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News: Music Industry

Ray Brown Defined the Modern Jazz Rhythm Section

April 16, 2009

Grammy Award-winning double-bassist Ray Brown was a leader in defining the modern jazz rhythm section -- in addition to being a first-rate soloist. His unique dynamic and innate sense of swing graced performances by Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Oscar Peterson and countless others. Raymond Matthews Brown was born October 13, 1926, in Pittsburgh, PA ...

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Pianist John Di Martino Interviewed at AAJ

March 31, 2009

John di Martino is a New York area based pianist, composer, arranger and Venus recording artist. He is a sought after musical director and is in demand by many singers as an accompanist, having accompanied such singers as Jon Hendricks, Sylvia Sims, Diane Schuur and Billy Eckstine. His talents as a pianist and arranger can be ...

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John di Martino: Piano Man In/On Demand

by Marcia Hillman
March 31, 2009

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Chico Hamilton: Joyous Shout

by Donald Elfman
March 1, 2009

When Chico Hamilton was a boy growing up in Los Angeles, the film studios used to send trucks out to pick up the little African-American children to play natives in their Tarzan movies. “It was work, after all, and we got paid for it," says the drummer, now 87 years of age. “And what you learned ...

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Charli Persip

by George Kanzler
February 12, 2009

People looking for the magic elixir, the Fountain of Youth, should stop looking and start jazz drumming. Charli Persip, who'll turn 80 in July, will soon join Roy Haynes and Chico Hamilton as fully active octogenarian jazz drummers with busy careers. Persip grew up in Newark, NJ and, after touring with Dizzy Gillespie's small group and ...

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Article: Big Band Report

It's the Economy, Man!

by Jack Bowers
January 29, 2009

Even though the present (and future) state of the economy here in the States is no laughing matter, there has been at least one tongue-in-cheek article about jazz musicians seeking bailout money from Congress and the Bush administration (still in power when it was written last December). It's presented as a straight “news" story, but musicians' ...

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In The Still Of The Night

By Billy Eckstine

Label: Victor
Released: 2005

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Pops In Jazz Vol. 2 [2-CD set]

By Various Artists

Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2004

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Savoy Jazz Reaches 60, But Looks Beyond

by R.J. DeLuke
February 23, 2004

Every so often someone in jazz has their career resurrected. Different elements feed into that. Good luck; a sudden public “discovery;" Perseverance. Going on in jazz right now, however, is the resurrection of an old tried and true recording label, Savoy Jazz. It's the result of hard work and a desire to maintain classic ...

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