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Paul Combs: Dameronia: The Life and Times of Tadd Dameron
by Victor L. Schermer
Dameronia: The Life and Times of Tadd Dameron Paul Combs 264 Pages ISBN: # 978-0-472-03563-2 The University of Michigan Press2013 “There is enough ugliness in this world; I'm interested in beauty."--Tadd Dameron “Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early ...
Bathed In Lightning: John McLaughlin, the 60s and the Emerald Beyond by Colin Harper
by Colin Harper
Exclusive extract adapted from Bathed In Lightning: John McLaughlin, the 60s and the Emerald Beyond By Colin Harper. Published (UK and US) March 26, 2014 by Jawbone Press “British jazz is awash with young talent which, given a healthy set of circumstances and a fair share of work, could produce a generation of ...
Live From Solihull, England: Jeff Barnhart, Jim Fryer & Martin Bennett
by Martin Longley
The Fryer-Barnhart International All-Stars Solihull Arts Complex May 19, 2014 Over the last 15 years, this has become a regular UK touring jaunt for the visiting Americans Jeff Barnhart (piano) and Jim Fryer (trombone), both of whom also sing their ample share of rousing songs. They latch onto a ...
Harold Arlen This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, in rare archival interview clips, Harold Arlen speaks about his career and how he wrote some of his most enduring songs, performed by the Jim Cullum Jazz Band and their guests: Nina Ferro, Dick Hyman, Rebecca Kilgore and Carol Woods. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International. ...
All About All About Jazz
by Jeff Fitzgerald, Genius
The history of jazz on the Internet goes back almost to the beginnings of jazz itself, one crisp autumn day in 1924 when Louis Armstrong first conceived of breaking the music down into tiny packets that could then be distributed across a network where they could be reassembled at some other distant point back into their ...
Jazz. New York in the Roaring Twenties
by Nenad Georgievski
Jazz. New York in the Roaring Twenties Robert Nippold, Hans-Jürgen Schaal 144 ISBN: 3836545012 Taschen 2013 The period in the 1920's America is known as the Jazz Age, the Golden Twenties or the Roaring Twenties. The history books say that this decade after the WWI was a prosperous ...
Glenn Zottola: Reflections of Charlie Parker
by Geannine Reid
After nearly four decades Glenn Zottola has become one of the most respected, versatile and in-demand trumpet players--and saxophonists--in the world. Born and raised in Port Chester, New York, Zottola started playing trumpet at age three. By virtue of his musical household, this seemed almost as natural as learning to speak. His big brother, Bob, was ...
Bing & Louis: A Pocketful Of Dreams With Gary Giddins, This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong struck up a friendship in the 1920s that flourished as they worked together—for almost half a century—on stage, in movies, and on radio and TV. This week on Riverwalkl Jazz, Gary Giddins, author of Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams-the Early Years, 1903-1940 shares a look into the friendship between Bing ...
Glenn Zottola: Clifford Brown Remembered
by Nicholas F. Mondello
The trumpet is a cruel--yet loving--mistress. It can announce the slightest executional blemish, instantly betraying its player's most sincere efforts, while also allowing its lover to express every possible nuance and emotion. The greatest Masters of the instrument in jazz--Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Chet Baker and others--all could brilliantly deliver expressive emotion. Of those in the ...
Jazz Quanta May
by C. Michael Bailey
Oran Etkin Gathering Light Motema 2014 Multi-reedist Oran Etkin gathers his scattered points of inspiration from the whole of the Eastern Hemisphere and a good bit of the Western one. Etkin's main horn is the bass clarinet...not completely unheard of, Eric Dolphy played a mean one, but one ...
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