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Litchfield Jazz Festival 2009

by Marcia Hillman
Litchfield Jazz FestivalKent, ConnecticutJuly 31-August 2, 2009 For two and a half days this past weekend, jazz invaded Connecticut with the arrival of the 14th Annual Litchfield Jazz Festival. This year, in a new home on the Kent School grounds in Kent, Connecticut, this major musical event, hosted by WBGO broadcaster and jazz ...
Gordon Jenkins with His Orchestra Presents Marshall Royal

Label: Empire Musicwerks
Released: 2006
Track listing: Caravan; Ain't Misbehavin'; Birth of the Blues; Take The 'A' Train; When I Grow Too Old To Dream; Intermezzo; Blue Prelude; Battle Royal; Goodbye; Pagan Love Song; Black Coffee; Blues For Beverly.
Gordon Jenkins Presents Marshall Royal

Label: Empire Musicwerks
Released: 2006
Track listing: Caravan; Ain't Misbehavin'; Birth Of The Blues; Take The A Train; When I Grow Too Old To Dream; Intermezzo; Blue Prelude; Battle Royal; Goodbye; Pagan Love Song; Black Coffee; Blues For Beverly.
Gordon Jenkins: Gordon Jenkins Presents Marshall Royal

by Nic Jones
As an integral part of the creative rebirth of the Count Basie band in the 1950s, Marshall Royal has been receiving kudos for decades, and rightly so. As a soloist he never got much exposure, however, and this reissue of a body of music recorded in March of 1960 is the nearest thing he got to ...
Gordon Jenkins / Marshall Royal: Gordon Jenkins with His Orchestra Presents Marshall Royal

by David Rickert
How to explain the bewitching power of sax and strings albums, especially for those who would never dare go near the easy listening section of their local music store? The best of these records, like Stan Getz's Focus (Verve, 1961) or Bird With Strings (Columbia, 1950), feature terrific arranging married to imaginative playing, reworking melodies, yet ...