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New York Standards Quartet: Unstandard
by Larry Taylor
It's a pleasure when a group of great jazz players take American standards and reshape them with their own unique stamp. This happens on New York Standards Quartet's Unstandard, where the musical gambit--the direction these musicians take the originals--is often surprising. Pianist David Berkman leads the way, handling arrangements and contributing originals, all the ...
"Autumn In New York" by Ferit Odman -- Available on CD & 180 Gram Vinyl
Turkish jazz drummer Ferit Odman has assembled a cast of dependable NYC veterans again for his second album. FERIT ODMAN Autumn In New York Trumpet: Terell Stafford Alto Sax: Vincent Herring Piano: Anthony Wonsey Bass: Peter Washington Drums: Ferit Odman Recorded and mixed by Michael Brorby ...
Duane Eubanks at Society Hill Playhouse on Nov. 17th
Appearing at the new Jazz Bridge Neighborhood Concerts series Jazz at the Playhouse at Society Hill Playhouse, 507 S. 8th Street, Philadelphia on November 17th will be trumpeter Duane Eubanks and his band . One Show: 7:30-9 p.m. Admission: $10/$5 for students. No advance sales. For info: 215-517-8337 or 856-858-8914. Parking is right across the street. ...
"Modern Sounds," or: Running a Marathon in Full Body Armor
by Jack Bowers
From October 19-25 Betty and I were at the Los Angeles Marriott Airport Hotel to attend Modern Sounds, the L.A. Jazz Institute's four-day salute to West Coast jazz, followed by a day-long tribute to Stan Kenton on the hundredth anniversary of the legendary bandleader's birth. We arrived a day early to be primed and ready for ...
Benny Golson on the Value of an Interview
In our ongoing series of dialogues with artists on their expectations of music critics & journalists, and the publications they write for, NEA Jazz Master Benny Golson—one of the more thoughtful people in this music—weighed in with two essays. Here is the second of Benny's two erudite contributions to the dialogue. The Value Of An Interview ...
Jazz Tour of NYC with Cory Weeds, March 2012
COME TO NEW YORK WITH CORY WEEDS A Jazz Filled Exploration of the Big Apple! March 24 -31, 2012 Turner Music and Cory Weeds' Cellar Jazz Club (Vancouver, BC, CAN) are pleased to announce the dates for New York With Weeds 2012. This year's tour will begin on Saturday, March 24th and ...
Tom Everett: Jazz at Harvard
by Andrew J. Sammut
It's no accident that forty years of jazz at Harvard coincides with forty years of Tom Everett at the esteemed university. Everett founded Harvard University's first student jazz band, taught its first jazz history course and welcomed the campus' first visiting jazz artist. He now leads two jazz bands at the prestigious university, continues to teach ...
McCoy Tyner: Vol. One, 1959-60
by Lawrence Peryer
Vol. One, 1959-60 | Vol. Two, 1960-61 Most biographers rely on one of two creation myths for pianist McCoy Tyner's career: He first emerged from his native Philadelphia as part of saxophonist Benny Golson and trumpeter Art Farmer's Jazztet, or he had been known to, and gigged around town with, saxophonist John Coltrane ...
Jazz & Blues Florida October 2011 Online Edition Posted
The new edition of Jazz & Blues Florida, Florida's free online source for information on live jazz and blues in clubs, concerts and festivals, is now available. The October 2011 online edition of JAZZ & BLUES FLORIDA has been posted at JazzBluesFlorida.com. This month's edition can be read in .pdf format, as well as in a ...
What Jazz Musicians Expect from Journalists and Critics - PT. 3
NEA Jazz Master Benny Golson is one of the most erudite musicians, a true master of elocution and language. A man of abundant wisdom and wit, Golson is one of the most agreeable people in the music. When posed with our dialogue question, it seems this is a subject Benny has been contemplating for some time; ...
