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News: Interview

John Pizzarelli: Thanks to Bucky

John Pizzarelli: Thanks to Bucky

Listen Guitarist and singer John Pizzarelli wanted to be a rock and roll star when he was a teenager. Luckily for the world of jazz, his father, Bucky Pizzarelli, introduced his son to the music of the 40s and 50s. Today John is one of the great upholders of that tradition, whether performing the songs of ...

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Article: Big Band Report

Jacksonville: Big City, Big Band, Big Plans

Read "Jacksonville: Big City, Big Band, Big Plans" reviewed 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 ...

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News: Festival

Kurt Elling Added as Guest on "Radio Deluxe" at Tanglewood Jazz Festival

Kurt Elling Added as Guest on "Radio Deluxe" at Tanglewood Jazz Festival

Vocalist Kurt Elling will be a special guest artist on “Radio Deluxe” with John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey at the Tanglewood Jazz Festival on Saturday, September 5, 2009, at 2 pm in Lenox, Massachusetts. Other guests include Bucky Pizzarelli, Harry Allen and Aaron Weinstein. The program will be taped before a live audience for national broadcast. ...

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News: Interview

A Swell Double-Date with John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey

A Swell Double-Date with John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey

They're sort of the George Burns-Gracie Allen of music, but with a gender switch from that late, revered comedy couple. Guitarist and crooner John Pizzarelli is the zany Gracie of this pair. And his singer-actress wife, Jessica Molaskey, plays the calm, droll George Burns role to perfection in their act. Together, they make a charming twosome, ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Steven Pasquale - Star of TV's Rescue Me - Debuts at Feinstein's with the John Pizzarelli Quartet

Steven Pasquale - Star of TV's Rescue Me - Debuts at Feinstein's with the John Pizzarelli Quartet

FEINSTEIN’S AT LOEWS REGENCY, the nightclub proclaimed “Best of New York” by New York Magazine, and “an invaluable New York institution” by The New York Post, continues its 10th Anniversary season with the debut of television and Broadway star STEVEN PASQUALE for one night only on Sunday, June 28. He will perform romantic jazz-tinged classics from ...

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Article: Album Review

The Arbors All Stars: Pizzarelli Party

Read "Pizzarelli Party" reviewed by Andrew Velez


In his notes for this celebration of jazz and mostly fellow family musicians, John Pizzarelli observes, “Everyone in this group has had a moment where they knew what they wanted to do and how and what they wanted to play." High spirits are evident throughout this romp, mostly recorded in a take or two, without charts ...

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Article: Album Review

Hilary Kole: Haunted Heart

Read "Haunted Heart" reviewed by Andrew Velez


This listener can't recall in years so smashing a solo CD debut as this winner. Hilary Kole's lengthy runs in cabaret and club appearances with song revues “Our Sinatra" and “Singing Astaire," singing some of the best of the American Songbook, have served her well. The mix here is flawless, ranging from such evergreens as Rodgers-Hart's ...

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News: Award / Grant

The Festival International de Jazz de Montreal honours Stevie Wonder, Toots & The Maytals, John Pizzarelli, Ornette Coleman and Susie Arioli and creates the new Bruce Lundvall Award

Montreal - Stevie Wonder, Toots & The Maytals, John Pizzarelli, Ornette Coleman and Susie Arioli are the 2009 winners of the prestigious prizes awarded annually by the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal to artists who have made extraordinary contributions to the evolution of music. This year, they will receive, respectively, the Montreal Jazz Festival Spirit ...

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News: Festival

Greater St. Louis Jazz Festival Set for April 16-18 with Guests Peter Erskine, Lou Marini, John Pizzarelli, and Jon Faddis

Greater St. Louis Jazz Festival Set for April 16-18 with Guests Peter Erskine, Lou Marini, John Pizzarelli, and Jon Faddis

The Greater St. Louis Jazz Festival has announced its 2009 guest artists, and organizers have booked some well-known musicians this year to serve as clinicians and performers for the three-day event, which will run from Thursday, April 16 through Saturday, April 18.While some details are yet to be announced, here's what's been revealed so ...

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Article: Big Band Caravan

Vaughn Wiester / Doncaster Jazz Orchestra / Kluvers Big Band / Mike Holober & the Gotham Jazz Orchestra

Read "Vaughn Wiester / Doncaster Jazz Orchestra / Kluvers Big Band / Mike Holober & the Gotham Jazz Orchestra" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Vaughn Wiester's Famous Jazz Orchestra Dreams Come True COJazz 2009 If you're going to dream, you may as well dream big, in glorious Technicolor with stereophonic sound. As Vaughn Wiester knows, there are times when Dreams Come True. Wiester's vision of leading his own big band is a ...


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