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News: Festival

Annual Newport Beach Jazz Party Set for Feb. 14-17

Annual Newport Beach Jazz Party Set for Feb. 14-17

By Larry Taylor Washington Birthday weekend's coming up Feb. 14 to 16, and that is the time for the 13th Annual Newport Beach Jazz Party, at Newport Marriott Hotel, Southern California. Fans know this is the gathering of some of the world's finest jazz musicians, playing day and night in the hotel's various venues: Jazz breakfasts, ...

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Article: Album Review

Mike Wofford / Holly Hofmann Quintet: Turn Signal

Read "Turn Signal" reviewed by Larry Taylor


Holly Hofmann is an energetic, swinging, straight-ahead jazz flautist who has been performing for over 30 years. Mike Wofford, her husband, a recognized piano master, co-leads on Turn Signal, playing with an understated, intuitively rhythmic style. The two now live in San Diego, California, but travel extensively for performances. Recording her first disc ...

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Article: Album Review

Mike Wofford / Holly Hofmann Quintet: Turn Signal

Read "Turn Signal" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Down in out-of-the-way San Diego, California (that's out-of-the-way in a New York-centric jazz world), flautist Holly Hofmann and pianist Mike Wofford have been steadily making world-class jazz for a couple of decades. Wofford--who has spent much of his career in supporting roles, backing vocalists Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald, saxophonists Zoot Sims and Benny Carter, and ...

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News: Festival

Newport Beach Jazz Party: Feb. 17-20, 2011

Newport Beach Jazz Party: Feb. 17-20, 2011

The upcoming Presidents' Day Weekend marks the opening of the 11th Annual Newport Beach Jazz Party, which spotlights “Right Down The Middle And Straight Ahead" jazz at the Marriott Newport Beach Hotel in Southern California. The four-day event, Feb. 17 through 20, 2011, kicks off Thursday, 8 p.m., with guitarist/vocalist John Pizzarelli's tribute to Duke Ellington, ...

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Three's Company

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Released: 2010
Track listing: 01. Too Late Now (B. Lane); 02. Too Late Now (B. Cunliffe); 03. Star-Crossed Lovers (B. Strayorn); 04. Three's Company (H. Hoffman); 05. Reunion (B. Cunliffe); 06. Pavane (Faurè); 07. Sweet Andy (B. Cunliffe); Farewell (B. Cunliffe).

Article: Album Review

Holly Hofmann - Bill Cunliffe: Three's Company

Read "Three's Company" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Un sodalizio artistico risalente agli anni '90 ha felicemente contrassegnato la carriera del duo Hofmann/Cunliffe, allargato in questo disco alle pieghe espressive del trio con altri strumenti (violino, tromba, clarinetto, batteria). Per l'occasione sono stati chiamati a raccolta grandi musicisti del calibro di Regina Carter, Ken Peplowski, Terell Stafford. In primo piano una sinuosa eleganza stilistica, ...

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News: Recording

Acclaimed Flutist Holly Hofmann Celebrates Release of New Capri CD Three's Company with February - April Performances

Acclaimed Flutist Holly Hofmann Celebrates Release of New Capri CD Three's Company with February - April Performances

“Holly Hofmann possesses one of the most exquisite flute tones in jazz. She also demonstrates a sure technique, inventive ideas, a secure sense of swing and a broad emotional range." -- David Franklin, JazzTimes “Hearing Bill Cunliffe on CD is always a major treat... his playing is inventive, melodic, and soulful." -- Ernie Rideout, Keyboard ...

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Live at Athenaeum Jazz, Volume 2

Label: Capri Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: More Than You Know; Floof; Introspection; No Mercy; Twelve; Free Day; Out of This World; If I Should Lose You; Presentimento; Exactly Like You.

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Live at Jazz Athenaeum - Vol. 2

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Released: 2007
Track listing: 01. More than You Know (V. Youmans)- 7:14; 02. Floof (Mike Wofford) - 6:15; 03. Introspection/Eronel (T. Monk) - 5:17; 04. No Mercy (G. Cashman)- 5:30; 05. Twelve (P. Malinverni) - 4:39; 06. Free Day (for Samule Barber) (Holly Hofmann) - 4:27; 07. Out of this World (H. Arlen) - 5:00; 08. If I Should Lose You (R. Rainger/L. Rebim) - 6:07; 09. Presentimiento (Holly Hofmann) - 4:30; 10. Exactly Like You (J. McHugh) - 4:45.

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Article: Album Review

Mike Wofford - Holly Hofmann: Live at Jazz Athenaeum - Vol. 2

Read "Live at Jazz Athenaeum - Vol. 2" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


L'Atheneum Music & Arts Library di San Diego in California ospita, oltre a libri e media musicali di tutti i tipi, eventi culturali e concerti di jazz. Mike Wofford, in veste di pianista, ha pubblicato finora due volumi tratti dai suoi concerti in questa sede, uno in trio con Peter Washington e Victor Lewis e questo ...


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