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Take Five With Bob Albanese
by AAJ Staff
Meet Bob Albanese: Bob Albanese was born in Newark, N.J. in 1957. Growing up and the Jersey shore, he began practicing the piano at age 8. At age 15, he won top honors in the Garden State Talent Expo which culminated in a solo performance at the Garden State Arts Center in Holmdel, N.J. This was ...
August 2009
by AAJ Staff
Frank KimbroughBirdlandNew York City July 14, 2009When Frank Kimbrough made his leader debut at Birdland (Jul. 14th), easily one of the best piano showcase rooms in New York, there was no doubt he would meet the lofty standard maintained at the club by such fellow pianists as Steve Kuhn and ...
George Wein: Back to Doing His Thing
by R.J. DeLuke
Not many people stand in shoes similar to the ones in which jazz impresario George Wein now finds himself. Having invented the jazz festival more than half a century ago, his name is synonymous with the Newport Jazz Festival, his first and most well-known child of that genus. He led a company that expanded on the ...
Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band: Mosaic Select
by Ken Dryden
Pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi overcame numerous challenges during her long career, immigrating to a new country, establishing herself as both a top bandleader and composer/arranger, in addition to the difficulties of maintaining a large jazz ensemble. Her husband, tenor saxophonist and flutist Lew Tabackin, was a star soloist in her big band and he helped her recruit ...
George Wein's CareFusion Jazz Festival 55
In Newport, RI, August 7 - 9, 2009 and CAREFUSION NEW YORK JAZZ FESTIVAL in New York City, June 2010 New Names for Jazz Festivals at Historic Sites NEW YORK, NY, David Schlotterbeck, CEO of CareFusion, announced today that the corporation will be the title sponsor for George Wein's Jazz Festival 55 in Newport, RI. In ...
Lew Tabackin - Rites of Pan
Available for the first time on CD, Inner City Records is proud to announce the re-release of Lew Tabackin's 1977 album Rites of Pan. This album showcases Lew in a small group format, and is the first album on which he played exclusively flute. He is joined by Toshiko Akiyoshi on piano, who wrote two of ...
Toshiko Akiyoshi - Lew Tabackin Big Band: Mosaic Select
by Samuel Chell
Jazz was never more schizophrenic than in the 1970s. On the one hand, musicians equally savvy about mixing genres and running mixing boards were selling out arenas and producing lucrative, widely played albums, with bass-heavy danceable beats or soothing instrumental sounds tailor-made for air play on FM radio. At the other extreme, many of the jazz ...
Toshiko Akiyoshi: Fine Wine
by Ken Dryden
Toshiko Akiyoshi's reputation as a brilliant composer/arranger is widely heralded. She was the first woman to lead a big band for an extended period of time, while she was also the first Japanese jazz artist to achieve international acclaim. A pianist of incredible talent, Akiyoshi's abilities were somewhat hidden within her orchestra, though she made a ...
New Jazz It Up! Episode: Christian McBride, Nicholas Payton, Mark Whitfield and the Lew Tabackin Trio Plus the 2009 NEA Jazz Masters Ceremony with George Benson Performance
New York, NY - The very latest episode of the online jazz TV show, Jazz it Up!, is available now for your viewing pleasure. To subscribe and see a five-minute preview of the new episode. This edition of Jazz it Up! features two trios, both swinging hard: Nicholas Payton, Christian McBride and Mark Whitfield are seen ...
Tanuki's Night Out
By Lew Tabackin
Label: Tokuma Japan
Released: 2006
Track listing: Wise One; Tanuki
