Results for "Benny Goodman"

Chet Baker, Ornette Coleman, Thelonious Monk, Cannonball Adderly Headline Concord Jazz Reissues

June 1, 2011

Concord Music Group will release six new titles in the Original Jazz Classics Remasters series on June 14, 2011. Enhanced by 24-bit remastering by Joe Tarantino, generous helpings of bonus tracks (many of them previously unreleased), and new liner notes that provide historical and technical context, the series showcases some of the most pivotal recordings of ...

Jazz Musician of the Day: Benny Goodman

May 30, 2011

All About Jazz is celebrating Benny Goodman's birthday today! Benjamin David Goodman was born on May 30, 1909 in Chicago, Illinois. He was the eighth child of immigrants David Goodman and Dora Grisinsky Goodman, who left Russia to escape anti-Semitism. Benny\'s mother never learned to speak English. His father worked for a tailor to support his ...

Live

Featuring the music of Benny Goodman
Duration: 1:56
May 30, 2011

Benny Goodman, The Great Innovator—This week on Riverwalk Jazz

May 26, 2011

To celebrate Benny Goodman's innovative style, Riverwalk Jazz has assembled performances and stories from our stable of jazz greats drawn into his orbit—Lionel Hampton, Doc Cheatham, Helen Ward—and our own Ron Hockett and Jim Cullum. In 22 years of Riverwalk Jazz radio broadcasts, we've welcomed several artists closely associated with Goodman—or deeply influenced by his music—to ...

Marty Nau Group: Mood Ebony

by Greg Simmons
May 17, 2011

An all-clarinet album is a rare thing in jazz these days. The B-flat clarinet has an old-fashioned sound, ubiquitous in the early days of jazz, but gradually replaced by the bigger, deeper, and often more aggressive reed sound of the saxophones. Early New Orleans bands at the birth of the form almost always featured the “stick," ...

Alec Spiegelman / Lefteris Kordis / Thor Thorvaldsson: Bebop Trio

by Mark Corroto
May 10, 2011

The theme of “walk, don't run" occurs throughout the entirety of Bebop Trio, a suite of improvisations on the sometimes pell-mell music of Herbie Nichols, Lennie Tristano, Elmo Hope, Bud Powell, George Shearing and Duke Ellington. Played by three accommodating and adaptive musicians, the familiar and frenetic becomes casual and conversant. Where Powell's “Celia" ...

Foltin: Skopje, Macedonia, April 13, 2011

by Nenad Georgievski
April 30, 2011

FoltinMCM ClubSkopje, MacedoniaApril 13, 2011 Does humor belong in music? In the case of Foltin, it certainly does. Their live performances are famous for becoming jump-ups and are more energized and charged than their recorded output. Theirs is a pseudo cabaret cartoon music that offers plenty of suggestions for why ...

Mary Lou Williams: Mary Lou Williams At Rick's Cafe Americain

by Chris Mosey
April 28, 2011

The second album of this double CD issue was released by Storyville in 1998, under the same title. Valuable enough in its way, featuring pianist Mary Lou Williams three years before her death, playing standards that include one of her own, “What's Your Story, Morning Glory?," originally composed for the Andy Kirk band in the days ...

KLANG: Other Doors

by Troy Collins
April 21, 2011

Though he has long admired the small combo recordings of legendary clarinetist Benny Goodman, Chicago-based clarinetist James Falzone never intended to record a tribute to the revered King of Swing. As a former student of modern composition at the New England Conservatory with a strong presence in Chicago's fertile free-improvisation scene, Falzone assumed his youthful gigs ...

Klang: Other Doors

by Nic Jones
April 19, 2011

With Other Doors, Klang leader and clarinetist James Falzone has documented a body of music he worked on, after being invited to celebrate what would have been Benny Goodman's 100th birthday, at the Chicago Jazz Festival back in 2009. As he's a highly creative individual in his own right, he hasn't gone for any sterile Swing ...