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92 Street Y Continuum: From Dick Hyman to Bill Charlap
by Daniel Kassell
Dick Hyman and Bill Charlap, Jazz in July, Kaufman Hall, Tisch Center for the Arts, New York, New York, July 19, 2006 “20 years on a wonderful carousel ride is enough, pianist/producer, Dick Hyman mused for a New York Sun reporter upon retiring, at age 77, from New ...
Hot Harlem Swing From The Savoy Still Attracting Lindy Hoppers
by Daniel Kassell
Social Swing Dance Savoy Ballroom at Irving Plaza New York, NY March 12, 2006 Harlem's swing jazz is still the heartbeat of swing dance, a craze that originated in the 1930s taking its name from a transatlantic flyer. In the 1980s it experienced a resurgence in popularity and continues ...
Daryl Sherman's Park Avenue Whirl
by Daniel Kassell
Daryl Sherman's Park Avenue Whirl, 59 East 59th Theater, New York, New York December 17, 2005 “The greatest songs ever written, cabaret vocalist and jazz pianist Daryl Sherman concluded after the first weekend's performance of The Park Avenue Whirl on Saturday, December 17, 2005. Billed by Executive Producer Peter ...
Scott Hamilton & Harry Allen: Swing Is Good Medicine for Jazz
by Daniel Kassell
A jazz fan and medical newspaper publisher has combined his love of swing with his professional audience of physicians and clinicians to form “McMahon Jazz Medicine. Ray McMahon began his odyssey by buying a tenor sax, self-training books, and every tenor masters' CDs that he had enjoyed in the 1950s, and proceeded to learn from the ...
Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra: The Music of Paul Whiteman
by Daniel Kassell
To appreciate how Paul Whiteman's Orchestra advanced music after the Ragtime Era an understanding of what preceded the First World War is required. Before recorded sound there was a piano in every house, John Philip Sousa's Marching Bands, Ringling Circus Bands, Community Bands, School Bands performed for every holiday or event in America. What most would ...
Living With Jazz
by Daniel Kassell
Dan Morgenstern Living With Jazz, A Reader Pantheon Books 736 pages ISBN: 037542072X Through the eyes of a foreign-born man we learn of the author's respect for our American art form and through his personal experiences with musicians, his love and respect for creative improvisation, growth and the ...
Preservation Hall Jazz Band in Morristown, NJ
by Daniel Kassell
Quite by surprise The Preservation Hall Jazz Band sold out the restored Community Theatre on Morristown, New Jersey's historic South Street, December 3rd, 2004 with an evening billed as “Creole Christmas". Beginning with excerpts of a video documentary made for PBS television in 2000 the renowned Louis Armstrong told us that these guys and this ...
Bobby Darin Swings Again in Hollywood Biopic
by Daniel Kassell
Kevin Spacey Beyond the Sea Lions Gate 2004 The diminutive Bobby Darin first drew attention as a teen idol singer-songwriter with “Splish Splash." Confident of his talent as a Bronx, NY pianist, guitarist and drummer he then insisted on doing an album of standards That's All that reflected his admiration ...
The Edge Effect: Treating Memory Disorders With Music
by Daniel Kassell
Eric Braverman MD in this just released book The Edge Effect (Sterling) believes that “singing or playing an instrument yourself is an active way in which you can increase GABA." Dr. Braverman, also the force behind creating The Place for Achieving Total Health (PATH Medical in NYC and Penndel, PA) describes the biochemical GABA ...
Continuous Fats: May 21 to December 15, 2004
by Daniel Kassell
Recent Fats Facts And Interviews: Part 1 At a showcase of “Shades of Harlem" a musical last fall in upper Manhattan's Harlem an original Cotton Club gal was announced as “being in the movie 'Stormy Weather' - Jaunita Boisseau, age 91!" After the performance Jaunita (you should see her gorgeous complection now and ...
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