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Jazz Musician of the Day: Duke Ellington
All About Jazz is celebrating Duke Ellington's birthday today! Duke EllingtonBy the time of his passing, he was considered amongst the world’s greatest composers and musicians. The French government honored him with their highest award, the Legion of Honor... more Website | Photos | Articles Follow Duke Ellington
Mary Lou Williams: Mary Lou Williams At Rick's Cafe Americain
by Chris Mosey
The second album of this double CD issue was released by Storyville in 1998, under the same title. Valuable enough in its way, featuring pianist Mary Lou Williams three years before her death, playing standards that include one of her own, “What's Your Story, Morning Glory?," originally composed for the Andy Kirk band in the days ...
"Big Bands Afire: Swing to Beyond" kicks off Jazz Week from JazzBoston
Large ensemble lovers have several options in as many locations for Jazz Week. The Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra holds court at the Cambridge Family YMCA Theatre with an offer to pay the first 50 attendees to show up. The 19 piece JCA Orchestra will present a concert of new music by resident composers David Harris, Jim ...
Come Sunday: Crosscurrents
by C. Michael Bailey
American roots music can be divided into four broad genres: blues, jazz, country and gospel. A Venn diagram of the relationship of these four would reveal an area of intersection of all these musical elements. It is in this area that the jazz-gospel group Come Sunday achieves its durable yet delicate goal of divining these spirits ...
Jazz Bridge Presents Barbara Walker in Concert at the Mt. Airy Presbyterian Church on May 12th
To close out our first season of jazz at the Mt. Airy Presbyterian Church, 13 E. Mt. Pleasant Ave, Philadelphia, PA, Jazz Bridge proudly presents, on Thursday May 12th, jazz singer Barbara Walker and her band. One show: 7:30-9PM. Tickets: $10/$5 for students. No advance sales. Free Refreshments! For info: 215-517-8337 AND...as by our tradition, Jazz ...
Filmic Features during Jazz Week from Jazz Boston at Boston Public Library and Regent Theatre in Arlington
Jazz Week always includes a few events given to film finds and this year is not about to be an exception. “In My Mind" is an acclaimed documentary about rising jazz pianist Jason Moran's 50th anniversary tribute to Thelonious Monk's historic 1959 Town Hall Concert in New York City. The 97-minute film had its Boston premiere ...
Ayako Shirasaki: Falling Leaves - Live In Hamburg
by Dan Bilawsky
Energy is one of the most important and elusive elements in jazz. Some people foolishly equate energy with speed or skill, but the two aren't necessarily linked. Bill Evans didn't sprint around the keyboard, but his music created a cocoon of energy that enveloped an audience in a way that few pianists could ever emulate. Energy ...
Kurt Elling: Denver, Colorado, April 9, 2011
by Geoff Anderson
Kurt EllingSoiled Dove UndergroundDenver, COApril 9, 2011 Perhaps it's ironic: jazz wants to be free, yet boundaries abound. Nowhere has a boundary been more touchy or controversial than the line between jazz and rock. Miles Davis blurred it, trounced it, trod upon it, spat on it. And, in some circles, ...
40 Years of Jazz at Harvard: Cambridge, April 9, 2011
by Andrew J. Sammut
Harvard All-Stars and the Harvard University Sunday and Monday Jazz Bands Harvard Sanders Theatre Cambridge, MA April 9, 2011 Ivy League universities are known for bringing together extraordinary individuals to do extraordinary things. Yet Saturday, April 9 was an even more extraordinary night at school for Harvard students, when an honor roll ...
Making Cents Of It All: Jazz Enters The Money Jungle
by Dan Bilawsky
Is money the root of all evil? I, of course, can't answer that, but anybody with access to a newspaper, television and/or the internet knows that it's at the heart of many debates these days. As I sit here writing this column on a cloudy day in early April, I can't help but think that the ...
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