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Dave Brubeck & Marian McPartland Joy
by AAJ Staff
Two octogenarian, piano-playing jazz legends, Dave Brubeck and Marian McPartland, brought jazz Joy to the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia March 16. MARIAN MCPARTLAND'S TRIO performance follows the release of the two-CD 85 Candles: Live in New York celebrating her 85th birthday at Birdland. The only problem with the title at this time is that as Ms ...
Jazz Variations in Philly
by AAJ Staff
Jazz giants were all over Philadelphia over the last two weeks. The Sedgwick Cultural Center brought in Philly native and jazz legend, tenor saxophonist Benny Golson who worked with seemingly the entire range of bop, main stream and R&B jazz megastars. Just a few of those include: Tad Dameron, Tiny Grimes, Bull Moose Jackson, ...
Tsunami Benefit at Chris' Jazz Cafe
by AAJ Staff
Chris' Jazz Cafe is the gathering place for seemingly every top jazz artist in Philly on Feb. 3. The purpose of this monster jazz wave is as Glenn Gerber, co-owner of the club, told us, to raise money for victims of another monster wave, the Tsunami that killed hundreds of thousands in Southeast Asia. Chris' is ...
Phlly Jazz In Every Genre
by AAJ Staff
Philadelphia has jazz in every genre including some towering tenor sax stylings from James Carter. KIMMEL CENTER was showcasing torrid tenor sax, all-around reed man James Carter Jan. 21 plus the noted Jon Faddis Carnegie Hall Jazz Orchestra. Carter, just 27, from Detroit, switches not only reed instruments, but genres covering jazz from swing to bop. ...
Jazz Tribute for MLK
by AAJ Staff
The jazz scene in Philadelphia in the first two weeks of 2005 covers everything from a soulful new singer to a tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr.. He was born Janurary 15, 1929 and January 17 is MLK Day.ZANZIBAR BLUE this weekend is featuring the tribute to King. with a presentation by Philadelphia's top-rated ...
Philly's Hall of Fame Jazz Awards
by AAJ Staff
I got one of my Christmas presents early this year. Chris' Jazz Cafe, at 1421 Sansom Street, one of the mainstay jazz clubs in town and a dead ringer for the great New York clubs on fabled Swing Street of the 1940's, gave out its second annual Hall of Fame Awards last Saturday night. They went ...
Joanna Pascale and Holiday Jazz
by AAJ Staff
For Philadelphia jazz fans, Christmas is already here with shows covering everything from Latin Jazz to Gospel & the Blues with a special holiday show at the Philadelphia Museum of Art as its last Friday night jazz presentation of the year.THE PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART's final Friday jazz presentation of 2004 on Jan.17 features ...
Singers and Swingers in Philly
by AAJ Staff
A rich rendering of jazz styles, much of it home-grown, at various venues, kept Philadelphia fans hopping over the past two weeks.CHRIS' JAZZ CAFE brought together three of the most distinctive jazz styles to be found anywhere. and they are all Philadelphia area born and bred. The inimitable piano of Uri Caine was backing ...
McCoy & Maynard: Explosive Jazz
by AAJ Staff
Top, torrid, tenor sax and trumpet talent including some of Philly's hottest stars turned Broad Street into a jazz inferno November 12. KIMMEL CENTER started it off with a Philly All-Star Jazz Night, the first segment: Gerald Veasley's Electric Mingus Project. Included are such noted players as John Swana, trumpet and flugelhorn; Carl Cox, tenor sax; ...
Marsalis & Redman Jazz Delight at Kimmel
by AAJ Staff
The Kimmel Center's year-long celebration of the sax stays in full swing November 3rd with Branford Marsalis and Joshua Redman, two of the finest reed men in the country. Joshua Redman is something of the “golden boy" of jazz. A straight-A Berkley high school student where he graduated valedictorian, Harvard University Suma Cum Laude graduate, elected ...
