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Larry McKenna Receives 3rd Annual Jazz Bridge "Making A Difference" Award Sun. Dec. 16th @ LaRose!
Philadelphia jazz saxophone icon Larry McKenna will receive the third annual Jazz Bridge “Making a Difference” Award on Sunday December 16th at LaRose Jazz & Banquet Hall, 5531 Germantown Avenue in Philadelphia. The event runs from 6 to 10 p.m. Tickets are $20. Information: 610-745-3011. This gala is a Jazz Bridge benefit for the Daphne Fund, ...
Allen Vizzutti: Ritzville
by Dan Bilawsky
There are very few trumpeters that can do it all and do it all well, but Allen Vizzutti is one of them. His storied career has included stints with Woody Herman's Thundering Herd, pianist Chick Corea, and trumpeter Doc Severinsen's Tonight Show Band. When he wasn't busy playing with one of these top-tier artists, he could ...
John Pizzarelli's Memoir "World on A String" Chronicles the Guitarist's Rise to Top of Jazz World
Written by one of the best jazz guitarists in the business, World on a String: A Musical Memoir by John Pizzarelli and Joseph Cosgriff tells the story of a young man who went from growing up in a modest New Jersey home to selling out concert tours around the world. Pizzarelli’s story is a tour through ...
Eddie Durham: Genius in the Shadows
by Jim Gerard
On December 13, 1932, in the eye of the Great Depression that was devastating the record industry, the Bennie Moten Orchestra shuffled “on their uppers" into a converted church in Camden, N.J., and silently launched the Swing Era, three years before clarinetist Benny Goodman's formal inauguration as the “King of Swing" at the Palomar Ballroom in ...
Steve Lipman: The Singin' Dentist Balances Healing With Frank Sinatra
When the Dream Academy sang, “Like Sinatra in a younger day," in their wind-swept '80s hit, “Life in a Northern Town," they could easily have been describing jazz singer Steve Lipman. Looking and sounding like Ol' Blue Eyes himself, Lipman mesmerizes with his warm crooning on his latest album, Ridin' the Beat. But what's fascinating about ...
The Importance of Vince Guaraldi’s A Charlie Brown Christmas
by C. Michael Bailey
Into my heart on air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come ...
The Royal Air Force Squadronaires And Todd Gordon: Helping The Heroes
by Bruce Lindsay
Helping The Heroes, from singer Todd Gordon and the Royal Air Force Squadronaires, has the authentic, swinging, sound of a great big band. The guest singers showcase the range of vocal talent on the UK scene, and the album has its heart fairly and squarely in the right place, too, having been recorded in support of ...
Duduka Da Fonseca: The Guy From Ipanema
by R.J. DeLuke
The 1950s into the early 1960s was a special period in Brazil, the land of beautiful beaches, picturesque mountains and the home of a warm, inviting and sensuous music called samba that was developed during those years. It was also a time when bossa nova, another sumptuous musical style, was spawned. The music invades the senses ...
Bob Mintzer Big Band / Bob Wilber and the Tuxedo Big Band / Joe Chambers Moving Pictures Orchestra
by Jack Bowers
Bob Mintzer Big BandFor the MomentMCG Jazz2012 Anyone who has followed Bob Mintzer's career knows that the multi-talented saxophonist / educator has always had a special place in his heart for music from south of the border (he even recorded a big-band album, Latin from Manhattan, back in ...
Fred Hersch and The Village Vanguard
by C. Michael Bailey
If pianist Bill Evans came after Bud Powell and Art Tatum, who came after Bill Evans? Fred Hersch did. It was from Hersch that Brad Mehldau and Ethan Iverson came as his students. Evans' language captivated jazz pianism for decades and needed evolutionary stimuli to further develop. That stimuli was provided by Hersch, who has quietly ...
