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News: Event

Jack Kleinsinger’s Highlights In Jazz Presents The Joe Bushkin Centennial at 8:00 PM on Thursday, May 4

Jack Kleinsinger’s Highlights In Jazz Presents The Joe Bushkin Centennial at 8:00 PM on Thursday, May 4

Jack Kleinsinger’s Highlights In Jazz, New York’s longest running jazz concert series, concludes its record breaking 45th season at 8:00 PM on Thursday, May 4, 2017 at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, 199 Chambers Street, New York City, with The Joe Bushkin Centennial concert, celebrating the rich musical legacy ...

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Article: Interview

Dick Hyman: The Beat Goes On

Read "Dick Hyman: The Beat Goes On" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki


Composer, arranger, bandleader, pianist, soloist and accompanist Dick Hyman has already lived several jazz lifetimes, and as he contemplates his 86th birthday in March 2013, his career shows no sign of slowing down.A New York City native, Hyman served as pianist with a Dixieland band and with Lester Young at the December 1949 opening ...

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Article: Book Review

A Biographical Guide To the Great Jazz and Pop Singers

Read "A Biographical Guide To the Great Jazz and Pop Singers" reviewed by David Rickert


A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop SingersWill FriedwaldHardcover; 811 pagesISBN: 9780375421495Pantheon Books2010 Be prepared to spend a fair amount of extra money if you pick up Will Friedwald's A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers. Friedwald, one of ...

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Article: Big Band Report

The Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra Meets Fred Sturm

Read "The Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra Meets Fred Sturm" reviewed by Jack Bowers


The Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra was onstage January 23, 2010 at the University of New Mexico's Woodward Hall for a concert featuring the compositions and arrangements of Fred Sturm, director of Jazz Studies at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. The concert was a part of the New Mexico All-State Band Competition, which was being held at the ...

Album

West of the Moon

Label: Unknown label
Released: 2007

Album

Complete Fifties Studio Masters

Label: Jazz Factory, The
Released: 2001
Track listing: A Woman's Intuition; Sugar; Any Time, Any Day, Anywhere; Ghost of a Chance; Oh! Look at Me Now; Street of Dreams; Manhattan; I've Got a Crush on You; Soft Lights and Sweet Music; Fools Fall in Love; Supper Time; Some Sunny Day; I Got Lost in His Arms; Heat Wave; How Many Times; How Deep Is the Ocean; Why Oh Why?; Sometimes I'm Happy; I'm Keepin' Myself for You; Should I be Sweet?; Tea for Two; Rise 'n' Shine; More Than You Know; Time on My Hands; Any Time, Any Day, Anywhere; Ghost of a Chance; Street of Dreams; Soft Lights and Sweet Music; Some Sunny Day; Chicken Today and Feathers Tomorrow; Somebody Loves Me; The Man I Love; When a Lady Meets a Gentleman Down South; Paradise; Careless Love; The Old Man on the Mountain; My Heart Stood Still; Glad to be Unhappy; Funny Valentine; Give It Back to the Indians; My Romance; You Took Advantage of Me; Mountain Greenery; It Never Entered My Mind; When I Leave the World Behind; Why Shouldn't I; The Lonesome Road; Someday, You'll Be Sorry; I Left My Heart in San Francisco; Indiana.

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Article: Album Review

Lee Wiley: Complete Fifties Studio Masters

Read "Complete Fifties Studio Masters" reviewed by Craig Jolley


Like most great ballad singers Lee Wiley was grounded in the blues. Not that blues monopolized her repertoire (There is only one blues among the 51 tunes in this two-CD set.), but her blues-informed phrasing and timing gave her music a depth beyond that of the let's-cut-to-the-chase cutie pies. Combined with her cool, sensual sound and ...

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Article: Album Review

Lee Wiley: Complete Fifties Studio Masters

Read "Complete Fifties Studio Masters" reviewed by Craig Jolley


Like most great ballad singers Lee Wiley was grounded in the blues. Not that blues monopolized her repertoire (There is only one blues among the 51 tunes in this two-CD set.), but her blues-informed phrasing and timing gave her music a depth beyond that of the let's-cut-to-the-chase cutie pies. Combined with her cool, sensual sound and ...

Album

As Time Goes By

Label: Blue Note
Released: 1991

Album

Duologue

Label: Blue Note
Released: 1988


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