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Ray Scro: What Jazz Education Means
by Andrew J. Sammut
For Ray Scro, music education is a redundancy. He's been performing, studying and teaching music for nearly fifty years in his home of Staten Island, and throughout New York City. In the early seventies Scro studied under saxophonist and guru Lee Konitz, and he's played with Jimmy Knepper, Chuck Wayne, Charlie Persip, and Chico Hamilton, among ...
Newport Jazz Festival 2011, 4-7 de agosto
by Joan A. Cararach
Newport Jazz FestivalDel 4 al 7 de agosto, 2011Newport, Rhode Island, Estados Unidos Prólogo: como Moisés en Fort Adams (y cantando con Pete Seeger) Un carrito de golf se detiene en la entrada del túnel que lleva del llamado escenario Quad al Harbor Stage. Chubasqueros y paraguas se detienen ante ...
Modern Jazz Quartet: The Complete Atlantic Studio Recordings 1956-64
by Eugene Holley, Jr.
The Modern Jazz Quartet The Complete Atlantic Studio Recordings of The Modern Jazz Quartet 1956-64 Mosaic Records 2011 They were diverse in talent and temperament. John Lewis, the quiet and determined westerner, who told sound stories with his linear and logical blues-based pianisms; Milt “Bags" Jackson, the baggy eyed, Motor ...
Randy Weston All Nite Soul 2011 Honoree at Saint Peter’s Church Sunday, October 9th
On this, the 41st anniversary of All Nite Soul, the Jazz Ministry of Saint Peter's Churchthe Jazz Churchis thrilled to honor Randy Weston, NEA Jazz Master, composer and pianist. On Friday, October 7 at 4 PM, in preparation for All Nite Soul, David Schroeder interviews Randy Weston with a book signing of Weston's autobiography African Rhythms. ...
Evan Parker & konstruKt: Live at Akbank Jazz Festival
by Jerry D'Souza
The Akbank Jazz Festival, which is held annually across several venues in Istanbul, Turkey, gives local acts the opportunity to play with international musicians. The venue lures some big names, with the Sun Ra Arkestra, John Surman, the Count Basie Orchestra and Evan Parker among those who have performed in the past. konstruKt performed with Peter ...
Ari Hoenig: Lines of Oppression
by John Kelman
When Bill Evans began building trios that represented a collaboration of equals rather than soloist accompanied by rhythm section, it's unlikely the late pianist could have envisioned the way Jean-Michel Pilc, bassist François Moutin and drummer Ari Hoenig wowed fans at a 2011 Ottawa International Jazz Festival performance. Bringing new meaning to the phrase egalitarian," each ...
Big Band Jazz: It's Not Just for Guys Anymore
by Jack Bowers
Back in the early '90s, Stanley Kay, one-time back-up drummer for the incomparable Buddy Rich, later a manager of such artists as Maurice Hines, Michelle Lee and Paul Burke and the entertainment director for the New York Yankees, had a good idea: the time had come, he reasoned, to assemble an all-woman big band that would ...
Modern Jazz Quartet: The Complete Atlantic Studio Recordings 1956-64
by John Kelman
Even now, nearly sixty years later, it seems improbable that a group which came together as the rhythm section for one of the hottest players in bebop's genesis era, trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, could morph into a standalone group that was the epitome of grace, elegance and cool dignity. But that's exactly what happened when Gillespie recruited ...
NEA Jazz Masters Program Morphs into Museum of Jazz Masters
By Fradley Garner It's happened every year since 1982, but it won't again after 2012, when the honors- loaded gravy train arrives at its 30th and last stop. The National Endowment for the Arts' Jazz Master Awards, America's highest honor in its own music genre, then goes the way of the space shuttle. For three decades, ...
NEA Statement on the Death of NEA Jazz Master Frank Foster
NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman's Statement on the Death of NEA Jazz Master Frank Foster On behalf of the National Endowment for the Arts, it is with great sadness that I acknowledge the passing of 2002 NEA Jazz Master Frank Foster. An extraordinary saxophonist, composer, arranger, bandleader, and educator, Frank Foster's contributions to jazz are numerous. We ...


