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Take Five With Johnny J Rivera
by AAJ Staff
Meet Johnny j Rivera:Johnny (j) Rivera is a guitarist/songwriter, multi instrumentalist, and vocalist originally from Southern California, currently living in Las Vegas Nevada. He's been writing songs most his life. Some of his influences range from Stevie Wonder, Earth Wind and Fire, Heatwave, Steely Dan, Larry Carlton, Robben Ford, Paul Jackson Jr, Joe Sample, ...
Christian McBride: Getting the Inside Straight
by Esther Berlanga-Ryan
If we think about it for a little while, it's possible to believe that there is something almost mystic and undeniably powerful about jazz. The way it developed through the years and its constant ignition-like energy; the creativity of those who lead the way and those who continue the journey today; the improvisation that takes over ...
52nd Monterey Jazz Festival Presents Best of Old and New
by Larry Taylor
52nd Annual Monterey Jazz FestivalMonterey FairgroundsMonterey, CaliforniaSeptember 18-20, 2009 Three Generations of Pianists, a celebration of piano jazz, spotlighting a family of greats from Jason Moran through Dave Brubeck, highlighted the 2009 Monterey Jazz Festival at Monterey County Fairgrounds in Northern California. And surprisingly, celebrated folk legend Pete Seeger got ...
52nd Annual Monterey Jazz Festival
The 52nd Annual Monterey Jazz Festival presented by Verizon will take place at the Monterey Fairgrounds, September 18 - 20, 2009 with over 500 artists performing on 9 stages for 3 nights and 2 days of the world's best jazz, spread throughout the Festival's 20 acres of magnificent grounds. The Arena/Jimmy Lyons Stage The ...
Joe Lovano: Folk Art
by Jeff Stockton
Some jazz artists enter a period in their careers where they've said all they have to say yet carry on, eking out a living, resting on laurels and simply playing out the string. Not saxophonist Joe Lovano. Folk Art is his 22nd recording for Blue Note alone, a run that has been marked by artistic consistency ...
Newport 2009: One for the Ages
by Sandy Ingham
Newport Jazz Festival 2009George Wein's CareFusion Jazz Festival 55International Tennis Hall of Fame and Fort Adams State ParkNewport, Rhode IslandAugust 7-9, 2009“We have three stages now, and I wish we could have more to give all these young musicians a chance to be heard," Newport jazz festival founder (and ...
George Wein's CareFusion Jazz Festival 55 a Triumph
by R.J. DeLuke
There seemed to be a distinct feeling in the air at this year's jazz festival in Newport, R.I. It would be easy to imagine that there was something in the air, because the festival that was started by impresario George Wein way back in 1954 and became the model for all to follow had suffered an ...
Newport Jazz Festival 55: A Weekend to Savor
by Ken Franckling
George Wein's CareFusion Jazz Festival 55Newport, Rhode IslandAugust 7-9, 2009In this 40th anniversary summer of Woodstock, the musical love-in took place in Newport, not upstate New York. And it wasn't a matter of nostalgia. It was all about the Phoenix-like return of the jazz festival after a winter of uncertainty. Once ...
Take Five With Bob Albanese
by AAJ Staff
Meet Bob Albanese: Bob Albanese was born in Newark, N.J. in 1957. Growing up and the Jersey shore, he began practicing the piano at age 8. At age 15, he won top honors in the Garden State Talent Expo which culminated in a solo performance at the Garden State Arts Center in Holmdel, N.J. This was ...
Guitar Stars: Jack Wilkins & Mike Stern
by Tom Greenland
Jack Wilkins Until It's Time MaxJazz 2009 Mike Stern Big Neighborhood Heads Up 2009 Jack Wilkins and Mike Stern are guitar stars of the first magnitude: both ...
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