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10th Bray Jazz Festival
by Ian Patterson
10th Bray Jazz Festival Bray, Ireland May 1-3, 2009 The small town of Bray in county Wicklow is not the most obvious location for an international jazz festival. Situated twenty kilometers south of the capital Dublin and hugging the coast, it has been battered by the Irish Sea since at least 1300, ...
JJA's 13th Annual Jazz Awards - Join Us!
Mark your calendar! 13th Annual JJA Jazz Awards June 16, 2009 3:00-6:00pm at The Jazz Standard 116 E. 27th Street New York, NY Join us at the JJA's 13th Annual Jazz Awards as we... Announce our 2009 award winners (see nominees below) Honor winners and nominees ...
Mike Vax Big Band / Dave Siebels / Phil Woods / London Horn Sound
by Jack Bowers
Mike Vax Big Band Sounds from the Road Summit Records 2009 As Bob Hope and Bing Crosby entertained millions with their “road" movies in the 1940s, so the Mike Vax Big Band has its own “road show," arguably as entertaining but playing to much smaller audiences than Hope ...
Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense - World Premiere
by Eric Benson
Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present TenseWorld PremiereThe Allen Room at Jazz at Lincoln CenterNew York, NYApril 15, 2009 The Jazz Wars are over. Now what? A new documentary asks. Since the early 1980s, jazz has been engaged in its own nonviolent, low-intensity civil war. Decentralized and ...
Fulfilling what has been lacking...
by AAJ Staff
By Mickey Bass Jazz, as we once knew it, has become a thing of the past. For a lot of years clubs and promoters have been saying that this music is dead. My response to that statement is, “How can jazz be dead when its creators are still alive and well and creating?" ...
Lee Konitz Returns to the Village Vanguard
Lesson No. 1 From a Master of Improvisation: Never Repeat Yourself The alto saxophonist Lee Konitz performed with the ensemble Minsarah at the Village Vanguard on Tuesday, his first engagement there since 1983. Lee Konitz played his first line for laughs at the Village Vanguard on Tuesday night. The band had just conferred backstage, he said, ...
Lee Konitz: Lee Konitz Meets Alessandro Lanzoni Trio
by Stuart Broomer
This CD is exciting enough to require several titles, beginning with Lee Konitz meets Alessandro Lanzoni Trio, then Poetical Lee, then 81+15=96!, before concluding with the parenthetical (for Bill Evans). But it's the exclamatory equation 81+15=96! that's at the heart of the enthusiasm, declaring the respective ages of altoist Konitz and pianist Lanzoni. There's a celebration ...
John di Martino: Piano Man In/On Demand
by Marcia Hillman
John di Martino is a New York area based pianist, composer, arranger and Venus recording artist. He is a sought after musical director and is in demand by many singers as an accompanist, having accompanied such singers as Jon Hendricks, Sylvia Sims, Diane Schuur and Billy Eckstine. His talents as a pianist and arranger can be ...
Lee Konitz Quartet: Spontaneous Improvisation
by Daniel Kassell
Lee Konitz QuartetJazz Legacy SeriesCreole Music Supper ClubNew York, NYMarch 21, 2009 For two nights Lee Konitz was improvising at Creole Restaurant, Third Avenue at 116th Street in Harlem's Barrio. On the Saturday, March 21st 10pm show Mickey Bass introduced the Quartet as part of his Brownstone Entertainment Complex's ...
Peter Hand Signed to Savant Records for Big Band Album with Houston Person
New York, NY - Composer, arranger and guitarist Peter Hand has been signed to Savant (HighNote) Records. A live concert recording entitled The Wizard of Jazz - A Tribute to Harold Arlen featuring tenor saxophone giant Houston Person will be released on June 16. Peter Hand has been a prolific and active presence on the New ...
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