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Three Jazz Pianists Pay Tribute to Oscar Peterson
By Tad Hendrickson Oscar Peterson will always be remembered as one of jazz's greatest pianists thanks to an indelible career that spanned seven decades. An artist of prodigious technique, Peterson was influenced by the great Art Tatum, turning the stride master's voracious style into something workable for bebop. One of the most-recorded pianists in jazz history, ...
Jazz a Special Focus of APAP 2010
Jazz plays a featured role in the run-down of APAP 2010 programs and events, thanks to our partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts' NEA Jazz Masters Program and Jazz at Lincoln Center. Those in the business of making and presenting jazz have witnessed many changes, challenges and opportunities in recent years--all of which will ...
John Geggie / Josh Rager / Paul Meyers: Ottawa, Canada November 28, 2009
by John Kelman
John GeggieGeggie Concert Series: 2009-10, #3 National Arts Centre, Fourth Stage Ottawa, Canada November 28, 2009 For the third in his 2009-10 Geggie Concert Series, Ottawa bassist John Geggie once again demonstrated his astute ability to bring together musicians who have not previously played together, but who share ...
Christian McBride: Getting the Inside Straight
by Esther Berlanga-Ryan
If we think about it for a little while, it's possible to believe that there is something almost mystic and undeniably powerful about jazz. The way it developed through the years and its constant ignition-like energy; the creativity of those who lead the way and those who continue the journey today; the improvisation that takes over ...
Singing Jazz: Judy Niemack Master Class
by Jessica Raimi
"Part of the fun of jazz is like seeing someone ski down a dangerous slope. When you improvise, you have to take a chance. If you fall, you fall," Judy Niemack was telling her master class on September 26. The nine women with her, most of them professional singers, in the studio of Second Floor Music ...
James Moody: 4A
by Edward Blanco
Saxophonist James Moody has been an important fixture in the jazz world since the late 1940s, when he emerged and gained notice as a member of the Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra. Now, a robust 84 years young, Moody offers 4A, the first release from a two-day recording session which took place in July of 2008 with the ...
Jon Irabagon: The Observer
by John Sharpe
Back in the day this might have been seen as an “In the tradition" statement for someone like saxophonist Jon Irabagon--last heard in freely improvised settings on I Don't Hear Nothin' But The Blues {Loyal, 2009), with drummer Mike Pride, and the RIDD Quartet's Fiction Avalanche (Clean Feed, 2008), or artful deconstructions of the Blue Note ...
NEA Jazz Masters Awards Ceremony
National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman and Jazz at Lincoln Center announced today that free tickets will be distributed for the January 12, 2010 NEA Jazz Masters Awards Ceremony & Concert. Tickets are available for the general public at jalc.org/concerts or at the Jazz at Lincoln Center Box Office, located at Broadway at 60th ...
Jon Irabagon Releases Concord Jazz Debut - The Observer
The new release from 2008 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition winner Jon Irabagon, The Observer, hits stores this week (CD & digital) via Concord Jazz Records. Irabagon has assembled a dream-team of musicians, including the stellar rhythm section of pianist Kenny Barron, bassist Rufus Reid and drummer {Victor Lewis}}, alongside veteran producer Don Sickler and legendary ...
Jazz Violinist Mads Tolling Releases the Playmaker, a Salute to Sports and Music Greats
Mads Tolling, internationally renowned violinist, violist, and composer, is a two-time Grammy Award winner. He is currently a member of the Turtle Island Quartet and soloist with bassist Stanley Clarke’s band. Born and raised in Copenhagen, Denmark, Mads moved to Boston to study at Berkeley College of Music. Mads was immediately recognized as a fresh voice ...
