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Cab Calloway Home a New Landmark?
by Fradley Garner
“A bad happening for the jazz community" is how reedsman Dave Liebman described the demise earlier this year of the International Association of Jazz Educators. Why IAJE filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy is still being asked, but part of the problem was the return to Toronto for this year's conference. Attendance was little more than half ...
In Denver: Oh, say can you hear?--Daytime jazz club folds in Harlem--Canadians revisit Ellington
by Fradley Garner
Colorado jazz singer Rene Marie's unaccompanied version of the national anthem at a Denver state-of-the-city address in early July called to mind guitarist Jimi Hendrix's blues-rock rendition of “The Star Spangled Banner" at the 1969 Woodstock Festival. Though city officials and assembled citizens applauded, the stirring lines of “Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" sent waves of ...
Tick-Tick-Tick or Pling-Thump-Twang Goes the Music Beater
by Fradley Garner
Ching! tick, tick, tick,Ching! tick, tick, tick ... These are metronome sounds with four beats to the measure--for instance a time signature of 4/4, with stress here on the first beat. A metronome produces a pulse you can hear and/or see. It lays down a steady rhythm in beats-per-minute (BPM) when you play a ...
Air Guitar? Try an Orchestra....
by Fradley Garner
You love jazz but you don't play an instrument or read music? Even if you do, check out a new marvel that lets lovers of many musical genres compose and hear their works performed by orchestras as they're created. Beamz® connects to your PC and loudspeakers. Moving your hands like a conductor between the openings of ...
A Jazzman's Lucre, and Two Living Legends
by Fradley Garner
Karsten Jahnke, Germany's leading concert organizer, got the 2008 jazzahead!-Skoda Award last month for nearly five decades of service to jazz and the music industry. A sculpture plus 15,000 euros (ca. $23,700) make this the most lucrative jazz award in Germany, and possibly in the world. The now-defunct Jazzpar Prize in Denmark carried a 200,000 Danish ...
Herbie's Take on Joni Mitchell, and the Value of Gigging
by Fradley Garner
Herbie Hancock, winner of the 2008 Album of the Year Grammy for River: The Joni Letters, took the stage with collaborator and inspiration Joni Mitchell when he taped a show for Nissan Live Sets that debuted April 1 on Yahoo! Music. Mitchell sang three of her songs, “River," “Tea Leaf Prophecy" and “Hana." Hancock, backed by ...
Jarrett hits 25, a Hipp aunt, $2 pirates, Germany in Harlem and cozy Paris clubs
by Fradley Garner
Twenty-five years ago this January, pianist Keith Jarrett formed his trio with bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Jack DeJohnette. They recorded “The Masquerade Is Over" without rehearsal or any arrangement. Who could know this partnership would survive for a quarter century? To celebrate this, the German ECM label has released My Foolish Heart, a CD box ...
Benny Goodman, Vanessa Rubin, Ron Carter, Joe Lovano
by Fradley Garner
Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie and other jazz celebrities who took part in U.S. State Department tours in the Cold War era, are celebrated in a photo exhibition opening April 4 at the Meridian International Center’s photo gallery in Washington, DC. The non-profit institution that promotes international understanding through the exchange of people and the ...
Preservation Hall, Still in Crescent City, The Deems Taylor Award and WBGO's Gary Walker
by Fradley Garner
Preservation Hall in New Orleans started as an art gallery and wailed into a landmark jazz venue from about 1960. History lives in the newly released CD/DVD collection, Made in New Orleans: The Hurricane Sessions ($70 for the deluxe edition). “Most will purchase [the boxed set] for its 17-track CD of old and new recordings and ...
Lorraine Foster: Eyeing Cross-Border Prospects
by Fradley Garner
Lorraine Foster, a veteran vocalist with a growing reputation as Canada's first lady of jazz, would like to sing south of the border. Ella Fitzgerald was Foster's first vocal idol and spark for a career choice in her late teens. Decades later, another icon has inspired concerts and a CD: Rosemary Clooney.
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