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Dana Lauren: It's You Or No One
by Woodrow Wilkins
It's impossible to predict when chance will smile favorably, so it's important to be prepared for when that opportunity arrives. Vocalist Dana Lauren seized chance by the proverbial throat when, at the age of 17, she met Arturo Sandoval at a jazz festival. That encounter led to Lauren performing with Sandoval at his Miami club, and ...
Arturo Sandoval: A Time for Love
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Years ago, on The Tonight Show, host Johnny Carson asked guest Frank Sinatra what music he enjoyed listening to when “in those romantic moments." Sinatra, to the host's surprise, said he particularly enjoyed the hearing works of Debussy, Ravel and other Impressionists and Romantics. With A Time for Love, trumpet legend Arturo Sandoval steps away from ...
JazzWeek Radio Chart: May 24, 2010
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 21 15 One For All Incorrigible (JLP) 183 107 +76 8 56 1 4 2 13 13 Nnenna Freelon Homefree (Concord) 181 126 +55 8 55 2 5 3 18 17 Anat Cohen Clarinetwork Live At The Village Vanguard (Anzic) 178 117 +61 9 ...
Dana Lauren: It's You Or No One
by Dan Bilawsky
At the age of 21, vocalist Dana Lauren has a command of her instrument that many professional singers twice her age would envy. Lauren has a voice that's one part Roberta Gambarini and one part Diana Krall, with a dash of soul thrown in to spice things up, and she puts it good use on this ...
Andrea Tofanelli: Flamingo
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Back in 1974, a French daredevil named Philippe Petit brazenly high-wire walked across the span of New York's Twin Towers. He electrified the pre-internet, pre-YouTube world by spanning the buildings on a ¾" wire cable eight times; a feat of incredible skill, athleticism and bravery later detailed in his book, To Reach the Clouds (North Point ...
Arturo Sandoval's "A Time for Love" Scheduled for Nationwide Release by Concord Jazz May 11th
ARTURO SANDOVAL'S NEW ALBUM TIME FOR LOVE SCHEDULED FOR NATIONWIDE RELEASE BY CONCORD JAZZ MAY 11TH The Multiple Grammy Award-Winning Trumpet Virtuoso Explores New Ground in Compositions Melding Classical Orchestra and American Standards With Jazz; Guest artists include Chris Botti, Monica Mancini and the Shelley Berg Trio. Los Angeles--In what promises to be a breakthrough achievement ...
Arturo Sandoval Can Freely Trumpet His Affinity for Jazz
Anyone who thinks Cuban-born trumpet great Arturo Sandoval's dramatic life story is worthy of being made into a movie is absolutely correct -- and a decade too late. “There is a movie about me that HBO made in 2000. Andy Garcia played me, and Charles Dutton played Dizzy," said Sandoval, who rose to international fame in ...
RG Royal Sound Orchestra: Impact
by Robert J. Robbins
Take a group of A-List Miami-based musicians--many of whom are alumni of the big bands of Woody Herman,Maynard Ferguson, and Stan Kenton)--combine them with guitarists and percussionists from Madrid,Spain, and the result is the RG Royal Sound Orchestra, making its debut withexactly what the title promises. The arrangements integrate Afro-Cuban rhythms, Iberian romanticism, and North American ...
Take Five With Chuck Fesperman
by AAJ Staff
Meet Chuck Fesperman:Chuck Fesperman is a jazz trumpeter. Originally from North Carolina, Chuck studied music at Appalachian State University and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He was a member of the Charlotte Jazz All-Stars. He performed with the United States Coast Guard Training Center Bands in Cape May, NJ and Petaluma, CA. ...
Strike Up the (Unsung) Bands
by Jack Bowers
The big band era is known for producing a number of enormously successful ensembles whose leaders were household names: Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Jimmie Lunceford, Fletcher Henderson, then on through Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, the brothers Jimmy Dorsey and Tommy Dorsey, Charlie Barnet, Artie Shaw, Harry James, Cab Calloway, Lionel Hampton, Dizzy Gillespie and, ...
