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Article: Live Review

Guinness Cork Jazz Festival: Cork, Ireland October 28-31, 2011

by Ian McLaren
November 12, 2011

Guinness Cork Jazz Festival 2011Cork, IrelandOctober 28-31, 2011One of the few nice things about October is the pleasure of returning to Cork, the perfect city for a jazz festival, and being met by that great Irish hospitality. Arriving at the airport, all shiny and modern, and wondering how to get into town, suddenly ...

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Article: Big Band Report

"Modern Sounds," or: Running a Marathon in Full Body Armor

by Jack Bowers
November 8, 2011

From October 19-25 Betty and I were at the Los Angeles Marriott Airport Hotel to attend Modern Sounds, the L.A. Jazz Institute's four-day salute to West Coast jazz, followed by a day-long tribute to Stan Kenton on the hundredth anniversary of the legendary bandleader's birth. We arrived a day early to be primed and ready for ...

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Article: Book Review

Tad Hershorn: Norman Granz - The Man Who Used Jazz for Justice

by Lewis J Whittington
October 30, 2011

Norman Granz: The Man Who Used Jazz for Justice Tad Hershorn Hardcover, 488 pages University of California Press ISBN: 9780520267824 2011 Impresario Norman Granz changed the course of jazz in so many ways, as creator of the Jazz At The Philharmonic (JATP) tour package and as founder of Verve ...

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News: Recording

New from Legacy: Tony Bennett's "The Classic Christmas Album"

October 27, 2011

14-time Grammy Award®-winning Columbia Records artist Tony Bennett turns his attention to his timeless catalog of Christmas recordings and personally picks 18 of his favorites—including one brand new, previously unreleased tune, “What Child Is This"—for The Classic Christmas Album. The new collection will be available everywhere starting October 11th through Columbia/RPM/Legacy, a division of SONY MUSIC ...

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Article: Live Review

Gerald Wilson: New York, NY, September 30, 2011

by Louis Heckheimer
October 22, 2011

Gerald Wilson, Anthony Wilson, Eric Otis and the Juilliard Jazz Orchestra Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, New York, NY September 30, 2011 There are jazz players who've had extended careers, and then there's Gerald Wilson. The veteran composer, arranger and big band leader might well be able to claim the longest major recording ...

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Article: Interview

Tom Everett: Jazz at Harvard

by Andrew J. Sammut
October 18, 2011

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 ...

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Article: Album Review

Deborah Winters: Lovers After All

Read "Lovers After All" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
October 18, 2011

Placing vocalists under a specific, descriptive heading can be limiting in some ways, but it also shines a light on their greatest strengths. Singer Joe Williams--of Count Basie fame--resented being labeled as a “blues singer," since he possessed great range and felt that this tag had suggestions of racism behind it; few would argue, however, that ...

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Article: Big Band Caravan

Rodger Fox's Wellington Jazz Orchestra / Sammy Nestico-SWR Big Band / Gran Canaria Big Band

by Jack Bowers
October 11, 2011

Rodger Fox's Wellington Jazz OrchestraJourney HomeTbone Records2011 Alan Broadbent and Rodger Fox's Wellington Jazz Orchestra: a rendezvous that took many years to bring about and is clearly long overdue--but as the saying goes, better late than never (in this case, much better!). Broadbent, a Grammy-winning composer / arranger ...

Article: Big Band Report

Heigh Ho, Heigh Ho, It's Off To Jazz We Go . . .

by Jack Bowers
October 9, 2011

Just west of Albuquerque, across the Rio Grande River, lies the picturesque village of Corrales (population around 7,500). Among its residents (and natural resources) is world-renowned jazz trumpeter Bobby Shew. With a musician of his caliber within arm's reach, it would have been imprudent not to call upon him to take part in the village's Music ...

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Article: Album Review

Frank Sinatra & Count Basie: Sinatra-Basie: The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings

Read "Sinatra-Basie: The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings" reviewed by Todd Gordon

by Todd Gordon
October 6, 2011

Fifty years ago, Reprise Records heralded its first release. The label was founded by singer/actor/entertainer Frank Sinatra, who had been with Capitol Records since 1953 and was yearning for total creative freedom; something he felt was denied to him, despite his enormous commercial and critical success. His own first release on the label ...