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Walt Weiskopf: Walt Weiskopf: Quartet Live
by Doron Orenstein
Besides being the tenor man onstage with Steely Dan, Walt Weiskopf is first and foremost a prolific solo artist. With over 15 critically acclaimed recordings as a leader, Walt is not one to rest on laurels collected over the course of years, playing alongside legends such as Buddy Rich, Frank Sinatra, Toshiko Akiyoshi, and The Vanguard ...
Kurt Elling: Denver, Colorado, April 9, 2011
by Geoff Anderson
Kurt EllingSoiled Dove UndergroundDenver, COApril 9, 2011 Perhaps it's ironic: jazz wants to be free, yet boundaries abound. Nowhere has a boundary been more touchy or controversial than the line between jazz and rock. Miles Davis blurred it, trounced it, trod upon it, spat on it. And, in some circles, ...
Brulee: New Beginnings
by C. Michael Bailey
Jazz has always been about being musically clever in inventive ways. Consider only Charlie Parker saying, on October 24, 1947, “I'm going to play “Embraceable You," winking, and then playing a completely different melody over the harmonic structure, and the cleverness in jazz is defined. Now, add a sense of humor to the proceedings and the ...
New York's New Music And Arts Series M.A.K.
by AAJ Staff
New York City has a brilliant new arts foundation, and a related music series. Nikka Arts is a music and arts foundation, founded by New York singer and composer Lola Danza and her business partner JB, of aboptv.com. The organization aims to provide a space where musicians and artists can present their creative work, and also ...
Frank Sinatra: Concert Collection 7-DVD Box Set
FRANK SINATRA'S GREATEST TELEVISON AND CONCERT PERFORMANCES FEATURING AN INCREDIBLE ARRAY OF GUEST STARS AND PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED MATERIAL Los Angeles, CA—Shout! Factory celebrates one of the most important and beloved entertainers of our time with the release of the 7-DVD box set Frank Sinatra: Concert Collection, which contains over 14 hours of television and concert performances ...
The Grateful Dead Movie with Never-Before-Seen Jerry Garcia Interviews Returns to Theaters
The critically acclaimed cinematic concert rockumentary, The Grateful Dead Movie Event will take audiences back to the '70s for a one-night in-theater event on Wednesday, April 20 at 7:30 p.m. local time. Under the direction of the band's lead guitarist Jerry Garcia and co-directed by Leon Gast, these legendary 1974 concerts capture the Grateful Dead at ...
Fred Hersch: Alone At The Vanguard
by Dan Bilawsky
Creating an album title--Alone At The Vanguard--that reads as a double entendre and an oxymoron--whether intentional or not--is a great achievement, but not nearly as impressive as the music that pianist Fred Hersch presents on this live recording. While the Vanguard in the title is a direct reference to the hallowed basement club in New York ...
Red Holloway Quartet: San Diego, February 8, 2011
by Robert Bush
Red Holloway Quartet with Plas JohnsonSaville Theater, San Diego City CollegeSan Diego, CAFebruary 8, 2011 Red Holloway has “been there and done that" when it comes to jazz standards and all forms of the blues. While normally his specialties are both playing the tenor saxophone and belting out blues vocals, ...
Tina Sinatra Laments the Loss of Her Dad Frank and the Death of Rat Pack Cool
It's been around 50 years since the Rat Pack, perhaps the world's first supergroup, hit the Las Vegas strip, and they've defined cool ever since. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. personified an era where music was smooth, cocktails were neat and the way you wore your hat meant everything. ...
A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers
By Suzanne Cloud Let there be no doubt that Will Friedwald loves singers and the context from within which they sing—the songs of the great American songbook. In A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers, Friedwald, a respected jazz writer with seven previous books on music and popular culture, has written an encyclopedically ...
