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Jazz Musician of the Day: Charlie Parker
All About Jazz is celebrating Charlie Parker's birthday today! The only child of Charles and Addie Parker, Charlie Parker was one of the most important and influential saxophonists and jazz players of the 1940’s. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); When Parker was still a child, his family moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where jazz, blues and ...
Jazz Popularity and You
by Douglas Groothuis
Twenty years ago I read in a William Bennett book that jazz made up only 3% of the music market. I often lamented that when jazz came up in any of the classes I taught. I further wondered if that lamentable percentage included sales by Kenny G. If so, all the worse, since, as Pat Metheny ...
Dave Liebman and Michael Kaplan: How Does the Brain Make All that Jazz?
by Victor L. Schermer
With recent advances in neuroscience, the relationship between music and the brain has become the subject of new research and generated a great deal of public interest. Best sellers like Oliver Sacks' Musicophilia (Knopf, 2007) and Daniel Levitin's This Is Your Brain On Music (Dutton Penguin, 2006) have brought the attention of a wider public to ...
Michele Hendricks at Sunset Jazz Club
by Patricia Myers
Michele Hendricks Quintet Sunset Jazz Club American Jazz Festiv' Halles Paris, France July 29, 2016 Jazz singer Michele Hendricks showcased a stunning combination of genetics and decades of performance experience, her energized sounds replicating horn solos via inventive vocalese and hip scat segments. She led a European-based quartet ...
Third Annual Charlie Parker Celebration - August 18 through August 27 - in Kansas City
The Celebration of “Bird" in Kansas City Continues KC Jazz Clubs, American Jazz Museum, 18th & Vine Jazz District, Lincoln Cemetery (Parker gravesite) and other historical KC locations. The 3rd Annual Kansas City Charlie Parker Celebration (CPC) will again explore and recognize the legacy of one the most influential saxophonists and jazz icons to ever perform. ...
Kevin Hays New Day Trio: North
by Dan Bilawsky
The second album from the Kevin Hays New Day Trio does and doesn't follow in its predecessor's footsteps. On one hand you can argue that it's completely different, as Hays doesn't sing on this one and there are no guests to speak of here; on the other, you can certainly opine that the overt lyricism in ...
Meet "Jazz Judy" Judy Balos
by Tessa Souter and Andrea Wolper
“Jazz Judy" Balos has earned her nickname. A live music fan since the age of 16 when she saw Nina Simone in concert, this New Yorker has been going out to hear live jazz four or five times a week (sometimes even two or three times a day) for over 50 years; she's even traveled to ...
Art Blakey: A Night in Tunisia – 1961
by Marc Davis
Dizzy Gillespie's “A Night in Tunisia" has been done almost to death. Wikipedia says it has been recorded at least 500 times and it is the title track to at least 30 albums. It might be the most recorded bop tune of all time. Who did it best? Take your pick. Dizzy ...
Compatible Quotes: Life In Music, Music In Life
"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music!" —Sergei Rachmaninoff “They teach you there’s a boundary line to music. But, man, there’s no boundary line to art." —Charlie Parker “Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life." —Ludwig Van Beethoven “My goal is to live the truly ...
Doug MacDonald: Just for Fun
by Jack Bowers
While there are no household names on guitarist Doug MacDonald's new 2-CD set, Just for Fun (alto saxophonist Lanny Morgan or perhaps drummer Roy McCurdy may come closest), the sidemen he has chosen for a lively concert date billed as a “jazz marathon" are more than likely among the more accomplished jazz musicians you've seldom or ...
