benny Goodman Sextet in late '46 and early '47 that the instrument began to be taken seriously as a jazz option by record labels. Of course, prior to 1946 there were plenty ...
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Other Places: Yusef Lateef
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
At 92, Yusef Lateef continues to earn universal admiration not only for his artistry as a saxophonist, flutist, oboist and composer, but also for the warmth of his personality and eagerness to share his musical knowledge, which is wide and deep. Thanks to Rifftides reader Harris Meyer for alertingme—and you— to a recent installment of the radio program American Routes. Lateef told host Nick Spitzer about his career, his music and his philosophy. In his early development as a professional, ...
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STLJN Interview: Dan Loomis of the Wee Trio on Recording Live at Jazz at the Bistro
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
As mentioned several times before in this space, The Wee Trio (pictured, top left) are in St. Louis this weekend, performing and recording a live album on Friday and Saturday nights at Jazz at the Bistro. Though scheduling complications over the past week rendered fruitless our attempts to connect via phone with bassist and St. Louis native Dan Loomis, he was kind enough to respond to a few questions about the impending gig/recording session via email: StLJN: Your last album ...
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Bill Evans: Molde, Norway
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Just weeks before his death on September 15, 1980, pianist Bill Evans performed at the Molde Jazz Festival in Norway. Accompanying him in early August were Marc Johnson on bass and Joe LaBarbera on drums. It appears someone generously posted a crystal clear clip of the set a month ago at YouTube—with the trio playing Re: Person I Knew, Days of Wind and Roses and Your Story and Nardis. There's also an after-concert interview. While Evans's is clear and highly ...
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Jeff Sultanof on Robert Farnon, Part 2
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Robert Farnon composed several film scores, of which the best known is the music for Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951). The trombonist, composer and arranger J.J. Johnson told me that a theme from the film, “Lady Barbara” was one of his favorites. Johnson eventually recorded it with Farnon. We hear a bit of the theme in this scene from the motion picture with Gregory Peck and Virginia Mayo. Farnon recorded a long-running series of albums for U.K. Decca, released in the ...
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Interview: Anne-Marie Murray
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Eric Taylor
Q: When did you begin to sing? Was your family musically active? Describe the environment in which you were raised. A: I began to sing in a golden childhood by the ocean in Newfoundland. My parents were singers in the choir and teachers of literature so I heard songs and poetry all the time. My mother's ancestors were the wisest of Waterford and they wrote books and poetry. One of them was made Minister of Education. Sir Thomas was by ...
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Steve Adubato, Jr. Interview With Cephas Bowles
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Carolyn McClair Public Relations
Cephas Bowles, WBGO Jazz 88.3's President and CEO, is among the first guests to appear on Conversations at NJPAC with Steve Adubato, a dynamic, groundbreaking series of programs taped at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark (NJPAC) and produced by the Caucus Educational Corporation (CEC) whose original program, Caucus: New Jersey, celebrates 25 years of broadcast excellence. Bowles segment is set to air Monday, February 4, at 7:00 pm and 11:30 pm and again on Tuesday, February 5, ...
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