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Channeling two jazz tenor titans
Tenor saxophonists Lew Del Gatto and Jeff Rupert channeled the spirit and hard-driving swing of Al Cohn and Zoot Sims in their Friday matinee concert at the Venice (FL) Art Center. The South County Jazz Club event teamed the two tenors with pianist Richard Drexler, bassist Don Mopsick and drummer Tony Vigilante. All of the music ...
International jazz in more ways than one
The excellent and versatile Orlando-based drummer Eddie Metz Jr. brought his International Jazz Trio to Port Charlotte on Monday, January 11 for a concert with more foreign tinges than just the trio's membership. The band consists of Metz, Australian-born bassist and singer Nicki Parrott, and Italian-born pianist Rossano Sportiello. Metz tends to get top billing on ...
The Swiss Connection
Drummer-singer Patricia Dean brought her trio to the South County Jazz Club's matinee concert series at the Venice FL Art Center Thursday, and quite willingly handed the center of attention to her pianist. William Evans is based in St. Petersburg for a few months a year but spends the bulk of his time teaching jazz piano ...
Jazzy happy holidays
Best wishes for a very Merry Christmas 2015 and joyous New Year from the Jazz Notes staff. A toast to you all as we share some vintage musical cheer from among our holiday favorites. Raise your glass. The holiday would not be complete without the delightful animated video of The Platters’ doo-wopping their way through “White ...
2015's Top 10 jazz listings – one scribe's take
'Tis the season for the outpouring of Top 10 lists, and their many variations, for jazz, world events, etc. The jazz lists always have a lot of variation depending on the individual reviewer's personal tastes, as well as what he or she had a chance to hear during the year. Bottom line, all of these are ...
Revisiting a crossover classic
Forty years ago, pianist Claude Bolling shook up the jazz and classical music worlds a bit with his Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio recording with flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal. It was one of the first true crossover recordings between the two musical styles. The public loved it—since it spent 530 weeks (more than 10 years) ...
Jazz standard fare done well, twice over
The Charlotte County Jazz Society opened it 2015-16 season with concert that celebrated the depth and breadth of the jazz canon with creative performances by two very different bands. Singer-drummer Patricia Dean teamed with Naples-based pianist Stu Shelton and Tampa Bay-area bassist Joe Porter. Dean did double duty at the October 12 event because the planned ...
Exploring the Great American and Jazz Songbooks
Singer-pianist Danny Sinoff let his piano chops carry most of the load Thursday when his trio opened the South County Jazz Club's 2015-2016 matinee season at the Venice (FL) Art Center. While he is busy with steady club gigs, principally in Fort Myers and Port Charlotte, this was Sinoff's first appearance in Venice. Sinoff is best ...
Jazz has lost another true master - Phil Woods
Word spread very quickly through the jazz community this afternoon that alto saxophonist and NEA Jazz Master (Class of 2007) Phil Woods passed away today. He was 83. The news came less than a month after Woods told the audience at a September 4 concert at the Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild in Pittsburgh that he had just ...
Jazz loses one of its great advocates
Jazz lost one of its finest ambassadors this holiday weekend. Broadcaster “Tom the Jazzman" Mallison died overnight in a head-on collision as he was driving home to Greenville after his weekly Sunday night radio show on North Carolina's Eastern Public Radio. He had been a steady volunteer broadcaster on the station in New Bern for more ...
