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Jazz It Up! Episode 4 Features Phil Woods, Stanley Jordan, Oscar Peterson and More
New York, NY -- The fourth episode of Season 2 of Jazz it Up! features alto sax legend Phil Woods in performance with the William Paterson Jazz Orchestra (conducted by David Dempsey), as well as a powerful trio led by the innovative guitarist Stanley Jordan, who plays piano and guitar simultaneously on a song. As with ...
The Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra Gets "Thrasched"
by Jack Bowers
The thirty-third annual Albuquerque Jazz Festival ended its two-day run on February 21, 2009. The event is devoted mainly to performances by high school and middle school bands, while the grand finale features the Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra with invited guests, this year the saxophone quartet Thrascher (Randy Hamm, soprano; Tim Ishii, alto; Ed Petersen, tenor; Glenn ...
Correspondence: Frishberg on Dearie and Evans
Dave Frishberg writes with important information on a matter raised in the previous entry.I'm reading the Rifftides discussion about Blossom Dearie and Bill Evans, and who influenced who. I'd like to add my comment: During the late sixties I played a couple weeks solo opposite the Bill Evans Trio at the Village Gate on Bleecker ...
Blossom Dearie (1926-2009)
Blossom Dearie, a delicate pianist, composer, arranger and singer with a helium-high voice who helped pioneer vocalese in New York and Paris in the late 1940s and early 1950s, died on Saturday in Greenwich Village after a long illness. She was 82. Dearie was a regular at 52d St. clubs and the salon apartment of arranger ...
Blossom Dearie
When Blossom Dearie died at 82 over the weekend, we lost a brilliant musician whose subtle artistry and private nature conspired to limit her popularity. There was nothing about her “teacup voice," as Whitney Balliett described it, or her sophisticated harmonic sense at the piano that could have led to mass adoration. Nonetheless, for decades she ...
Blossom Dearie a Songwriters Singer Passes
Blossom Dearie saw herself as a songwriters singer, performing tunes by the great Broadway and Hollywood teams and newer talents like Dave Frishberg. The singer and songwriter whose sweet soprano voice, harmonically innovative piano stylings and sophisticated performances made her a popular attraction in jazz and cabaret for nearly half a century, Blossom Dearie has died. ...
I Won't Dance
Featuring the music of Blossom Dearie
Duration: 4:59
L.A. Jazz Scene 2008: Alive and Swingin'
by Chuck Koton
The Los Angeles scene has often been referred to in patronizing terms by jazz lovers, musicians and writers. It has been said that the city's laid-back vibe deprives musicians of the energy that a New York audience can impart to the bandstand. Others complain that the growth of a hip jazz scene has been impeded by ...
Winchester In Apple Blossom Time
Featuring the music of Blossom Dearie
Duration: 4:36
Blossom Time at Ronnie Scott's
Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2007
Track listing: On Broadway; When the World Was Young; When in Rome; The Shadow of Your Smile; Everything I've Got
Belongs To You; Once Upon a Summertime; I'm Hip; Mad About the Boy; The Shape of Things; Satin Doll.
