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Kongsberg Jazz Festival Unveils First Shows
On February 1, 2012, Norway's Kongsberg Jazz Festival unveiled the first series of shows scheduled for its 2012 edition, running from July 4-7, 2012. In addition to its collaboration with Music Export Norway and All About Jazz on the All About Jazz Presents: Doing It Norway series, encompassing seven shows curated by AAJ Managing Editor John ...
Skelton Skinner All Stars / Clare Fischer Big Band / Ron Carter's Great Big Band
by Jack Bowers
Skelton Skinner Allstars Big BandCookin' with the Lid OnDiving Duck Records2012 Back in the late 1950s, vibraphonist Terry Gibbs (with some help from his friends) put together an ensemble that became known as the Terry Gibbs Dream Band, took up residence in Hollywood and began blowing audiences ...
Romance and the Silver Screen This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
This week, Riverwalk Jazz presents a Valentine's Day concert of classic love songs side by side with soundtrack clips of love scenes from the films that made them popular hits. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website. The ...
Jose Garcia: Songs For A Lifetime, Live
by Edward Blanco
A truly impressive recording by a jazz singer from a most unlikely place Songs For a Lifetime, Live is the debut by Jose Garcia, from Tecate, Mexico. A self-taught guitarist who grew up exposed to a variety of music including jazz, Garcia was invariably drawn to singers of music from The Great American Songbook. Concentrating on ...
Chris McNulty: A Siren From Down Under
by Ludwig vanTrikt
Chris McNulty emigrated to New York City, from her native home in Melbourne, Australia, in 1988. Since then she's released five recordings, with Waltz For Debby (Discovery, 1991) first introducing the Australian singer to American audiences. On that record, she wrote what would ultimately become the official, published lyrics to Miles Davis' classic “Blue in Green." ...
Alan Leatherman: Detour Ahead
by Doug Collette
Two tracks into Alan Leatherman's Detour Ahead and the phrase “sweet soul music" comes to mind. But this isn't the rarified realm of Sam Cooke or Otis Redding with ballads. Rather, Leatherman resides--and comfortably so--in the role of classic torch singer Careful phrasing, perfect breath control and deep emotion earmark the title song, “Blame ...
Elly Hoyt: Elly Hoyt
by Ian Patterson
Tasmanian-born Elly Hoyt's self-titled debut catapulted her into the forefront of the jazz scene Down Under, winning the coveted Bell Award for Best Australian Jazz Vocal Album in 2011. Australian jazz is perhaps stronger than ever, with a veritable wealth of young musicians emerging and festivals popping up like 'roos, and this award serves meaningful notice ...
"Chico & Rita" Set In The Jazz Worlds of Havana, NY & Europe, Opens February 10
The multi-award winning and critically acclaimed Chico & Rita, set in the jazz worlds of Havana, New York, and Europe, opens its US theatrical run on February 10 at NYC's Angelika Film Center (18 W. Houston St., 212-995-2570) before expanding nationally. The film by Academy Award® winning director Fernando Trueba (Belle Epoque) won Best Animated Feature ...
Tom Szczesniak: Waltz for Bill
by Edward Blanco
Toronto, Canada-based Tom Szczesniak is a veteran pianist, composer and arranger who has spent a portion of his professional life writing scores for over 100 films and numerous television shows. Settling in Canada in 1973 after a stint with the U.S. Air Force band in Washington, DC, Szczesniak has also worked extensively as a sideman on ...
Take Five With Rory Hoffman
by AAJ Staff
Meet Rory Hoffman: I was raised in a musical family, playing drums in the country gospel family band by the time I was five. Twice named musician of the year, 2004--2005, by the ICMA, based in Nashville, TN. Moved to Nashville in the spring of 2008. I currently work as a freelance touring and ...
