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Al Hood: Just a Little Taste: Al Hood Plays the Writing of Dave Henson
by Chris M. Slawecki
You might not know trumpet player Al Hood, but he's the pro's pro: he's toured with the official Harry James and Glenn Miller tribute bands, recorded and performed in ensembles led by Ray Charles, Curtis Fuller, Arturo Sandoval and others, and is a longstanding member of the Denver Brass. He's also a tenured professor at the ...
Organ Donations Welcome: Larry Goldings, Gary Versace, Jared Gold
by Mark Corroto
Organ jazz records flow into and out of our consciousness evoking memories of the roots of jazz, R&B and easy listening, but also awakening us to the possibilities of new musical exploration. Whatever inspired Wild Bill Davis, Milt Buckner and Jimmy Smith to take up the organ may never be known. Maybe it was ...
Newport 2009: One for the Ages
by Sandy Ingham
Newport Jazz Festival 2009George Wein's CareFusion Jazz Festival 55International Tennis Hall of Fame and Fort Adams State ParkNewport, Rhode IslandAugust 7-9, 2009“We have three stages now, and I wish we could have more to give all these young musicians a chance to be heard," Newport jazz festival founder (and ...
George Wein's CareFusion Jazz Festival 55 a Triumph
by R.J. DeLuke
There seemed to be a distinct feeling in the air at this year's jazz festival in Newport, R.I. It would be easy to imagine that there was something in the air, because the festival that was started by impresario George Wein way back in 1954 and became the model for all to follow had suffered an ...
Newport Jazz Festival 55: A Weekend to Savor
by Ken Franckling
George Wein's CareFusion Jazz Festival 55Newport, Rhode IslandAugust 7-9, 2009In this 40th anniversary summer of Woodstock, the musical love-in took place in Newport, not upstate New York. And it wasn't a matter of nostalgia. It was all about the Phoenix-like return of the jazz festival after a winter of uncertainty. Once ...
George Wein's CareFusion Jazz Festival 55
In Newport, RI, August 7 - 9, 2009 and CAREFUSION NEW YORK JAZZ FESTIVAL in New York City, June 2010 New Names for Jazz Festivals at Historic Sites NEW YORK, NY, David Schlotterbeck, CEO of CareFusion, announced today that the corporation will be the title sponsor for George Wein's Jazz Festival 55 in Newport, RI. In ...
Lee Morgan: Tom Cat
by Matt Marshall
Lee Morgan Tom Cat Blue Note / Music Matters 2008 (1980) Tom Cat continues Music Matter's program of re-releasing generally unavailable Blue Note sessions from the 1950s and 1960s on 45-rpm vinyl double albums. As Michael Cuscuna explains in the liner notes from the original 1980 release, Tom Cat was ...
Relentless Groove: The Life of Jymie Merritt
by Christopher Slone
Over the past fifty years there have been many stalwarts who've directed the course of jazz, but none is more deserving of tribute than Jymie Merritt. Although he has been unjustly under-recognized, his muscular bass playing has anchored many of this music's most prestigious ensembles, and in the process, he has helped to shape the genre ...
Legendary Jazz Club Baker's Celebrates 75 Years
4 days of special programming to highlight Baker's anniversary The owner of Baker's Keyboard Lounge, Detroit's legendary jazz club on the brink of its 75th anniversary, pauses as he considers the question: What's your most memorable night at the club? Advertisement A big smile spreads across John Colbert's face and he reaches for scrapbook photos of ...
Fulfilling what has been lacking...
by AAJ Staff
By Mickey Bass Jazz, as we once knew it, has become a thing of the past. For a lot of years clubs and promoters have been saying that this music is dead. My response to that statement is, “How can jazz be dead when its creators are still alive and well and creating?" ...
