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Steve Weingart - Live in January 2008

December 27, 2007

Jan 3 2008 8:00Pm Steve Weingart @ The Baked Potato Studio City, California Jan 5 2008 8:00PM Weingart, Mendoza, Heredia @ La Ve Lee Studio City, California Jan 8 2008 8:00PM Weingart, Mendoza, Heredia @ La Ve Lee Studio City, California Jan 12 2008 8:00PM Steve Weingart @ ...

Thursday, December 27: Dominic Duval Trio: Dominic Duval, Yayoi Ikawa, Brian Willson

December 26, 2007

New CD from Drummer Warren Benbow

December 26, 2007

Twenty-Second Great Connecticut Traditional Jazz Festival in July 2008

December 26, 2007

The Great Connecticut Traditional Jazz Festival is scheduled to take place July 25, 26, and 27, 2008. Bands scheduled include The Galvanized Jazz Band (CT), The Midiri Brothers (NJ), Blue Street Jazz Band (CA), Jeff Barnhart (CT), Cornet Chop Suey (MO). The Festival takes place at Sunrise Resort in Moodus, CT. Tickets may be ordered from ...

Howard Rumsey Interviewed at AAJ

December 26, 2007

With Ken Koenig's enlightening and entertaining DVD history of a SoCal treasure, Jazz on the West Coast: The Lighthouse, ninety year-old Howard Rumsey returns to the spotlight. Bassist, booker and raconteur extraordinaire, Rumsey presented the best jazz shows in LA for thirty-three consecutive years. First with a group of studio musicians and Stan Kenton veterans, he ...

Jazz Great Oscar Peterson Dies at 82

December 25, 2007

TORONTO (AP) -- Oscar Peterson, whose flying fingers, hard-driving swing and melodic improvisations made him one of the world's most famous and influential jazz pianists in a career that spanned seven decades, has died. He was 82. Peterson died at his home in the Toronto suburb of Mississauga on Sunday, said Oliver Jones, a family friend ...

Stars Pay Tribute to Jazz Great Peterson

December 25, 2007

Jazz stars HANK JONES and DIANA KRALL have joined a host of politicians in paying tribute to the late pianist and composer, OSCAR PETERSON. The multiple Grammy winner died of kidney failure at his home in Toronto, Canada, on Monday (24Dec07). He was 82. Peterson was one of jazz's most celebrated musicians, releasing more than 200 ...

Oscar Peterson, Piano Virtuoso

December 25, 2007

During an illustrious career spanning six decades, jazz piano virtuoso Oscar Peterson played with musicians as diverse as Louis Armstrong and Charlie Parker and became one of the most recorded and honored jazz pianists of all time. Peterson, 82, died of kidney failure Sunday at his home in the Toronto suburb of Mississauga. Peterson, a Canadian-born ...

Oscar Peterson's Feel for Rhythm "Drove the Whole Bus," Say Fellow Musicians

December 25, 2007

The music was so powerful, so propulsively swinging that fellow musicians found it hard to believe Monday that such a force of nature as Oscar Peterson had finally been stilled. “It's hard for me to believe even now," said fellow pianist Hank Jones, a jazz legend in his own right. “I just thought Oscar would be ...

Guitarist Jimmy Bruno Interviewed at AAJ

December 25, 2007

Jimmy Bruno's stature as one of jazz's top hard bop guitarist is undisputed. His career as a musician and educator warrants the numerous times that he has been interviewed at All About Jazz. In this interview with AAJ contributor Edward Zucker, Bruno discusses his current CD, Maplewood Avenue (Affiliated Artists, LLC, 2007), the Jimmy Bruno Guitar ...