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Four Classic Albums
Label: Avid Records UK
Released: 2011
Track listing: CD1: Dizzy's Blues; School Days; Dizzy Speaks; Doodlin'; Manteca; I Remember Clifford; Cool Breeze; Sign Off; Roses of Picardy; Silhouette; Can You Recall?; O Solow; Cool Eyes; Confusion; Pile Driver; Hob Nail Special. CD2: Dizzy's Business; Jessica's Day; Tour de Force; I Can't Get Started; Doodlin'; Night in Tunisia; Stella By Starlight; The Champ; My Reverie; Dizzy's Blues; Emanon; Ool-Ka-Yoo; Stay On It; Good Bait; One Bass Hit; Manteca.
Havana Plaza Jazz Festival 2011: US Interests Section Jazz Party
by Louis Heckheimer
27th Havana Plaza Jazz FestivalHavana, CubaDecember 15-18, 2011 [Note: The Havana Plaza Jazz Festival took place in Havana, Cuba from December 15th through the 18th, 2011. This is the first of a series of articles reporting on concerts and other activities that took place as well as profiles of Cuban musicians that ...
Talkin' Blues with Jimmy Herring
by Alan Bryson
Jimmy Herring is a musician who blurs lines, both in terms of genres and roles. Over the past two decades his work with the Aquarium Rescue Unit, Gov't Mule, The Allman Brothers Band, Frogwings, Phil Lesh & Friends, Project Z, Jazz is Dead, and Widespread Panic has cemented his position as one of the world's premier ...
Warren Wolf: The Wizard of Vibes
by R.J. DeLuke
Warren Wolf has made his name by playing the vibes, which he does with aplomb. He's as much a virtuoso on the instrument as anyone, even including his jazz elders. That may be, in part, because he was influenced by the sound of Milt Jackson and studied with one of the best in Dave Samuels, while ...
Clifford Brown: With Strings
by Chris May
Clifford BrownWith StringsEmarcy1955 Recordings setting soloists alongside string ensembles were not a staple of the bop years, but, when trumpeter Clifford Brown recorded With Strings, he had two illustrious predecessors. In 1946, trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie recorded four Jerome Kern standards with an ensemble arranged by Johnny Richards. ...
Penang Island Jazz Festival: Penang, Malaysia, Dec 1-4, 2011
by Ian Patterson
8th Penang Island Jazz FestivalPenang, MalaysiaDecember 1-4, 2011 For small, independent jazz festivals heavily reliant on private sector sponsorship, it can be a jungle out there. In the case of the Penang Island Jazz Festival, sandwiched between the Straits of Malacca and tropical forest, this is literally true. Monkeys, civet and leopard ...
Tad Hershorn: Norman Granz - The Man Who Used Jazz For Justice
by Ian Patterson
Norman Granz: The Man Who Used Jazz For Justice Tad Hershorn Hardcover; 488 pages ISBN: 9780520267824 University of California Press 2011 That this is the first comprehensive biography on groundbreaking jazz impresario Norman Granz (1918-2001) says much about the man's private nature. Granz shied ...
Carlos Abadie Quintet: Immersed In The Quest, Vol. 1
by Karl Ackermann
Jersey City native Carlos Abadie has been a mainstay on the New York City jazz circuit for almost two decades. The trumpeter and composer has been a member of pianist Jason Lindner's big band and has worked with bassist Omer Avital and saxophonists Illinois Jacquet and Mark Turner. His debut as a leader, Immersed In The ...
Dark Magus, by Gregory Davis, to be basis for feature film on his father
MONTCLAIR, NJ: Dark Magus: The Jekyll and Hyde Life of Miles Davis, Gregory Davis's no-holds-barred look at his father's life, published by Backbeat Books in 2006, will be the basis of feature film being developed by George Tillman, Jr., director of Notorious. Gregory Davis will serve as a consultant on the film, which will be called ...
