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Second “Louie” Awards Gala: New York, NY, December 4, 2012
Louis Armstrong House Museum 2012 Gala
The Manhattan Penthouse
New York, NY
December 4, 2012
While waiting their turn to play as the Louis Armstrong Centennial Band, trumpeter/vocalist Bria Skonberg, clarinetist Anat Cohen, trombonist Wycliffe Gordon, banjoist James Chirillo, tubaist David Ostwald and drummer Marion Felder enjoyed a great meal before the Second Annual Louis ...
Newport Jazz Festival 2012: A Celebration of Diversity
Tickets are selling briskly for the 2012 Newport Jazz Festival! To everyone’s surprise last year, the festivals ended with a surplus of several hundred thousand dollars, after the Newport Festivals Foundation invested $3 million in both festivals, the Associated Press reported.
What was the impetus for setting up a nonprofit foundation?
In a phone interview prior to last ...
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She’s Not Billie, Not Sarah, Not Ella. It’s Cynthia Holiday
BIRDLAND Showcase
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Dinner from 5:00pm
Showcase 6:00pm-7:00pm
$20.00
Cynthia Holiday always gets asked two questions about her name:
Is Holiday a stage name? “My maiden name is Cynthia Holiday,” and, are you related to Billie Holiday? “I find it flattering and always say, We are ...
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Nicki Parrott: Jazz At Kitano
On the last Wednesday night of the first month in the newly renovated bar musical director Gino Moratti announced a quiet policy intended to focus attention on the subtleties of Nicki Parrott’s Trio.
Moving from the second floor after six successful years to the first floor adjacent to the hotel in the former Park Avenue Rockefeller Townhouse, ...
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Catherine Russell: A Swing-Jazz Singer Emerges
By Daniel Kassell
Catherine Russell
Singers Over Manhattan
The Allen Room, Jazz at Lincoln Center
New York City, NY
March 30, 2012
At the start of singer Catherine Russell's Jazz at Lincoln Center performance, MC Todd Barkan (Dizzy's Jazz Club Manager), roused the crowd with, “Thank you for all you ...
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“What We Do” at the Louis Armstrong House Museum
What do they do at the Louis Armstrong House?
A Who's Who of the Jazz world were introduced to Louis Armstrong singing “That's My Home" in the first moments of a video about “What We Do." At this first Louis Armstrong House Museum Gala on December 6th, 2011 the first “Louie," went to a 92-year-old, jazz cognoscenti ...
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Did Les Lieber Play Jazz at Noon for the Last Time?
Les Lieber and Friends
Jazz at Noon
The Players
New York, NY
June 3, 2011
At age 99,Les Lieber was feted with lots of applause at The Players in New York City's Gramercy Park, because of a May 5, 2011 feature article by Corey Kilgannon in the New York Times, featuring the ...
Lest We Forget: Remembering Myrna Lake at the Lenox Lounge 2006
In his All About Jazz review of Yesterdays (Jazzing Music, 2008), Samuel Chell described singer Myrna Lake's recording as “an exploration of the power of memory itself, a musical narrative yielding the discovery that memory, like the songs that are eventually designated standards, is a moment in the present, an instant distinguished by heightened awareness ...
2011 is Now, "Live Jazz" Thrives at APAP since 2007
By Daniel Kassell
For the fourth consecutive year Jazz Journalist Association members have noted the influx of Jazz presenters showcases highlighted at the Association of Performing Presenters (APAP) in New York's Hilton Hotel and in 2011 concurrently at every conceivable venue in NYC.
APAP's vision is to develop and support professionals who offer “Live" performance such as Talent ...
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Bill Taylor Remembered Thomas "Fats" Waller
By Daniel Kassell
Billy Taylor was a generous man. His enthusiasm relating his memories of seeing Fats and how that influenced his piano style was contagious.
To me “Billy was it! He cut it, man!"
I offer this in tribute to our greatest jazz media personality.
At the International Association of Jazz Educators Convention publicist Arnold Jay Smith
arranged a private ...
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Jazz Story
By Connie Lansberg
Member since: 2010
As a songwriter and vocalist, I love jazz for the experience of being in the center of intense creativity. It is the most potent form of music for keeping the artist and the audience in the 'now”
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