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Jacksonville: Big City, Big Band, Big Plans
by Jack Bowers
Almost everyone who's even mildly interested knows that the big band scene in the US isn't what it used to be. On the other hand, the big bands aren't yet dead, as some alarmists have claimed, or even on life support. Thanks in part to college and armed services programs, there are perhaps as many or ...
Take Five With Marcus Goldhaber
by AAJ Staff
Meet Marcus Goldhaber: Born and raised in Buffalo, New York, Marcus developed a passion for Jazz alongside a 1928 Ivers & Pond upright piano, on which his mother casually played countless standards. Inspired by his upbringing, along with a clear inheritance of the musical gene, Marcus graduated later with a BFA in Musical Theatre from ...
Faith Gibson: Shooting for the Big Moon
by Esther Berlanga-Ryan
Jazz vocalists have struggled through the years to make room for their contributions to the art of improvisation that appear effortless. Their voices are their instrument, an instrument that has to compete with tenor saxophones, drum kits or trumpets; an instrument whose strength rests in the necessity humanity has to communicate with others. To ...
Deborah Brown: Jazz Diva Extraordinaire
by Victor L. Schermer
Deborah Brown is one of the finest jazz vocalists in the business, a “singer's singer" with a magnificent voice and mind-boggling technique. Vocalist J.D. Walter mentioned her as an inspirational teacher and mentor in a recent AAJ interview but, despite being very possibly one of the greatest jazz singers of all time, due to her own ...
Lola Danza: Free To Sing Free
by AAJ Staff
Free jazz has wound its way through many permutations since arriving in the early '60s. An important custodian of its new directions is vocalist and composer Lola Danza, of Brooklyn. Danza is a graduate of Berklee College of Music, Boston, and stayed in Boston for a few years after graduating, developing her ...
Anita O'Day - The Life of a Jazz Singer - Film Opening
A film about the jazz singer Anita O'Day may be opening near you. Anita O'Day: The Life Of A Jazz Singer won the “2008 SATELLITE Award winner for Best Documentary – International Press Academy". Read the All About Jazz review Visit our website to find an opening near you! About Anita O'Day Born Anita ...
Anita O'Day With Gene Krupa & Stan Kenton (Expanded Edition)
By Anita O'Day
Label: Specific Jazz
Released: 2008
Anita O'Day Live in Tokyo '63
By Anita O'Day
Label: Kayo Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Boogie Blues; Trave'Lin' Light; Honeysuckle Rose; Avalon; Bewitched; You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To; Night and Day; Let's Fall In Love; Sweet Georgia Brown; Tea For Two; Stella By Starlight; Love For Sale; Get Out Of Town; That Old Feeling; Four Brothers.
Anita O'Day: The Life Of A Jazz Singer
by Victor L. Schermer
Anita O'Day Anita O'Day: The Life Of A Jazz Singer AOD Productions 2008Whatever else she was, Anita O'Day was a bundle of contradictions. Though one of the top four or five women jazz singers of her generation, she had little idea what she was doing with her life ...
"Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer": All That Jazz and Plenty of Drama
Anita O'Day sang like an angel, lived like the devil and made enough great music to fill a couple of lifetimes. Actually, she did live twice, considering that a heroin overdose killed her briefly in 1966, before revival with a then-experimental electric-shock device. It's practically a miracle O'Day lived to age 87, singing nearly until the ...
