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Two Different yet Effective Jazz Vocal Approaches
The Charlotte County Jazz Society opened its 25th anniversary season Monday night with a double concert featuring two Florida-based singers with very different, yet very effective, approaches to the Great American Songbook and jazz canon. Dave Pruyn opened the evening with an hour-long “Notes in Velvet" tribute set that celebrated his love and respect for late ...
A Generations-Leaping Jazz Adventure
I’ve spent the last few days listening closely to Cheek to Cheek, the ambitious new recording by Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga. It debuted September 23 and soared to #1 on the Billboard 200 list. It also topped the Jazz Albums and Traditional Jazz Albums charts. Cheek to Cheek sold 131,000 copies in the week ending ...
A Jazz Matinee with Larry Camp, Marty Morell, Bruce Wallace
Bassist Bruce Wallace opened the South County Jazz Club's 2014-15 concert season Friday afternoon with a top-notch trio whose members had never worked together in this personnel grouping. It featured guitarist Larry Camp and drummer Marty Morell, best known in jazz circles for his seven-year stint in pianist Bill Evans' trio from 1968 to 1975. Musically, ...
Moving from the Disco Ball to the Jazz Supper Club
Singer Evelyn Thomas, best known for 1980s hit songs in the disco and Hi-NRG dance club genre, is revisiting her roots as a singer. While not abandoning her dance music work, she has gone back to jazz. And she’s loving it. Thomas made her local jazz debut Saturday night, September 13, at JD’s Bistro & Grille ...
Jazz in the Catskills
As a native son of Woodstock NY, best known to many over the past five decades as the namesake of a rock music festival that was held 60 miles away as the crows fly, an announcement this week came as welcome news. A Woodstock Jazz Festival is scheduled the evening of October 4 at the Bearsville ...
Looking Ahead: Southwest Florida 2014-15 Jazz Season Approaches
Here’s a preview of some of the more interesting jazz events in the Sarasota to Naples territory. The 2014-15 concert season hits full steam in October. Monday, October 13 – The Dave Pruyn trio (with Pruyn’s Mel Torme tribute, Notes in Velvet) and Paulette Pepper & Fine Thyme open the 2014-15 Charlotte County Jazz Society’s Artists ...
Love and Reverence for a Jazz Tradition
The 60thanniversary edition of the Newport Jazz Festival turned into a weekend of love and reverence toward its founding producer, George Wein. He started the event in 1954 with backers Elaine and Louis Lorillard, a high society couple who wanted to liven up the summer social season. More than a dozen jazz festival producers from venues ...
Newport Jazz Festival @ 60: Lots of Rain, Great Musical Moments, Loyal Fans
The Newport Jazz Festival, grandaddy of outdoor music festivals all over the world, marked its 60th anniversary over the weekend in grand, loving and soggy fashion. The August 1-3 event was quite the extravaganza, keeping we writers and photographers racing from stage to stage to stage in pursuit of its strong lineups and great music. There ...
Farewell, Charlie...
It's been a rainy day here in Florida, and such weather gave me a grand opportunity to revisit some of my favorite music by bassist, bandleader and NEA Jazz Master Charlie Haden, who left us last week at age 76 after a prolonged illness. My clear favorites among the extensive Haden discography include two of his ...
Looking Ahead: Southwest Florida Jazz in the Summer
The snowbird concert season for jazz may be over in the Sarasota to Naples territory, but there’s still jazz to be found. Most of it is in the form of regular gigs at restaurants that offer jazz multiple times a week. They include J.D.’s in Port Charlotte (after its vacation week hiatus ends July 8), The ...
