Results for "California"

Jazz Poetry - "Canary"

January 5, 2011

Canary by Rita DoveFor Michael S. Harper Billie Holiday's burned voicehad as many shadows as lights,a mournful candelabra against a sleek piano,the gardenia her signature under that ruined face. (Now you're cooking, drummer to bass,magic spoon, magic needle.Take all day if you have towith your mirror and your bracelet of song.) Fact is, the invention of ...

Monterey Jazz Festival Names Chris Doss as Managing Director

January 4, 2011

Monterey, CA; The Monterey Jazz Festival, a leader in jazz education since its inception in 1958, is pleased to announce that Chris Doss has been named as the Festival's Managing Director. Mr. Doss brings a wealth of music, arts, and entertainment industry experience to the Monterey Jazz Festival. As an administrator, he has managed multi-million dollar ...

Happy Birthday, Milt Jackson!

January 2, 2011

Paois Records: The Little Label That Could

January 1, 2011

What do a radio promoter in Livingston, Texas, an entertainment lawyer in Berkeley, California, a publicist in Lincoln, Massachusetts, a sales rep who is a grandfather, and an operations & marketing director balancing her laptop in one hand and young child in the other have in common? They are all on the team of San Francisco-based ...

Concert: Jan 8 - John Beasley Positootly! Jazz Circle @ Blue Whale

December 29, 2010

John Beasley Positootly! Jazz Circle @ The Blue Whale GRAMMY NOMINATION: BEST JAZZ INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM Positootly! (Resonance Records) John is truly an amazing pianist, imaginative composer, creative improviser and arranger. And with Positootly he created an album that people will look back as one of the first Jazz classic albums of the 21th century. WHEN: Saturday, ...

The Story Behind the Smile: Terry Teachout's "Pops"

December 28, 2010

I just finished reading Terry Teachout's biography of Louis Armstrong, Pops, which is now out in paperback, and can recommend it wholeheartedly. Teachout, the drama critic of the Wall Street Journal, had access to a lot of previously unavailable material on Armstrong, including over 650 reels of tape recordings made by “Satchmo" during the last two ...

Merry Christmas!

December 26, 2010

Jazz News: A New Addition to the Louis Armstrong House Museum

December 21, 2010

A story in the Wall Street Journal provides details about a planned new visitor's center at the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Corona, Queens. It will house the entire Armstrong collection. What a Wonderful House In Queens, the Louis Armstrong House Museum Trumpets Its Namesake Anew By Will Friedwald Louis Armstrong has been gone for nearly ...

Harold Land - A West Coaster Worth Surfing For

December 21, 2010

Hard bop saxophonist Harold Land (1928-2001) grew up in San Diego and started playing saxophone at the age of 16. He recorded some early sides as a leader in the late 1940s, but he really came into his own in 1954 when he joined the famous Clifford Brown/Max Roach quintet. He toured and recorded with the ...

Eddie Condon All Stars - "Royal Garden Blues" (1964)

December 19, 2010