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Jeff Coffin And The Mu'tet: Into The Air
by Bruce Lindsay
Jeff Coffin has held down jobs with two of the highest-profile bands in contemporary American music, with Béla Fleck = 6 733 and The Flecktones from 1997 to 2010, and with the Dave Matthews Band since 2009. High profile bands have busy schedules, but the saxophonist has also found the time to run his Mu'tet since ...
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 ...
This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: Goodman, Shaw & Dorsey: Big Band Leaders And Their Small Combos.
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, The Jim Cullum Jazz Band remembers hot jazz from the small combos of the Swing Era with “At the Codfish Ball” from the Clambake Seven, “Summit Ridge Drive” from the Gramercy Five, “Moonglow” from the Goodman Quartet, and the Ellington small groups with a composition by Cootie Williams, “A Toasted Pickle.” ...
Why Do I Write These Articles?
by Mort Weiss
The following will be an exercise in candor. I like to see my name in print on a Major--the major jazz web site. And I hope it will further better my record sales. I like to think that folks/people are finding things of interest in my remembrances that I've accumulated within my persona over a long ...
New Exhibits At The Musical Instrument Museum Pay Tribute To The Genres Best
Ahmad Alaadeen once said, “jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given to the world.” That gift is alive at the Musical Instrument Museum (MIM) in Phoenix with the opening of two new jazz exhibits that will take visitors on a journey through the past, present and ...
Eyal Vilner Big Band: Introducing The Eyal Vilner Big Band
by Hrayr Attarian
Most contemporary big band music is either of the heavily arranged, progressive jazz variety or the light-swing, Glenn Miller orchestral type played mainly for the benefit of nostalgic dancers. It is therefore refreshing to hear an ensemble that embraces the exuberance of mid-20th Century large groups and simultaneously delivers a bop-ish and elaborate sound.
Jazz Musician of the Day: Artie Shaw
All About Jazz is celebrating Artie Shaw's birthday today! Artie Shaw, a brilliant jazz clarinetist, was one of the most enigmatic, daring and adventurous bandleaders of the swing-era. An intellectual, he hated public life and the music industry. Over the course of his short career he formed ten orchestras and disbanding most of them after only ...
Artie Shaw: The Money Band
In 1949, Artie Shaw needed money. He would later claim the cash infusion was sought to help settle back taxes owed. But alimony payments to novelist Kathleen Winsor, whom he had just divorced, were certainly a financial drain. Just a year earlier, Shaw had vowed never again to front a dance band, carping about having to ...
Reluctant Genius of Jazz: Artie Shaw on Riverwalk Jazz This Week
Artie Shaw was one of the top-grossing stars of the 1930s and the only serious rival Benny Goodman had to his title as “The King of Swing." To celebrate the Shaw legacy, Riverwalk's David Holt talks with Tom Nolan, the author of a new biography, Three Chords for Beauty's Sake: The Life of Artie Shaw. Nolan ...
Girl Singers of the Swing Era on Riverwalk Jazz This Week
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, vocalists Nina Ferro, Topsy Chapman and Stephanie Nakasian join The Jim Cullum Jazz Band to recall female singers of the Swing Era— from Ella and Billie to Martha Tilton, Ivie Anderson and Helen Humes. Also on our radio show, rare interview clips with Ella Fitzgerald, Martha Tilton and Helen Ward telling ...
