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Local Jazz History at the Boston Public Library for Jazz Week from JazzBoston
A sense of place and history always attends Jazz Week. Booker Ervin was a mail man not far from where I live in the 60s. Johnny Hodges was born over in Cambridgeport. This year focuses on a region and two pianists. Both Events will be at the Main Branch Library in Copley Square. “North Shore Jazz, ...
New Artists Records
by Marc Medwin
"We prize individuality," states pianist Connie Crothers emphatically of New Artists Records. “It's an integral part of our label identity and we have always safeguarded the individuality of each musician." New Artists being a cooperative, such a statement may contain an element of contradiction, but it stands at the heart of a label that ...
Dick Twardzik Bio Lives!
Richard Twardzik, the rather haunted-looking pianist who was a mainstay of the Boston jazz scene in the early 1950s, recorded only once as a leader before dying at the age of 24 during a European tour with Chet Baker. His quirky, fluid style, influenced by Bud Powell and Art Tatum and sprinkled with touches of dissonance ...
Dick Twardzik Trio: Complete Recordings
by David Rickert
Dick Twardzik is one of the great “What Ifs in jazz. After a promising start backing the likes of saxophonists Charlie Parker and Serge Chaloff, showing a penchant for inventive originals and ingenious reworking of melodies, he succumbed to a drug overdose at the age of 24 while on tour with Chet Baker. He is one ...
Complete Recordings
Label: Lone Hill Jazz
Released: 2004
Track listing: Albuquerque Social Swim; Bess, You Is My Woman; Yellow Tango; 'Round About Midnight; I'll Remember April; A Crutch For the Crab; Just One Of Those Things; Warming Up; Nice Work If You Can Get It; 'Round About Midnight; Get Happy; It Could Happen To You; A;; The Things You Are; Yesterdays; Original; Our Love Is Here To Stay; I Get A Kick Out Of You; Bess, You Is My Woman; I'll Remember April.
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