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Houston Person To Perform In Daytona
Internationally acclaimed tenor saxophonist Houston Person will perform at the Museum of Arts and Sciences in Daytona Beach on Saturday, October 16 at the North East Florida Jazz Association's (NEFJA) eighth annual Jeep McCoy Memorial Concert Supper. Person, 75, built his reputation as a leader with a series of soulful recordings on the Prestige label in ...
Tamir Hendelman: Destinations
by Larry Taylor
Well recognized for 10 years as an important member of drummer Jeff Hamilton's Trio and the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra., pianist Tamir Hendelman has also gained recognition as an accompanist for singers such as Tierney Sutton. As well, he is a go-to pianist for numerous sessions with top musicians. After the success of his first ...
Houston Person Returns Home to Perform Benefit Concert on August 27
After his parents bought him his first saxophone when he was 15 years old and living in Florence, Houston Person knew that a life in music was his destiny. Sixty years and 75 albums later, Person is still living that destiny and will return to Florence to perform a benefit concert for the Wilson High School ...
Sirius XM Radio to Broadcast Live from the Montreal Jazz Festival
SIRIUS XM's Real Jazz channel will broadcast live from the 31st annual Montreal Jazz Festival, the world's largest jazz gathering. Listeners will hear Real Jazz host Mark Ruffin give a preview of the event's performances including music and interviews with artists including Herbie Hancock, Sonny Rollins, Houston Person, Robert Glasper, Gretchen Parlato and others. The live ...
Legends Festival in South Carolina to Honor Natives and Other Jazz Greats
By Larry Reni Thomas South Carolina is the native state and former home of several distinguished jazz musicians, including the most well-known, John Birks “Dizzy" Gillespie, the trumpeter, composer, bandleader and co-creator of bebop, who was born in Cheraw, South Carolina. There are several others, like the high note trumpet master, Cat Anderson, a former member ...
JazzWeek Radio Chart: March 29, 2010
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 2 Ahmad Jamal A Quiet Time (Dreyfus) 204 209 -5 1 53 1 10 2 2 5 Hadley Caliman Straight Ahead (Origin) 182 195 -13 3 51 2 9 3 8 8 Rufus Reid Out Front (Motema) 168 134 +34 4 51 ...
JazzWeek Radio Chart: March 8, 2010
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 2 Ahmad Jamal A Quiet Time (Dreyfus) 231 250 -19 0 55 1 7 2 2 1 Steve Hobbs Vibes, Straight Up (Challenge) 184 228 -44 0 42 1 9 3 35 — Mike LeDonne The Groover (Savant) 175 78 +97 30 56 3 ...
JazzWeek Radio Chart: March 1, 2010
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 2 1 Ahmad Jamal A Quiet Time (Dreyfus) 250 221 +29 2 63 1 6 2 1 2 Steve Hobbs Vibes, Straight Up (Challenge) 228 233 -5 0 54 1 8 3 7 12 Hadley Caliman Straight Ahead (Origin) 200 148 +52 5 42 ...
Houston Person: Mellow
by Andrew Velez
Houston Person's Mellow could easily have been called “Up Close and Personal." With dozens and dozens of recordings to his credit, it's just the latest in a long list of exemplary sets that always evidence the warmth of his tone and the directness of his tenor sax phrasing. Also mixed in as well is a funky ...
JazzWeek Radio Chart: February 22, 2010
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 2 1 Steve Hobbs Vibes, Straight Up (Challenge) 233 247 -14 0 56 1 7 2 1 3 Ahmad Jamal A Quiet Time (Dreyfus) 221 257 -36 4 63 1 5 3 3 8 John Stein Raising The Roof (Whaling City Sound) 194 182 ...
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