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Article: Live Review

"In the Mood" at Mesa Arts Center

by Patricia Myers
March 28, 2014

"In the Mood": A 1940s Musical Revue Mesa Arts Center Mesa, Arizona March 12, 2014 A 13-piece big band revived the music of the 1940s, from Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey to Duke Ellington and Count Basie, accompanying six young singers and dancers in vintage costumes to re-create the music of ...

Article: Interview

Gerard D'Angelo: Who's Kidding Who?

by DanMichael Reyes
March 17, 2014

The old adage about those who can do and those who can't teach doesn't fit nicely into any music tradition. If this fallacy were to hold true, then it would be best for music history books to write off Joseph Haydn for taking on pupils--Beethoven being one of the more famous ones. That old idiom penned ...

Article: Bailey's Bundles

Jazz Quanta March

by C. Michael Bailey
March 14, 2014

RareNoise, chant, drunken big band...Good Lawd! Free Nelson Mandoomjazz The Shape of Doomjazz to Come/Saxophone Giganticus RareNoise 2014 You have to love RareNoise Records for inventive sonic turbulence. Add to this alto saxophonist Rebecca Sneddon sense of humor aping the title of this “double EP" ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Glenn Miller

March 1, 2014

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 ...

Album

The Glenn Miller Orchestra: In the Mood

By Glenn Miller

Label: D
Released: 2013
Track listing: Runnin’ Wild; A String of Pearls; Hallelujah I Love Her So; Stumbling; I’m Glad There Is You; I Got Rhythm; (I’ve Got a Gal in) Kalamazoo; Little Brown Jug; Anything Goes; Whistle Stop; Oh! So Good; Once Upon a Keyboard; Moonlight Becomes You; In the Mood; Jingle Bells.

Album

The Real... Glenn Miller (The Ultimate Glenn Miller Collection)

By Glenn Miller

Label: Tzadik
Released: 2013

Article: Extended Analysis

The Glenn Miller Orchestra: In the Mood

by Jack Bowers
November 20, 2013

You can count on the fingers of one hand the number of big bands formed in the 1930s that continue to perform today, long after the storied Big Band Era has faded from national craze to modest footnote in American musical history. Foremost among the survivors is the Glenn Miller Orchestra, the latest incarnation of which ...

Article: Catching Up With

The La Barbera Brothers: Jazz DNA

by Nicholas F. Mondello
November 7, 2013

It's an interesting phenomenon how certain families enter and distinguish themselves in this marvelous world of jazz--The Joneses, Heaths, Candolis, Royals, Breckers, Mangiones, and others. Over the last five decades--even many more if one goes farther back to when they were young children playing in the family band with Mom and Pop--the La Barbera Brothers--John, Joe ...

Article: Live Review

Fondazione Siena Jazz Summer Workshop 2013

by John Kelman
August 16, 2013

Fondazione Siena Jazz Summer WorkshopSiena, ItalyJuly 24-August 7, 2013While there are those who continue to suggest that the death knell for jazz has been sounded--and loudly--they're clearly not looking at the vast number of young musicians studying the music, both privately and, increasingly, in university programs. It's hard to imagine that only fifty ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Orchester Kurt Edelhagen: Big Bands Live

by Jack Bowers
July 28, 2013

Maestro Kurt Edelhagen's Orchestra was a band for its time, deftly blending elements of swing, pop and jazz to help move Germany--at least the Western part of it--away from Nazi strictures and toward a more open-handed environment that not only tolerated but nourished the country's alliance to big-band music that spawned a wide array of world-class ...