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Sonny Brings the Presents to His Own 80th Birthday
by Dan Morgenstern
Sonny Brings the Presents To His Own 80th Birthday Sonny Rollins threw himself an 80th birthday party at New York's restored Beacon Theater on September 10 --he was born on the 7th-- and it was he who brought the gifts. And what a cornucopia! This was one of those rare times when you ...
All Nite Soul at Saint Peter's Church Tonight at 7pm!
From the desk of Fradley Garner Last Reminder: There are a few seats left for this Sunday, October 10, at 7:00 p.m., when over 80 musicians and many more fans meet at Saint Peter's Church, Manhattan, for the 40th annual All Nite Soul. This year's honoree is 88-year-old Frank Wess, an old-school tenor saxophonist and flutist ...
A Hot Night in the Old Town
by Dan Morgenstern
What might well be the most spartan jazz club anywhere (if you didn't know it was there, you'd walk right past it) is The Stone, way down at Avenue C and East 2nd Street in Manhattan. Founded by John Zorn, the avant-garde composer, arranger and record producer, as a venue for intrepid music, it's a new ...
August 2010
by Fradley Garner
Two East Coast Big Bands specialize in music of the 1920s and '30s. Vince Giordano and His Nighthawks share the pre-Swing era with Long Island trombonist Ray Osnato and his South Shore Syncopators, a 10-piece band with five singers whose performances mimic a 1930s radio show, complete with honey-tongued announcer. Like Giordano, Osnato started young, collecting ...
Louis Armstrong: The Complete Louis Armstrong Decca Sessions (1935-1946)
by David Rickert
Louis Armstrong The Complete Louis Armstrong Decca Sessions (1935-1946) Mosaic Records 2009 As far as recordings by trumpeter Louis Armstrong go, the Decca recordings don't generate much interest. Prior to them came the Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings, the most influential jazz recordings ever made and ...
Farewell, Sir John
by Jack Bowers
Some of us are old enough to remember when Sir John Dankworth was simply Johnny Dankworth, and quite simply one of the finest jazz musicians Great Britain has ever produced. Johnny became Sir John in 2006 when he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth, nine years after his wife, the marvelous singer Cleo Laine, was made a ...
Big Awards Day in Gotham
by Dan Morgenstern
It's been a while since we last met in my Den, so I thought I'd share a very special summer doubleheader with you.June 16 was a big jazz day in New York. It began in mid-afternoon at the Jazz Standard, with the 13th Annual Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Awards. Arriving not long after starting ...
Living with Jazz: A Reader
by Joel Roberts
Dan Morgenstern Living With Jazz, A Reader Pantheon Books 736 pages ISBN: 037542072X Living With Jazz is an apt title for this long overdue first published collection of Dan Morgenstern's writings. The veteran scribe - a former Down Beat editor, current head of Rutgers University's respected Institute of ...
Living With Jazz
by David Rickert
Dan Morgenstern Living With Jazz, A Reader Pantheon Books 736 pages ISBN: 037542072X Dan Morgenstern is the director of the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers, a former editor and contributor for Down Beat , and author of Jazz People , one of the finest histories of jazz ...
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