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Herb Pomeroy: A Splendored Gig
Before he became an educator at Boston's Berklee School of Music, trumpeter Herb Pomeroy briefly led a big band in the late 1950s. The band had a solid, swinging sound, like a steam locomotive going at full tilt. While Maynard Ferguson's band during this period was about the sonic impact of the brass section and frenzied ...
Take Five With Bob Albanese
by AAJ Staff
Meet Bob Albanese: Bob Albanese was born in Newark, N.J. in 1957. Growing up and the Jersey shore, he began practicing the piano at age 8. At age 15, he won top honors in the Garden State Talent Expo which culminated in a solo performance at the Garden State Arts Center in Holmdel, N.J. This was ...
Jacksonville: Big City, Big Band, Big Plans
by Jack Bowers
Almost everyone who's even mildly interested knows that the big band scene in the US isn't what it used to be. On the other hand, the big bands aren't yet dead, as some alarmists have claimed, or even on life support. Thanks in part to college and armed services programs, there are perhaps as many or ...
Alvaro is Rojas's "El Arte de la Vida" Reissued on BlueMusicGroup.com
El Arte de la Vida is pianist Alvaro Is Rojas' most personal outing-to-date. This album features his original heartfelt compositions as well as selections from the American Songbook and songs by Burt Bacharach and John Scofield. Rojas encounters the most introspective reflections in improvised jazz pianism –only on BlueMusicGroup.com. Alvaro Is Rojas (b. 1946 in Barcelona, ...
Pernille Bevort: Cowboys and Girls
by Ian Patterson
Since making her recording debut in the mid '90s, saxophonist/composer/arranger/vocalist Pernille Bevort has established herself as one of the leading lights on the Danish jazz scene, with half a dozen recordings as leader under her belt. Playground + 1 (Calibrated, 2007) provides ample proof of her outstanding musicianship, whether on tenor or soprano saxophone, as well ...
Berklee Remembers Herb Pomeroy: Tribute Concert to Feature Joe Lovano, Hal Galper, Jack Walrath, and Greg Hopkins and the Berklee Concert Jazz Orchestra
PROCEEDS TO BENEFIT THE HERB POMEROY SCHOLARSHIP FUND On Tuesday, April 1, 2008, Berklee College of Music will present an historic musical event, as colleagues and former students converge to honor the memory of beloved trumpeter and educator Herb Pomeroy, who passed away in August, and whose four decades teaching at Berklee helped the college earn ...
Boston Blow-Up!
By Herb Pomeroy
Label: Capitol Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: 01. Bob The Robin - 2:35;
02. Yesterday's Gardenias - 4:38;
03. Sergical - 3:09;
04. What's New - 3:36 ;
05. Mar-Dros - 3:20;
06. JR. - 4:17;
07. Body And Soul - 3:49;
08. Kip - 3:17;
09. Diane's Melody - 1:38;
10. Unison - 3:13;
11. Boomareemaroja - 3:42;
12. Herbs (long take) - 4:18;
13. Herbs (short take) - 3:30.
Serge Chaloff: Boston Blow-Up!
by AAJ Italy Staff
Pubblicato finalmente su CD, questo disco di Serge Chaloff è stato una rarità per decenni. Già pochi anni dopo la sua incisione per la Capitol (aprile 1955) andò fuori catalogo, rimanendo in quel limbo fino ai primi anni ottanta, quando l'etichetta Affinity ne curò una fugace riedizione. Considerando che riemerge sul mercato ogni venticinque anni, chi ...
Monday Night At Birdland + Life Is A Many Splendored Gig
By Hank Mobley
Label: Roulette
Released: 1981
Track listing: Walkin'; All The Things You Are; Bag's Groove; There Will Never Be Another You; Blue Grass; Wolafunt´s Lament; Jack Spratt; Aluminum Baby; It´s Sandman; Our Delight; Theme For Terry; No One Will Room With Me; Feather Merchant; Bit Man; Less Talk;
