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Is Cab Calloway Back?
by Daniel Kassell
Calloway Brooks Birdland New York City February 21, 2001 After the band vamp (as if for a stripper’s entrance) and Birdland’s announcement, “The Prince of Hi-De-Ho, Calloway Brooks”, a tall lean gent jumped on stage to front the mostly hatted variously attired twelve member ensemble wearing a long white coat ...
Sun Ra And His Intergalactic Solar Arkestra In Space Is The Place
by Daniel Kassell
Outer space is a pleasant place A place where you can be free There's no limit to the things you can do Your thought is free and your life is worthwhile Space is the place ~ Sun Ra Faced with a ...
Trio da Paz: Brazilian Jazz at Satalla
by Daniel Kassell
An evening of Brazilian jazz Satalla, The Temple of World Music 37 W. 26th Street, NYC November 22, 2003, 8pm The performance began with drummer Duduka da Fonseca announcing the Trio da Paz with bassist Nilson Matta and guitarist Romero Lubambo, who was on a high stool where the ...
Big Band Swing Slam at Copacabana
by Daniel Kassell
Swing is Back! And the Copacabana was the Place, 560 West 34th Street at 11th Avenue, NYC on October 25th, 2003 for Broadway Musical Director Danny Holgate and a band of journeymen musicians who would “transform us back to the classic 1940's and ‘50's Night Club Era” according to Tiffany Wright, the evening’s hostess. I recognized ...
Jazz Portraits: 1970-2003 by Hank O'Neal
by Daniel Kassell
Billed as “A photographic retrospective of the jazz heroes who created the golden age of jazz" this exhibit was presented in the Weill Art Gallery in conjunction with Dick Hyman's 19th Season of JAZZ IN JULY at the 92nd Street Y from 21st to the 31st, 2003. Stanley Blum actually curated this ...
A Symposium - Cymbalism: The Drums in Jazz
by Daniel Kassell
A Jazz at Lincoln Center program at Columbia University consisted of two learned moderators interviewing two panels of well recognized working drummers on May 3, 2003 in Held Auditorium on the Barnard College campus. Robin D. G. Kelley, Chair of History and Professor of Africana Studies at NYU, posed leading questions to each morning session ...
Stan Edwards: My Tribute To That Darin Guy
by Daniel Kassell
Joe Franklin, the WOR icon, said it best: “Bobby Darin fans are in for a real treat!” I had to wait till track 4 of My Tribute To That Darin Guy to listen to Stan Edwards take on my favorite Bobby Darin ballad, “Beyond The Sea.” Even if you’re not a fan, I’ll bet you’ll recognize ...
Allan Harris, Black Cowboy?
by Daniel Kassell
“Did you know that 40% of all cowboys were Black!" Allan Harris told the Association of Performing Arts Presenters in the NY Hilton's Mercury Ballroom, January 12th, 2003 at a showcase sponsored by the Berkshire Artists Group. Primarily a Jazz Vocalist and Guitarist, Allan Harris was inspired to write “Cross That River - The Saga of ...
Shades Of Harlem Delivers Harlem Mystique Onstage
by Daniel Kassell
Producer Bob Blume (Drama Desk Awards) announced, “It's a hot Saturday night for a very special show". (at APAP-Association of Performing Arts Presenters Convention, January 11, 2003). “We took over Bridges here at the New York Hilton to showcase" SHADES OF HARLEM. “Special guests in the audience tonight: From Lew Leslie's Blackbirds of 1934 - Ludie ...
