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The Dave Brubeck Quartet & Gene Bertoncini at the Grove Park Inn
by Ken Dryden
The Grove Park Inn, a luxurious old resort hotel and spa in Asheville, North Carolina, hosts an annual “All That Jazz” weekend every winter. The final evening’s festivities began with a solo set by guitarist Gene Bertoncini, introduced by emcee Maddy Winer as the “Segovia of jazz.” In his remarks to the audience, Bertoncini admitted that ...
February-March 2003
by AAJ Staff
In this column: Summer means festivals A heap of new albums taking out last year and starting the new SUMMER JAZZ The return of the Melbourne International Jazz Festival, joining the Fremantle festival and jazz events as pat of the Sydney cultural festival, means the jazz calendar is back to full strength again this ...
Allan Harris, Black Cowboy?
by Daniel Kassell
“Did you know that 40% of all cowboys were Black!" Allan Harris told the Association of Performing Arts Presenters in the NY Hilton's Mercury Ballroom, January 12th, 2003 at a showcase sponsored by the Berkshire Artists Group. Primarily a Jazz Vocalist and Guitarist, Allan Harris was inspired to write “Cross That River - The Saga of ...
Slide Hampton and the World of Trombones
by C. Andrew Hovan
Gartner Auditorium at the Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland, Ohio December 14, 2002 For several years now, a number of Cleveland-based arts organizations ( Musical Arts Association, Cleveland Museum of Art, Northeast Ohio Jazz Society, and Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland ) have pulled together their efforts to present a yearly concert series ...
Cool Jazz in a Cool City: IAJE in Toronto 2003
by Ken Dryden
Although a fellow jazz journalist expressed his sentiment about the first scheduling of IAJE outside of the U.S. by sarcastically stating “Toronto in January, ...wonderful," I was very much looking forward to my first trip to Canada. Since it sometimes is hard to sneak away very far from the conference for very long without missing too ...
Chasin' James Carter
by R.J. DeLuke
Think of Django Reinhardt and you probably think of delicate phrasing, swing, music that fits the 1930s, maybe even the gypsy's sweet couplings with violin legend Stephane Grappelli. There were moments of swing at The Egg, that exquisite hall in Albany, NY, on January 17, when sax firebrand James Carter blew into town with his Chasin' ...
IAJE Conference, Toronto 2003
by David Adler
Like a swarm of bees, jazz people of all kinds converged on Toronto for this year's IAJE conference. My stopover flight from Columbus, Ohio was full of them. I peered across the aisle and there was Luis Perdomo, along with almost all the members of Marlon Simon's Nagual Spirits. I stood in the Customs line and ...
Crossing Borders: Reflections on the 30th Annual IAJE Conference
by C. Andrew Hovan
For the first time in its history, the International Association for Jazz Education held its annual convention outside of U.S. borders. Toronto served as an especially hospitable host for four days straight of high-octane jazz tailor made for media types, broadcasters, musicians, students, and jazz educators. The sheer abundance of activity (workshops, panels, discussions, concerts) makes ...
The Bloom School of Jazz
by Michael Jeffers
Imagine the scene: The room is dark, pitch black. Not a sound is heard. The players sit quietly, poised, ready to perform. No distractions, just the musicians and their instruments. Instructions are given. The music begins to fill the room . . . The scenario is actually a classroom setting, a course called “Black Out” where ...
Shades Of Harlem Delivers Harlem Mystique Onstage
by Daniel Kassell
Producer Bob Blume (Drama Desk Awards) announced, “It's a hot Saturday night for a very special show". (at APAP-Association of Performing Arts Presenters Convention, January 11, 2003). “We took over Bridges here at the New York Hilton to showcase" SHADES OF HARLEM. “Special guests in the audience tonight: From Lew Leslie's Blackbirds of 1934 - Ludie ...
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