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Strike Up the (Unsung) Bands
by Jack Bowers
The big band era is known for producing a number of enormously successful ensembles whose leaders were household names: Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Jimmie Lunceford, Fletcher Henderson, then on through Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, the brothers Jimmy Dorsey and Tommy Dorsey, Charlie Barnet, Artie Shaw, Harry James, Cab Calloway, Lionel Hampton, Dizzy Gillespie and, ...
Christian McBride: Getting the Inside Straight
by Esther Berlanga-Ryan
If we think about it for a little while, it's possible to believe that there is something almost mystic and undeniably powerful about jazz. The way it developed through the years and its constant ignition-like energy; the creativity of those who lead the way and those who continue the journey today; the improvisation that takes over ...
Jazz Academy of Music Presents First Annual Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival at the Hilton Rockville (Maryland)
Saxophonist & Educator Paul Carr & The Jazz Academy of Music (501 c-3) Revives Former East Coast Jazz Festival Under New Name, MID-ATLANTIC JAZZ FESTIVAL Event To Be Held Over Three Days, FEBRUARY, 19-21 2010 at The Hilton Rockville in Rockville, MD Festival to Feature National and Local Talent Including Mulgrew Miller, Bobby Watson, Terell Stafford, ...
Stefon Harris: Authenticity and Audacity
by R.J. DeLuke
Authenticity is a special word for vibraphone wizard Stefon Harris when it comes to his art, which springs from the tradition of jazz music, but is approached through a modern lens that takes into account the sounds and perspective of 2009. He has enough audacity--also a special word for Harris--to say it clearly, to ...
The Jazz Tribe: Everlasting
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il titolo del CD è un po' troppo pretenzioso, ma la musica proposta ha in sé l'irresistibile genoma del mainstream contemporaneo che dal bop di Parker ci porta fino all'afro-cuban jazz. Del gruppo originario venuto alla ribalta negli anni '90 rimane la triade Watson/Walrath/Mantilla, a tener in vita una formula rimasta immutata negli anni. Ma i ...
Donna Lee
Featuring the music of Bobby Watson
Duration: 4:39
Deborah Brown: Jazz Diva Extraordinaire
by Victor L. Schermer
Deborah Brown is one of the finest jazz vocalists in the business, a “singer's singer" with a magnificent voice and mind-boggling technique. Vocalist J.D. Walter mentioned her as an inspirational teacher and mentor in a recent AAJ interview but, despite being very possibly one of the greatest jazz singers of all time, due to her own ...
Tom Warner: Honoring the Legacy
by Victor L. Schermer
Tom Warner recently replaced Mervon Mehta as vice-president of programming for the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia, when the latter took the head position at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. Among his eclectic musical tastes, the accessible, warm and articulate Warner has a strong interest in jazz.
Kind of Blue Turns 50: Bobby Watson Quartet at the Kimmel Center
by Victor L. Schermer
Bobby Watson QuartetJazz Up Close: Kind of Blue Turns 50Honoring Cannonball Adderly and John Coltrane, SaxophonesKimmel Center Perelman TheaterPhiladelphia, PennsylvaniaMarch 28, 2009The great Bobby Watson, still in “mid-life" at age 53, is a seasoned “heavy" on the alto sax whose playing echoes saxophone greats from Phil Woods ...
Jazz It up at the Kimmel Center in March and April: Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, Saxophonist Bobby Watson and Blue Note Records 70th Anniversary Tour
Formative voices in American jazz come together on the Kimmel Center’s stages in March and April, as performances of timeless works by jazz luminaries share the stage with fresh, new additions to the jazz canon. Click on the name of the artist below for more information on each Kimmel Center performance: Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra ...
