Results for "grace kelly"

2009 Freihofer's Jazz Festival: One of the Great Jazz Lawn Parties

by Ken Franckling
July 7, 2009

Freihofer's Jazz FestivalSaratoga Springs, New YorkJune 27-28, 2009My return visit to to Freihofer's Jazz Festival after an eight-year absence reminded me very quickly that this two-day event remains one of the summer season's great jazz lawn parties. The ampitheater and spacious park-setting of the Saratoga Performing Arts Center provides dual tugs--trips into the ...

1 Charmer, 5 Albums, and Still a Teenager

July 6, 2009

Youth has always been a hot commodity in jazz, even if maturity usually produces better dividends. Grace Kelly, a New England-reared saxophonist, turned 17 in May, shortly after the release of her fifth album, “Mood Changes” (Pazz). Having five albums to her name is a sure testament to her preternatural skill, but it also possibly indicates ...

Jack Nimitz: Baritone-in-Chief

by Jack Bowers
July 1, 2009

Baritone saxophonist Jack Nimitz died June 10, 2009 at his home in Studio City, California. He was 79 years old. That's hardly headline news except to a relative handful of jazz enthusiasts who were privileged to hear and appreciate his consummate artistry over the span of more than half a century when Nimitz was at the ...

New Jazz It Up! Episode Features: Chico Hamilton, Grace Kelly, Vintage Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Radio Deejay Russ Davis, and Coverage of the Freddie Hubbard Memorial at St. John the Divine

June 18, 2009

New York, NY -- From elder statesman Chico Hamilton to rising star Grace Kelly, the current episode of Jazz it Up! bristles with a cool edge that tempers the warmth of summer. On one of her two featured numbers, alto saxophonist Kelly arranges Bill Withers' “Aint No Sunshine" into a jazz showcase; during the second, she ...

Jazz It Up! New Episode: Lewis Nash Quintet, the Caribbean Jazz Project, Stanley Jordan's Guitar Technique, Vintage Nina Simone, Chuck Stewart's Photography, and Duke Ellington News

April 11, 2009

New York, NY – Drummer Lewis Nash blazes his quintet with percussive drive and the Caribbean Jazz Project with vibraphonist Dave Samuels brings spicy swing to the headline features for episode 5 of the second season of Jazz it Up! In exclusive interviews (heard during the second of two songs featured by each) Samuels tells host ...

GRACEfulLEE

By Grace Kelly

Label: PAZZ Productions, LLC
Released: 2008
Track listing: Subconscious Lee; Just Friends; GRACEfulLEE; You Don't Know What Love Is; Alone Together; Buzzing Around; Thingin'; Call of the Spirits; NY at Noon.

Somewhere Over The Rainbow

Featuring the music of Grace Kelly
Duration: 3:54
December 21, 2008

Grace Kelly: GRACEfulLEE

by Ken Dryden
November 14, 2008

Grace Kelly is still only a teenager, but she has already turned quite a few heads in the world of jazz. She already has an impressive resume, having won several Down Beat Student Music Awards and a pair of ASCAP Young Composer Foundation Awards, in addition to beginning studies at Berklee in the fall of 2008 ...

Grace Kelly and Lee Konitz: GRACEfulLEE

by Dan McClenaghan
July 10, 2008

Most sixteen year old musicians are honing their chops in the high school marching and concert bands. Some of the luckier ones attend a school that has a jazz band where a beginner can get a taste of improvisation. Sixteen year old alto saxophonist Grace Kelly--a testament to joyful precocious talent and a killer support system--trades ...

Every Road I Walked

By Grace Kelly

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2007
Track listing: Every Road I Walked; I'll Remember April; East of the Sun (West of the Moon); Some Other Time; I Will; Nowhere to Run; "Round Midnight; Filosophical Flying Fish; Samba de Verao (So Nice); Somewhere Over the Rainbow; Here's That Rainy Day; Finish Line; What If I Told You; Summertime.