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Steve Bailey Named Chair of Berklee's Bass Department
Berklee College of Music announces that Steve Bailey has been named chair of the college's Bass Department. Bailey, six-string fretless bass pioneer, educator, and author, begins his tenure this summer. He succeeds Rich Appleman, who retired in May 2012 after holding the position for 40 years. A partial list of Bailey's extensive recording and performance credits ...
35th Paradise Valley Jazz Party
by Patricia Myers
35th Paradise Valley Jazz PartyMusical Instrument MuseumPhoenix, AZApril 21-22, 2012A kaleidoscopic history of jazz was delivered during three sessions of the 35th annual Paradise Valley Jazz Party, from post-bop, ballads and blues to a swinging recreation of the Quintet of the Hot Club of France.Peak moments that elicited the ...
Breakthru Radio's "The Jazz Hole" Celebrates 3rd Anniversary
New York, NY—BreakThru Radio (BTR) is the world's leading source for the best independent music on the Internet using a unique on-demand programming approach. Three years ago, on February 1st 2009, Linus Wyrsch joined the team of DJs and took over the bi-weekly jazz show “The Jazz Hole." Being a sought-after musician himself in the Big ...
Kurt Elling Joined By Denmark’s Kluvers Big Band & Special Guests -- October 25-30 At Birdland In Nyc
In what promises to be a special engagement, preeminent jazz vocalist Kurt Elling will perform a six-night residency featuring Denmark's renowned Klüvers Big Band at New York City's Birdland, from October 25-30. Different special guests—Miguel Zenon, Ravi Coltrane, Lew Tabackin, Robin Eubanks and Stefon Harris—will join Elling and the 18-piece ensemble each evening. The New York ...
Heigh Ho, Heigh Ho, It's Off To Jazz We Go . . .
by Jack Bowers
Just west of Albuquerque, across the Rio Grande River, lies the picturesque village of Corrales (population around 7,500). Among its residents (and natural resources) is world-renowned jazz trumpeter Bobby Shew. With a musician of his caliber within arm's reach, it would have been imprudent not to call upon him to take part in the village's Music ...
Big Band Jazz: It's Not Just for Guys Anymore
by Jack Bowers
Back in the early '90s, Stanley Kay, one-time back-up drummer for the incomparable Buddy Rich, later a manager of such artists as Maurice Hines, Michelle Lee and Paul Burke and the entertainment director for the New York Yankees, had a good idea: the time had come, he reasoned, to assemble an all-woman big band that would ...
Freihofer’s Saratoga Jazz Festival: June 25-26, 2011
by R.J. DeLuke
Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz FestivalSaratoga Performing Arts CenterSaratoga Springs, NYJune 25-26, 2011This year's Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival, the 34th edition of the upstate New York event, featured a great touch when famed jazz impresario George Wein was awarded a star on the Saratoga Performing Arts Center Walk of Fame. Wein created the ...
Lew Tabackin; Jammin' On The Hudson
Riverbank State Park, in association with Brownstone Entertainment Complex, LLC, for our seventh consecutive year are pleased to present: “Jammin' On The Hudson." 'Jammin'; The Summer Concert Series for the 'serious' Jazz Lover! The series features 'World-Class' Players, appearing one Sunday in July and one in August. What could be more inviting than listening to the ...
Gold Medalists Abound at Big Band Olympics
by Jack Bowers
As this is being written, Betty and I are just back from a ten-day visit to California, the first six days of which would be of absolutely no interest to readers of this column. The last four, however, were spent at the Los Angeles Airport Marriott Hotel attending the L.A. Jazz Institute's “Big Band Olympics," which ...
Serenade To Sweden
Featuring the music of Lew Tabackin
Duration: 7:04
