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New England Jazz Ensemble to Release Fifth CD at June 5 Concert Featuring Giacomo Gates, Ali Ryerson
The 16-piece Big Band Celebrates 20th Birthday In Performance at Hartford's Polish National Home HARTFORD, CT—"It's a Grand Night for Swinging," The New England Jazz Ensemble's long-awaited fifth CD will be released on June 5, 2011, at a concert at the Polish National Home in Hartford. The 4pm concert also features guest vocalist Giacomo Gates and ...
New England Jazz Hall of Fame to be Housed at WICN, in the Worcester Cultural District
WICN to Provide the Hall of Fame's First Physical Location, Providing Public Access to Historical Information about Jazz WORCESTER, Mass.,—The New England Jazz Alliance (NEJA), which operates the New England Jazz Hall of Fame, and WICN, “New England's NPR jazz and folk station," today announced that WICN will house the New England Jazz Hall of Fame ...
Berkshires Jazz Announces Free "Jazz Appreciation Month" Concert Featuring USAF Liberty Big Band with Guest Soloist Marvin Stamm
An Alumnus of the Stan Kenton Orchestra, Trumpet Legend Stammto Appear at April 8 Performance Celebrating Pittsfield's 250th Birthday PITTSFIELD, Mass.— Berkshires Jazz today announced that the U.S. Air Force jazz ensemble, the Liberty Big Band, will appear in a special concert on April 8 with trumpet legend Marvin Stamm as guest soloist. With free admission, ...
Pittsfield CityJazz Festival kicks off with "jazz crawl" on Columbus Day weekend
PITTSFIELD, Massachusetts, Oct. 7, 2010—The sixth annual Pittsfield CityJazz Festival, which takes place Oct. 8-21 in venues around the city, kicks-off with a 'jazz crawl' with about a dozen participating venues. Headline performers include baritone saxophone virtuoso Claire Daly, vibraphone up-and-comer Joe Baione, a return to Pittsfield of the American Jazz Repertory Orchestra, the Brazilian Jazz ...
Eli Newberger: Music Maker, Medicine Man
by Edward Bride
Such is the nature of jazz tuba that few prominent players are household names outside their genre. Can you name “the Art Tatum of the tuba" or a “the Clifford Brown of the tuba"? Many of these instrumental performers are part-timers. Only, don't tell Eli Newberger that jazz is his secondary field: it ranks solidly in ...
Myron Walden: Eclectic Reedman
by Edward Bride
In words often used to describe the music of Duke Ellington, Myron Walden is a saxophonist beyond category. More so than many other musicians, Walden himself eschews reliance on any one instrument, not tenor or alto nor soprano nor bass nor... well, you get the idea. The voice that he is striving to use in any ...
Gary Smulyan: Low Man Aims High
by Edward Bride
A baritone saxophonist who plays like Bird? And harvests more than a half-dozen Grammy awards in the process? That seeming contradiction characterizes the great successes of Gary Smulyan, one of today's most in-demand jazz performers, educators, and recording artists. To be fair, Smulyan has his own voice, but he cites Charlie Parker ...
