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The Art of the Jazz Duo - Playing Alone Together
Guitarist Howard Alden and pianist Lenore Raphael blended their considerable talents Friday night in a South County Jazz Club concert that concluded its 2013-14 season segment at the Glenridge Performing Arts Center in Sarasota. The New York-based players dug deeply into Great American Songbook standards, and a gritty take on Hoagy Carmichael's “Georgia On My Mind," before concluding ...
Jazz Masters 2012 - The 30th and Final Class (Updated)
Call it overdue honors for Vonski and more The National Endowment for the Arts has announced the recipients of the 2012 NEA Jazz Masters Award—the nation's highest honor in jazz. The five recipients are drummer-keyboardist Jack DeJohnette, saxophonist Von Freeman, bassist and composer Charlie Haden, singer Sheila Jordan and trumpeter Jimmy Owens (pictured). As a longtime ...
New Atlantis: Musicians Battle for the Survival of New Orleans
John Swenson, my music writing collaborator for many years at UPI, is out with a gem. “New Atlantis: Musicians Battle for the Survival of New Orleans" (Oxford University Press) captures the determination of New Orleans' stylistically varied music makers to survive after Hurricane Katrina and to help keep the city's soul alive. John has been writing ...
Essentially Ellington Weekend
Is it something in the nearby salt water? Much more likely is the strength of the local music programs at the secondary level—and in the schools that feed up to it. Bands from Washington State and Florida took the top four awards at last night's finale of Jazz at Lincoln Center's 16th annual Essentially EllingtonHigh School ...
A Musical Version of Build It and They Will Come...
If you look for jazz you can find it, sometimes even in most unexpected places and at unusual times. In this case, it was while honeymooning in Key West, a tropical party town that rivals New Orleans for its partying spirit, but not the depth and breadth of its music. At least that's the perception of ...
Yet Another Grammy Dustup
Could the Grammys exist without healthy doses of skepticism and controversy? I think not. Skepticism, mostly during the awards season, for all of the hype and pop/hip-hop glitz that seems to minimize the celebration of real music. However, as mentioned a while back, quality turned the tables on pop phenomenon when singer and bassist Esparanza Spalding ...
Newport Rolls on Thankfully
George Wein is a huge fan of Esparanza Spalding. The singer-bassist (pictured) has been a Newport regular for the past few years—and with her unexpected Grammy win—will be a featured artist at the 2011 edition of the Newport Jazz Festival. This year's event runs August 5 to 7. Wein's production company didn't waste time in getting ...
A Stamp of Approval for Jazz
We're a society of pack rats, of collectors. Or so it seems. Some of us collect a few things we find meaningful, others have made it into a warehouse-style art form. In general, jazz fans collect live music memories and savor the special moments. Many collect them in hard copy as well—CDs, LPs, 78s, images. You ...
Sonny's Still on a Roll
The high honors, perhaps long overdue, keep on rolling in for saxophonist Sonny Rollins. His historic 80th birthday concert in New York's Town Hall three nights after his September 7 birthday was one of the top jazz events of 2010 Then you add in Edward MacDowell Medal, a lifetime achievement award from the Montreal International Jazz ...
What Would You Call It?
Bizarre. That's the only word that seems to fit this year's primetime Sunday night glitz that was the 53rd annual Grammy Awards. If you saw it, you know what I mean. If you missed it, you didn't miss much, trust me. Sure, there were scattered poignant moments—beginning with the opening tribute to the ailing Aretha Franklin. ...
