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'Clark' is the Autobiography of a Jazz Giant
Clark Terry Tells His Story Clark Terry is one of the bright, indomitable spirits in American music. Of course, jazz is his specialty and he's never run from the term or tried to change or over-explain it. He embraces jazz and is unabashed about his love for it. That's obvious to anyone who's seen him perform ...
Tribute to Red Allen This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
This week, Riverwalk Jazz pays tribute to Henry 'Red' Allen, one of the last great trumpeters to come out of New Orleans in the 1920s. Joining the Jim Cullum Jazz Band on the bandstand at The Landing in San Antonio are Bay Area multi-instrumentalist Clint Baker, New Orleans clarinetist Evan Christopher, New York clarinet legend Kenny ...
The Four Bags: Forth
by Glenn Astarita
The musicians who comprise this indubitably inventive New York City-based quartet have respectively performed with the likes of Anthony Braxton, Lee Konitz and Clark Terry, in addition to large-scale symphonies and orchestras. Ultimately, the artists' diverse resumes and many-sided viewpoints effectively transfer to this rather sprightly multi-format program, spanning countless applications, yet cohesively shaped into an ...
Ellington's 3-minute Masterpieces This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, The Jim Cullum Jazz Band and special guest Dick Hyman present a program of jewel-like short jazz pieces from the Duke Ellington repertoire. Broadway actor Vernel Bagneris brings to life scenes from Ellington's legendary life in first-person accounts. Other guests include New Orleans singer Topsy Chapman, trumpeters Nicholas Payton and Clark ...
Tom Everett: Jazz at Harvard
by Andrew J. Sammut
It's no accident that forty years of jazz at Harvard coincides with forty years of Tom Everett at the esteemed university. Everett founded Harvard University's first student jazz band, taught its first jazz history course and welcomed the campus' first visiting jazz artist. He now leads two jazz bands at the prestigious university, continues to teach ...
Clark: The Autobiography of Clark Terry
Clark Terry (Author), Gwen Terry (Editor), Bill Cosby (Foreword), Quincy Jones (Preface) Compelling from cover to cover, this is the story of one of the most recorded and beloved jazz trumpeters of all time. With unsparing honesty and a superb eye for detail, Clark Terry, born in 1920, takes us from his impoverished childhood in St. ...
STLJN Audio Archive: Clark Terry and Bob Brookmeyer - The Power of Positive Swinging
For this week's Audio Archive post, we once again visit the extensive catalog of trumpeter and St. Louis native Clark Terry for The Power of Positive Swinging, a 1965 album that teams him with Kansas City native Bob Brookmeyer. Originally was issued on the Mainstream label and preserved online via the music sharing blog Musica des ...
Jazz Bridge Presents Larry McKenna at the Unitarian Universalist Church on October 19th
Opening our new season of Jazz Bridge Neighborhood Concerts at Jazz in Media! will be saxophonist Larry McKenna at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 145 W. Rose Tree Road in Media, PA, on October 19th, 2011. With him will be vibraphonist Tony Miceli, bassist Kevin McConnell and drummer Dan Monahan. One Show: 7:30-9 p.m. $10/$5 students. No ...
Alan Barnes & William Ellis - Live! Scarborough Jazz Festival, September 25th
William Ellis is one of the world's leading jazz photographers and also an informative and highly entertaining speaker who has given talks on his work internationally. In this show, as his photographs are screened, William gives us the story behind each shot, and saxophonist Alan Barnes leads an all-star band performing a piece by each selected ...
Justin Kauflin: Blind VA Beach Pianist Jazzed to Be Competing in DC
Virginia Beach-reared Justin Kauflin strolled onto the stage for the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition on Sunday with a grin on his face and his guide dog, Candy, at his side. After settling in at the keyboards, and settling his black Labrador onto the floor beside him, he proceeded to play for a chance at ...
