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Tony Bennett Opens Kimmel Center Mellon Jazz Festival Season
by Victor L. Schermer
Tony Bennett is an icon of popular culture. His ascendance in that pantheon began with his famous endorsement by Frank Sinatra as the nation's best male vocalist, and a string of hit recordings lifted him to the top. Culturally, Bennett and Sinatra came to represent the two sides of the American male of the 1940's through ...
Monterey Notebook 2005, Part 2: Saturday Afternoon
by Forrest Dylan Bryant
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 12:30pm - The FairgroundsThe Monterey County Fairgrounds are quietly busy as festivalgoers amble along the seemingly endless stretch of vendors, sampling the greasy foods of five continents. Out behind the Fairgrounds, the back nineholes of a local golf course have been converted into a massive parking ...
Monterey Notebook 2005, Part 1: Friday Night
by Forrest Dylan Bryant
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 The Monterey Jazz Festival, presented by MCI, is off to a flying start. Now in its 48th year, the festival draws some 40,000 people annually to the Central California coast for three days of concerts at the sprawling Monterey County Fairgrounds. It is not possible to hear everything, ...
Jazz Fest in Albany, NY, Hits Good Stride
by R.J. DeLuke
The city of Albany, NY, started a one-day jazz festival a few years ago and while it had some highlights, generally it is a small-scale event and was inconsistent. Its fourth edition this year -- while still small -- was a sparkler, with outstanding music across the board.The weather at Albany's Riverfront Park was also ...
Emma Salokoski Sings Svenska Visar in Helsinki
by Anthony Shaw
When the paths of two considered but disparate artists meet on stage before one's very ears and eyes expectations are high. When they choose to perform in a language untried before by the singer one might expect disharmony--but the association of Finnish funk singer Emma Salokoski with Ilmiliekki, a young free-form Finnish unit, at the Viapori ...
Bound to Keep On Ridin': The Allman Brothers Summer Tour 2005
by Doug Collette
The Allman Brothers Band hit a creative peak in 2003 with their first studio album in nine years, Hittin' the Note, and a spectacular extended run at The Beacon Theater in New York city. Culminating in September of 2004 with a brilliant three-night stay at the Fox Theatre back home in Georgia, the next year's worth ...
The Steve Hudson Quintet at 55 Bar
by Budd Kopman
Steve Hudson Quintet 55 Bar New York September 13, 2005 Having had the good fortune to review Outer Bridge by The Steve Hudson Quintet, I jumped at the chance to get to an early weekday show on September 13th at 55 Bar, located at, not surprisingly, 55 Christopher Street in ...
The Autumn of Their Year: The Benevento/Russo Duo Live
by Doug Collette
Ya gotta love The Duo! Marco Benevento and Joe Russo obviously relish taking the stage and playing with each other for any audience that will come to see them. This early fall/late summer show, billed as a “Back to School concert was the largest audience the Duo have gotten at HG, and the late night finish, ...
Greg Osby Four at the Green Mill
by Paul Olson
Greg Osby Four Green Mill, Chicago September 10, 2005Altoist Greg Osby's fronted a lot of terrific bands over the years, but the quartet he brought to Chicago's Green Mill for a two-night stand on September 9-10 can be listed among the best of them. On the Saturday gig of the residency, ...
Tanglewood Jazz Festival 2005 Shows Diversity
by R.J. DeLuke
Music cascading through the Tanglewood music venue in Lenox, Mass., on Labor Day weekend sure had its diversity. It was thunderous, cool, Latin-tinged, swinging, sweet and classy at given points throughout the three nights and two days of its annual jazz festival.The thunder came from the majestic Sonny Rollins and his tenor sax; cool from ...
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