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New Orleans on parade - and other surprises
Singer Lisa Kelly and trumpeter JB Scott had a few surprises up their sleeves for their return performance at the Charlotte County Jazz Society on Monday, February 13. The Jacksonville-based musicians spent about one-third of their two-hour concert digging deep into music associated with New Orleans. They also.brought a larger band than anticipated and featured Scott ...
Celebrating a man and his music
The depth and breadth of pianist, arranger and composer Dick Hyman’s career seems astonishing by any musical standards. Most aspects of his career, which began in the late 1940s in the thriving Manhattan music scene, were touched upon Tuesday, March 7 at the 37th annual Sarasota Jazz Festival. The evening’s journey, which Hyman called “wallowing in ...
Trad jazz with a few twists
Clarinetist Bud Leeds brought musicians together from near and far- in this case, mostly far—for his annual South County Jazz Club matinee performance on Sunday, March 5 in Venice FL. His “Trad Jazz Ensemble" featured players who are right at home in the traditional jazz/Dixieland genres, but the afternoon touched on more recent music as well. ...
Jane Monheit digs Ella - and plans to keep on digging
Jazz singer Jane Monheit's musical home is the Great American Songbook. She showed a Naples, Florida audience on Friday, February 24, that with sensible bits of personal redecorating, it is still in very good hands. She performed two 75-minute sold-out shows at Artis Naples' Daniels Pavilion, sharing her love for “First Lady of Song" Ella Fitzgerald. ...
Afro-Cuban jazz under the banyan trees
Latin fire is in pianist Chuchito Valdés' genes. He's the son of Chucho Valdés and grandson of the late Bebo Valdés, two of Cuba's venerable jazz pianists.Though now based in Cancun, Mexico, he carries on the family tradition, much like his globetrotting father. Chuchito shared many elements of his Afro-Cuban jazz technique with a crowd beneath ...
A jazz event 50+ years in the making...
To say it was long overdue is an understatement. Joshua Breakstone and Don Mopsick grew up in Linden. NJ. Their families knew each other and sometimes hung out together back in the 1960s, long before either man had any designs on a career in music. Guitar modernist Breakstone and Mopsick, best known as the bassist in ...
A night of jazz with "George Who?"
You may not know him by name, but changes are great you've heard this saxophonist's performances over the past five decades on countless hit pop, rock 'n' roll or jazz recordings, movie and TV soundtracks.* Studio musicians and even big-band section players often toil in anonymity, unlike the exposure that can come from small group jazz ...
A fine tribute to Brazilian jazz
To fully appreciate the rich place that Brazilian jazz holds today among the world's music forms, you have to go back to its roots in the late 1950s and the 1960s. So that's what a top-notch quintet did on Sunday, February 12 on Longboat Key, across the bay from Sarasota FL. The event, co-sponsored by the ...
The fine art of solo jazz piano
Either as a snowbird or a full-time resident, pianist-composer-arranger Dick Hyman has lived 30 miles up the road in Venice for a few years longer than the Charlotte County Jazz Society has existed. The stars aligned on Monday, February 13, for Hyman to make his first CCJS appearance in Port Charlotte. It was long overdue. And ...
Jazz saxophonists dig the Great American Songbook - and much more
Saxophonists Peter and Will Anderson are steeped in the jazz and Great American Songbook classics, but their material is never fenced in by that repertoire. Such was the case on Friday, February 10 when they performed at a South County Jazz Club matinee concert with guitarist Felix Lemerle. The twin brothers brought an arsenal of instruments, ...
