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Jazz Bridge Presents Larry McKenna at the Unitarian Universalist Church on October 19th
Opening our new season of Jazz Bridge Neighborhood Concerts at Jazz in Media! will be saxophonist Larry McKenna at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 145 W. Rose Tree Road in Media, PA, on October 19th, 2011. With him will be vibraphonist Tony Miceli, bassist Kevin McConnell and drummer Dan Monahan. One Show: 7:30-9 p.m. $10/$5 students. No ...
Davi Sings Sinatra: On The Road To Romance - Scheduled For Release October 24th 2011
ICONIC SCREEN STAR ROBERT DAVI PAYS TRIBUTE TO THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD IN MAJOR DEBUT RECORDING DAVI SINGS SINATRA: ON THE ROAD TO ROMANCE—SCHEDULED FOR RELEASE OCTOBER 24, 2011 “Davi Sings Sinatra" is a superb love letter to the man who defined twentieth century popular music. It's theatrical, heartfelt, and beautifully sung, while incorporating a ...
Take Five With Laura Ainsworth
by AAJ Staff
Meet Laura Ainsworth: I was born in Los Angeles but came to Dallas as a tot when my dad, jazz sax/clarinetist Billy Ainsworth, relocated to become a part of the growing commercial recording industry. Came up in the music biz (details to follow!). Graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a B.S. in Radio-TV-Film. ...
Tommy Vig: Welcome to Hungary!
by Jerry D'Souza
Vibraphonist Tommy Vig has had an interesting career. Born in Budapest, he played the drums when he was six and recorded his first album two years later. Music was his passion, but the political landscape in Hungary was to cast a shadow on his days as a jazz musician. Jazz was banned in 1949, and Vig ...
Sinatra-Basie: Reprise Sessions
Count Basie and Frank Sinatra recorded three Reprise albums together—two studio dates in 1962 and 1964 plus a live recording at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas in 1966. The two studio dates are remarkable for how artfully and neatly both swingers folded together, resulting in powerful finger-popping magic. Now both Sinatra-Basie: An Historical Musical First ...
Eddie Vedder: Ukulele Songs
by Kevin Davis
Eddie Vedder Ukulele Songs Monkey Wrench 2011 The ballad “More Than You Know" was written by Vincent Youmans, Billy Rose and Edward Eliscu in 1929, a souvenir from a long gone era that a romantic might be tempted to posit represented “simpler times." Insofar as it's unlikely that anyone reading this ...
Texas-based jazz vocalist Laura Ainsworth truly dazzles on new CD
The last thing anyone would expect from a jazz album would be a cover of a song from '80s New Wave vet Marshall Crenshaw. But on her latest record, Keep It To Yourself, vocalist Laura Ainsworth does just that, stripping away the power pop from Crenshaw's 1991 original and instead focusing on its yearning romanticism. Gifted ...
Vivian Buczek: Dedication To My Giants
by Bruce Lindsay
Dedication To My Giants, is Vivian Buczek's tribute to those giants of jazz who have inspired the Swedish vocalist's own work. While Frank Sinatra and Ray Charles get a mention, Buczek's giants for are predominantly instrumentalists--John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Clifford Brown included--and as a result her song selection for this, her third album, avoids the ...
Concord Music Group Reissues Classic Chairman & the Count Recordings
By the early 1960s, Frank Sinatra and Count Basie had already cemented their respective reputations as two of the most versatile and enduring entertainers of the 20th century. When these two titans united in the studio for recordings on Reprise—Sinatra's own label, which he'd launched at the start of the decade—the results were historic. The first ...
Newport Jazz Festival 2011, 4-7 de agosto
by Joan A. Cararach
Newport Jazz FestivalDel 4 al 7 de agosto, 2011Newport, Rhode Island, Estados Unidos Prólogo: como Moisés en Fort Adams (y cantando con Pete Seeger) Un carrito de golf se detiene en la entrada del túnel que lleva del llamado escenario Quad al Harbor Stage. Chubasqueros y paraguas se detienen ante ...
