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Joe Beck & Laura Theodore: Golden Earrings
by Chris M. Slawecki
The duet program Golden Earrings is Laura Theodore's ode to Peggy Lee's standard-setting duets with her husband, guitarist and co-composer Dave Barbour. Subsequent circumstances have added a sadder tribute to Theodore's instrumental partner, guitarist Joe Beck, who recorded his final work on Golden Earrings before he succumbed to cancer in July 2008. Tribute offerings can be ...
Oscar Peterson: The Quintessence & Oscar Peterson and Nelson Riddle
by Graham L. Flanagan
Oscar PetersonThe QuintessenceFremeaux2009 Oscar Peterson and Nelson RiddleOscar Peterson/Nelson RiddleRecord Label #2Year This month marks the two-year anniversary of Oscar Peterson's passing. The jazz legend continued to perform live until ...
32nd Cape May Jazz Festival: Tribute to the Count
by Tara Nurin
Cape May Jazz Festival: Tribute to the Legendary Count Basie Cape May, New Jersey November 6-9, 2009 There may have been two male performers headlining the 32nd Cape May Jazz Festival, but in truth it was the women and children who stole the show. The big draw, as advertised in ...
Intimate Ella Fitzgerald, Rediscovered
WITH all the multi-disc jazz boxes that have come out in recent years--the complete Miles Davis on Columbia, the complete Charlie Parker on Savoy, the complete Duke Ellington on RCA and so on--its hard to believe that any significant tapes by any major musician might still be languishing undiscovered in a record companys archives. Yet Verve ...
Clint Eastwood Presents Johnny Mercer: The Dream's On Me
by Samuel Chell
Johnny Mercer Clint Eastwood Presents Johnny Mercer: The Dream's On Me TCM 2009 Film director Clint Eastwood's love of jazz and American popular song is far from a secret, especially following his feature-length biopic about alto saxophonist Charlie Parker (Bird, 1988), during which the ever restless Eastwood got the idea ...
Roberta Gambarini: Learning to Love Jazz
by Samuel Chell
Not long ago a veteran Chicago jazz disc jockey played a track from a female vocalist's new CD only after complaining on the air about the seemingly unending stream of new recordings by female singers sent to his notice each week. The exception to his policy not to play them was due, he explained, to the ...
Cota Festival Orchestra Featuring Sax Legend Phil Woods to Perform on November 12th
East Stroudsburg, PA--Imagine a place where youngsters learn to play jazz at the feet of world-class professionals; a camp where kids have fun with other kids while developing mentoring relationships with nurturing jazz elders. Now, add a library where these budding musicians can immerse themselves in recordings, photographs, books, videos, sheet music and oral history interviews ...
Joan A. Cararach: el 'maestro' de Barcelona
by Joao Moreira dos Santos
Fundado por Joan Roselló en 1966, el Festival de Jazz de Barcelona ha ido renovándose y evolucionando con múltiples avatares desde entonces, pero la edición de este año es verdaderamente especial. No sólo desafía la crisis económica, presentando más conciertos que nunca (60 en casi dos meses), sino que además, por primera vez, se clausura en ...
Singer Roberta Gambarini Interviewed at AAJ
It's been an out-of-the-ordinary career trip for Roberta Gambarini--a trip that's seen her go from a young girl in Italy, scatting along with records by American singers Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald, to struggling to get singing gigs in her native land, to grabbing an opportunity to come to the United States, to gaining recognition by ...
Roberta Gambarini: Making Listeners Fall 'So In Love'
by R.J. DeLuke
It's been an out-of-the-ordinary career trip for Roberta Gambarini--a trip that's seen her go from a young girl in Italy, scatting along with records by American singers Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald, to struggling to get singing gigs in her native land, to grabbing an opportunity to come to the United States, to gaining recognition by ...
