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New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 2011
by Sandy Ingham
Days 1-3 | Days 4-7 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival New Orleans, LA April 27-May 6, 2011 Day 1: April 29, 2011The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival turned 42 this year. I've been to 25, and the thrill of anticipation entering the fairgrounds and crossing to the ...
Omar Sosa: Bringing The World To The World
by AAJ Staff
Pianist/composer Omar Sosa was born in Cuba in the first decade of Fidel Castro's rule over the island, and grew up listening to forbidden American jazz with his music school friends in secret, the radio discretely turned low, though eventually the rules changed and the music was broadcast in Cuba, too. After Cuba and a short ...
Ahmad Jamal: Legendary 1958 Pershing Lounge & Spotlite Club Performances
by AAJ Italy Staff
Districarsi in queste tre ore e mezza abbondanti di musica non è cosa agevole, per il discografo. Le due sessions del titolo (che sono poi quattro, in quanto a performance) risalgono al 16 e 17 gennaio 1958 (al Pershing Lounge di Chicago: tutto il primo CD, ultimo brano escluso) e al 5 e 6 settembre dello ...
Denise Donatelli: Songbird With A Grammy Nomination
by Marcia Hillman
Los Angeles-based vocalist Denise Donatelli won a Grammy nomination with her third CD, When Lights Are Low (Savant Records, 2010). An East Coast native and a recipient of classical piano training, she turned to singing jazz, wound up relocating to the West Coast and has since pursued her performance and recording career. This interview was conducted ...
Abdullah Ibrahim: Perpetual Change
by Ian Patterson
For legendary pianist/composer Abdullah Ibrahim, music is always in a state of evolution. This philosophy is common to nearly all great composers, from [pianist] Duke Ellington to [trumpeter] Miles Davis and from [saxophonist] John Coltrane and [pianist] Ahmad Jamal to [guitarist] Bill Frisell. A piece of music is born, it grows and gradually matures but it ...
Pianist Abdullah Ibrahim Interviewed at All About Jazz
For legendary pianist/composer Abdullah Ibrahim, music is always in a state of evolution. This philosophy is common to nearly all great composers, from [pianist] Duke Ellington to [trumpeter] Miles Davis and from [saxophonist] John Coltrane and [pianist] Ahmad Jamal to [guitarist] Bill Frisell. A piece of music is born, it grows and gradually matures but it ...
Dado Moroni Trio: Dado Moroni Live in Beverly Hills
by Larry Taylor
Italian pianist/composer Dado Moroni is internationally respected for his driving piano style and improvisational skills. Now, in his Resonance debut, he comes up with complex trio arrangements, always swinging and intellectually stimulating. Moroni was born in 1962 and raised in Genoa, Italy, taking to music early, playing the family piano at three. Later, ...
Blue Chunks and Friends: Oceanside, CA, February 26, 2011
by Dan McClenaghan
The Blue Chunks and FriendsAn Evening of Performing and Visual ArtsSunshine Brooks TheaterOceanside, CAFebruary 26, 2011 The Sunshine Brooks Theater hosted a stirred-up gumbo of entertainment, main ingredient jazz, on Saturday, February 26, in the old movie house that sits in the historical heart of the city of ...
