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Macedonian National Jazz Orchestra Honors Quincy Jones
by Nenad Georgievski
Macedonian National Jazz Orchestra Macedonian Philharmonic Hall Skopje, Macedonia January 24, 2025 The National Jazz Orchestra kicked off its new season with a vibrant homage to Quincy Jones, one of the most influential musical figures of the 20th century. The concert, titled Jazz Classics: Quintessence by Quincy Jones, took place ...
Sam Blakeslee Large Group at BLU Jazz+
by John Chacona
Sam Blakeslee Large Group BLU Jazz+ Akron, OH December 20, 2024 In December, flowers bloomed in northeast Ohio, but climate change had nothing to do with it. The sudden blossoming was the work of Sam Blakeslee who returned to his home state to celebrate the holidays with family and friends, 18 ...
Al Jarreau: Wow: Live at the Childe Harold
by Mark Corroto
Al Jarreau gained nationwide recognition with the theme to the 1985 hit television show “Moonlighting," which starred Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis. He also had a chart-topping single “We're In This Love Together." Before he was a pop star, R&B singer, and a successful cross-over artist, Al Jarreau was the purest of jazz talents. He gained ...
The Duke Ellington Carnegie Hall Concerts: January 1943
by Chuck Lenatti
Duke Ellington was one of the most popular and successful jazz musicians of the first half of the 20th century and according to composer Gunther Schuller and musicologist and historian Barry Kernfeld, “the most significant composer of the genre." Radio broadcasts from his residency at New York's Cotton Club beginning in 1927 extended Ellington's ...
Remembering Quincy Jones: Music Is Like Water
by Ian Patterson
Quincy Jones, a giant of popular music culture in the 20th and 21st centuries, died in Los Angeles on Sunday, November 3, He was 91. Though he began his career in the '50s as a jazz trumpeter, Quincy Jones may be best remembered as a highly successful producer, arranger and conductor--hats he wore with ...
Quincy Jones: An Evening With A Legend
by Solomon J. LeFlore
This article was first published on All About Jazz on October 31, 2014. I love jazz! I love everything about it... the improvisation, syncopation, the forceful rhythm, and the fact that it is truly America's original art form. Its unique and innovative use of brass and woodwind instruments and the piano is jazz. And, ...
Three types of albums from ezz-thetics
by John Eyles
In 1975 Werner X. Uehlinger founded the Swiss-based HatHut label which mainly released jazz by such illustrious names as Anthony Braxton, Steve Lacy, Joe McPhee, Max Roach and Cecil Taylor. The labels Hat MUSICS and Hat ART followed in 1981. !997 brought hatOLOGY and hat(now)ART, the latter issuing modern compositions by the likes of John Cage ...
Wynton Marsalis’ The Shanghai Suite At Hong Kong Academy For Performing Arts
by Rob Garratt
Lincoln Centre Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis Lyric Theatre, The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts “An Evening of Swing" & “Wynton Marsalis' Birthday Celebration" Hong Kong October 17-18, 2024 How does Wynton Marsalis spend his birthday? On the road, of course. The venerable champion of all things jazzy and ...
Isrea Butler: Congo Lament
by Jack Bowers
After decades gigging as a sideman with some of the USA's most renowned big bands, trombonist Isrea Butler has finally recorded his debut album, Congo Lament, inviting tenor saxophonist and celebrated Count Basie Orchestra soloist Doug Lawrence to share the front line in his quintet. All but one of the album's seven numbers ...
