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News: Festival

Annual Newport Beach Jazz Party Set for Feb. 14-17

December 31, 2012

By Larry Taylor Washington Birthday weekend's coming up Feb. 14 to 16, and that is the time for the 13th Annual Newport Beach Jazz Party, at Newport Marriott Hotel, Southern California. Fans know this is the gathering of some of the world's finest jazz musicians, playing day and night in the hotel's various venues: Jazz breakfasts, ...

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Article: Big Band Report

Catching Up

by Jack Bowers
December 8, 2011

As our most recent column was devoted exclusively to the Ken Poston / LAJI event, “Modern Sounds," held October 20-24 at the Los Angeles Marriott Airport Hotel, and to the day-long tribute to bandleader Stan Kenton on the hundredth anniversary of his birth that followed, a number of substantive items slipped through the cracks. Before they ...

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Article: Album Review

The Four Freshmen: The Four Freshmen and Live Trombones

Read "The Four Freshmen and Live Trombones" reviewed by Robert J. Robbins

by Robert J. Robbins
December 31, 2009

Over six decades ago, four undergraduates at Indiana's Butler University first joined their voices in song as The Four Freshmen and, in 1950, the quartet was heard by Stan Kenton, on whose trombone section the “Frosh" had modeled their sound. Kenton immediately demanded that the group be signed by his label, Capitol, and began an association ...

Album

The Four Freshmen and Live Trombones

By The Four Freshmen

Label: Four Freshmen
Released: 2009
Track listing: Candy; Our Love Is Here to Stay; It's All Right with Me; Angel Eyes; You Stepped Out of a Dream; Early Autumn; Somebody Loves Me; Mam'selle; Love Is Just Around the Corner; Guilty; Speak Low; You Made Me Love You; September Song; Love.