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Paris Jazz Diary 2011

by Patricia Myers
Woody Allen's 2011 film, Midnight in Paris was a hit summer film in the U.S. and Paris, and also a theme that resonated during my annual two-month sojourn to the City of Light. At that hour, I was often happily sitting in jazz venues, my spirits lifted both by the music and seeing the clubs filled ...
Clark Terry with Gwen Terry: Clark - The Autobiography of Clark Terry

by Florence Wetzel
Clark: The Autobiography of Clark TerryClark Terry with Gwen TerryHardcover; 344 pagesISBN: 9780520268463University of California Press2011There are many sad stories in jazz. Cornetist Joe Oliver lost his embouchure and ended up working as a janitor in a pool hall, singer Billie Holiday was arrested ...
2011: The Year In Jazz

by Ken Franckling
The ebb and flow of jazz in 2011 was marked by a Grammy Awards coup, a Grammy dustup, economic changes that consolidated the recording industry a bit, impacted clubs in various locales, and provided some new opportunities. The U.S. Postal Service literally put its stamp on jazz, even as the government wrestled with the future of ...
Take Five With Lee McAllistair

by AAJ Staff
Meet Lee McAllistair: Australian jazz vocalist and composer Lee McAllistair has had a busy 2011, releasing debut original album Spellbound, which received a 4.5 star review in The Australian newspaper, CD of the week on ABC Jazz and Eastside 89.7FM and came #12 in the Top 12 Australian Jazz Releases at Birdland Records.
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong: The Complete Studio Recorded Duets

Label: Avid Records UK
Released: 2011
Track listing: Disc One: You Won't Be Satisfied; The Frim Fram Sauce; Dream a Little Dream Of Me; Can Anyone Explain; Necessary Evil; Oops!; Would You Like To Take a Walk; Who Walks In When I Walk Out; Can't We Be Friends?; Isn't This A Lovely Day?; Moonlight In Vermont; They Can't Take That Away From Me; Under A Blanket Of Blue; Tenderly; A Foggy Day; Stars Fell On Alabama; Cheek To Cheek; The Nearness Of You; April In Paris. Disc Two: Don't Be That Way; They All Laughed; Autumn In New York; Stompin' At the Savoy; I Won't Dance; Gee Baby Ain't I good To You; Let's Call The Whole Thing Off; I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm; I'm Puttin' All My Eggs In One Basket; A Fine Romance; Love Is Here To Stay; Learnin' The Blues; Summertime; I Got Plenty Of Nuthin' Bess, You Is My Woman Now; It Ain't Necessarily So.
Erin Dickins: In Her Own Voice

by Chris M. Slawecki
It was a long time coming, but for singer Erin Dickins, recording her debut solo album Nice Girls (Champagne Records, 2010) proved well worth the wait.Several musical lifetimes ago, Dickins was a founding member of Manhattan Transfer and appears on their first album, Jukin' (Capitol, 1971). While she has remained close with Tim Hauser, ...
William Warfield in Show Boat This Week on Riverwalk Jazz

This week on Riverwalk Jazz, William Warfield is heard in an encore presentation joining The Jim Cullum Jazz Band as narrator in a 1995 production of Show Boat, combining the Band's original jazz transcription of the Kern score with a script based on the Ferber novel. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio ...