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Bob Brookmeyer: Jack of All Trades, Master of Valves
by Jack Bowers
Bob Brookmeyer, a Renaissance man among jazz musicians who died December 15, 2011, four days before his eighty-second birthday, will be remembered as many things: composer, arranger, musician, educator, outspoken arbiter who brooked no nonsense and wasn't shy about letting others know when he believed they were not giving the music he loved the best they ...
Charles Mingus: Blues and Roots/Mingus Three/Jazz Portraits/Jazzical Moods
by David Rickert
Charles MingusBlues and Roots/Mingus Three/Jazz Portraits/Jazzical MoodsAvid Records2011 (1954-59) If you have a fondness for a particular album by Charles Mingus, chances are you won't find another quite like it in his catalog. The bassist and composer had one of the most wide-ranging careers of anyone in ...
JEN and Berklee join to present John LaPorta Jazz Educator of the Year Award
The Jazz Education Network and Berklee College of Music will collaborate to present the John LaPorta Jazz Educator of the Year award. The award is named after legendary jazz educator John LaPorta who served as a distinguished professor at Berklee for more than three decades prior to his death in 2004 and played a pivotal role ...
Charlie Parker: Bird in Time 1940-1947
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Charlie ParkerBird in Time 1940-1947--Selected Recordings and Rare InterviewsESP-Disk2008 Let us now praise a famous ghost... embracing the spirit of Charlie Bird Parker. They are like feathers fluttering down from a spirit up above. Bird feathers. I make haste to collect them as the settle around me ...
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, ...
I Remember Woody
By John LaPorta
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Released: 2003
Track listing: Blue Flame; Sonny Speaks; Sweet And Lovely; Woodchopper
Theme and Variations
By John LaPorta
Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2003
Track listing: Theme: Blues Chorale, 1st Variation (Basso Profundo), 2nd Variation
(Jazz Canon), 3rd Variation (Tribute to Bird), 4th Variation (Images), 5th
Variation (Jazz Fugue), 6th Variation (From the Cool School), 7th Variation
(Changing Times), 8th Variation (Two Brothers), 9th Variation (Lucidity),
10th Variation (Forward Motion), 11th Variation (Nuage), 12th Variation
(Finale) Two for One, Theme, Concertina for Clarinet, Perdido, Small Blue
Opus, Absentee, En Rapport, Lou's Tune, Ferm
John LaPorta: I Remember Woody
by C. Michael Bailey
The self-produced I Remember Woody was put together by educator, composer, and musician John LaPorta in honor of his former employer, the famed big band leader Woody Herman. If there ever was an independently produced recording that cried out for broader distribution, this is the one. Firmly conventional without being stodgy, traditionally swinging without being boring, ...
John LaPorta: Theme and Variations
by David Rickert
Despite having played with Gillespie, Parker, and Mingus during his career, John LaPorta remains a largely unknown figure. Perhaps his biggest contribution is in the study of music--he was on the faculty of Berklee for 38 years and presumably can count scores of jazz musicians as his former students. This CD, which collects two of LaPorta’s ...
