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90th Birthday Tribute to Candido Celebrated by Bobby Sanabria & Manhattan School of Music Afro Cuban Jazz Orchestra
Bobby Sanabria and the Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra will be presenting a 90th Birthday Celebration honoring Candido Camero, NEA Jazz Master and the “father of modern conga drumming" on Friday, April 1 at 7:30pm in the School's John C. Borden Auditorium. The evening will feature Candido, who officially turns 90 on April 22nd, ...
The Uptown Jazz Collective: She Do What She Do
by Dan Bilawsky
She Do What She Do is hard to pin down. While continuity is created through solid performances from the rhythm section, and bluesy baritone saxophonist B. J. Jansen, the material and stylistic presentation is all over the map. The most palatable selections come in the form of standards, as delivered by vocalist T. ...
James Lent: The Man at the Piano
by Gary Bennett
The Other Side has been a landmark of Hyperion Avenue, sandwiched between a gymnasium and an eatery or two in the Silverlake section of Los Angeles, for several decades. Ownership has changed once or twice; bartenders have come and gone. But faithful patronage of the restaurant-bar hasn't waned. Inside, the blood-red walls are ...
Good News For LA's Jazz Community
The jazz community has, too often, endured bad news. This sad reality recently manifested in the deaths of legends James Moody, Lena Horne, Billy Taylor and Buddy Collette, among others. The loss of the music's great instrumentalists and vocalists to the ravages of time and disease is, of course, inevitable, though no less painful. Like these ...
Visit the new Freedom Jazz Dance website
Dig fresh new jazz reviews, listen to rare jazz tracks and keep the jazz conversation going at the new Freedom Jazz Dance website! Jazz DJ and writer Ken Hohman is pleased to announce that the new Freedom Jazz Dance website is live and online at www.freedomjazzdance.net. Pay a visit today and dig through the ear and ...
Remembering the Jazz Ambassador: Billy Taylor
On Monday, January 10 Dr. Billy Taylor was given a rich, warm send-off totally befitting one of the classiest musicians and people jazz music has ever produced. Dave Brubeck wrote of “The Real Ambassadors," Dr. Billy Taylor was the most REAL Ambassador of all. Here's a man responsible for introducing the beauties and wonders of jazz ...
Moody's Mood Was Always Happy
by Jack Bowers
James Moody, whose noble spirit and radiant personality were as impressive as his exploits on saxophone and flute for more than six decades, died December 9, 2010 from pancreatic cancer at his home in San Diego. He was 85 years old. To anyone who was lucky enough to meet him, the Moody hug ...
A Jazz Legacy, Taylor-Made
I only heard pianist and NEA Jazz Master Billy Taylor in one live performance—at the “Witness" concert at Ordway in St. Paul in early 2009. This program was part of the Vocalessence season, their annual celebration of African American history and culture. For the second half of the afternoon, Vocalessence welcomed the Billy Taylor Trio. A ...
Jazz Pianist Billy Taylor, Rest in Peace
Legendary jazz pianist, composer and educator Dr. Billy Taylor died on December 28, 2010 at age 89. He was long admired throughout his career as an innovative musician who composed over 300 tunes. Taylor had an illustrious career as a jazz pianist, getting his start with the Ben Webster Quartet in New York City, and was ...
An Appreciation of Billy Taylor, Jazz Renaissance Man
Dr. Billy Taylor exited the stage of life on Dec. 28, but his legacy as a jazz Renaissance man will most certainly live on. He was perhaps the foremost jazz educator of the past 50 years, sharing the gospel of jazz not only in books and classrooms, but also with millions of people as a radio ...
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