Jazz News

AllAboutJazz-New York October 2008 Issue Now Available

Source: All About Jazz
September 29, 2008

Jazz is a music almost obsessed with its own history. Sure, rock ‘n’ rollers are sometimes compared to earlier practitioners and classical musicians are required to know voluminous amounts of traditional repertoire, but jazz players usually have to deal with both issues. It is surely intimidating to a young player both to carry on a century-old tradition while competing with the music of their elders.

But jazz has always been filled with outsized personalities, arguably none more so than trumpeter ...

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Collector Shares Mementos and Memories of Jazz Legend

Source: Michael Ricci
September 29, 2008

Jack Bradley was only 15 when he first heard Louis Armstrong on a 78-r.p.m. record in his family’s living room, an ordinary introduction to a man who would end up having a profound influence on Mr. Bradley’s life. “I never heard anything like that before,” said Mr. Bradley, who is now 74 and lives in this seaside town on Cape Cod. Mr. Bradley met Armstrong in the early 1950s, after a mesmerizing performance at the American Legion Hall in nearby ...

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Jazz DVDs Invite You to Watch and Learn

Source: All About Jazz
September 29, 2008

The godfather of jazz on film was not a performer or a producer but a collector and archivist named David Chertok. Decades before YouTube, DVDs, or even videotapes, Chertok (1922-88) offered 16 mm footage of jazz's canonical figures in a long-running series of concert-like shows at the New School and, eventually, all over the world. From clips of Louis Armstrong displaying his radiance in 1930s Hollywood features to Charlie Parker receiving an award from Earl Wilson to Thelonious Monk doing ...

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Legendary Bobby Hutcherson Receives Jazz Fest Lifetime Achievement Award in Sedona, Arizona

Source: All About Jazz
September 29, 2008

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The Jazz is Happening: Nine Acts to Perform at Annual Mesilla Jazz and Wine Festival

Source: All About Jazz
September 29, 2008

The days of jazz and wine and mellow times on the Mesilla Plaza have become a classic autumn tradition for the Mesilla Jazz Happening. Now celebrating its seventh year, the MJH will again offer live jazz and a wine garden showcasing vintages from New Mexico wineries next weekend on the Mesilla Plaza from noon to 9 pm Saturday and noon to 7 pm Sunday. The MJH musical lineup is being coordinated by the Mesilla Valley Jazz and Blues Society and ...

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Jazz Hall Will Have Busy Month

Source: All About Jazz
September 29, 2008

The Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame is celebrating its birthday with two big events. Its one-year anniversary at the historic Union Depot Train Station will be marked Thursday with a Wine N' Jazz Festival, and its huge 20th anniversary with a black-tie gala on October 22. Wine N' Jazz Festival chairs are Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame founder and retired state senator Maxine Horner; Glenda Love, executive director of the Ronald McDonald House; Jazz Hall board Chairman Steve Alter, and ...

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4th Street Studio Barbershop Soon to Offer Intimate Setting Downtown for Comedy and Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
September 29, 2008

By day, Kevin Gilchrest cuts hair in the back of his Fourth Street business. But come October, his barbershop will become an intimate jazz and comedy club at night. The 4th St. Studio Barber Shop Comedy & Jazz Club's first comedy show at 628 West Fourth St. [in Winston-Salem] is scheduled for 10 October, followed by a jazz show on 30 October. Gilchrest, who has 20 years' experience as a barber, has been interested in offering a jazz venue since ...

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San Francisco Jazz Festival Becomes a Global Village

Source: All About Jazz
September 29, 2008

Jazz is as American as baseball. One thing the two share in common, however, is that Americans are no longer the only ones playing the game. The South Koreans won the gold medal in baseball at the 2008 Summer Olympics (the United States finished with the bronze). Likewise, the battle for supremacy in the jazz world is getting hot and heavy. The Americans are still in the lead, but the race is getting tighter all the time. What we are ...

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