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Legendary Randy Van Horne Singers Return To Stage on September 12

September 11, 2010

The Randy Van Horne Singers, famous for The Nat King Cole Show, Hanna-Barbera cartoon theme songs The Flintstones, Yogi Bear, The Jetsons, and many others and work with Martin Denny and Esquivel will perform live on stage at the Pasadena Central Library (CA) SECOND SUNDAY CONCERTS presents ...And All That Jazz THE RANDY VAN HORNE SINGERS ...

A Fine Vintage Wein

September 9, 2010

George Wein knew and/or worked with just about everyone in jazz over the last half century. His autobiography, Myself Among Others (Da Capo, 2004), written with Nate Chinen, is a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the life of a jazz producer and sometime performer. Wein grew up in the Boston area and opened the Storyville Club there ...

Scott Hamilton - "Just You, Just Me" (2007)

September 8, 2010

Jazz Poetry - "Lester Young"

September 5, 2010

By Ted Joans Sometimes he was cool like an eternalblue flame burning in the old KansasCity nunnerySometimes he was happy 'til he'd thinkabout his birth place and its bloodstained clay hills and crow-filled treesMost times he was blowin' on the wonderfultenor sax of his, preachin' in very cooltones, shouting only to remind you ofa certain point ...

Happy Birthday, Gene Harris!

September 2, 2010

Pianist Gene Harris (1933-2000) recorded prolifically during his long career. He started out playing in Army bands during the early 1950s. In 1956, he formed The Three Sounds with Andy Simpkins on bass and Bill Dowdy on drums. (Actually, it was originally The Four Sounds, but saxophonist Lonnie “The Sound" Walker dropped out after a year.) ...

Open for business! The Seabird Jazz Lounge in Long Beach, CA

September 2, 2010

The Seabird Jazz Lounge was formally known as the “Cotton Club," a classy, intimate straight-ahead and contemporary Jazz Lounge in Long Beach, CA. Presenting a variety of live world class local and nationally known musical acts! Featuring our amazing house band The Dale Black Quartet The Seabird Jazz Lounge has reopened their doors and remains one ...

Lenny White: Live and New York Hot with the Anomaly Band at Catalina's

September 1, 2010

West Coast jazz has traditionally been cool to the East Coast's hot. Dave Brubeck is always pictured in white linen slacks playing an open air concert-by-the-sea, while Charlie Parker is shown popping a Saturday night sweat in his sharkskin suit, squeezed onto a crowded nightclub stage. The iconography extends to the West Coast audience. Like a ...

Erroll Garner - "One Note Samba" (1962)

August 31, 2010

Five Guys Hoping to Not Screw up Movie About the Life of Miles Davis Pose for a Nice Photo Together

August 29, 2010

That other Miles Davis website has posted something of interest. It's nothing to stop-the-presses, but it's something. They've posted a group photo of Erin Davis, Steve Baigelman (screenwriter for Miles Davis Biopic), Don Cheadle, Darryl Porter, Vince Wilburn Jr. and the very expensive Genius of Miles Davis Limited-Edition Trumpet Case Box Set, which is not even ...

Bill Evans in Oslo

August 29, 2010

Bill Evans Trio: The Oslo Concerts (2006) presents two Bill Evans dates, one filmed at the Oslo Munch Museum in 1966 and the other at the Molde Jazz Festival in 1980. Evans is one of the least dynamic of performers, so filming him playing is almost a waste of film. But the music is a different ...