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Standard fare freshened with enthusiasm
You can't go wrong with the standards, be they items from the Great American Songbook, Braziliana or tried-and-true jazz chestnuts. You just need a talented band to deliver them with a fresh stamp—and a healthy dose of enthusiasm. Such was the case on Friday, February 11, when the Dan Miller-Lew Del Gatto quintet performed in the ...
Popular trio does it again – with charm and excellence
The all-star International Trio returned to the Charlotte County Jazz Society concert stage on Monday, February 7 for their fifth appearance in 10 seasons, mixing concert staples with a few surprise treats. Drummer Eddie Metz Jr., bassist & singer Nicki Parrott and piano marvel Rossano Sportiello were happy to be back in front of a live ...
Still adventurous after all these years
Trumpeter Terumasa Hino, at age 79 a jazz dynamo and elder statesman in his native Japan, divides his time between his homeland and the U.S. He worked steadily in New York starting in the mid-1970s, playing and recording in the bands of saxophonist Jackie McLean and drummer Elvin Jones, among others. This hard-bop player, whose musical ...
The joy and legacy of the Duke Ellington songbook
Duke Ellington's impact on jazz seems beyond measure, no matter how you count it. He wrote, co-wrote or took credit for writing more than 1,000 compositions over a 50-year span. According to one family bio, it was more than 3,000 songs. The numbers really don't matter as much as the imprint Duke left on the music. ...
2022 - Jazz musicians felled by coronavirus, Chapter 6
Here is the latest update to our running, chronological list of jazz-related jazz-related COVID-19 deaths, updated as we receive them. This segment begins with deaths in 2022. Chapter 5 covers the second half of 2021 and Chapter 4 lists deaths in the first half of the 2021, a combined 57 known losses. Chapters one, two and ...
A look back at 2021's jazz happenings
All About Jazz has published my annual comprehensive compilation of trends, challenges and noteworthy happenings in the global jazz world. Sad to say, the year's jazz-related list of musicians and industry figures who passed away during 2021 comprise nearly 25 percent of the material. Here's the intro: The jazz world continued grappling and adjusting in ...
My take on the best jazz recordings of 2021
‘Tis the season for the outpouring of Top 10 lists, and their many variations, for jazz, world events, etc. The jazz lists tend to have a lot of variation depending on the individual reviewer's personal tastes, as well as what he or she listened to during the year.* Bottom line, all are extremely subjective. These choices ...
Kenny Washington delights - again
Oakland CA-based singer Kenny Washington is a marvel, plain and simple. And his return performance to Artis Naples' All That Jazz series on Wednesday, December 13 showcased the diminutive singer's skills,tone and wide range, and his artful scatting on two of the evening's 10 tunes. Washington was special guest with the Naples Philharmonic Jazz Orchestra, which ...
New band, new venue, lots of smiles
One of the great joys in hearing live jazz is a night when talented players who've never performed together get on stage and find instant chemistry that makes it sound like they've been a working group for years. That was the case on Monday, December 13, when hard-bopping saxophonist Greg Abate returned for his sixth Charlotte ...
Jazz in the name of love - and loving it
With co-leader Dan Miller out of town, tenor saxophonist Lew Del Gatto brought in guitarist Frank Portolese to join the fun for the weekly quartet gig at The Barrel Room in downtown Fort Myers on Thursday, December 9. Trumpeter Miller was busy with jazz faculty duties at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. So the ...
