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Don Byron: Music Wikipedia
by George Colligan
[ Editor's Note: The following interview is reprinted from George Colligan's blog, Jazztruth ]I got my Bachelor's in Music Ed and Trumpet from Peabody Conservatory. I got my Master's in Jazz from Queens College. But I did my real graduate work playing with clarinetist Don Byron. My first gigs with Byron were playing Stravinsky ...
Record-Busting 100+ Bassists Serenade Tivoli
by Fradley Garner
Record-Busting 100+ Bassists Serenade TivoliThe seeds were planted by Oscar Pettiford, the seminal American cellist and bassist who put down roots in Copenhagen in 1958, and by the homegrown virtuoso Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, who played his vintage Italian bass like the nimblest-fingered guitarist when he wasn't bowing like Giovanni Bottesini. In August, 2012, the ...
Francisco Mora Catlett: Francisco Mora Catlett: Afro Horn MX
by Steve Bryant
When Afro-Mexican Drummer Francisco Mora Catlett first came to this country in the1970s, he dreamed of playing drums for the Sun Ra Arkestra. Not only did Mora achieve his dream, he also forged a lifelong relationship with drum legend Max Roach, which resulted in his performing in Roach's seminal drum ensemble, M'Boom. As a composer and ...
Newport Jazz Festival: Newport, RI, August 4-5, 2012
by R.J. DeLuke
Newport Jazz FestivalFort Adams State ParkNewport, RIAugust 4-5, 2012Having a celebration for the 70th birthday of an amazing musician--drummer Jack DeJohnette--was an outstanding feature of this year's Newport Jazz Festival. The drummer was featured in two sets in a single day (Saturday), first with a band he has been ...
Anat Cohen: Claroscuro
by Ernest Barteldes
Reed multi-instrumentalist Anat Cohen seems equally comfortable performing Brazilian jazz with Duduka Da Fonseca's quintet, contemporary jazz with her two brothers in the Three Cohens, or Afro-Cuban and more straight-ahead material with the countless ensembles with which she has worked over the years. Claroscuro reflects Cohen's unique ability to tackle multiple genres with the same dexterity. ...
Newport Jazz Festival 2012
by Dan Bilawsky
Newport Jazz FestivalFort Adams State ParkNewport, RIAugust 3-5, 2012 While countless jazz festivals have sprung up in all corners of the world, droves of people still flock to the one that's considered the granddaddy of them all. The Newport Jazz Festival has been a testament to the power, possibilities and ...
Newport Jazz Festival: Newport, RI, August 4, 2012
by Timothy J. O'Keefe
Newport Jazz FestivalFort Adams State ParkNewport, RIAugust 4, 2012 “Yeah that's what I'm talking about, Newport!" the bright-smiled Cuban conga player said with enthusiasm, as the crowd he encouraged to dance clapped a beat to his liking. Amid the vortex of sound that is the Newport Jazz Festival--three stages hosting ...
Clarinetist-Saxophonist Anat Cohen Plays With Light And Shade On Her New Album Of Swinging Lyricism And Irresistible Variety, "Claroscuro"
Cohen's sixth solo album - to be released on September 25, 2012 by Anzic Records - sees the jazz star at home in a world of music, ranging with her ace band from New York and New Orleans to Brazil and Africa Anat Cohen Celebrates “Claroscuro" with a week at The Village Vanguard, September 18-23 Anat ...
Ladder Is High, Women Keep Climbing
by Jack Bowers
Unlike college sports, there is no Title IX program for women in jazz. Those who wish to pursue that line of endeavor have to elbow their way into what remains essentially a male-dominated profession (or art) and keep climbing the ladder one rung at a time. True, women have made notable inroads in recent years and ...
Duduka Da Fonseca Quintet: Samba Jazz
by Ernest Barteldes
Throughout his four decade-plus career, drummer/percussionist/composer Duduka Da Fonseca has successfully bridged the gap between the samba of his native Brazil and jazz, either when performing as the co-leader of Trio da Paz or as a sideman with the likes of pianist Kenny Barron, guitarist/vocalist Antonio Carlos Jobim and bassist Rufus Reid. On this ...
