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Bob James & David Sanborn: Quartette Humaine
by Dan Bilawsky
It's much easier to take Quartette Humaine at face value as an organic-and-acoustic outing between two high profile figures known for blurring the pop-jazz line than it is to take it under its marketed premise: a tribute to the famed partnership between pianist Dave Brubeck and saxophonist Paul Desmond. While pianist Bob James and saxophonist David ...
Brubeck to Join Walk of Fame in Saratoga
Dave Brubeck played the Jazz Festival in Saratoga 13 different years, far more than anyone in its 35-year history The Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, NY, has hosted a world-class jazz festival since 1978. Invented by George Wein—an icon who invented the music festival, most famously the Newport Jazz Festival (though that only scratches ...
Eliane Elias at Birdland
by Ernest Barteldes
Eliane EliasBirdland New York, NYMay 31, 2013 On the fourth night of her weeklong residence at Birdland, pianist Eliane Elias opened her set with an original number, its bluesy nature recalling the work of recently deceased pianist Dave Brubeck. The number gave her quartet--bassist Marc Johnson, guitarist Steve Cardenas and drummer ...
International Jazz Day: Istanbul, Turkey April 30, 2013
by Josef Woodard
International Jazz DayIstanbul, TurkeyApril 30, 2013At a morning press conference opening the 10th annual Panama Jazz Festival in January, 2013, a long table was peopled by dignitaries and musical dignitaries. Festival highlight, saxophonist Wayne Shorter sat in the center (almost like Jesus in the Last Supper configuration), flanked by the ambitious and outspokenly ...
Rivorecords: Blue Notes from Buenos Aires
by Jakob Baekgaard
In the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, a blue note is defined as: “A microtonally lowered third, seventh, or (less commonly) fifth degree of the diatonic scale, common in blues, jazz and related musics." Moving beyond musical theory, the term is most commonly associated with the groundbreaking jazz label Blue Note, founded in 1939 ...
Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour: Mesa, AZ, April 26, 2013
by Patricia Myers
Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour 55th AnniversaryMesa Arts CenterMesa, AZApril 26, 2013Six jazz stars connected to the Monterey Jazz Festival performed a diverse repertoire relating to other musicians associated with its history, with nods to pianist Duke Ellington, singer Billie Holiday and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. The concert included both full sextet ...
Take Five With Joy Divine
by AAJ Staff
Meet Joy Divine:The power of music is my inspiration. The simple truth is, I love to sing. Anyone who knows me would say, I'm a passionate advocate for keeping music alive, no matter what. Anyone who knows me would also say I am a passionate advocate for keeping music alive in your life, no ...
Eric Harland's Voyager: Going Places
by Zach Hindin
Where most debut acts aim to make a statement, Eric Harland's first lead project, Voyager, is decidedly conversational. Harland, arguably the consummate jazz drummer of his generation, has staffed his quintet with a potent if precocious musical brain trust. The year after pianist Taylor Eigsti first played with pianist Dave Brubeck (he was 12 at the ...
Inside the 5th NEA Jazz Masters Awards
by Dan Morgenstern
The 32nd class of National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters was formally inducted on January 14, 2013. Numbering just four, this was the smallest class since the threesome of 2003. The following year, new NEA Chairman Dana Gioia upped the ante to six and added the new category of the A. B. Spellman Jazz Advocacy ...
Pacific's Brubeck Institute Brings Jazz, Peace And Dave Brubeck To United Nations, Smithsonian
STOCKTON, Calif. – University of the Pacific’s Brubeck Institute Jazz Quintet will perform later this month at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., and two days later during the first-ever Dave Brubeck Forum at the United Nations in New York City. The events are in conjunction with UNESCO’s International Jazz Day, the Smithsonian Institute’s ...
