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Boogie Woogie Trio This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
This week, Riverwalk Jazz celebrates the rocking rhythms of Albert Ammons and his partnership with Meade Lux Lewis and Pete Johnson. Frequent guest artist Dick Hyman teams up with The Jim Cullum Jazz Band and former band member, pianist John Sheridan for an evening of classics of the boogie woogie piano genre. The program is distributed ...
Borneo Jazz 2011
by Ian Patterson
Borneo JazzMiri, Sarawak, BorneoMay 12-15, 2011 Borneo Jazz--known as the Miri International Jazz Festival for the previous five editions--has undergone a certain amount of rebranding in an effort to promote its growing stature as one of the leading jazz festivals in the region. This year the festival has increased from two to ...
Loren Schoenberg: From Benny Goodman to The Savory Collection
by AAJ Staff
Saxophonist, band-leader and writer Loren Schoenberg, now Executive Director of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, spent an interesting childhood and teenager-hood growing up in New Jersey in the 1970s, meeting and befriending both Teddy Wilson and Hank Jones, and ultimately becoming employed by Wilson's famous '30s boss, Benny Goodman. Schoenberg was first an assistant to ...
Roy Gaines & His Orchestra: "Tuxedo Blues" Streets November 1
Jazz, blues, R&B and soul—legendary guitarist/vocalist/composer Roy Gaines, who has made a name for himself as a versatile master craftsmen playing music beyond category in a career spanning over seven decades, brings his vast wealth of experience all together on Tuxedo Blues. Fronting a full size jazz orchestra, the likes of which is seldom heard these ...
John Hammond - New Morning: The Paris Concert (DVD)
by AAJ Italy Staff
John Hammond New Morning: The Paris Concert Inakustik (2006) Valutazione: 3 stelle John Hammond è invecchiato bene, come un vinello acerbo che in gioventù si era portati a sottovalutare e che invece poi si trasforma col tempo e si lascia gustare con piacere. Attivo già negli anni sessanta, ebbe sin da subito amicizie e frequentazioni importanti. ...
John Hammond at the Crossroads
By John Hammond
Label: Vanguard Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: 32-20 Blues; Milkcow
John Hammond: John Hammond at the Crossroads
by C. Michael Bailey
I began listening to John Hammond at the Crossroads at the same time as I was listening to Richard Goode’s long awaited completion of Bach’s Partitas for Keyboard (Nonesuch, 2003). It struck me that the two recordings were very similar. Both are interpretations of a cultural canon. Bach’s Partitas for Keyboard are considered among his best ...
Branford & Ellis Marsalis: The Dawn of Marsalis Music
by Mark Corroto
The first family of jazz, the Marsalis of New Orleans, have seemingly been in the eye of a musical hurricane for the past twenty years. With the news that Saxophonist Branford Marsalis and his father Ellis Marsalis had severed their ties with Sony music, comes the announcement that they have formed the independent label Marsalis Music. ...
John Hammond: Best of the Vanguard Years
by Ed Kopp
John Hammond Jr. is a steady performer who continues to revive some classic blues material that might otherwise be forgotten. Best of the Vanguard Years provides a nice overview of his early days. Hammond began his recording career on the Vanguard label, generating five albums between 1964 and 1967. After stints with Atlantic and Columbia, Hammond ...
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