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Jazz Faculty Quintet: Wayne, NJ, July 23, 2012
by David A. Orthmann
Jazz Faculty QuintetWilliam Paterson University 19th Annual Summer Jazz WeekWayne, NJJuly 23, 2012A tribute to the music of Thad Jones by the summer jazz faculty of William Paterson University encompassed a live performance, as well as lessons in history and mythology. Armed with tenor and soprano saxophones, a wealth of knowledge, ...
Richie Vitale: Vitalogy
by Edward Blanco
Richie Vitale is a fixture of the New York music scene, a veteran trumpeter with a resume that includes The Buddy Rich Big Band, Count Basie and Duke Ellington, the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra and the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra. Vitalogy is not a big band recording, but features Vitale in a quintet format blowing through a ...
Mike LeDonne: Where There’s Smoke
by Bob Kenselaar
Mike LeDonne has more than made his mark in jazz over the years, on both piano and organ. One of the New York jazz scene's premier instrumentalists, he's long been a favorite of fellow musicians. “He is incredible," said the late Oscar Peterson, who once described how he would rush to hear LeDonne play every night ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Count Basie
All About Jazz is celebrating Count Basie's birthday today! Bill Basie studied music with his mother as a child and played piano in early childhood. He picked up the basics of early ragtime from some of the great Harlem pianists and studied organ informally with Fats Waller. He made his professional debut as an accompanist for ...
Roomful of Blues to Perform in Monroeville, NJ
The horn-fueled, jumping, swinging, award-winning band, Roomful of Blues, touring in support of their latest Alligator CD, Hook, Line & Sinker, will perform live at Camp Jam in the Pines in Monroeville on Saturday, September 15, 2012. Roomful of Blues, according to DownBeat magazine, “are in a class by themselves." Since 1967, the group's deeply rooted ...
This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: Goodman, Shaw & Dorsey: Big Band Leaders And Their Small Combos.
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, The Jim Cullum Jazz Band remembers hot jazz from the small combos of the Swing Era with “At the Codfish Ball” from the Clambake Seven, “Summit Ridge Drive” from the Gramercy Five, “Moonglow” from the Goodman Quartet, and the Ellington small groups with a composition by Cootie Williams, “A Toasted Pickle.” ...
Blues Harmonica Icon Curtis Salgado Brings 'Soul Shot' to Sellersville, PA
Award-winning vocalist/songwriter/harmonica icon Curtis Salgado will celebrate the release of his blistering Alligator Records debut CD, Soul Shot, with a live performance at the Sellersville Theater in Sellersville on Wednesday, August 29, 2012. Winner of the 2012 Blues Music Award for Soul Blues Artist Of The Year, Salgado effortlessly mixes R&B, funk and blues with a ...
Booking Jazz: A Subjective Guide
by Bruce Klauber
There is no rule book, reference work or formal set of regulations that club and restaurant owners can consult about how to book and present jazz.There was a quasi-model of sorts in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, given the proliferation of cafés, boites, bistros, bars, ballrooms, and all types of nightspots that used live ...
Romain Collin: Unearthing A Sound
by Ian Patterson
The environment one grows up in is undoubtedly hugely influential in a person's life. Pianist Romain Collins grew up just stone's throw from the site of the Antibes Jazz Festival, and his exposure to some of the greats of jazz there as a youngster may have had a lot to do with his later decision to ...
Red Bank Jazz Orchestra: Red Bank Jazz Orchestra: Strike Up The Band!
by Craig Dowd
With the sheer number of ghost bands and regional orchestras currently active in America, many of which hold fast to the grave of sophisticated pre-war swing, the supply of tributes to our finest composers is never in jeopardy of being exhausted. But volume breeds vapidness, and most offerings to this province, with their prosaic interpretations and ...
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