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Jazz Musician of the Day: Glenn Miller
All About Jazz is celebrating Glenn Miller's birthday today! Shortly after the beginning of the 20th century, in a small rural Southwestern Iowa town, a boy was born to Elmer and Mattie Lou Miller. The date was March 1, 1904 and the town was Clarinda. The boy that was born that night was named Alton Glen ...
Interview: Ginny Mancini
Some of Artie Shaw and Mel Torme's finest recordings came in 1946, when both were signed to the Musicraft label in Los Angeles. Torme at the time fronted a vocal quartet known as the Mel-Tones. What set the Mel-Tones apart was their hip spin on the band vocal groups popular at the time. Torme wrote the ...
Henry Mancini's "The Classic Soundtrack Collection"(9-CDs) to be released November 18!
The 9-CD box set features 18 of Mancini’s most celebrated soundtrack albums with rare bonus tracks. Scores feature jazz and pop standards, including “The Pink Panther Theme,” “Moon River” (from Breakfast At Tiffany’s) and “Baby Elephant Walk” (from Hatari!) Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, is proud to announce the release of Henry ...
Ginger Berglund and Scott Whitfield: Solitary Moon
by Nicholas F. Mondello
The canon gifted us by composer Johnny Mandel, whether film scores, television themes or individual compositions, is bathed in distinctive melodic beauty. And, both memorable and lesser-known Mandel selections offer lyrics from some of the greatest wordsmiths of our time--Johnny Mercer, Alan and Marilyn Bergman, Dave Frishberg, and others. Thus the material presented in Solitary Moon ...
Un ricordo di Giorgio Gaslini
by Marcus A. Woelfle
Nel 1995, mentre si esibiva al Festival monacense Big Band Meeting -Jazz & More" Giorgio Gaslini, concesse un'intervista a Marcus A. Woelfle. La ECM aveva appena pubblicato Skies of Europe dell'Italian Instabile Orchestra con l'omonima suite di Gaslini che diede lo spunto all'intervista. Per ricordare il pianista da poco scomparso, All About Jazz Italia ripropone questa ...
Stan Kenton Alumni Band: Road Scholars Live
by Chris M. Slawecki
For more than twenty years, the Stan Kenton Alumni Band has kept the pulse of big-band jazz strongly beating through regular touring under the direction of trumpet master Mike Vax, who served as the Orchestra's first trumpet, soloist and road manager (and also spent one year leading The Dukes of Dixieland, a genuine New Orleans musical ...
Musings on Jazz, Blues and the Sabbath
by Chris M. Slawecki
Margie Baker Sings With So Many Stars Consolidated Artists Productions 2014 Margie Baker didn't begin her career as a jazz and blues vocalist in the San Francisco area until she was nearly 40, but she made up for this delayed entry with endurance: She was often featured at the Monterey ...
"Crazy Rhythm:" Red Nichols And His Five Pennies This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
This week on Riverwalk Jazz the Jim Cullum Jazz Band tells the story of Red Nichols and his Five Pennies, illustrated with numerous historical recordings of Nichols and the ensembles he led. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International. You can also drop in on a continuous stream of shows at the ...
Jazz. New York in the Roaring Twenties
by Nenad Georgievski
Jazz. New York in the Roaring Twenties Robert Nippold, Hans-Jürgen Schaal 144 ISBN: 3836545012 Taschen 2013 The period in the 1920's America is known as the Jazz Age, the Golden Twenties or the Roaring Twenties. The history books say that this decade after the WWI was a prosperous ...
Jazz Vocals May
by C. Michael Bailey
Simin Tander Where Water Travels Home Jazzhaus 2014 German-Afghani vocalist and composer Simin Tander follows up her well-received debut recording Wagma (Neuklang, 2011). She again prefers the company of her trio: pianist Jeroen van Vliet, who also provides judicious electronic effects; stand- out bassist Cord Heineking; and drummer ...



