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Kevin Eubanks Band, Walter Trout, Bela Fleck & The Marcus Roberts Trio and more Headline 2nd RiverJazz Presented By Concannon Miller
Walter Trout & the Radicals, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Béla Fleck and the Marcus Roberts Trio, and former Tonight Show band leader Kevin Eubanks and his band headline the second-annual RiverJazz presented by Concannon Miller, May 10-25 at the SteelStacks arts and cultural campus in Bethlehem. Tickets for these concerts, which will take place at the ...
Bob Brookmeyer: Jack of All Trades, Master of Valves
by Jack Bowers
Bob Brookmeyer, a Renaissance man among jazz musicians who died December 15, 2011, four days before his eighty-second birthday, will be remembered as many things: composer, arranger, musician, educator, outspoken arbiter who brooked no nonsense and wasn't shy about letting others know when he believed they were not giving the music he loved the best they ...
Bela Fleck (BEY-Lah Fleck): See Curious, Creative Mind
by R.J. DeLuke
Béla Fleck has taken his instrument--the banjo--to heights that seemed unimaginable prior to couple decades ago. There have been virtuoso players in its long history, but the sounds Fleck elicits through electronics, and the musical landscapes he treads upon, are groundbreaking. He's got all that in his pocket. But as a twenty-something musician whose ...
Robert Hurst: Unrehurst Volumes 1 and 2
by C. Michael Bailey
The jazz piano trio--piano, bass, and drums, also known as the rhythm section"--is a fundamental unit in jazz ensembles. It is the motor that drives all combos greater than itself. Which instrument a trio leader" plays often has a profound effect on the personality and temperament of the music produced. Bass-led trios often bring the bass ...
Justin Kauflin: Introducing Justin Kauflin
by Dan Bilawsky
Sight and vision are not the same thing, and pianist Justin Kauflin is a testament to this fact. While a rare eye disease robbed Kauflin of his sight by the time he was eleven years old, his artistic vision and sense of purpose remain intact. Kauflin's classical training initially placed him on a certain path, but ...
53rd Monterey Jazz Festival: A Distinctive New Orleans Flavor
by Larry Taylor
To summarize the high spots of the 2010 Monterey Jazz Festival would certainly take more than one lead paragraph. From Sept. 17 through 19 at the Monterey, California, Fairgrounds, there was a pervasive New Orleans spirit in the air and the music. This was emphasized by the appearances of Trombone Shorty on Saturday afternoon, and Harry ...
Take Five with Wynton Marsalis
by AAJ Staff
Status: Nine-time Grammy Award-winning jazz performer. DOB: October 18, 1961 In: New Orleans, LA Hobbies/Interests: Play basketball. I like to read. I like to play chess." Favorite Movies: [Pause]...see, it's so many. Let me see if I can...any Hitchcock. Elie Kazan's. John Ford. [Pause]...favorite movies...there's so many good ones...I can't ...
North Coast Brewing Up Some Monk
by Mark Corroto
In 1931, industrialist John D. Rockefeller, Jr. donated two million dollars to the Save-The-Redwoods League to purchase some 10,000 acres of virgin redwood forests in Northern California from logging companies. These companies had already cut nearly 90% of the world's tallest trees, some of these redwood trees had stood on the coast of California since the ...
Take Five With Ali Jackson Jr.
by AAJ Staff
Meet Ali Jackson Jr.: Ali Jackson Jr. is best known for his association with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. You can find Ali performing with the Wynton Marsalis Quintet, his Ali Jackson Quartet, or the phenom ensemble Horns in the Hood.Ali has performed and recorded extensively with some of the ...
Marcus Roberts Reprises His Seminal 1990 Release "Deep in the Shed"
This Saturday, February 20th, award-winning jazz pianist Marcus Roberts and The Marcus Roberts Septet will perform two historic reprises of Roberts' 1990 release 'Deep in the Shed' during Tallahassee's Seven Days of Opening Nights" concert series in Turner Auditorium at Tallahassee Community College. The beauty of the compositions came through clearly...carefully arranged and packed with incident ...

