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Take Five With Susan Perti-Dunn
by AAJ Staff
Instrument(s):Piano, vocals, and keyboard.Teachers and/or influences?All teachers have influenced me over the years. Some more than others, but all have touched me and allowed me to grow as a person. Influences: Diana Krall, Karen Carpenter, Bonnie Raitt, Shania Twain, Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays, Tim Janis, The Secret Garden, '70s classic ...
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 ...
Traincha w/ Metropole Orchestra: This Girl's In Love: Burt Bacharach Songbook
by Chris May
You don't need to be Austin Powers to enjoy Burt Bacharach. The composer is a primogeniture descendant of the geniuses who created the great American songbook--the Gershwins, Cole Porter, Hoagy Carmichael, Irving Berlin, and their contemporaries. Usually in the company of lyricist Hal David, Bacharach wrote and arranged some of the most grown-up chart music of ...
The Allman Brothers Band: 40 Years Out
by Alan Bryson
So what do Randy Brecker, Stanley Clarke and Lenny White have in common with Kid Rock, Eric Clapton and Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top? All were part of the Allman Brothers Band's three-week musical extravaganza at New York City's Beacon Theater celebrating the band's 40th anniversary. This year's list of surprise guests also included ...
China Moses: Bringing Back the Good Times
by Chris Mosey
China Moses is dedicating her singing career to blowing away the notion that women jazz singers in the present age have to be white and wispy and sing songs that are studiously liberated and sexless. She was born in Los Angeles in 1978, daughter of jazz doyenne Dee Dee Bridgewater and her second ...
Newport Festivals Lose a Big Sponsor
The Newport folk and jazz festivals lost their corporate sponsorship when JVC, the electronics company, pulled out after running into financial troubles, but organizers have lined up a stellar roster of performers this year anyway. Joan Baez and Pete Seeger, who played the first Newport festival in 1959, are scheduled to perform. Judy Collins and Arlo ...
Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Play 50th Anniversary Newport Folk Festival
For its 50th anniversary, the Newport Folk Festival has recruited two artists who took the stage at the inaugural 1959 event: Joan Baez and Pete Seeger. Newer acts like Fleet Foxes, Iron & Wine, the Decemberists, Neko Case and Breaking artists the Low Anthem will also take part in George Weins Folk Festival 50, scheduled for ...
Vocalist Halie Loren Releases "They Oughta Write a Song"
Jazz could be described as being the voice of “old souls" those who have already experienced life to its fullest and lived to sing about it. If that's the case, then Halie Loren, though young in years, must have already experienced many lives. From the first notes of the title song on her new jazz album, ...
Bon Jovi Set for First Jazz Fest Appearance New Orleans
Bon Jovi has been added to the lineup of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this spring. The rock act will make its first appearance at the festival on May 2. Bon Jovi joins previously announced performers Aretha Franklin, Dave Matthews Band, Wilco, James Taylor, Wynton Marsalis, Kings Of Leon, ...
Etta James Versus Beyonce: Divas Duel No. 2
That woman he had singing for him, singing my song she's going to get her a__ whipped. ETTA JAMES-- 71 Etta James on Beyonc and President Obama, in a recording obtained by TMZ; the pop singer performed James' signature song, “At Last," for the President and First Lady at an Inaugural ball. The ballad ...
