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Turn Up Those Footnotes!
by Andrew J. Sammut
Even if the names William Shakespeare and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ring some bells for contemporary audiences, chances are Thomas Marlowe or Giovanni Paisiello might not get a chime. Yet, Marlowe's plays drew droves of theatergoers in Elizabethan England, and Paisiello's operas packed 18th century houses. It doesn't take an English scholar or the ...
Charles Mingus High School Competition and Festival
The 3rd Annual Charles Mingus High School Competition and Festival will be taking place February 18㬑, 2011. Sue Mingus and Justin DiCioccio, are the producers. This year's Mingus High School Competition and Festival will be bringing some of the country's most talented young jazz musicians to New York City. Twelve schools will be represented coming from ...
Tanglewood Jazz Festival Receives Grant from NEA Jazz Masters Live
The Tanglewood Jazz Festival, produced by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and held every Labor Day weekend, has been selected as a participant in NEA Jazz Masters Live, a National Endowment for the Arts program of performances and residencies featuring NEA Jazz Masters, cooperatively managed by Arts Midwest. This is the first grant the festival has received ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Gunther Schuller
All About Jazz is celebrating Gunther Schuller's birthday today! Gunther SchullerThe composer Gunther Schuller is, famously, a man of many musical pursuits. He began his professional life as a horn player in both the jazz and classical worlds, working as readily with Miles Davis and Gil Evans as with Toscanini... more ...
Ted Rosenthal Trio: Impromptu
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
As legend has it, the term “third stream" was invented by Gunther Schuller in 1957, to prevent jazz and classical fans from resenting incursions onto their turf by the other side. This new musical entity would be neither classical nor jazz, and not just a simple merging of the two: it would be more than jazz ...
Introducing Booker Little
by Robert Levin
[Editor's Note: This article first appeared in Jazz & Pop Magazine, 1970. Little died in 1961, just a few months after this interview was originally published in Metronome]Booker Little, twenty-three year-old composer, arranger and trumpet player (the order is arbitrary, each role has equal importance to him), has lately come to demonstrate, in recordings ...
Chuck Anderson: Guitar Reemergence
by Victor L. Schermer
Chuck Anderson's guitar artistry is a cut above the jazz standard. The quality of his execution is so fine that on first hearing, it is literally stunning. His recent CD, Freefall (Dreambox Media, 2010) consists of musical gems--all-original compositions, woven into a tapestry worthy of a master classical guitarist. Yet it is all straight-ahead mainstream jazz ...
ART-i-Facts: Great Performances from 40 Years of Jazz at NEC
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Various Artists ART-i-Facts: Great Performances from 40 Years of Jazz at NEC New England Conservatory 2010 For almost 150 years the New England Conservatory has been a repository of learning for musicians from around the world. The institution has maintained a fine sense of history and 40 years ago began ...
Hot and Cool: 40 Years of Jazz at NEC
by Marcia Hillman
New England Conservatory (NEC) is celebrating the 40th anniversary of being America's first fully-accredited Jazz Studies Program at a music conservatory. The merriment kicked off in NEC's home of Boston with a week of events in October 2009, culminating in a performance by the Wayne Shorter Quartet accompanied by the school's Philharmonia, a merger between jazz ...
