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Terence Blanchard: New York, NY, June 21, 2012
by Bob Kenselaar
Terence Blanchard The Jazz Standard New York, NY June 21, 2012Terence Blanchard is an important presence in jazz today on a number of levels. He's one of the most accomplished trumpet players around, consistently showing a great command of the instrument, a distinctive voice, and a highly inventive approach ...
Towner Galaher: Uptown!
by Dan Bilawsky
Uptown!, like drummer Towner Galaher's two previous releases, relies on multiple horns to flesh out the leader's melodies and some choice covers, but it's still a departure from his earlier work. Piano, bass and drums with some added percussion was served as the rhythmic nucleus at the center of Panorama (Self Produced, 2007) and Courageous Hearts ...
Delving Into the Deep Blue
by Trish Richardson
"Blood may be thicker than water, but you can't live without water." class="f-right"> --Novelist Jane Porter While the members of Deep Blue Organ Trio were not brought together by shared parentage, guitarist Bobby Broom, drummer Chris Rockingham and organist Chris Foreman share a closeness, mutual respect, and loyalty that many families would envy. Their ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Donald Harrison
All About Jazz is celebrating Donald Harrison's birthday today! (The King of Nouveau Swing) Donald Harrison is being called one of the most important musicians of the new millennium by CBS Sunday Morning. A list of his accomplishments shows that he has developed into a musical category unto himself. In the classic jazz genre, he is ...
Bobby Broom: Building a Legacy
by R.J. DeLuke
Guitarist Bobby Broom had a feel for music at a very young age. He was exposed first to clarinet and violin as a child, but they didn't have an impact on him. Eventually, an old guitar came through the household. It had four strings across an instrument with a small neck.“I didn't know it ...
Cape Town Jazz Festival 2012
by John Kelman
Cape Town Jazz FestivalCape Town, South AfricaMarch 30-31, 2012An invite to cover the 13th annual Cape Town Jazz Festival would have been reason enough to travel over 8,000 miles to South Africa. But when the invite, from South Africa Tourism, stretched to an expansive ten-day trip--beginning in Johannesburg, continuing on to Cape Town ...
Donald Harrison Brings Big Easy To Big Apple @ WBGO Kids Concert
WBGO’S Award-Winning Kids Jazz Concert Series Continues with Donald Harrison Saturday, April 14, 12:30 pm Cicely Tyson School Performing Arts Center, East Orange NEWARK, NJ: Children and their families are invited to listen, learn and discover jazz at WBGO’s award-winning, free Kids Jazz Concert Series, featuring saxophonist Donald Harrison on Saturday, April 14, at 12:30 pm ...
Maxine Gordon: The Legacy of Dexter Gordon
by Victor L. Schermer
Legendary tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon was a focal point of the bebop and hard bop revolutions. Later in his career, he achieved the status of an American icon with his lead role in Bernard Tavernier's 1986 film, Round Midnight, which garnered him an Academy Award nomination. His “homecoming" in New York City, after living in Europe ...
This Is Jazz
Label: Half Note Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Cut & Paste; MSRP; You Are My Sunshine; Seven Steps To Heaven; I
Can't Get Started; Treme Swagger.
Joey Calderazzo: Improviser in Top Form
by R.J. DeLuke
Creative musicians are generally an insightful lot: people that have curious minds but also have a sense of direction--a sense of purpose, if not a search for it. They express what they see, what they experience. Pianist Joey Calderazzo is among those. A man of extraordinary talent at the keyboard, he's held the piano ...
