Results for "Gary Bartz"

Lana Meets Jazz 2018

by Paolo Peviani
May 15, 2018

Lana Meets Jazz Lana (BZ) 30.04-06.05.2018 Big band giovanili e grandi vecchi del jazz italiano ed internazionale, libera improvvisazione contemporanea e jazz manouche, echi balcanici e swing ... La coesistenza dei diversi linguaggi del jazz non è sempre facile, ma il Lana Meets Jazz è un festival differente. La passione degli organizzatori ...

Torino Jazz Festival 2018

by Antonio Baiano
May 6, 2018

Jazz Musician of the Day: Gary Bartz

September 26, 2017

All About Jazz is celebrating Gary Bartz's birthday today! Gary Bartz has been known to many as a trail blazer in the music business from the moment he started playing with Art Blakey at his father’s jazz club in his hometown of Baltimore, MD to his own music throughout the 57 years as a professional musician. ...

Keystone Korner 45th Anniversary Celebration

by Walter Atkins
August 6, 2017

Keystone Korner 45th Anniversary CelebrationBach Dancing & Dynamite Society Half Moon Bay, CA July 7-8, 2017 Fabled jazz venue Keystone Korner commemorated its 45th year anniversary in spectacular style during the first week of July 2017. Producer Todd Barkan not only assembled a superb cast of original Keystone stalwarts and young ...

Meridian Trio: Triangulum

by Troy Dostert
June 20, 2017

2017 is proving to be something of a breakout year for alto saxophonist Nick Mazzarella. He recently released Signaling, a superb freely-improvised duo recording with cellist Tomeka Reid, and now he's followed it up with this excellent outing from the Meridian Trio, where he is joined by his colleagues Matt Ulery on bass and Jeremy Cunningham ...

The Musician

by John Kelman
May 2, 2017

As people age, it's not uncommon to commemorate birthday milestones--specifically, those marking the passing of decades--with special celebrations, ranging from parties to vacations. In most cases, however, these festivities are private events, restricted to family and friends. Not Chick Corea. When this renowned pianist/keyboardist, composer, bandleader and guest participant in countless projects ...

Chick Corea: The Musician

by Angelo Leonardi
April 24, 2017

Nel 2011 Chick Corea ha festeggiato il suo settantesimo compleanno con una serie di concerti al Blue Note di New York, andati avanti per due mesi, con nuove e storiche formazioni della sua carriera. Un totale di dieci band--con la presenza, tra gli altri, di Herbie Hancock, John McLaughlin, Bobby McFerrin, John Patitucci, Gary Burton, Wynton ...

Take Five with Mike Casey

by AAJ Staff
March 16, 2017

About Mike Casey Saxophonist, songwriter, and teaching artist Mike Casey has been a fixture on the Hartford jazz scene and beyond since 2011, when he began attending the acclaimed Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz at the University of Hartford's Hartt School. In 2015, Mike was one of 24 young jazz composers worldwide chosen by ...

David Wise: Till They Lay Me Down

by Roger Farbey
December 5, 2016

Saxophonist David Wise studied under the venerable Gary Bartz but has seemingly been listening to the likes of the later oeuvre of George Benson and maybe some David Sanborn too. No bad thing and the result is this self-produced debut album comprising predominantly self-penned compositions. The album is fairly diverse inasmuch as not all ...

Jazz Musician of the Day: Gary Bartz

September 26, 2016

All About Jazz is celebrating Gary Bartz's birthday today! Gary Bartz has been known to many as a trail blazer in the music business from the moment he started playing with Art Blakey at his father’s jazz club in his hometown of Baltimore, MD to his own music throughout the 57 years as a professional musician. ...