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Marcus Printup - Ballads All Night (Steeplechase)
What's a Young Lion to do when he starts to grow long in the tooth? Only a few years past forty, Marcus Printup still has quite a ways to go until he reaches retirement age though he's been in the game for several decades and paid a number of dues. One in particular ended up a ...
Ted Nash: Portrait in Seven Shades
by David Adler
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO) is often derided as a bastion of conservatism, although it's not clear what is conservative about an epic like trumpeter Wynton Marsalis' Congo Square (Blue Note, 2007), with its volleys of Ghanaian percussion and ensemble-singing in the Ga and Fante dialects. For that matter, the JLCO accommodates boundary-pushing musicians ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Marcus Printup
All About Jazz is celebrating Marcus Printup's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Marcus PrintupMarcus Printup was born and raised in Conyers, Georgia. He had his first musical experiences hearing the fiery gospel music his parents sang in church, and he later discovered jazz as a senior in ...
Strike Up the (Unsung) Bands
by Jack Bowers
The big band era is known for producing a number of enormously successful ensembles whose leaders were household names: Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Jimmie Lunceford, Fletcher Henderson, then on through Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, the brothers Jimmy Dorsey and Tommy Dorsey, Charlie Barnet, Artie Shaw, Harry James, Cab Calloway, Lionel Hampton, Dizzy Gillespie and, ...
Alternative Harps at Theater 80 (NYC) on August 27
A unique blend of improvised and composed music will be showcased by harpists Brandee Younger, Mia Theodoratus and Riza Hequibal on August 27 at Theater 80 St. Marks. The chic trio announced today that they will demonstrate their talents fusing jazz, classical and world music. These compelling harpists consist of Younger, a soulfully buoyant personality who ...
Emil Viklicky: Emil Viklicky 60
by Victor Verney
Emil Viklicky Emil Viklicky 60 Multisonic 2009 Imagine Barack Obama introducing, say, keyboard player Herbie Hancock for a live concert at the White House on the occasion of Hancock's 60th birthday (a milestone, incidentally, that Hancock reached on April 12, 2000). Pianist Emil Viklicky's latest CD was created ...
New Orleans Jazz Fest draws 400,000+
by Sandy Ingham
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival New Orleans, LAApril 22-May 4, 2009There are hundreds of good reasons for jazz lovers to join the crowds at the annual New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Reasons with names like Marsalis and Jordan, Batiste and Boutte--families whose musical heritage in the Birthplace of Jazz spans several ...
Wynton Marsalis with Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra at the Kimmel Center
by Victor L. Schermer
Jazz at Lincoln Center OrchestraWynton Marsalis, Music DirectorThe Kimmel Center for the Performing ArtsMarch 20, 2009 Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra made a return visit to the Kimmel Center with a full-house crowd on hand and an early Spring March wind in the air. Marsalis quickly indicated the ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Marcus Printup
All About Jazz is celebrating Marcus Printup's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Marcus PrintupMarcus Printup was born and raised in Conyers, Georgia. He had his first musical experiences hearing the fiery gospel music his parents sang in church, and he later discovered jazz as a senior in ...
