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Ecstatic Swing: Winard Harper Sextet Plays the KC Jazz Club
by Franz A. Matzner
It's been said so often that we've all come to believe it, at least a little bit. Jazz is dead. A moribund art form housed in an ivory cage, academia sponsored, and fellowship sustained. A “museum" art that despite occasional dusting serves only as a bridge to the hailer periods of yesteryear. Depending on who you're ...
Young Singers Keep Jazz Alive and Well in Iowa
by J. Robert Bragonier
Periodically, many of us with “snow on the roof" get caught up in bemoaning the present and future of jazz: the paucity of jazz recordings on the nation's airwaves; the persistent languishing of jazz sales at approximately four per cent of total CD sales; and the lack of young people at jazz concerts and venues, despite ...
Dave Holland Quintet at the Outremont Theatre
by John Kelman
Dave Holland Quintet Outremont Theatre Montreal, Canada October 2, 2004 In their first appearance in Montreal since the summer of '02, bassist Dave Holland's longstanding quintet made a couple of changes. First, drummer Billy Kilson, who left the group approximately a year ago, has been replaced by Nate Smith, a ...
Confirmation: The 2004 Telluride Jazz Celebration
by David Lott
Confirmation Con`fir`ma'tion n. 1.The act of confirming or strengthening; the act of establishing, ratifying, or sanctioning; as, the confirmation of an appointment. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim. - Cowper. 2.That which confirms; that which gives new strength or assurance; ...
Sounding Sinatra: Tierney Sutton Performs at the Kennedy Center
by Franz A. Matzner
As good as a recording may be, there is just no substitute for a live performance. More often than not, an album can obscure hidden talents, and even the best releases, no matter how powerful, lack the vitality and immediacy of music in the flesh. Tierney Sutton's recent performance at the Kennedy Center's Jazz Club proved ...
Monterey Jazz Festival 2004
by Craig Jolley
Monterey turned a corner in 2004: No marquee names like The Crusaders or George Benson played, but there were more leading musicians (particularly from outside the U.S.) than usual. The selectors based their choices more on music (less on entertainment) this year. Admission price was raised which can be seen as a positive if it brought ...
Chicago Jazz Festival 2004
by Sandy Ingham
Count Basie, Coleman Hawkins, Fats Waller...Three giants of jazz, names you can build an entire jazz festival around ... even if they've all long passed on to that Great Big Band in the Sky.All three were born in 1904, prompting the Jazz Institute of Chicago to schedule centennial tributes to them at the annual, ...
Tanglewood Jazz Festival 2004
by Ken Franckling
Tanglewood's 15th annual Labor Day jazz festival weekend opened with two distinct sides of Latin jazz that together offered a shifting balm for a mild end-of-summer evening. Brazilian pianist Eliane Elias' quartet offered the cool and warm portions of the evening, with a long set that covered her lilting approach to the American Songbook and many ...
Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra
by AAJ Staff
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra is led by pianist/music director Arturo O'Farrill. He is a well-spoken jovial man with a huge aura of energy about him.O'Farrill, winner of the Latin Jazz USA Outstanding Achievement Award for 2003, was born in Mexico and grew up in New York City. Educated at the Manhattan ...
Anna Maria Jopek: Sepia on Blond
by AAJ Staff
A petite blond jazz beauty from Poland, Anna Maria Jopek's first US show at the American Polish Cultural Center in Troy, Michigan was a study in Rembrandt tones and Rubenesque angelic tints, with a touch of samba thrown in. Known as Anya to her 20-something fans and the musicians that know her well like Sting and ...
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