Home » Search Center » Results: Live From Philadelphia
Results for "Live From Philadelphia"
Jazz At the Philadelphia Museum of Art
by AAJ Staff
Jazz, America's indigenous American art form with international overtones, is getting full play at The Philadelphia Museum of Art. Local clubs, in less majestic settings, are serving up their more traditional variations. THE PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART is featuring Luciana Souza, one of Brazil's top singer-songwriters, with the June 4 welcome return of ...
Philly Jazz Is Singing
by AAJ Staff
Philadelphia’s gold mine of native jazz talent was out shining for all to see in the last two weeks of May. CHRIS’ JAZZ CAFE is showcasing incredibly assured, talented young singer, Joanna Pascale, Thursday, June 3. Ms Pascale, just 24, attended Philadelphia’s Performing Arts High School and Temple University. She has a new CD, “When Lights ...
Sax Stars Shine in Philly Skies
by AAJ Staff
Two time-tested, top, tenor sax men, along with a few blues belters are in Philadelphia's jazz scene these April nights. CHRIS’ JAZZ CAFE April 23 brought in multi-instrumentalist Ira Sullivan for his first Philadelphia gig in decades. He plays sax, trumpet, flute and worked with such jazz greats as Art Blakey and Red Rodney. He was ...
Philly April Jazz Scene Varied As Weather
by AAJ Staff
April jazz was blooming again in all the usual Philadelphia music gardens over the first few weeks. CHRIS' JAZZ CAFE April 10 brought in top flight tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander working with the equally esteemed Peter Bernstein on guitar. Alexander’s CD Nightlife In Tokyo released last Fall is still gathering accolades. He acknowledges his college days ...
Philly Jazz Warms Up Chilly Weather
by AAJ Staff
Jazz was blooming in the majestic halls of Kimmel Center and at the mainstay clubs of Philadelphia during these first few weeks of Spring. KIMMEL CENTER (Perelman Theater) continued its Mellon Jazz-"Dreaming of Dizzy" (meaning Gillespie, of course) series with the Randy Weston Trio plus Billy Harper. They were joined in a program named after one ...
Jazz Heats Up Philly
by AAJ Staff
The Philly jazz scene (if not the weather) was heating up over the past few weeks. Kimmel Center continued its marathon Mellon Jazz sessions with top local all- stars plus Latin jazz groups while area clubs held their own hot offerings. KIMMEL CENTER -- Arturo Sandoval, the Cuban-born, torrid trumpet protégé of Dizzy Gillespie ...
Valentine's Day Jazz: All Heart in Philadelphia
by AAJ Staff
The Valentine’s Day Philadelphia jazz scene surely touched the hearts of local jazz fans. The warm music moods spreads out even over the next week. KIMMEL CENTER (Perelman Theater) provided a special vocal bouquet from the lovely to look at (delightful to hear) Jane Monheit on Valentine’s Day . Her newest CD, In The Sun, is ...
Drummer Bruce Klauber Presents at Denvers Jazz on Film Festival
by AAJ Staff
Bruce H. Klauber, Philadelphia’s own, will give a presentation on The History of Jazz Drumming on Film at Denver’s “Jazz on Film" Festival Feb. 13-15. His credentials would take up a book to cover, but to list a few, he is author, editor, biographer, educator, recording artist, producer, and not a bad classic pop and jazz ...
Hip Hop Slop?
by AAJ Staff
A bloated, gloating, full page shout of praise by Dan DeLuca in the Currents section of a recent Sunday Philadelphia Inquirer roared out with the headline on “the power of hip-hop.” He sang of how “It's more than a rhythm. It brings us to the same table.” Not my table, big daddy. He plays down the ...
Holiday Jazz
by AAJ Staff
Holiday jazz joy burst right through the New Year in Philadelphia. Some of the finest, long-term, hometown favorites such as Larry McKenna, Bootsie Barnes, Jimmy Bruno and Mickey Roker were featured. They were joined by local, top, pop-jazz vocalists Denise King, Mary Ellen Desmond, Meg Clifton and Trudy Pitts. Star songstress, Christine Andreas, returned to The ...
