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Dan Block

The Harry Allen Orchestra: With Roses

by Pierre Giroux
July 5, 2023

Harry Allen is a tenor saxophonist's tenor saxophonist with an elegant tone and swinging style in the manner of Scott Hamilton, Lester Young or Ben Webster. He has a well-rounded discography of over 70 releases as a leader and many others as a sideman. Over the course of his prolific career, Allen has appeared with the ...

Meet Saxophonist Zoe Obadia

by Sanford Josephson
September 1, 2022

This article first appeared in Jersey Jazz Magazine. In April 2019, alto saxophonist Zoe Obadia sat in with the Bill Charlap Trio to play Dave Brubeck's “Time Out" at International Jazz Day. “I was definitely very nervous to sit in with such an established and refined trio," she said," but I had fun and ...

Early Blue Evening

By Andy Farber

Label: ArtistShare
Released: 2021
Track listing: Don’t Tell Me What to Do; Feet and Frames; The Holidaymakers; Aircheck; Early Blue Evening; Fanfare on Fairfax; Cork Grease and Valve Oil; Portrait of Joe Temperley; Symphony for Doctor “T”; Theme from The Odd Couple; How Am I to Know?

Beautiful Minds - Celebrating Extraordinary Women

By Sarah Partridge

Label: Tiger Turn
Released: 2021
Track listing: Sky Sweeper 5:08 Blues In Maryam’s Truth 7:55 A Double Life 5:00 Stella Splendida (Bright Star) 3:28 Against The Current 4:10 She Who Stayed To Prove The Day 5:22 Courage Is A Woman 6:13 Rise Up! 4:18 Queen Of Disguise 5:40 Adorn The World 3:42

Charlotte Jazz Festival 2019

by Perry Tannenbaum
May 13, 2019

Patina Miller, The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, The Future of Jazz Orchestra, Maria Muldaur, Carlos Henriquez, Paul Nedzela, and Donna Hopkins Charlotte Jazz Festival Charlotte, NC May 1-4, 2019 Presented by the Leon Levine Foundation and staged by Blumenthal Performing Arts, the Charlotte Jazz Festival is continuing to grow incrementally ...

Block Party

By Dan Block

Label: Miles High Records
Released: 2018

No, No, No

May 4, 2018

Album: Block Party
By Dan Block
Label: Miles High Records
Released: 2018
Duration: 6:57

Bill Warfield: For Lew

by Jack Bowers
April 18, 2018

The “Lew" referred to on Renaissance man Bill Warfield's latest big-band album, For Lew, is the late trumpeter Lew Soloff, whom Warfield remembers in the liner notes as “my mentor, colleague, friend and inspiration." The inspiration arrived when the teen-age Warfield, who had switched from trumpet to piano after losing his front teeth in an auto ...

2016: The Year in Jazz

by Ken Franckling
January 2, 2017

The year 2016 bubbled with events and initiatives to strengthen jazz's place in American and world culture, as well as a variety of venue openings, closings and cancellations. Jazz hit the silver screen in many ways throughout the year, and International Jazz Day continued to thrive--complete with a major all-star concert at the White House. Pop ...