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Meet Nora Sheehan Schaaf
by Tessa Souter and Andrea Wolper
Before we jump into November's column, we'd like to know: Are YOU a jazz super fan? If you are and you'd like to be featured in an upcoming column, click here and send us a message! Nora Sheehan Schaaf, along with her husband, Homer, has been going out to hear live jazz ...
The Great Migration Centennial Tribute To The Musicians Of Captain Walter H. Dyett on July 23
The Great Migration Centennial Tribute July 23, 2016 • VIP Reception 7-8PM & Concert 8-11PM DuSable Museum of African American History, 740 E. 56th Place, Chicago The Great Migration, A “Centennial Tribute" To the Illustrious career of Captain Walter H. Dyett, a true pioneer and mentor to over 20,000 Chicago musicians. For ...
Dorothy Donegan Live at the King of France Tavern
Label: Lisem Enterprises, Inc.
Released: 2015
Release Of Previously Unknown Live Performance By Dorothy Donegan
The music on this CD Dorothy Donegan Live at the King of France Tavern, is being released for the very first time. It was recorded live at the King Of France Tavern in Annapolis, Maryland in 1978. Bassist Bill Nelson and drummer Bill Reichenbach, two sidemen who were well aware that they had to be very ...
Strength, Energy, Imagination
Label: Storyville Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: CD1: Rosetta; Medley – When I Fall In Love, The Way We Were; The Best
Things In Life Are Free; Medley – Pennies From Heaven, You‘re Nobody
Till Somebody Loves You; Medley – Out Of Nowhere, Sweet Lorraine, Send
In The Clowns; Take The A Train; Medley – You Are So Beautiful, Edmund
Thigpen’s Gospel; Satin Doll.
CD2: I Just Want To Sing; You Are The Sunshine Of My Life; Donegan's
Blues; Lift Every Voice And Sing; Dorothy Runs Away; Willow Weep For
Me; Minuet In G; If I Loved You; Stop The World.
Dorothy Donegan: Strength, Energy, Imagination
by Chris Mosey
With this double album, Storyville Records--surely the greatest Danish invention since pastry--tells the story of a legend that never was. Dorothy Donegan, born in Chicago in 1924, trained as a classical pianist before switching to jazz and being hailed as “the female Art Tatum." She made her recording debut when ...
Maria Schneider: Going Her Own Way
by Victor L. Schermer
Maria Schneider is widely considered one of the finest contemporary band leaders, composers, and arrangers. For two decades, The Maria Schneider Orchestra has generated excitement and sometimes surprise, at club dates, concerts, and festivals and with GRAMMY-winning records on the ArtistShare label, where Schneider pioneered in the process of commissioning recordings by giving subscribers an inside ...
At "Birdland"
Featuring the music of Dorothy Donegan
Duration: 3:23
Joanne Brackeen: Phenomenal Capacity
by Russ Musto
One of the most heralded pianists of her era, JoAnne Brackeen came to New York in 1965 after cutting her chops jamming with the likes of Teddy Edwards, Harold Land, Charles Lloyd and Dexter Gordon during the waning days of the Central Avenue scene in her native California. After a few dues-paying years here, she landed ...
Deborah Brown: Jazz Diva Extraordinaire
by Victor L. Schermer
Deborah Brown is one of the finest jazz vocalists in the business, a “singer's singer" with a magnificent voice and mind-boggling technique. Vocalist J.D. Walter mentioned her as an inspirational teacher and mentor in a recent AAJ interview but, despite being very possibly one of the greatest jazz singers of all time, due to her own ...
