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Double Dose of a Fresh Talent
More often than not, one of the great aspects of the jazz festival format is a listener's opportunity to hear fresh talent - players who for one reason or another have not yet reached their musical radar. It's a chance to hear how these voices - perhaps fresh talent, perhaps from another region, are carrying forward ...
Montreal Ready to Rock Again with Creative Programming
How do you top your 30th anniversary blowout? At the Montreal International Jazz Festival, you don't try to go one better intentionally, you just continue to offer the wide-ranging and imaginative programming that got you to your fourth decade. That seems to be the philosophy, and you can't argue with success. It's a success that can ...
Two Splendid Singers Honor a Legend
Singer, actress, dancer and civil rights activist Lena Horne turns 93 this June 30. She hasn't performed since the early 1990s and has been out of the public eye for the past 10 years. But she isn't out of the hearts of singers - or music fans who loved her work.That was clear Saturday ...
Helping Here, Helping There
It's time to open your wallets, jazz fans, for two great, intertwined causes.The Jazz Foundation of America is getting ready to present its 9th annual “A Great Night in Harlem" gala concert May 9 at The Apollo Theater to benefit the organization's amazing Jazz Musicians Emergency Fund. The concert is a principal fundraiser for JEMF, ...
April Showers Us with Jazz Appreciation
Just as we emerge from the winter doldrums, there's a lot of jazz appreciation going on throughout April. In 2001, The Smithsonian launched Jazz Appreciation Month, which has grown to include celebrations in all 50 states and 40 countries that the music as a living treasure. It is designed to spotlight the music and, one would ...
The Best Jazz Night in Town
Anyone with a solid interest in the music who is within an hour of Providence RI ought to make a visit to a neighboorhood knotty-pine bar in East Providence any Monday night--and be rewarded with what is consistently the best jazz night of the week. And anyone planning a weekend visit to southern New England ought ...
England Swings - JALC Style...
Just as New York City's attention will be focused on a bubbling array of jazz choices in late June with return of a George Wein-produced jazz festival in the Big Apple (the CareFusion Jazz Festival, running June 17 to 26), the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra has teamed up for an interesting out-of-town residency. Out-of-country, off-continent ...
Picking Up Where Dizzy Left Off
In the final five years of his career, trumpeter/bandleader Dizzy Gillespie celebrated and blended the pan-global influences that found a way into his music - and curiosity - throughout his career. He did so principally with his United Nation Orchestra.Pianist Danilo Perez (pictured), who joined Gillespie's pan-American in 1989, has picked up the torch. ...
Splendid and Diverse Offerings and Venues with Care
Impresario George Wein hasn't lost his touch. In fact, a year off from producing a full blown jazz festival in the Big Apple, seems to have enhanced that touch. Wein's New Festival Productions, LLC organization and his new corporate benefactor, CareFusion, have rolled out the details for the CareFusion Jazz Festival, which runs ...
Reminders of the Future of Jazz
For those naysayers and/or moldy figs who say, perhaps tongue-in-cheek, that jazz is dead, don't buy it. The music isn't even on life support, given the attention and interest it receives from music educators and their serious students at college, high school and lower levels. Jazz at Lincoln Center's Essentially Ellington" competition each ...
