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The Story of Jazz Trumpet
by AAJ Staff
The trumpet was the lead instrument in early jazz: it is the loudest solo instrument, the natural leader of a group of individuals, if you will. So, early trumpet pioneer Buddy Bolden (there is a photograph of him with a jazz band in 1894!) is most likely the first known jazzman simply because he was a ...
Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne
by C. Michael Bailey
Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne James Gavin Hardcover; 608 pages ISBN: 0743271432 Simon and Schuster 2009...it just keeps rainin' all the time... If James Gavin's biography of trumpeter Chet Baker, Deep In A Dream (Knopf, 2002), was a study of the slow ...
Deck the Halls with Big Band Carols
by Jack Bowers
With the holiday season on track and hastening toward us like a runaway locomotive, it's time once again to hunker down and prepare for the annual onslaught of “Rudolph," “Frosty the Snowman," “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus," “Sleigh Ride," “Silver Bells," chestnuts roasting on an open fire and everyone's perennial favorite, “White Christmas." Not to ...
Helsinki Jazz Festival Moves to the Islands
by Anthony Shaw
Viapori Jazz Suomenlinna Islands, Helsinki, Finland August 26-29, 2009 In 1855 the British Navy did their very best to obliterate this fortress of seven linked islands just off the entrance to the harbor of Helsinki. The two-day bombardment is said to have sent almost 200 tons of iron raining down ...
Jazz Middelheim 2009
by Martin Longley
Jazz Middelheim 2009Park Den BrandtAntwerpenBelgium The Jazz Middelheim festival is nearing its fortieth anniversary, but it's a weekender that hasn't relinquished a fondness for adventure. Nuzzling up against its stellar bookings are acts, Belgian and otherwise, who seek to jolt the expectations of many audience members. The entertaining middle way ...
Pianist Mark Berman ("Sex and the City") at NYC's Top of the Rock Wed. 9/23
Mark Berman, jazz piano star notable for his hot montuno piano playing on the “Sex and the City” theme song, brings his jazz trio to the 67th Floor Weather Room at the Top of the Rock, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, this coming Wednesday evening September 23, from 6PM – 8PM. The Mark Berman Trio kicks off the ...
Randy Brecker: Nostaglic Journey: Tykocin Jazz Suite
by Dan McClenaghan
Trumpeter Randy Brecker's jazz credentials are of the highest order. The Brecker Brothers, the group he co-led with younger brother/saxophonist Michael, was one of the most successful jazz/funk/fusion groups of the 1970s and '80s. But jazz snobbery/elitism never ran in the family. Brecker has played and recorded with seemingly everybody, from the original Blood, Sweat and ...
Roger Rosenberg: Baritone Madness
by John Coltelli
It was a late morning in a junior high school located in Long Beach, New York when a lonely, rarely used baritone saxophone chose an adolescent student named Roger Rosenberg as its sole and rightful owner. Moved by his music teachers' offer that whoever was willing to learn the instrument could own it, the youthful student ...
Aa.Vv.: I Grandi Concerti - The Brass Group Palermo - Vol. 2
by AAJ Italy Staff
Ad un anno di distanza dal capitolo d'esordio ecco il secondo volume del progetto ideato e curato dal nostro collaboratore Maurizio Zerbo con l'intento di dare testimonianza all'attività del Brass Group di Palermo e alle straordinarie stagioni concertistiche che hanno visto esibirsi il gotha del jazz mondiale. Altra peculiarità di queste registrazione la presenza, a fianco ...
Chet Baker / The Bradley Young Trio: Chet In Chicago
by Andrew Velez
The reservation approaching this late-in-his-career and previously unreleased 1986 set happily proved to be unwarranted. Attending a dismal Chet Baker set in a brief-lived New York Village club that same year left me sad and depressed at the state of his playing and appearance, vowing to enjoy him only on record. Yet here he is in ...
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