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Bill Taylor Remembered Thomas "Fats" Waller
By Daniel Kassell Billy Taylor was a generous man. His enthusiasm relating his memories of seeing Fats and how that influenced his piano style was contagious. To me “Billy was it! He cut it, man!" I offer this in tribute to our greatest jazz media personality. At the International Association of Jazz Educators Convention publicist Arnold ...
Love Songs by Champian Fulton
by Daniel Kassell
The Champian Fulton TrioBirdlandNew York City, USADecember 16, 2010“Please welcome Champian Fulton," Birdland's proprietor, John Valente, announced at six o'clock on Thursday night, December 16th, 2010. Why the unusual early start time? Hush, hush, Fulton had arranged to showcase her trio for Palmetto Records. Opening with “No One Loves ...
Where the Dark and the Light Folks Meet
by Daniel Kassell
Where the Dark and the Light Folks Meet Randall Sandke Hardcover; 288 pages ISBN: 0-8108-6652-8 Scarecrow Press 2010In Where the Dark and the Light Folks Meet, musician and author Randall Sandke tackles the stubborn and controversial question of whether jazz is the product of ...
Lee Konitz Quartet: Spontaneous Improvisation
by Daniel Kassell
Lee Konitz QuartetJazz Legacy SeriesCreole Music Supper ClubNew York, NYMarch 21, 2009 For two nights Lee Konitz was improvising at Creole Restaurant, Third Avenue at 116th Street in Harlem's Barrio. On the Saturday, March 21st 10pm show Mickey Bass introduced the Quartet as part of his Brownstone Entertainment Complex's ...
Sidney Bechet Society Concert with Evan Christopher, NYC
by Daniel Kassell
Creole a la Django Thalia Theater, Symphony SpaceNew York City September 15, 2008 It is unusual for the clarinet, the smallest and hardest-to hear-instrument in a jazz ensemble, to be in the forefront. But Evan Christopher has brought the musical stick front and center in the various sized ensembles ...
Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks at Club Cache, NYC
by Daniel Kassell
Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks Club Cache at Sofia's Restaurant, Edison Hotel (downstairs) New York City May 5, 2008 Sofia's Restaurant, Club Cache at 221 W. 46th Street, NYC last saw music of this ilk--improvised jazz instrumentalists favoring the swing-jazz rhythms of the 1920s and 1930s--so many years ago in ...
Jazz at Lincoln Center: "Is Jazz Black Music?"
by Daniel Kassell
Lewis Porter, Moderator; with Don Byron, Daniel Carter and Nat Hentoff Jazz Talk: Is Jazz Black Music? Irene Diamond Education Center New York, New YorkJanuary 31, 2008 Is Jazz Black Music? “Where does jazz come from, to whom does it belong and is this important?" The program, advertised as ...
Nnenna Freelon and Evidence Dance Celebrate Lady Day at Apollo Premiere
by Daniel Kassell
Nnenna Freelon, Ronald K. Brown and Evidence Dance Company The Blueprint of a Lady Apollo Theater, NYC November 10, 2007 Subtitled “The Once and Future Life of Billie Holiday," a concept of vocalist Nnenna Freelon in collaboration with choreographer-dancer Ronald K. Brown and his Evidence Dance Company, the occasion was ...
Don Friedman & Gary Smulyan Play Hot and Cool Together
by Daniel Kassell
Don Friedman Trio with Gary Smulyan Kitano Lounge New York, NY March 9, 2007 Without any fanfare Don Friedman's piano a cappella intro to “Alone Together intricately established the melody and sequence of his first performance on Friday the 9th of March 2007 before the evening's lead instrument, an ...
Santa Jazzes Uptown Harlem at St. Nick's Jam
by Daniel Kassell
On Christmas-day night at St. Nick's Pub, Melvin Vines (for three years the Monday & Tuesday night bandleader, trumpeter, videographer) opened the 11 o'clock show playing a flugelhorn improv in response to news of James Brown's passing, joined by the unobtrusive comping of Chip Crawford (recently with Harold Ousley at Dizzy's, originally influenced by Donald Byrd) ...
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