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Retrieval Records: Treasures Lost and Found
by Nathan Holaway
“The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago."-- Louis Armstrong “You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmie Luncefords, and the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that jazz was ...
Swinging on the South Side: The Heartbeat of Chicago Jazz
This week on Riverwalk Jazz (distributed nationwide on Public Radio International and Sirius/XM), vocalist Topsy Chapman, singer Vernel Bagneris, trumpeter Duke Heitger and pianist {Dick Hyman}} join The Jim Cullum Jazz Band—club-hopping on the South Side of Chicago from the 'black and tans' of the '20s to the grand ballrooms of the '30s. Tony Jackson arrived ...
The National Jazz Museum In Harlem
by AAJ Staff
The National Jazz Museum in Harlem is at 104, E 126th Street, a few steps from the bridge that carries the Metro North trains to and from Connecticut from the 125th Street station. Situated on the second floor, the museum is primarily a suite of offices with a large front area that presents photographs, video documentaries ...
Various Artists: Larkin's Jazz
by Bruce Lindsay
Philip Larkin is one of the best-loved British poets of the twentieth century--the man who claimed in Annus Mirabilis that “Sexual intercourse began in nineteen-sixty-three..." A librarian at the University of Hull in the north-east of England, he was a complex character whose poems were often witty and well-observed but could also appear cynical and contemptuous. ...
Festival International de Jazz de Montreal: July 2-5, 2010
by Peter Walton
Festival International de Jazz de MontréalMontréal, Quebec, CanadaJuly 2-5, 2010I arrived in Montréal mid-week, the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal already in high gear. Closing off six square blocks of downtown Montréal, an area commanding six major outdoor stages and several indoor theaters and concert halls, the Festival International de ...
Historic Photos of New Orleans Jazz
by Wade Luquet
Historic Photos of New Orleans Jazz Thomas L. Morgan Hardback: 216 pages ISBN:1596524057 Turner Publishing 2009 Covering over 100 years, Historic Photos of New Orleans Jazz utilizes the extensive jazz photography collection of the Louisiana State Museum Jazz Collection to produce a beautiful book ...
Artie Shaw: Classic Bluebird and Victor Sessions
by Samuel Chell
Artie ShawClassic Bluebird and Victor SessionsMosaic Records2009Shortly after its critically acclaimed box set comprising clarinetist Benny Goodman's essential recordings-- The Columbia and Okeh Benny Goodman Orchestra Sessions (2009), which was released to coincide with the centenary of the “King of Swing"--Mosaic Records has done it again. The Classic ...
A Cool World Christmas: Carla Bley, Trio West and Wynton Marsalis
by C. Michael Bailey
It is easy to be cynical about holiday music. On the mainstream popular music front, these releases are often nakedly commercial, marketed with a fixed (and very large) target population in mind. And a good many of such recordings are truly bad. In the run up to Christmas 2009, the marketplace is clotted with a legion ...
Bob Greene: St. Peter Street Strutters
by Jerry D'Souza
Back in December 1964, pianist Bob Greene, cornetist Ernie Carson, tubaist Shorty Johnson and banjoist Steve Larner went into the studio to record this set of New Orleans tunes. The music was played by groups larger than a quartet, but size did not matter; the four filled the music with a sense of tradition that has ...
The Story of Jazz Trumpet
by AAJ Staff
The trumpet was the lead instrument in early jazz: it is the loudest solo instrument, the natural leader of a group of individuals, if you will. So, early trumpet pioneer Buddy Bolden (there is a photograph of him with a jazz band in 1894!) is most likely the first known jazzman simply because he was a ...
