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Dan Nimmer
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Dan Nimmer was born in 1982 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. An old soul in a young body, Mr. Nimmer plays with the spirit, the passion and the soul of someone who has been on the planet much longer. With prodigious technique and innate sense of swing, his playing often recalls that of his own heroes, specifically Oscar Peterson, Wynton Kelly, Erroll Garner and Art Tatum. As a young man, Mr. Nimmer's family inherited a piano and he started playing by ear; he was, if you will, "called" by the instrument. Soon, he asked his parents for some piano lessons. He then began to study classical music with pianist Barbara Bunge
The Democracy! Suite
By Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
Label: Blue Engine Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Be Present; Sloganize, Patronize, Realize, Revolutionize (Black Lives Matter); Ballot Box Bounce; That Dance
That We Do;
Deeper Than Dreams; Out Amongst the People (For J Bat); It Come 'Round 'Gin; Tjat's When All Will See.
The Democracy Now! Suite
Label: Blue Engine Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Be present; Sloganize, Patronize, Realize, Revolutionize (Black Lives Matter); Ballot Box Bounce; The Dance We Do (That You
Love Too); Deeper Than Dreams; Out Amongst tjhe People (for J Bat); It Come 'Round 'Gin; That's When All Will See
2021 NEA Jazz Masters Tribute Concert to Take Place Virtually April 22, 2021
Join the celebration of the 2021 NEA Jazz Masters as the National Endowment for the Arts, in collaboration with SFJAZZ, presents a virtual tribute concert in honor of Terri Lyne Carrington, Albert “Tootie” Heath, Henry Threadgill, and Phil Schaap (2021 A.B. Spellman NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship for Jazz Advocacy). The 2021 NEA Jazz Masters Tribute Concert ...
Sofijazz
Label: Archival Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: 1. Superhero
2. Te Gosto
3. Lies of Handsome Men
4. Happy Talk
5. You're Everything
6. Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most
7. Criticize
8. Outside
9. Batida Diferente
10. Clover
11. Bluez
12. Kisa Pada
13. Sejdefu
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis: The Music of Wayne Shorter
by Chris M. Slawecki
As a saxophonist, founding member of Weather Report and member of Miles Davis' second great acoustic quintet, it won't be hard to find Wayne Shorter's name in the pages of modern jazz history. But the massive The Music of Wayne Shorter highlights a sometimes-overlooked element of Shorter's musicianship: His ability to compose, which has contributed “Footprints," ...
Innervisions, Improvisations and Other Jazz Fevers
by Chris M. Slawecki
Lili Añel Better Days Winding Way Records 2019 Singer-songwriter Lili Añel and Better Days sound cut straight out of the northeast US. It's more than the geographic location of Añel's birth (Spanish Harlem, “El Barrio," in New York) or raised (South Bronx), and it's more than ...
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis: Big Band Holidays II
by Chris M. Slawecki
Jazz at Lincoln Center Big Band Holiday concerts, featuring the JALC Orchestra with Managing and Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis and guests, are a welcome addition to New York City holiday jazz traditions. Big Band Holidays II presents the second set of live recordings from these concerts beginning from 2015, the year that the JALC Orchestra released ...
Back in the Day, Around the World
by Chris M. Slawecki
Brooklyn Funk Essentials Stay Good Dorado Records 2019 Back in the day, jazz bands like Roy Ayers' Ubiquity and soul bands like the Ohio Players played more than jazz and soul. Jazz and soul were their main ingredient, but only one ingredient among others stirred in ...
2019 Detroit Jazz Festival
by C. Andrew Hovan
Detroit Jazz Festival Hart Plaza Detroit, Michigan August 30-September 2, 2019 According to the official count, the 40th edition of the largest free jazz festival in North America drew a record crowd numbering some 325,000. Boasting four stages as part of the festival footprint, there seemed to be a reduction in ...
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