Jazz News

Jazz Standard Announces Schedule for October 2009

Source: AMT Public Relations
September 1, 2009

JAZZ STANDARD Swings Into October with Return Visits from Saxophonist Joshua Redman and the 7th Annual Festival of New Trumpet (Font) Music

Best Jazz Club 2008 (New York Magazine)

JAZZ STANDARD, one of the nation's premier jazz clubs, presents another month of great jazz in October.

The annual Festival of New Trumpet Music (FONT) returns to our stage from October 1–4, curated by acclaimed composer/player Dave Douglas. On October 7–8, bassist Joe Martin celebrates his new Anzic Records release, Not ...

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Baritone Saxophonist Gary Smulyan Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
September 1, 2009

A baritone saxophonist who plays like Bird? And harvests more than a half-dozen Grammy awards in the process? That seeming contradiction characterizes the great successes of Gary Smulyan, one of today's most in-demand jazz performers, educators, and recording artists.

AAJ Contributor Edward Bride spoke with Smulyan recently, and the saxophonist provides insight into his unique sound and approach, one less inspired by the great baritonists and more by alto legends like Charlie Parker and Phil Woods.

Check out Gary Smulyan: ...

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Dave Allen Quartet Featuring David Liebman - September at 55 Bar

Source: All About Jazz
September 1, 2009

Dave Allen Quartet performs September 8th at the 55 Bar.

Dave Allen Quartet with Dave Liebman - sax Chris Lightcap - bass Adam Cruz - drums

55 Bar 55 Christopher St 10pm-1am

Allen has found a true voice, his effortless technique downplays the apparent complexity, paradoxically creating a cool surface sheen that has a white heat glowing beneath it...music that seduces both the body and mind--again and again. ...

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Connecting Dots, from Bird to Michael Jackson

Source: Michael Ricci
September 1, 2009

Did you know Charlie Parker and Michael Jackson share a birthday? Thats right: Aug. 29. And so the long wave of this summers Jackson tributes rolled through the annual Charlie Parker Jazz Festival on Saturday.

As always, the festival, organized by the City Parks Foundation, happened in two parts Saturday afternoon at Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem, Sunday afternoon at Tompkins Square Park in the East Village. On Saturday the saxophonist Gary Bartz and his band performed Jacksons song “I ...

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Liza Minnelli at the Hollywood Bowl

Source: Michael Ricci
September 1, 2009

Liza Minnelli played the Hollywood Bowl this weekend, and the incessant gigglers in the audience were clearly nervous about which Minnelli was going to show up.

Would it be the one whose latest Broadway outing, Lizas at the Palace, won a Tony or the erratic Minnelli of Minnelli on Minnelli, the show in honor of her director father, Vincente Minnelli, in which she tried to make another one of her comebacks before she was theatrically fit?

The answer turned out ...

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Chris Connor Dies at 81; Big-Band and Solo Jazz Singer

Source: Michael Ricci
September 1, 2009

She was known for 'All About Ronnie,' which she did as part of the Stan Kenton Orchestra. She became a soloist in the 1950s and had hits with 'Trust in Me' and 'About the Blues.'

After recording hits with the Stan Kenton Orchestra, Chris Connor became a soloist who often worked with small groups. Some of her best-known songs include “Trust in Me" and “About the Blues."

Chris Connor, a smoky-voiced jazz vocalist who gained renown for her recording of ...

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Richard Moore Dies at 83; Cinematographer and CO-Founder of Panavision

Source: Michael Ricci
September 1, 2009

In 1953 he teamed with Robert Gottschalk to start Panavision, which revolutionized film in the 1970s with a hand-held studio camera that could record sight and sound simultaneously.

Moore's Aug. 16 death at his home in Palm Springs was age-related, said his son, Stephen V. Moore.

His cinematography credits include “Winning" in 1969, “Myra Breckinridge" and “Sometimes a Great Notion" in 1970, “The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean" in 1972 and “Annie" in 1982.

Moore shared a 1959 ...

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West Coast Premiere of Uri Caine's "Othello Syndrome" Opens Stanford Lively Arts' 2009-10 Season

Source: All About Jazz
September 1, 2009

Stanford Lively Arts opens its 2009-10 season with the West Coast premiere of Uri Caine's “The Othello Syndrome" on Saturday, October 10 at 8:00 p.m. at Dinkelspiel Auditorium. Following up on his “Mahler Remix;" (presented by Lively Arts in 2008), the iconoclastic composer/jazz pianist returns with a hand-picked ensemble of A-list collaborators for this radical re-imagining of the classic Verdi opera and Shakespeare play.

“The Othello Syndrome" dates from 2003, when Caine was commissioned to write a piece for the ...

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